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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
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Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access
Today we’re unveiling our latest moonshot from Google[x].
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Hello WebAssembly
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
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The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
A core value CloudFlare is that security information should be shared between organizations to make the entire Internet safer. That is how CloudFlare's systems work: if one site is attacked, data about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the network so other sites can be safe.
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Africa's Worst New Internet Censorship Law Could Be Coming to South Africa
Only once in a while does an Internet censorship law or regulation come along that is so audacious in its scope, so misguided in its premises, and so poorly thought out in its execution, that you have to check your calendar to make sure April 1 hasn't come around again. The Draft Online Regulation...
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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AlgorithmWatch shuts down Instagram monitoring after threats from Facebook
Digital platforms play an ever-increasing role in structuring and influencing public debate. Civil society watchdogs, researchers and journalists need to be able to hold them to account. But Facebook is increasingly fighting those who try. It shut down New York University’s Ad Observatory last week, and went after…
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Making popular Ruby packages more secure
News and updates from the RubyGems team — releases, security advisories, and project announcements.
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The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
Developed by a team of Harvard researchers, the first autonomous, entirely soft robot is powered by a chemical reaction controlled by microfluidics. The 3-D-printed “octobot” has no electronics.
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DuckDuckGo included in Opera
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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I built my own analog drum machine (2020)
After imagining the perfect drum machine, LA Priest spent years scheming, tweaking, and building his own.
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New optimizations for X86 in upcoming GCC 5.0
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Multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems
There are multiple vulnerabilities in RubyGems bundled by Ruby.It is reported at the official blog of RubyGems.
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EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit
A federal district court in San Francisco has ruled strongly in favor of our Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security Letters (NSLs). These records will provide a window into the FBI’s use of a highly secretive...
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Let's Talk Concurrency with Sir Tony Hoare
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Shedding Too Much Light on a Microcontroller's Firmware Protection (2017)
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT '17) - Vancouver, BC, Canada CVE number 2017-18347
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JTAG 'Hacking' the Original Xbox in 2023
Released in November 2001, the original Xbox was Microsoft’s first venture into the game console industry. With its hardware closely resembling a cheap but v...
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Richard Stallman - Re: clang vs free software
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
Apple reported its second quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Wednesday, April 28, 2021.
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Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers
The official home for stories from Ford. Get the latest news, in-depth vehicle features, media site information, and meet the people and ideas driving our company forward.
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Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
Is an addictive personality a thing? Is an addict’s brain permanently broken?
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Update on beta testing payments in Signal
As the world stands today, the future of transaction privacy does not look great. The existing landscape is dominated by traditional credit companies, who over the past decade have been steadily pushing their networks for increased access to user data. They (and their data customers) are on a tra...
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Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)
Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.
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What Pythonistas Think of Ruby
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