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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,531 posts.
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Mongo BSON Injection: Ruby Regexps Strike Again
We do penetration testing, source code auditing and vulnerability assessments
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EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth Amendment
All too often, new police surveillance tools are initially applied to only the “worst of the worst” and then slowly—but surely—expanded to include an ever-growing number of less culpable individuals. We’ve seen it with DNA collection. And now we’re starting to see it with GPS tracking. That’s why...
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Users Betrayed as Australia Adopts a Copyright Censorship Regime
Since our report last week on Australia's Internet censorship bill, the bill did indeed pass the Senate yesterday, and will become the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015. The new law provides an accelerated process for rightsholders to obtain court orders for ISPs to block sites...
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Building Microservices: Free Ebook from O’Reilly and NGINX
Explore the world of microservices with this free ebook from O'Reilly and NGINX.
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BB-8 Droid Teardown
Discover hardware product teardowns to learn about key design for manufacturability and mechanical design principles.
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Web Fonts Collateral Damage of Ad Blockers
Years of abusive implementation of webfonts has landed the feature under the umbrella of content blocking APIs, affecting those few who’ve cared all along.
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Time series database Graphite seems to be falling into disfavor
SolarWinds database performance monitoring software helps optimize and manage databases, providing comprehensive monitoring, analysis, and tuning. Improve your database performance with visibility, control, and streamlined management across on-premises and cloud environments. Free trial available!
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Pyston 0.3: Self-hosting Sufficiency
We’ve been working hard over the past five months and are very happy to release Pyston 0.3, the newest version of our high-performance Python implementation. The biggest features of this release ar…
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Limitations of the GET method in HTTP
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Stanford to host 100-year study on artificial intelligence
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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Octopress 3.0 is coming
The way Octopress is being distributed and maintained is nearing its end. There are many things I've always disliked about how Octopress works. So before I talk about the exciting part, I'd like to tell you what's wrong with Octopress.
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Towards Realtime Deformable Worlds: Why Tetrahedra Rule, Voxels Drool
In this article I provide a chronicle of our turbulent terrain development, what lessons I've learned and what's next. Also, why tetrahedra ...
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A Word Is Worth a Thousand Vectors
Standard natural language processing (NLP) is a messy and difficult affair. It requires teaching a computer about English-specific word ambiguities as well a...
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After 100 Years, Ramanujan Gap Filled (2013)
History of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan’s lost notebooks and an exploration of solutions to those equations using Mathematica.
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Almost every Cassandra feature has some surprising behavior
Cassandra is a highly-available, linearly-scalable data store, but would it work for the Parse.ly team? Read on for how to avoid common pitfalls when working with this tech!
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Atom 1.1 is out
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it needs to be said. I join the world in grieving for the dead in Paris. I have grieved for the dead from…
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New Generation of Intel Graphics for Linux Requires Proprietary Firmware
Access technologies from partnerships with the community and leaders. Everything open source at Intel. We have a lot to share and a lot to learn.
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Elasticsearch as a Time Series Data Store
Ever wondered how Elasticsearch handles time series metrics? Felix Barnsteiner from stagemonitor - an open source solution to application performance monitoring
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New general-purpose optimization algorithm promises order-of-magnitude speedups
MIT graduate students have developed a new “cutting-plane” algorithm, a general-purpose algorithm for solving optimization problems. They’ve also developed a new way to apply their algorithm to specific problems, yielding orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains.
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Farewell From Shari Steele
Today is the start of my last week as an employee of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I will be leaving after nearly 15 years as EFF's President and Executive Director, having started as a Staff Attorney back in 1992. As I wrap up things here, I've been thinking a lot about where we've been...