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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention
In two weeks, I'm headed to LSF/MM and the Linux Collaboration Summit , by invitation of some Linux kernel hackers, to discuss how the Linu...
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Docker 0.9: introducing execution drivers and libcontainer
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Vagrant 1.5 and Vagrant Cloud
Vagrant 1.5 is now available! This is a new major release that adds some incredible new features to Vagrant. We've also obsessed over stability, so we expect this to be the most stable release, as well. We're also announcing Vagrant Cloud, a place for sharing, discovering, and creating Vagrant environments.
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Intern at a YC Company
Would you like to intern at a YC company this summer? We’re helping place paid interns at YC-backed companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Optimizely and others. You’ll get: * A chance to work with one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting companies * An invitation to YC’s intern conference Please fill outour application…
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The Mid-Career Crisis of the Perl Programmer
How do you keep the profession of programming fresh throughout your career? (And how do you explain that your résumé says
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How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
One late night I opened up my trusty MacBook Pro only to find it turned off. “That’s odd, I never turn it off. Must have ran out of battery or something”. Without a further thought, I pressed the power button and the computer promptly started booting up. Since I had an SSD, this process would only take a few moments……
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What Are Your GCC Flags?
What Are Your GCC Flags ? 09 March 2014 Say What ? Your GCC build...
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Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
Tokyo, Japan - March 10, 2014 - Sony Corporation ("Sony") and Panasonic Corporation ("Panasonic") today announced that they have formulated "Archival Disc", a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage.
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Learn regular expressions in about 55 minutes
// For flipping between displayed things const toggle = id => { const element = document.getElementById(id) element.style.display = element.style.display === "none" ? "" : "none" } Regular expressions ("regexes") are supercharged Find/Replace string opera...
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The newest threat on the official Android market
Google Play: Whats the newest threat on the official Android market?
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How To Safely Generate A Random Number
Use urandom. That is the whole answer. Why the entropy-depletion story is a myth, and why userspace CSPRNGs are behind most of the last decade's randomness disasters.
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How to steal Bitcoins that are protected by weak passphrases
Every Bitcoin address is based on a secret key, from which the public key (associated to a Bitcoin address) is calculated. Once you have the private key for an address, you have the control of that address and can use it to transfer funds.
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Google Exploit – Steal Account Login Email Addresses
I found a bug that allowed me to find anyone with a Google+ account's login email address. This could be used to target specific people for spear phishing.
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How to Think
Read this article to discover how chess is used to teach people how to think. "It’s uncomfortable to focus so intensely on what you’re bad at."
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Python Language Features and Tricks
A list of Python tips and tricks. See how many of them you already know.
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Google+ names policy discriminates against American Native Indians
I find it absurd that Google+ doesn't recognize certain names. The latest outrage was when they rejected Elaine Yellow Horse . It was only a...
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