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An Apple ISA is coming
Apple is on track to diverge from ARM and x86 to design its own proprietary instruction set. This good for the future of hardware–software co-design.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,895 posts.
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Even the LastPass Will Be Stolen
How to obtain encryption keys to decrypt the LastPass vault in different scenarios
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The sky's gone dark
Back to: Brief hiatus | Forward to: Tanks! Why tank stories make great tech myths
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The microservices cargo cult
Microservices are awesome. We know this because of all the success stories that are circulating lately. The news is full of such stories, of people taking large, monolithic codebases, breaking them up, adding HTTP APIs and enjoying all the benefits.
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Ta'izz
I wake up to a gorgeous morning in Ibb. This time I’ve slept through the morning call to prayer and the sun is well up in the sky. Out the window there’s a view of a regular city against a backdrop of green mountains, with some construction equipment in the near foreground, and it takes my groggy mind a minute to…
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An Algorithm to Extract Looping GIFs from Videos
Yet another big problem of the Internet era tackled by Mathematics. Looping GIFs are a very popular form of art on the Web, with two dedicated forums …
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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years
Back in summer I have read a new bookpublished by one of the core Intel architects about the Management Engine (ME).I didn’t quite like what I read there. In...
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Your own Debian Mail Server (part II): how to prove you are not a spammer
TL;DR: check mail-tester.com or Spam Checker. If you don't get 10/10, read this post. In a previous post, we saw how to configure a Debian mail server with Postfix and Dovecot, but we did not address an important issue: spam. Major e-mail providers are defending their users …
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The network is hostile
Yesterday the New York Times and ProPublica posted a lengthy investigation based on leaked NSA documents, outlining the extensive surveillance collaboration between AT&T and the U.S. government…
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Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems
Some hidden features of the Python re module and the support machinery that drives it.
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Call me maybe: Elasticsearch 1.5.0
Previously, on Jepsen , we demonstrated stale and dirty reads in MongoDB . In this post, we return to Elasticsearch, which loses data when the network fails, nodes pause, or processes crash.
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Parallel Sequential Scan is Committed to PostgreSQL 9.6
I previously suggested that we might be able to get parallel sequential scan committed to PostgreSQL 9.5. That did not happen. However, I...
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The NoScript Misnomer
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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Comodo ships Adware Privdog worse than Superfish
This blog is written by Hanno Böck. Unless noted otherwise, its content is licensed as CC0 .
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How to Become a Great JavaScript Developer
Ustun Ozgur - Software Consultant and Engineer. Expert solution architect and programmer in Python (Django), JavaScript (React), .NET, Clojure and Java.
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Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
Brazil blocked Whatsapp for 48 hours, which benefits Telegram, it has gained more than 1 million new users and it seems like it keeps incre...
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Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)
I think it’s time to remind people that D. J. Bernstein is the greatest programmer in the history of the world.
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Yagni
Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality.
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CPU Backdoors
It's generally accepted that any piece of software could be compromised with a backdoor. Prominent examples include the Sony/BMG installer , which had a backdoor built-in to allow Sony to keep users from copying the CD, which also allowed malicious third-parties to take over any machine with the software installed…
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