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Vectis IP Announces Call for Patents Essential to the Opus codec
London, UK: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for patents essential to the Opus codec.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,691 posts.
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Learnings from kCTF VRP's 42 Linux kernel exploits submissions
Tamás Koczka, Security Engineer In 2020 , we integrated kCTF into Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to support researchers evalu...
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Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project
Transitions: Long time digital advocate, security researcher, and developer Jacob Appelbaum...
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Coursera and Udemy are now one company
Today, I’m excited to share that we have completed the Coursera-Udemy combination, bringing together two mission-driven companies to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
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Announcing the New AWS Secret Region
The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. AWS customers benefit from data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. AWS supports more classification…
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How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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FreeOTP – An open-source solution for authentication soft tokens
freeOTP is a soft token authenticator that can be used for two-factor authentication, and is available as a free Android app or iOS app. Two-factor authentication — requiring a user to have “something you have”, as well as “something you know” i.e. a password — is being supported on many more services these days…
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Faster and simpler with the command line: deep-comparing JSON files with jq
As part of our recently announced deal with Apple Music [https://genius.com/a/genius-gets-smart-with-apple-music], you can now view Genius lyrics for your favorite music within the Apple Music app. We deliver our lyrics to Apple via a nightly export of newline-delimited JSON objects.
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Invasive ad targeting is bad for journalism and other high-quality publishers
The lie from ad tech is that there's no such thing as a premium publisher and all ad views are basically the same.
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New Standard Deal
We are changing the standard deal at YC and increasing our investment from $120K to $150K. The $150K investment for 7% will be made on a post-money cap safe. We believe the post-money safe is simpler, making ownership and dilution easier to understand. This new deal will start with our Winter 2019 batch, and replaces…
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World Cup Follow-Up: Update of Winning Probabilities and Betting Results
An update on the winning probabilities for the remaining World Cup teams, and an analysis of how our predictor performed on the group-phase matches.
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Crystal 0.25
Crystal 0.25.0 has been released!
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We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
It took us a year to reach the first $400 MRR and then it took us nine months to go from $400 to $10k MRR. Now, ten months after the $10k milestone, we’re at $500,000 ARR.
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GitHub Supports Web Authentication (WebAuthn) for Security Keys
The WebAuthn standard for security keys is making authentication as easy as possible. Now you can use security keys for second-factor authentication on GitHub with many more browsers and devices.
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Bootstrap 3.4.0 released
That's not a typo—today we're shipping Bootstrap 3.4.0, a long overdue update to address some quality of life issues, XSS fixes, and build tooling updates to…
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Consul 1.0 Released
Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.0. Consul is a tool for service discovery and runtime configuration for distributed applications and infrastructure. Consul joins Vagrant and Packer as the third HashiCorp product to reach the 1.0 milestone.
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Announcing HashiCorp (a Company for Vagrant)
Today I announce the launch of HashiCorp. I am Mitchell Hashimoto, the creator and maintainer of Vagrant, and I am founding HashiCorp to drive Vagrant's development forward. Vagrant has become a trusted tool in the industry in the three years since its release, with users ranging from individuals to entire development…
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Why doesn’t Windows use 64-bit virtual address space below 0x00000000`7ffe0000?
It does use it, although it doesn't look like it.
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EFF Politely Asks PTO to Stop Issuing So Many Crappy Software Patents
Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued countless bad software patents. These patents tend to be hopelessly vague and overbroad. Indeed, they are often so packed with indecipherable patent jargon that software engineers have trouble understanding them. As one programmer...
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Mitmproxy 8
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 8, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release brings major improvements to mitmweb, our web interface, and new functionality for addon developers.
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Prototyping a YC Startup Each Day
See how Meredydd recreated Meter Feeder entirely in Anvil.