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PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces today that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 10 is available for download. This …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,763 posts.
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Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
"Move fast and break things: A cautionary tale from Facebook's code quality woes."
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When it comes to internet privacy, be afraid, analyst suggests
Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier, a fellow with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, discusses what consumers can do to protect themselves from government and corporate surveillance.
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CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages
Only a couple of weeks ago, there were a lot of news headlines about how Germany had banned an internet-connected doll called "Cayla" over fears hackers could target children [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/germany-bans-internet-connected-dolls-fears-hackers-could-target/] . One of
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Shedding Light on the “Black Box of Inappropriateness”
From Creepy Comments to Sexual Assault I’m shaking as I write this, not quite knowing where to start. As I’m sure Susan Fowler and Niniane, Susan & Leiti probably did, I’ve struggled long and h…
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Debugging an evil Go runtime bug
From heat guns to kernel compiler flags
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IOHIDeous OS X Local Kernel Vulnerability
Siguza’s Blog
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How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests
My company IPinfo.io started as a response to a question on Stack Overflow.
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I hate telephones
I hate telephones. Some rational reasons: lack of authentication, no spam filtering, forced synchronous communication. But also just a visceral fear.
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Blender 2.79 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
Google Analytics is a powerful yet quite complicated tool. And unfortunately, the truth is most people who use it don’t reap its full benefits. There’s a lot of excellent and free content out there that explains how to use Google Analytics, but most of it is rather narrowly focused on use cases that primarily apply to…
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Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once
The single requirement of all data pipelines is that they cannot lose data. Data can usually be delayed or re-ordered–but never dropped.
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Keylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver
Security reviews of modern Windows Active Domain infrastructures are – from our point of view – quite sobering. Therefore, we often look left and right, when, for example, examining the hardening of protection mechanisms of a workstation. Here, we often find all sorts of dangerous and ill-conceived stuff. We want to…
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Anatomy of a Moral Panic
On September 18, the British Channel 4 ran a news segment with the headline, 'Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon.'
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering
A Council of the European Union document leaked by Statewatch on 30 August reveals that during the summer months, that Estonia (current EU Presidency) has been pushing the other Member States to strengthen indiscriminate internet surveillance, and to follow in the footsteps of China regarding online censorship…
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
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Firefox 52 released
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Comparing Elixir and Go
Compare Elixir and Go for high concurrency solutions. Understand their differences in programming styles, concurrency models, and error handling. Learn more!
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View Counting at Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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A Tourist’s Guide to the LLVM Source Code
Hi, would you allow me to translate your article to French, preferably under a free lincense like CC-by-sa?
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JSON Feed
We — Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — have noticed that JSON has become the developers’ choice for APIs, and that developers will often go out of their way to avoid XML. JSON is simpler to read and write, and it’s less prone to bugs. So we developed JSON Feed, a format similar to RSS and Atom but in JSON. It reflects…