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Phasing Out SHA-1 on the Public Web
An algorithm we’ve depended on for most of the life of the Internet — SHA-1 — is aging, due to both mathematical and technological advances. Digital signatures incorporating the SHA-1 ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
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Webpack 2.2 – Release Candidate
The talks of webpack 2 started back in January of 2015. Since then we have published multiple versions from 2.0 to 2.1-beta.28.
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Keep Ruby Weird Again [video]
The video depicts known JavaScript agitant Justin Searls, who spoke for approximately 27 minutes at RubyConf 2016 with a message that advocated restoring Ruby to its former prominence in the open source software community.
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Amateur Radio Sleuthing Pins Down Source of Strange RF Interference
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
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Encryption is a necessity
Recent news around Apple’s resistance to the US government’s demand to decrypt the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters has brought encryption
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From Chrome Apps to the Web
Note: The timeline has been updated. Please see our October 2021 post for more details. We have always believed in making the open, inter...
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Web Storage: the lesser evil for session tokens
I was recently asked whether it was safe to store session tokens using Web Storage (sessionStorage/localStorage) instead of cookies. Upon googling this I found the top results nearly all assert that w
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Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy Is Worse Than Anyone Thought
Before all of this ever went down In another place, another town You were just a face in the crowd You were just a face in the crowd Out in the street walking around A face in the crowd -Tom Petty If we don’t speak up now, the days when we can walk around with our heads held high without fear of...
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Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B
My first airline was started out of frustration. As a young record executive, I travelled the world flying by other airlines, but found the experience dreadful. So in 1984 I chartered one second-hand Boeing 747 and offered flights between London and New York. People thought we were mad and bound to fail quickly…
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YC Updates and Additions
Y Combinator now has 5 major groups—YC Fellowship, YC Core, YC Continuity, YC Research, and Hacker News—and we’re putting one person in charge of each group. Paul Buchheit is taking over for me as managing partner of the core YC program. We’re going to continue doing YC Fellowship (!), and Kevin Hale is going to be…
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A Deep Learning USB Stick
Unlock more with Intel Core Ultra processors. Experience superior AI performance, all-day battery life, and pro-level graphics for work and play.
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Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/2
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What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP
In 2015 we migrated Quizlet from our legacy host to a large cloud provider. AWS is the default choice for most companies, but after comparing the options, we went with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a summary of our analysis.
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Wordpress on AWS: smooth and pain free
I’m not a fan of WordPress, as it is neither cloud-ready nor serverless. That’s why this blog runs on CloudFront and S3 and i...
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Everybody gets WebSockets
Two summers ago, with a seemed-big-at-the-time network of 28 datacenters, not long after introducing Medellin, CloudFlare introduced support for WebSockets, initially for our Enterprise customers.
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DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for Prevention and Response
Late last month, Internet users across the eastern seaboard of the United States had trouble accessing popular websites, such as Reddit, Netflix, and the New York Times....
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Windows Subsystem for Linux Architectural Overview
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Steam Sales 2015
The 2015 was the best year for Steam yet.
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Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling
MIT team gets water to freeze solid at boiling temperature; finding could lead to new kinds of electronic devices with wires made of ice
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Can computers read through a book page by page without opening it?
A. R. Sanchez, B. Heshmat*, A. Aghasi, M. Zhang, S. Naqvi, J. Romberg, R. Raskar
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Machine Learning 101: An Intro to Utilizing Decision Trees
Stay up-to-date with the latest news, practical tips & best practices from Qlik on data analytics, data integration, data literacy, and big data analytics.
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