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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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Being Sneaky in C
I entered the 2014 Underhanded C Contest last year. Didn't win, but hey-ho what can you do. Still, I thought I'd post my entry and a write-up of it, in case anyone found it interesting.
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Financial Indicators for Startups at Different Stages
Learning to read financial documents is one thing, but learning to use them as tools to guide the business and ultimately communicate clearly to 100+
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Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by default
The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce that we are implementing HTTPS to encrypt all traffic on Wikimedia sites. With this change, nearly half a billion monthly visitors on Wikipedia and its…
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What the Next Generation Needs Is Math, Not Programming
It is the intelligent analysis of information that would be critical in a decade from now.
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ES6 in Depth – Symbols
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Note: There is ...
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Announcing Apache Spark 1.4
Apache Spark 1.4 introduces SparkR, new DataFrame features, ML pipelines, and enhanced visualization and monitoring tools for better production debugging.
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Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship
Today, we’re open-sourcing Facebook Infer, a static program analyzer that Facebook uses to identify bugs before mobile code is shipped. Static analyzers are automated tools that spot bugs in …
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Reassessing Airport Security
News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security “red team” tests was justifiably shocking. It’s clear that we’re not getting value for the $7 billion we’re paying the TSA annually. But there’s another conclusion, inescapable and disturbing to…
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Computer scientists prove that a 40-year-old algorithm is optimal
Computer scientists from MIT find that a 40-year-old algorithm for determining the “edit distance” between symbols cannot be optimized any further.
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What's the third most common element?
The Universe was 99.999999% Hydrogen and Helium after the Big Bang. Billions of years later, there’s a new contender in town.
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Bitbucket announces Connect platform
More than 3 million developers and 450,000 teams use Bitbucket to manage and collaborate on source code. But code collaboration is only a fraction of what software teams do on a daily basis to ship software. Nowadays, shipping great software involves constant context switching using tools that don’t integrate tightly…
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The Death of the Von Neumann Architecture
Lots of exciting new things were announced at the latest Apple WWDC this week, but hidden amongst the big announcements was an extension of something that's been bothering me for a while.
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How We Designed for Performance and Scale
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep
Because we can!
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Show HN: Clojure by Example
Clojure by Example
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Duqu 2.0 Hits Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab uncovers Duqu 2.0 – a highly sophisticated malware platform exploiting up to three zero-day vulnerabilities.
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I quit the tech industry
This Friday, June 12, will be my last day at Yelp. I don’t intend to look for another tech job. Or another job at all. Ever.
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Xhyve – Lightweight Virtualization on OS X Based on Bhyve
The Hypervisor.framework user mode virtualization API introduced in Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) cannot only be used for toy projects like the hvdos DOS Emulator, but is full-featured enough to support a full virtualization solution that can for example run Linux.
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It's the Future
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
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LightSail Test Mission Declared Success; First Image Complete
The Planetary Society’s LightSail test mission successfully completed its primary objective of deploying a solar sail in low-Earth orbit.
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What Did Bohr Do at Los Alamos?
Along with almost getting hit by a car, he made important contributions to the atomic bomb's design.