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Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist
The Path to the Metaverse I'm tremendously excited to join Oculus, and when I think back, it's astonishing how unlikely the...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,400 posts.
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What if you didn't need money or attention?
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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I Hope Twitter Goes Away
About seven months ago, I abruptly quit Twitter. Though I’d been thinking about it for a while, ultimately leaving was a snap decision for me. Lately I’ve been reflecting on why I hate Twitter so much.
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Inside the Mirrortocracy
There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It's a design bug woven into people's identities and sense of self-worth. Fixing it will be painful. Influential and otherwise very smart people will deny till their last breath that it even exists. But I believe it should be fixed before it…
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Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files
Many shell users, and certainly most of the people working in computer forensics or other fields of information security, have a habit of ru...
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Our lander’s asleep
Follow ESA's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn
I remember fondly two years ago, when 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA) became popular and well used across major web applications (Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others). I found, my naive sixteen year old self unable to come to terms for why the genius idea had not been thought of before. At
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Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
This post covers Elasticsearch 1.1.0. In the months since its publication, Elasticsearch has added a comprehensive overview of correctness issues and their progress towards fixing some of these bugs.
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The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving
Over the last year we’ve shifted the focus of the Google self-driving car project onto mastering city street driving.
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This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0. This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure conn...
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Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Seven habits of highly fraudulent users
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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The greatest bug I never fixed (2010)
A look behind the scenes at makandra GmbH: our expertise, our insights, and the people who make it happen.
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Why the Sony hack is unlikely to be the work of North Korea
Everyone seems to be eager to pin the blame for the Sony hack on North Korea. However, I think it’s unlikely. Here’s why:1. The broken English looks deliberately bad and doesn’t e…
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Partnering with Mozilla
Mozilla announced that the Tor Project and the Center for Democracy & Technology will be part of...
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Java for Everything
I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This was clearly a way to avoid actually naming a language for fear of picking one I didn’t like.
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Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage
Updated at 12:52 PM PST to include App Engine pricing information Editors note: Tune in to Google Cloud Platform Live for more informatio...
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Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced.
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Law Students Fend Off a Patent Troll
A handful of Brooklyn Law students forced a patent troll to drop a meritless lawsuit.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
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I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral
Hacker Experience is an online hacking simulation game. Read more about it here.
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