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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,470 posts.
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Caching at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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WhatsApp Security Vulnerability
Back in March, Rolf Weber wrote about a potential vulnerability in the WhatsApp protocol that would allow Facebook to defeat perfect forward secrecy by forcibly change users’ keys, allowing it—or more likely, the government—to eavesdrop on encrypted messages. It seems that this vulnerability is real: WhatsApp has the…
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Monetize Your APIs in AWS Marketplace Using API Gateway
Shiva Krishnamurthy, Sr. Product Manager Amazon API Gateway helps you quickly build highly scalable, secure, and robust APIs. Today, we are announcing an integration of API Gateway with AWS Marketplace. You can now easily monetize your APIs built with API Gateway, market them directly to AWS customers, and reuse AWS…
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The Problem with AMP
Details about accelerated mobile pages and their numerous issues
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Certified Malice
One unfortunate (albeit entirely predictable) consequence of making HTTPS certificates “fast, open, automated, and free” is that both good guys and bad guys alike will take advantage of the offer a…
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The Line of Death
When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything…
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Feeling safer online with Firefox
The latest privacy and security improvements in Firefox [This post originally appeared on Medium ] Firefox is the only browse...
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Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
Google Maps and Apple Maps . At first glance, the columns below look very similar...
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Is Semantic Versioning an Anti-Pattern?
The classic X.Y.Z style of software numbering, sometimes known as Semantic Versioning, may be hurting more than it helps. Semver.org has codified how these numbers should be used for some cases, describing what is meant by the major and minor version numbers, when to change them, what
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A deep dive into ClojureScript reagent
Programing in Clojure and ClojureScript
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HTTPS on NYTimes.com
We are thrilled to announce that we have begun to enable HTTPS on NYTimes.com, an effort that helps protect the privacy of our readers and ensures the authenticity of our content.
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How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%
and how we found out.
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Building a CQRS/ES web application in Elixir using Phoenix
I’ve been interested in Command Query Responsibility Segregation and event sourcing since hearing Greg Young talk on the subject in early 2010. During the past seven years I’ve built an open-source Ruby CQRS library ( rcqrs ); worked professionally on .NET applications following the pattern; and more recently built an…
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Visiting a site that uses Disqus when not logged in sends URL to Facebook
I was surprised to see the Facebook SDK being loaded in the network tab on my blog when I don't have any Facebook buttons. It turned out to be coming courtesy of Disqus. No wonder Facebook knows everywhere you go!
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Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6 Released
Alpha 6 has landed, and it's one of our biggest ships to date. We've rewritten our grid system and all major components in flexbox, forging ahead with it as…
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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Lessons learned as a React contractor
I didn’t know I was looking for it, but when I found it something clicked.
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I've removed all ad network code from my blog
I don't mind ads on websites as a concept, that is I don't mind the idea of a message appearing somewhere that helps the producer of said content earn a crust. However, there are other things about ads that I do mind enormously and most of them are
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Compiling Rust to Web Assembly
So you are intrigued what WebAssembly is and want to try it? Since December 22 it’s possible to compile Rust to WASM. If you don’t know…
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The ad tech renaissance
We simply must fix the monetization and distribution challenges that publishers face.