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OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild
Last month's discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in OS X led to today's revelation of the first known exploit.
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Fuzzing a DNS parser written in Go
Here at CloudFlare we are heavy users of the github.com/miekg/dns Go DNS library and we make sure to contribute to its development as much as possible. Therefore when Dmitry Vyukov published go-fuzz and started to uncover tens of bugs in the Go standard library, our task was clear.
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Standard Treasury Acquired by Silicon Valley Bank
We're proud to say that Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has acquired the assets and team of Standard Treasury. More information can be found in the press release. Dan and I started Standard Treasury...
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Training a Neural Net to Generate CSS
A log of experiments done on the site design, intended to render pages more readable, focusing on the challenge of testing a static site, page width, fonts, plugins, and effects of advertising.
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Apache Kafka, Samza, and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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It Just Works
Marco Arment wrote about Apple losing the ‘functional high ground’ earlier this year, and it was met with tons of discussion - blog posts, podcasts, twitter battles and more. The…
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Getting started with maps in Python
Kristoffer over at rpsychologist.com wrote a really nice tutorial on getting up to speed with maps in R. It looked something like this.
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I Tried VR and It Was Just OK
It’s been about a year and a half since I wrote The Road to VR, and a… few… things have happened since then. * Facebook bought Oculus for a skadillion dollars * I have to continually read thinkpieces describing how the mere act of strapping a VR headset on your face
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We're heading for AOL 2.0
Before ‘HTTP’, whenever a new kind of application was invented (say ‘file sharing’, or ‘address book’ or ‘messaging’) someone would sit down with a bunch of others and would discuss this problem at some length. Then they’d draft up a document describing the problem they intended to solve and the protocol layer they…
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React Static Site
I built a doubly static site using React (inc react-router) and Webpack. You can see the current demo here on GitHub or continue reading the following post that explains the steps I took during this experiment. This post proves the basic concept and there will be a followup post covering the fine tuning needed to put…
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Wi-Fi and LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum Bands
by Nihar Jindal, Hardware Engineer, Access & Energy In the 20 years since the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) first made spectr...
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The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ
Here is a small sample of stuff that pops up with some regularity, if you want me to add entries please mail me jacques@mattheij.com, if you ask a question that is hard to answer it may take a while before I can post it . Please note that I’m not affiliated with HN in any way other than being a user, the majority of…
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Mercurial 3.5 Released
Mercurial 3.5 was released today (following Mercurial's time-based schedule of releasing a new version every 3 months).
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After 20 years, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy thrives on the web
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Is Extended Random a Malicious NSA Plot?
Dual_EC was almost certainly an NSA backdoor. Extended Random is the TLS extension that would have made it practical to exploit. Did NSA plant that one too? A look at the evidence.
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Don't test with SQLite when you use Postgres in Production
Yesterday, I was looking for some help trying to have a clean way to roll back database transactions at the end of a test in a Python TestC...
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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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The Most Dangerous Code in the Web Browser
Personal website of Stefan Heule
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Google to France: We Won't Forget It for You Wholesale
In a move that could set a crucial precedent for all service providers, Google pushed back against the expansion of what's become known as the Right to be Forgotten (RTBF) ruling, and refused to comply with a notice issued by French data protection agency Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et...