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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,668 posts.
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A Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud
I start more blog posts than I finish, due to no shortage of other distractions and at times a near-crippling inability to blog short. When IBM announced they were acquiring Red Hat in October 2018…
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How I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with Livevideo.com
Learn how Google kills competition through anti-competitive behavior. This is the true story of how I tried to compete with YouTube and Google with two of the former founders of Myspace between 2006-2008 on a startup called LiveVideo.com. Some old files I found related to LiveVideo.com: Automated Transcript: 00:05 You…
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Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Software design is also about relationships
In parts 1 and 2 we saw:
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I was a 10x engineer and I’m sorry
You probably saw the big discussion this past weekend on Twitter about 10x Engineers. It all started with a tweet about how to recognize a 10x Engineer, followed by tons of responses about how usel…
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Adventures Building a Self-Driving RC Car
Having read some amazing books on Machine Learning, I had been looking for opportunities to apply ML from first principles in the real world. That was what got me curious about the wonderful Donkey Car project. The project is essentially a how-to guide to building your own RC car which can drive itself around a track…
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How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
This article is about how I found a vulnerability on Instagram that allowed me to hack any Instagram account without consent permission. Facebook and Instagram security team fixed the issue and rewarded me $30000 as a part of their bounty program. Facebook is working constantly to improve its security controls on all…
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At what time of day do famous programmers work?
I was curious when the famous programmers do their work. And it is quite easy to find. The result of programmers work is a code. Code is stored in version control systems (VCS). When you put code in VCS the time is record.
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HTTP Security Headers – A Complete Guide
A description of each security header, why it is important, and how to configure your website in a secure way.
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Think in Math, Write in Code
Programmers love to discuss programming languages. We not only debate their technical merits and aesthetic qualities, but they become integrated into our personal identities, along with the values and traits that we associate with them. Some even defend a form of Linguistic Determinism that thinking is confined to…
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Powering a Mainframe
The last few days have been eventful. I was contacted by the datacenter that the mainframe's cage is now ready for moving in, and the power ...
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The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction
Get those numbers up! Those are rookie numbers! I've been reading a lot about Anthem. It's that gigantic, mega-budget looter-shooter fr...
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Notes on a Smaller Rust
Many people who use Rust for a bit - especially those who like the language but do not fall in love with it - feel a sense that there must be a smaller, simpler variation on the same theme which would maybe be a little less powerful, but would also be much easier to use. I agree with them, but I think they are almost…
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Investigating the Galileo Satellite Navigation System Outage with a LimeSDR
You may have already heard that the Galileo EU satellite navigation constellation is out of service since last Thursday July 11th. Currently the Galileo constellation status page shows that the status of most Galileo satellites is not usable because of a service outage. The satellites not affected by this outage are…
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OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes half an hour (2018)
So, your machine now needs minutes to boot before you can ssh in where it used to be seconds before the Debian Buster update?
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Github became the web's largest font piracy site (2017)
Front-end antics and typographic mischievousness
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Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned
For the past few years, I've been building and operating a large distributed system: the payments system at Uber [https://eng.uber.com/payments-platform/]. I've learned a lot about distributed architecture concepts…
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The Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan
December 2020 Update: Lo and behold, the Pi Foundation tacitly acknowledges the Pi needs a fan in the official case, because now they sell the Case Fan! The Raspberry Pi Foundation's Pi 4 announcement blog post touted the Pi 4 as providing "PC-like level of performance for most users". The Foundation even offers a…
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Zelda Screen Transitions Are Undefined Behaviour
The vertical scrolling effect in the original “The Legend of Zelda” relies on manipulating the NES graphics hardware in a manner that was likely unintended by its designers.
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Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes
Software engineer specializing in query engines and distributed systems
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What every computer science major should know (2011)
Given the expansive growth in the field, it's become challenging to discern what belongs in a modern computer science degree.
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Let's Build a Compiler
Compilers, interpreters, runtimes, and the like can sometimes feel vaguely magical. They take your code, perform complex transformations that you only partially understand, and spit out an executable binary. Clearly, the inner workings of such a beast must contain arcane secrets, not meant for the minds of mortals.
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Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete
(Non-clickbait title: building a 4-bit adder in Cities:Skylines.)
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Defunctionalize the Continuation
Video and transcript of Jimmy Koppel's Compose 2019 talk on defunctionalization, the best refactoring you've never heard of.
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Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why
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BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability
BPF Performance Tools: Linux System and Application Observability (book)
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Howto: Block Amazon and any site using Amazon Web Services
I've recently read about a couple of boycotts trying to call attention to Amazon's bad labor practices. The most recent of these boycotts hopes to lead a boycott on Amazon's induced buying holiday "Prime Day", in solidarity with striking workers in several fulfillment centers in Spain. I support anyone fighting for a…
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Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program
One of the more interesting things I've had the opportunity to hack on is the Tesla Model 3. It has a built in web browser, free premium LTE, and over-the-air software updates. It's a network connected computer on wheels that drives really fast.