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Dear Search Guard Users
We’ve filed a lawsuit against the makers of Search Guard. Here is what we know, the actions we’re taking, and potential impact to Search Guard users.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,838 posts.
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YC Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues
We’re delighted to announce that YC is hosting online office hours for founders of startups and nonprofits that are solving climate issues on Tuesday, September 24. If you’re in the early stages of building a company we’d love to meet you — anyone from idea stage through Series A and any sized nonprofit is welcome to…
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Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
The center, believed to be the first and largest of its kind, will use psychedelics to study the mind, identify therapies for diseases such as addiction, PTSD, Alzheimer's
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Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)
Every square has exactly 3 units and 20 peers. For example, here are the units and peers for the square C2 :
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Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser
WebAssembly has begun to establish itself outside of the browser via dedicated runtimes like Mozilla’s Wasmtime and Fastly’s Lucet. While the promise of a new, universal format for programs is ...
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A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech Recognition
Computer-based processing and identification of human voices is known as speech recognition. It can be used to authenticate users in certain systems, as well as provide instructions to smart devices like the Google Assistant, Siri or Cortana. Essentially, it works… Continue reading A 2019 Guide for Automatic Speech…
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Maesh, a Lightweight and Simpler Service Mesh
We are proud to introduce Maesh, Containous’ new service mesh designed from the ground up to be straightforward, easy to install and easy to use...
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Google’s GDPR Workaround
Brave presents new RTB evidence, and has uncovered a mechanism by which Google appears to be circumventing its purported GDPR privacy protections.
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Camera sales are falling sharply
Camera sales are continuing to falling off a cliff. The latest data from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) shows them in a swoon befitting a Bollywood roadside Romeo. All four bi…
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Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix
An in-depth analysis of the journey of a Spectre fix into the upstream LTS kernels that left its users with nothing more than a false sense of security.
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What Is a Tech Company?
The question of “What is a tech company” comes down to how much software and its unique characteristics affects the company’s core business.
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Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
Static TypeScript is designed to be useful in practice (especially in education), while being amenable to static compilation targeting small devices.
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ORMs Are Backwards
Not bad just backwards
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Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do
Many spam trends are cyclical: Spammers tend to switch tactics when one method of hijacking your time and attention stops working. But periodically they circle back to old tricks, and few spam trends are as perennial as calendar spam, in which invitations to click on dodgy links show up unbidden in your digital…
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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…
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The Eternal Mainframe (2013)
The urge to replace the mainframe has reinvented the mainframe and its problems.
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RSA: Theory and Implementation
RSA has been a staple of public key cryptography for over 40 years, and is still being used today for some tasks in the newest TLS 1.3 standard. This post describes the theory behind RSA - the math that makes it work, as well as some practical considerations; it also presents a complete implementation of RSA key…
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Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ
Developers have asked what Google's proposed changes to their extensions API, known as Manifest v3, mean for Mozilla. Here are some frequently asked questions.
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Need a USB Cable? Build One
Personal homepage of Josef Adamcik
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Lezer
I keep coming across people who consider parser technology a forbidding, scary field of programming. This is nonsense—a small parser can be very, very simple , and provide a wholesome exercise in recursive thinking. At the same time, it is true that you can make parsing extremely complicated. Mostly, this tends to…
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Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard
I've been typing for 20+ years and this is one of my favorite general purpose / programming keyboards when factoring in a few things.
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Firefox 69.0 Released
As of today, Enhanced Tracking Protection will be turned on by default, strengthening the security and privacy for all of our users around the world. We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Shenanigans With Hash Tables
One reason to know how your data structures work is so that when your problem has unusual constraints you can tweak how they work to fit the problem better or work faster. In this article I’ll talk about four different fun tweaks to the concept of a hash table that I made in the process of using hash tables to…
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Population Growth
Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing.