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How to reduce stress and overcome anxiety as a software developer
I share my story about stress and anxiety and how I managed to overcome it. I also share practical tips and resources that will help you begin your healing journey today!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu
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An Update on the Lock Icon
Editor’s note: based on industry research (from Chrome and others), and the ubiquity of HTTPS, we will be replacing the lock icon in Chrome’...
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Anonymous Tor Phone
I was always curious about all that bad guys (criminals, drug dealers, hitman’s, thief’s etc.) using not very good and secure communication channels. Forgetting about whole OPSEC stuff. There is a lo
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Let's make sure GitHub doesn't become the only option
GitHub is dominant in today’s software development industry. Most professional developers interact with software created, maintained, or controlled by GitHub daily.
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Are mental health apps better or worse at privacy in 2023?
Privacy Not Included was launched in 2017 to help you understand the privacy risks of tech products that connect to the internet. We are continuing that work in the form of Product Reviews at our magazine Nothing Personal, where our privacy experts do hours of hands-on testing and research on the most popular consumer…
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Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request
Since the events of the search warrant by the Swedish police at Mullvad’s office in Gothenburg, we have tried to get hold of documents and protocols tied to the operation. This is what the authorities came back with.
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Dark Matter Developers: The Unseen 99% (2012)
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is a currently-undetermined type of ...
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ChatGPT has no inner monologue or meta-cognition
Update 2025: The post below describes ChatGPT and similar LLMs as they functioned at the time of writing in 2023. More recent systems do have a behind-the-scenes “inner monologue” which enables them t
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GPT makes learning fun again
What will GPT unlock for the nerdy kid sitting in a 7th-grade classroom today?
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OKTO35 3D-Printed Analog Film Movie Camera
In the very beginning, there was … well, this thing. The OKTO35 Mk1. A machine that could (barely) shoot and scan its own 35mm film movies.
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SIMD with Zig
An introduction to using SIMD with Zig
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Surprisingly Turing-Complete
A catalogue of software constructs, languages, or APIs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; implications for security and reliability.
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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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I was laid off in retaliation for anti-discrimination whistleblowing
In order to protect women, gender nonconforming folks, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community from suffering as my peers and I have, I feel ethically obligated to go public with my ex…
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Apple has just released the first Rapid Security Response for Ventura
Apple has just released the first of its new Rapid Security Responses (RSRs) for macOS 13.3.1 Ventura. This is indicated as macOS Rapid Security Response 13.3.1 (a), and is just just over 300 MB to…
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You and Your Research (1986)
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
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Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
In the 1980s, the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was focused on the nation's savings and loan industry.
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Storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
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Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife
Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
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Chatbots are not the future
Unfortunately for the countless hapless people I've talked to in the past few months, this was inexorable. Ever since ChatGPT exploded in popularity, my inner designer has been bursting at the seams.
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Funds of every Trust Wallet browser extension could have been stolen
Seed generation of Trust Wallet was flawed, the total entropy was only 32 bits. We have created a file containing all possible seeds. Fortunately, the Ledger Donjon discovered the vulnerability very quickly and likely avoided one of the biggest hack in the crypto ecosystem.
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First clean water, now clean air
Fin Moorhouse's website
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Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
We are charting the path to a future free from Parkinson’s. Your support will get us there.
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Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element
The <keygen/> element is probably one of the weirdest elements ever added to HTML:
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The web’s most important decision
I got a bit caught up this month, so I had to delay a couple of things, but I’ll be […]
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The King doesn't own all the swans in Britain
So who does?