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Telegram has now 100M Monthly Active Users
Telegram reaches 100,000,000 monthly active users in 2.5 years, 350,000 new users join daily.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,414 posts.
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Godot game engine reaches 2.0
Godot 2.0 is out! This release is special because our team has grown a lot. We have more regular contributors, a documentation team, a bug triage team and a much larger community! Godot keeps growing and becoming more and more awesome.
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Why I don't want stuff
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Rewrite Everything in Rust
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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The US Government has no credibility to compel anybody to weaken security
This is my belated obligatory post about the entire "Apple vs the FBI" episode and whether it should help decrypt the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone. People have commented that I should write something, and I've been reluctant in case I go off in full-rant-mode. I wrote the entire post and…
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A resizable concurrent map
In an earlier post, I showed how to implement the “world’s simplest lock-free hash table” in C++. It was so simple that you couldn’t even delete entries or …
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Using Free SSL/TLS Certificates from Let’s Encrypt for Nginx
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Beware The Man Of One Study
Aquinas famously said: beware the man of one book. I would add: beware the man of one study. For example, take medical research. Suppose a certain drug is weakly effective against a certain disease…
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HTTP GZIP Compression remote date and time leak
Tor is a service run by a network of volunteers to allow people to use internet anonymously. Normally tor is used to browse the web without being tracked or identified.
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Distribution packages considered insecure
If you ever have run a Linux-based operating system you are probably aware of the way that software is usually distributed on them: Using a software repository. Repositories are great for numerous …
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Ranto (JBR Anti‐Zamenhofism)
Esperanto: espèce de conlang
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How undefined signed overflow enables optimizations in GCC
Signed integers are not allowed to overflow in C and C++, and this helps compilers generate better code. I was interested in how GCC is tak...
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State of the Haskell Ecosystem – February 2016
Update post for the State of the Haskell Ecosystem
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Welcome to the Python Engineering blog
Welcome! We here on the Python team at Microsoft are starting a blog. And since this is the first post, we wanted to give a bit of an introduction of who
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Encryption is a necessity
Recent news around Apple’s resistance to the US government’s demand to decrypt the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters has brought encryption
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Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th
We were exposed to an intrusion today. It was brief and it shouldn’t impact many people, but if it impacts you, it’s very important you read the information below.
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Working with the Clinton State Dept Email Dumps in R, Part 1
This isn’t a post about politics. I do have opinions about the now infamous e-mail server (which will no doubt come out here), but when the WSJ folks made it possible to search the Clinton email releases I though it would be fun to get the data into R to show how well the igraph and ggnetwork packages could work…
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