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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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As Deadly as a DDoS: ICANN Unleashes the Whois Accuracy Program
More effective than a botnet, more sweeping than a Denial-of-Service attack, ICANN has devised a deadly Weapon of Mass Destruction that can instantly render a entire online presence persona-non-grata regardless of how much redundancy, mitigation muscle-power or firewalls a hapless defender has deployed, this latest…
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Self-hosted Git Server
Moving off of Github and onto my own public Git hosting.
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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How I rebuilt "Flying Toasters" using only CSS animations
One of my favorite classic screensavers from back in the day was “Flying Toasters,” a part of the After Dark bundle.
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Worse
Amazon announced this week that it’s increasing the price of Amazon Prime from $80 to $100 per year, its first price change since its introduction in 2005.
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Full Stack Startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Designing and building a keyboard
Some years ago, I wanted to make a Nixie Tube clock from scratch. PCB manufacture was so expensive that I ended up just making the PCBs by hand. I figured I would give the market another look, and dang has custom PCB manufacture become cheap! The best/easiest service that I found was OSH Park. I'd never had PCBs made…
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GameCube Emulation and Pixel Processing Problems
The GameCube GPU is a complex, tight-knit piece of hardware with impressive features for its time. It is so powerful and so flexible, it was used unmodified within the Wii architecture. For a comparison, just imagine a SNES running with an NES's graphics system. This is completely unheard of, before...
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Replacing `import` with `accio`: A Dive into Bootstrapping and Python's Grammar
At Hacker School , I've been building an alternate universe Python by overwriting builtin functions and statements with Harry Potter spells. This is a thing you can do at Hacker School!
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Update on Metro
Earlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains. The team is solid and did good work, ...
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A Day of Communication at GitHub
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Google Docs Users Targeted by Phishing Scam
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology
Nearform is an independent team of engineers, designers and strategists. We build digital capability and software solutions for ambitious enterprises seeking sustained business impact. We love what we do.
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Russia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites
Russia's government has escalated its use of its Internet censorship law to target news sites, bloggers, and politicians under the slimmest excuse of preventing unauthorized protests and enforcing house arrest regulations. Today, the country's ISPs have received orders to block a list of major news...
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Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation
How to use Go's concurrency to build data-processing pipelines.
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Code: It’s Trivial
Remember that Stack Overflow thing we’ve been working on? Some commenters on a recent Hacker News article questioned the pricing of Stack Exchange – essentially, a hosted Stack Overflow: Seems really pricey for a relatively simple software like this. Someone write an open source alternative? it looks like something…
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Save more with Google Drive
Thanks to a number of recent infrastructure improvements, we’re able to make it more affordable for you.
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The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.