2011
New Features in Ruby 2.4
Learn more about what’s new at Cognito, and what’s new in the world of identity verification, risk management, and compliance regulations.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,414 posts.
2012
Unstructured Datatypes in Postgres – Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB
All about when to use unstructured data types in Postgres, such as Hstore, JSON, and JSONB. The tl;dr is that the right data type depends on your use case. Here we dig deep into the benefits, and why JSONB became so popular since it first got real and proper support in Postgres 9.4. The B in JSONB stands for better.
2013
2014
Apple Remote Code Execution with Image Files
Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Many of the wide variety of file formats are designed for specialized uses within specific industries. Apple offers APIs as interfaces to provide a definitive way to access image data for multiple image formats on the Apple OS X platform. Talos is
2015
2016
AngularDart is going all Dart
Until now, the multiple language flavors of Angular 2 were written as TypeScript source, and then automatically compiled to both JavaScrip...
2017
Introducing Google Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API and New Data Center
Following our announcements from GCP NEXT in March, we’re excited to share updates about Cloud Platform expansion and machine learning . Today we’re launching two new Machine Learning APIs into open beta and expanding our footprint in the United States.
2018
Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox
Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers. ...
2019
Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams
As part of the small minority of devs at my company who primarily run Windows, I’m accustomed to working around occasional Unix-specific behaviors in our build and deployment systems. Cygwin makes most stuff just work, I can fix simple incompatibilities myself, and as a last resort I can always boot into OSX for a…
2020
Fewer Allergies: A Possible Upside of Thumb Sucking and Nail Biting
It’s no surprise that children suck their thumbs or bite their nails. These behaviors are often discouraged, as they can go on to cause damaged teeth, infections, or even elicit teasing from othe...
2021
Why I won’t give talks about being a woman in tech
You can now find it at /posts/2016/why-i-wont-talk-about-being-a-woman-in-tech-and-neither-should-you/ . If you don't do anything, you'll be redirected automatically (if your browser supports that).
2022
Building an Open Core Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO
Building an Open Source Company: Interview with GitLab's CEO
2023
Windows Hello face recognition is vulnerable to the Jedi mind trick
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
2024
Dollar Shave Club and the Disruption of Everything
Dollar Shave Club is a textbook example of how the new Internet economy will destroy value in incumbent industries.
2025
Windows 10 “Developer Mode”
The new Windows 10 update coming in a few weeks. It's called Windows 10 ...
2026
Usenet Tradecraft: Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment (2013)
Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment If your secure communications platform isn’t being used by terrorists and pedophiles, you&# …
2027
Stealing Facebook access_tokens using CSRF in device login flow
I enjoy breaking websites.
2028
2029
Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation
The state of California has some of the most expensive housing in the country. In new research, Kristoffer (Kip) Jackson investigates why homes in the Golden State have come to cost so much. He finds that it's down to how land use is regulated; each new land-use regulation reduces a Californian city's housing supply by
2030
The rectangularness of countries
What is the most rectangular country?
2031
2032
How to Pitch Your Company
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
2033
Braid Code Cleanup (part 1)
I am still puzzling through the right way to think about some ideas in compression, so let’s take a break from that and talk about generally cleaning up the ...
2034
2035
Qt WebBrowser 1.0
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
2036
MIT scientists find weird quantum effects over hundreds of miles
MIT scientists have discovered strange quantum effects hold, even over hundreds of miles. In longest test of quantum mechanics, researchers find neutrinos, traveling over 450 miles at close to speed of light, have no single identity.
2037
Getting a network trace from a single application
I recently wanted a way to get a network packet trace from a specific application. My googling showed me an old askubuntu thread that solve...
2038
2039
Functional programming in C (2013)
0.1 Discriminated unions in C 0.2 Nested functions and lambda variables 0.3 Automatic cleanup of local variables 0.4 Data structures 0.5 Wrapping up This post/program (as I’m writing it in literate…
2040