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Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
How we reverse engineered Discord’s call protocol and found it being MITM-ed by Discord.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,677 posts.
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Slack’s Outage on January 4th 2021
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. — Rainer Maria Rilke January 4th 2021 was the first working day of the year for many around the globe, and for most of us at Slack too (except of course for our on-callers and our customer experience team, who never…
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Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge
Fast and Portable Llama2 Inference on the Heterogeneous Edge.
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Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
2021 is shaping up to be a big year for our efforts to secure your right to fix your stuff.
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Postgres full-text search: A search engine in a database (2021)
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
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New, more powerful Google Translate app
Often the hardest part of traveling is navigating the local language. If you've ever asked for "pain" in Paris and gotten funny looks, confused "embarazada" with "embarr…
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House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality
H.R. 2666 Would Undermine FCC’s Charge to Protect the Open Internet In a disappointing turn of events, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 241 to 173 to pass H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, a bill that would undermine the FCC’s ability to enforce key net...
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Postgres Auditing in 150 lines of SQL
PostgreSQL has a robust set of features which we can leverage to create a generic auditing solution in 150 lines of SQL.
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OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple's Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL …
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JQuery Mobile 1.0
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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How we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel
Here's an in-depth recap of debugging a GitLab issue that culminated in a patch for the Linux kernel.
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0 A.D.: A free, open-source game of ancient warfare
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of “0 A.D. Alpha 19 Syllepsis”, the nineteenth alpha version …
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YouTube wins case against Viacom
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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EFF’s Tweet About a DMCA Takedown Is Now Subject to an Overzealous Takedown
Get ready for a tale as good as anything you’d see on television. Here’s the sequence of events: the website TorrentFreak publishes an article about a leak of TV episodes, including shows from the network Starz. TorrentFreak tweets its article, Starz sends a copyright takedown notice. TorrentFreak writes about the…
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Tables: Tracking work for teams
Tables, the newest tool from Area 120 by Google, beta launches in the U.S. to help teams easily track and automate work.
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The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering
A brief history about server-side rendering and why it's the right approach for modern web development.
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Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
Ryanair Airlines is an excellent example of a company that will use as many dark patterns as possible...
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an…
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Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
Today we're introducing a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work. Like WhatsApp Web, our desktop app is simply an extension of your phone: the app mirrors conversations and messages from your mobile device.
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TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
Asana engineers are TypeScript fans, and we’ve learned a lot about where TypeScript shines and struggles. Here are 3 of our favorite TypeScript surprises.
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GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
Developers and engineering teams worldwide use GitHub Copilot for high-quality, agent-powered code reviews on every pull request. We understand that any change is significant to our customers, especially when it…
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The Gates to Hell: Apple’s Notarizing
NeoFinder is a powerful and very fast disk cataloging tool for songs, videos, photos, all your digital documents
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GitHub has completed its acquisition of NPM
With the npm acquisition complete, we’re ready to start the next chapter of npm and support the JavaScript community in a new way.
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A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads
Portsmouth CTC part of Cycling UK organises cycle rides and events including easy rides, short rides, flat rides, long rides, and hilly rides.
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NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install
Vue.js users using the dependency “node-ipc” are experiencing a supply chain attack protesting the invasion of Ukraine, from a package named “peacenotwar”.