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Google Pixel Buds
Google Pixel Buds, available now with high-quality sound, clear calls and a sleek design for a great truly wireless earbuds experience.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,567 posts.
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Building a WireGuard jail with FreeBSD's standard tools
Recently, I had an opportunity to build a WireGuard jail on a FreeBSD 12.1 host. As it was really quick and easy to setup and it has been working completely fine for a month, I’d like to share my experience with anyone interested in this topic. I would like to use WireGuard app on my Android phone to access my home…
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Tmux for Mere Mortals
Tmux is great. Tmux defaults are not. How to make use of a brilliant tool without breaking your fingers?
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WireGuard on K8s: road-warrior-style VPN server
Road-warrior-style VPN server
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There are many SARS-CoV-2 strains with gene deletions
In my first post on a possible solution to COVID-19 I hypothesised that there would be gene deletion mutants to be found in the SARS-CoV-2 viral strains out in the world and that we would find them if we looked.
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Let’s Invent B(+)-Trees
Say we have some things, and we want to be able to store and look them up in order. We could just put them in a big sorted array:
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Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries
Update, 4/27: Twitter has now officially announced that they are killing off SMS in most countries. The Verge covers the story as well. View alternate
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Principles and priorities
Using design principles to embody your priorities.
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I Spent $6M on Google Ads Last Year
I spent a lot of money on Google ads last year across Search, Display, Youtube, Discovery, and Gmail. Here's what I learned.
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A Critique of React Hooks
A few thoughts to consider when using React hooks
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Controlling My A/C with a Gameboy
Last year, I was lucky enough to be gifted a Gameboy Color in great shape. Apart from its intended gameplay features, I also wanted to try and build something meaningful with it, so I made this application to control my air-conditioner over its existing, reverse-engineered infrared protocol.
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Rust-analyzer – an IDE backend for Rust
I am pleased to announce the first alpha release of rust-analyzer — a new
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Beware of the GIF: Account Takeover Vulnerability in Microsoft Teams
Protect your organization with Idira®. Modernize identity governance, automate access reviews, and secure every identity across your hybrid cloud environment.
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How does a TCP Reset Attack work?
A TCP reset attack is executed using a single packet of data, no more than a few bytes in size. A spoofed TCP segment, crafted and sent by an attacker, tricks two victims into abandoning a TCP connection, interrupting possibly vital communications between them.
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Infrastructure Monitoring with Prometheus at Zerodha
How we developed a hybrid multi-DC and cloud monitoring stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and Victoria metrics for monitoring system, app and service, and also business metrics.
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Mastering systemd: Securing and sandboxing applications and services
This series of articles will explore some of my favorite Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 capabilities that are enabled by systemd. Thus, this series assume...
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Lab-made? CoV2 genealogy through the lens of gain-of-function research
Virologists have created dozens of chimeric coronaviruses in the lab over the past 20 years.
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How much power can we expect from rainfall?
Can the teardrops that fall after reading bad science writing generate renewable electricity? Yes, they can. 1. The puzzle of power from raindrops The usually excellent Marginal Revolution blog fea…
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Was there PTSD in the ancient or medieval world?
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020216 points205 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
Hey folks! Fireside this week, but next week, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the blog (the first post went up May 3rd) we’re diving into a look at Helm’s Deep in both the book…
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How to break everything by fuzz testing
Fuzz testing is a bit like the infinite monkey theorem, but instead of Shakespeare you get crashes.
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Vietnam's contact tracing app broadcasting a fixed ID
Prologue Bluezone ( Android , iOS ) is a Bluetooth-based contact tracing app sponsored by the Government of Vietnam and developed by a c...
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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
Report showing the number of people who are locked up in the United States and why
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Customers do not ask for software complexity
Asking for software complexity is insane. Nobody wants software solutions that are complex. It is comparable with smart cities, intelligent lockdowns and safe banks. Nobody wants stupid cities, governmental panic measurements to fight covid-19 or a bank that can not be trusted with handling money.
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Restoring the Gold Filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut
Researching and restoring differences in game’s post-processing and lighting - with bug fixes.