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Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
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Mitmproxy 8
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 8, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings major improvements to mitmweb, our web interface, and new functionality for addon developers.
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Exploring Google Hangouts' easter eggs
Web developer and cybersecurity researcher
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When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX
Macintosh Application Environment for Unix -- from back in 1994.
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Melrōse, a language to program and play music (2021)
Melrōse is both a language and a tool to create and listen to music interactively, The language uses musical primitives (note, sequence, chord) and many functions (map, group, transpose) that can be used to create more complex patterns, loops and tracks. Melrōse uses MIDI output to produce sound by any (hard or…
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Verilog Is Weird
Verilog is the most commonly used language for hardware design in America (VHDL is more common in Europe). Too bad it's so baroque. If you ever browse the Verilog questions on Stack Overflow , you'll find a large number of questions, usually downvoted, asking “why doesn't my code work?”, with code that's not just a…
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Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul
I literally wrote the book on unsafe Rust . And the book on pointers in Rust . And redesigned the Rust’s pointer APIs . And designed the standard library’s abstraction for unsafe heap-allocated buffers . And maintain the alternative Vec layout .
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A Primer on Proxies
A technical dive into traditional TCP proxying over HTTP
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When Double Precision Is Not Enough
Using greater than double precision to calculate the eigenvalues of the lesp matrix.
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'Children of Men' is happening
Why Russia can’t afford to spare its young soldiers anymore
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A 9-line summary of textbook physics
All their wonders in one table
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Apple’s Universal Control
Apple’s “Universal Control” is holy-shit good
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Documenting Sony Memory Stick
Dmitry.GR: The first complete documentation of Sony Memory Stick from HW to DATA
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Asahi Linux alpha release
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Crypto is an unproductive bubble
This post sparked a great conversation on Hacker News! See the comments here.Another update: Scott Alexander just (12/8/22) wrote the best counterpoint to this that I’ve read – see it here “The four most expensive words in investing are: ‘This time it’s different.’” John Templeton I’m writing this essay not so much to…
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No is a complete sentence
Has someone asked you to do something recently that you know you don’t have time to do but felt like you needed to do anyway? Or has someone tried to get you to help with something and impres…
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Christopher Alexander has died
Christopher Alexander, a towering figure in architecture and urbanism—one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement—died on Thursday, March 17, after a long illness, it was reported by Michael Mehaffy, a long-time collaborator and protege. Alexander was the author or principal author of many books…
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The Open Source Initiative Did Not Win Neo4j vs. PureThink
everywhere it looks, OSI sees itself, and in triumph
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On the Weaponisation of Open Source
First of all I need the preface this article on how much I abhor the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I wholeheartedly support the sanctions. However, I think the conflict has spilled over into areas of software development that have got some unintended consequences attached. As part of this post, I’m going to look at…
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How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
We like lists because they are an objectively good way to organize information. They allow readers to quickly and easily get what they want.
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I'm Too Risk-Averse for Index Investing
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Stock Market
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Kharkiv Rubyist during the war: We are still here
To not become "old news," I write to the Ruby community in days of war Russia leads against my country.
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Mozilla and Open Web Docs Working Together on MDN
With the upcoming launch of MDN Plus, we believe it’s a good time to talk about how our two organizations work together.