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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,293 posts.
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Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second
The third annual Prime Day set another round of records for global orders, topping Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making it the biggest day in Amazon retail history. Over the course of the 30 hour event, tens of millions of Prime members purchased things like Echo Dots, Fire tablets, programmable pressure cookers…
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Planet Launches Satellite Constellation to Image the Whole Planet Daily
Today Planet successfully launched 88 Dove satellites to orbit — the largest satellite constellation ever to reach orbit.
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Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Why Constant-Time Crypto?
In 1996, Paul Kocher published a novel attack on RSA, specifically on RSA implementations , that extracted information on the private key by simply measuring the time taken by the private key operation on various inputs. It took a few years for people to accept the idea that such attacks were practical and could be…
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Oculus Medium Under the Hood: Developing the Move Tool
In our latest blog series we’re taking you behind the scenes of Medium to learn how we created the tools that make up this unique app!
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Faiss: A library for efficient similarity search
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How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy?
We analyzed how much money people make from their side-gigs on Uber, Airbnb, Lyft and more.
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Jamboard is now available
Good ideas become great ones when you work together with your teammates. But as teams become increasingly distributed, you need tools that spur visual creativity and col…
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Dictionary and Set Improvements in Swift 4.0
In the latest release of Swift, dictionaries and sets gain a number of new methods and initializers that make common tasks easier than ever. Operations like grouping, filtering, and transforming values can now be performed in a single step, letting you write more expressive and efficient code.
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Njalla – A privacy-aware domain registration service
FOR IMMACULATE RELEASE. Announcing the opening of NJAL.LA
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Qt Creator 4.3.0 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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How removing caching improved mobile performance by 25%
and how we found out.
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Riseup moves to encrypted email in response to legal requests
After exhausting our legal options, Riseup recently chose to comply with two sealed warrants from the FBI, rather than facing contempt of court (which would have resulted in jail time for Riseup birds and/or termination of the Riseup organization). The first concerned the public contact address for an international…
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The Great DOM Fuzz-Off of 2017
Posted by Ivan Fratric, Project ZeroIntroductionHistorically, DOM engines have been one of the la...