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The good parts of AWS: a visual summary
A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,207 posts.
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The 773M Record “Collection #1” Data Breach
Many people will land on this page after learning that their email address has appeared in a data breach I've called "Collection #1". Most of them won't have a tech background or be familiar with the concept of credential stuffing so I'm going to write this post
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My free-software photography workflow
In this article I present a step-by-step walkthrough of my photography workflow. I won't go through all the details of every piece of software I mention, they have their own manuals and documentation for that, I will highlight the operations I do. My main goals are: Full ownership of all …
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Product Hunt is dead
Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi
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Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
I challenged myself to make a tiny subset of Python in C.
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Paul Buchheit: Four Reasons Google is still Awesome
My recent predictions about which Google products will succeed (and which won't) are causing people to think that I'm anti-Google, which mak...
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A MiniGolf game for Palm OS
This summer, I embarked on a side project to create a brand-new Palm OS game, and after less than two months of intermittent coding, I'm excited to announce that it's ready to be released to the public!
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Jo – a shell command to create JSON (2016)
I got tired of attempting to get shell scripts to produce valid JSON. You’ve likely seen something like this before: echo '{
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WordPress theme provider Pipdig using customer sites to DDoS competitors
pipdig, WordPress theme and plugin provider, caught distributing malicious code to customers and DDoSing competitors…
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Mono Developers start their own company
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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I wish I’d thought of that. Operation Starbucks
I should have thought of it first. I walked into Starbucks one afternoon. Ok. Ok. I do this every afternoon, but something was different this time. Something really neat was going on.
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Leaking Passwords and more on macOS
A security research blog.
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How to Fold a Julia Fractal
A tale of numbers that like to turn: a different look at complex numbers and the strange things they do.
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Xkcd-Style Plots in Matplotlib (2012)
Update: the matplotlib pull request has been merged! See This post for a description of the XKCD functionality now built-in to matplotlib!
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One base class to rule them all.
Last week, I released base , a universal Base class for Ruby. Inheriting from it gives your class every instance method, class method, and constant from every module and class in the system. In a Rails app, it results in:
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TCP Tracepoints have arrived in Linux
Linux TCP Tracepoints, and using them via bcc/eBPF.
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AI is propping up the US economy
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
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Why do people still use VBA?
Introduction Recently, I watched a video by YouTuber ThePrimeTime which details a dev’s frustrations with business culture. Prime is an ex-entrepreneur who currently works in software development at Netflix. His views in this video have been criticised for being jaded by FAANG business cultures he has worked in. I…
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Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park . If you haven't played it yet, I recommend playing it now before…
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You probably don’t need AWS and are better off without it
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?
A deep-dive into the challenges and misconceptions surrounding async programming in Python
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Teardown of a $1.25 LED Lightbulb
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.