1951
I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
The perils of remaining neutral on a global scale: fanning the flames and selling the extinguisher.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,153 posts.
1952
1953
Blocking Kiwifarms
We have blocked Kiwifarms. Visitors to any of the Kiwifarms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a Cloudflare block page and a link to this post.
1954
Less is more agile
Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward. So when both came together for Dave’s Engineering Room…
1955
DBOS: A database-oriented operating system
Today, most people develop applications on operating systems such as Linux which are more than thirty years old, even though computing has changed a lot in the meantime. Since Linux was first released in 1991, the size of application state and data has grown by several orders of magnitude, many applications have moved…
1956
DockYard R&D: FireFly Optimizes Your Elixir Compilation
Firefly is an alternative compiler to BEAM, introducing new levels of efficiency and speed for compiling Elixir applications.
1957
A small Stripe fraud story
A story post about the time a Stripe account I used years ago had thousands of pounds worth of unexpected payments flood in.
1958
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
1959
From Prison to Programming
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking about felons. Today's guest is Rick Wolter. He's an iOS developer who served 18 years in prison for second degree murder. Rick killed somebody and for some that's all…
1960
SBCL 2.2.8
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
1961
1962
The quantum state of Linux kernel garbage collection
A deep dive into an in-the-wild Android exploit Guest Post by Xingyu Jin, Android Security Resea...
1963
Science is political, and that's a bad thing
People who say “science is political” usually aren’t just stating facts - they’re trying to push something on you. Don’t let them
1964
Fog Revealed: A guided tour of how cops can browse your location data
In Part 1 of our series on Fog Data Science, we saw how when you give some apps permission to view your location, it can end up being packaged and sold to numerous other companies. Fog Data Science is one of those companies, and it has created a sleek search engine called Fog Reveal that allows cops to browse through…
1965
Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use
Arti 1.0.0 is released and ready for download.
1966
Why have I never heard of the Ene-Farm? (2017)
While reading up on architecture in Japan recently, I came across a technology that I hadn’t heard of before: the Ene-Farm. It’s a domestic energy system that is being used in Japan and…
1967
We want to make Nix better
Introducing Determinate Systems, a company devoted to bringing the immense benefits of Nix to the software world. Our values, our mission, and what the future holds.
1968
My Contribution to Markdown
At long last revealed.
1969
1970
Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms
Researchers from California Polytechnic State University and the University of New Mexico find that stock market investors predict cannabis legalization will reduce conventional pharmaceutical sales by billions of dollars. In their recent study, “U.S....
1971
Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
A detailed primer on Roaring bitmaps explaining what they are, how they're different from traditional bitmaps, and how they work internally.
1972
Why people make dumb financial decisions on purpose
Probabilities vs. the real world when it comes to big money decisions.
1973
Using a Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth Speaker with PipeWire
Using PipeWire, WirePlumber and a Raspberry Pi, you can create an audio bridge between a Bluetooth® device and an analog speaker system. Here's how.
1974
Master Foo and the Recruiter (2016)
A technical recruiter, having discovered that that the ways of Unix hackers were strange to him, sought an audience with Master Foo to learn more about the Way. Master Foo met the recruiter in the HR offices of a large firm.
1975
Interview: Vitalik Buterin
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto.
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1978
Folk Interfaces
People reappropriating existing software to solve their own unique problems
1979
Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels
Why can't Meta A/B test its way back to greatness? To move Instagram beyond short-term engagement metrics, we ran a personalized human evaluation asking 100 users to compare TikTok vs. Instagram Reels. Learn why Gen Z considers Reels the place where TikToks go to die, and what Instagram should do about it.
1980
Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3
If you’re just interested in the code, here it is.