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Nobody Cares About Security
Nobody cares about security. There. I said it. I said the thing everyone feels, some people think, but very few have the temerity to say out loud. But before you call me...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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The economics of a Postgres free tier
Let's look at the numbers behind Xata's free tier. How much does a database cost us and why are we offering them for free.
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Hyprland 0.44
This update mostly focuses on further bugfixes over actually implementing new stuff, but we have quite a bunch of both!
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Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linked with Long Covid
Today, a team of scientists from Trinity College Dublin and investigators from FutureNeuro announced a major discovery that has profound importance for our understanding of brain fog and cognitive decline seen in some patients with Long COVID.
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The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack
[This post is about the day that Glitch failed, and how that failure created the opportunity to make Slack. We're sharing it here (out of chronological order) to mark 12 years since the famous pivot.] “We have to shut down the game.” Stewart Butterfield said. I looked at him
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How people with disabilities use the web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence
A ‘one of a kind’ fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.
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Is regulated BGP security coming?
What impact would regulating BGP routing security have on the global Internet?
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Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
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C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets
Simple, efficient torque C-Motive’s motors are engineered to provide silent, maintenance-free, and high-efficiency torque for stationary industrial applicat ...
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Security flaws in an SSO plugin for Caddy (2023)
We identified 10 security vulnerabilities within the caddy-security plugin for the Caddy web server that could enable a variety of high-severity attacks in web applications, including client-side code execution, OAuth replay attacks, and unauthorized access to resources. During our evaluation, Caddy was deployed as a…
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BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit
Analysts at Zone.eu, one the leading domain registrars and web hosting providers in Europe, have observed a vulnerability affecting the global e-mail ecosystem, stemming from unaddressed warnings in the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) standard that puts billions of users in risk. This is not an issue in a particular…
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Blur Radius Comparison
The most common type of blur used on the web and in design tools is Gaussian blur. There’s many ways to describe how blurry the blur is, and implementations vary so much that a blur in one app may be a completely different size to the blur in another app.
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Llama 3 feels significantly less censored than its predecessor
Compared to Llama 2, Llama 3 feels much less censored. Meta has substantially lowered false refusal rates. Llama 3 will refuse less than 1/3 of the prompts previously refused by Llama 2.
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Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time
At SQLite Cloud, we are dedicated to making database management as seamless and intuitive as possible. Today, we are thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking addition to our platform - the Interactive SQLite Documentation! Now, alongside our comprehensive...
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Do Penguins Have Knees? (2019)
What is the penguin’s skeleton truly made of? Do penguins actually have knees? Why do penguins walk that way. Find out here!
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MK1 Flywheel Unlocks the Full Potential of AMD Instinct for LLM Inference
AMD acquires MK1, welcoming their world-class team and marking another key milestone in our strategy to advance AI performance and efficiency.
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GhostRace: Exploiting and mitigating speculative race conditions
Exploiting and Mitigating Speculative Race Conditions GhostRace: CVE-2024-2193 Race conditions arise when multiple threads attempt to access a shared resource without proper synchronization, often leading to vulnerabilities such as concurrent use-after-free. To mitigate their occurrence, operating systems rely on…
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Early Cascade Injection: From Windows process creation to stealthy injection
Get an introdcution to Early Cascade, a novel process injection technique that is effective against top tier EDRs while avoiding detection.
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Why CSV is still king
Build AI-powered data tables
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LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core
If you are not sure if the code you plan to commit is acceptable (e. g. when taking code that was submitted with a problem report), ask a developer who is familiar with that part of the system for review. If you're new to the Project, check with your sponsor.
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Three of the oldest stars in the universe found circling the Milky Way
MIT astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are in the Milky Way’s “halo” — the cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main galactic disk — and they appear to have formed between 12 and 13 billion years ago, when the very first…
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Rebooting (something like) early Triplebyte
We're a bunch of ex-Triplebyte people. We loved it there, and we're trying to make something like it. Here's how.
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VitePress 1.0
The official blog for the Vue.js project
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What Happened to Perl 7? (2022)
With Perl 5.36.0 just around the corner, we thought that this is a good time to clarify plans for the future of the Perl programming language. We realised that the future was hammered out in a number of steps, across several months. This meant that there hasn't been a single statement we could refer people to. This…
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Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
Researchers at Ocean Conservancy and University of Toronto estimate that American adults could be consuming up to 3.8 million microplastics per year from protein alone
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PaliGemma: Open-Source Multimodal Model by Google
Learn how to use PaliGemma, a vision language model developed and released by Google that has multimodal capabilities.
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Bees have an internal sense of time (2022)
Did you know that bees can perceive time? Not even just simply tracking the Sun. Actual time measurements.
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Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
The adhesive neck patch is the latest advance by UCLA bioengineers in speech technology for people with disabilities.