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A new generation of Chromebooks, designed to work with millions of apps
Two new Chromebooks from Samsung bring together the best of Chrome OS and Android for a whole new experience.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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Rust at OneSignal
Read all about our blazing fast Push Notification delivery system, OnePush, which is written in The Rust Programming Language.
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I’m Joining LinkedIn
I'm very excited to share that I've joined LinkedIn as a full-time employee.
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Notes for the New Year
Happy 2017! As a kid, I just sort of took for granted that stuff got better every year—TVs got bigger and then thinner, cars got a little faster, and computers got unbelievably better on an exponential curve. As an adult, I realized that the future is not guaranteed to be better. The default is that things stay the…
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Grumpy: Go running Python
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Alexa: Amazon's Operating System
Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon is building exactly that with Alexa.
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TensorKart: self-driving MarioKart with TensorFlow
Kevin Hughes' blog
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Lock-Free Bugs
[ I wrote this post in mid-2014 for debuggers.co, which seems to have gone at least partly defunct, so I am reproducing it here. That site collected answers from programmers to the prompt “What’s the most interesting bug you’ve encountered?” ]
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Dear Obama, from Infosec
Dear President Obama: We are more than willing to believe Russia was responsible for the hacked emails/records that influenced our electio...
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P vs. NP
For those who just want the survey itself, not the backstory, it’s here. (Note: Partly because of the feedback I’ve gotten on this blog, it’s now expanded to 121 pages!) Upda…
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Minstrel ZX80 Clone
Here is a new ZX80 clone that I have called the Minstrel. It is a fairly accurate clone electrically to the ZX80, using the same chips and ...
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The ad tech renaissance
We simply must fix the monetization and distribution challenges that publishers face.
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Why isn't memset() async-signal-safe?
Really, POSIX? Really? memset() isn't async-signal-safe? How is it not safe? … oh … that's why
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Getting Past C
One of the medium-term possibilities we’re seriously considering forNTPsec is moving the entire codebase out of C into a language with nobuffer overrun...
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Request for Startups: Water
We’re optimistic we will beat climate change. But, at the same time, we need to prepare for things to get worse. One area we think a lot about is water—natural fresh supplies could be at serious risk around the world. We’re close to a tipping point where technology will let us make clean water extremely abundant and…
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Introducing rkt’s ability to detect privilege escalation attacks on containers
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Challenges you’re going to face when building a chatbot
Developing your own medical chatbot? Challenges and lessons learned from developing Symptomate.
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Class Breaks
There’s a concept from computer security known as a class break. It’s a particular security vulnerability that breaks not just one system, but an entire class of systems. Examples might be a vulnerability in a particular operating system that allows an attacker to take remote control of every computer that runs on…
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Study: carpooling apps could reduce traffic 3x in NYC
Traffic is not just a nuisance for drivers: it’s also a public-health hazard and bad news for the economy. Transportation studies put the annual cost of congestion at $160 billion , which includes 7 billion hours of time lost to sitting in traffic and an extra 3 billion gallons of fuel burned. One way to improve…
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Tor at the Heart: Firefox
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on...
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Writing a Faster Sorting Algorithm
These days it’s a pretty bold claim if you say that you invented a sorting algorithm that’s 30% faster than state of the art. Unfortunately I have to make a far bolder claim: I wrote a …