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What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon
“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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Keybase raises $10.8M
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Amazon Aurora Now Available
We announced Amazon Aurora last year at AWS re:Invent (see Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon for more info). With storage replicated both within and across three Availability Zones, along with an update model driven by quorum writes, Amazon Aurora is designed to deliver…
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Life in a Studio Apartment with My Wife and Two Sons
Between July 2011 and August 2015 I lived in a ~400sqft studio apartment in San Francisco. I moved in a bachelor but by the time I moved out, I was one member of a four person family. Here are some things I learned along the way. Lesson 1) Rent control has strange side effects San Francisco has a rent control policy…
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Starfighter, Summer 2015
An Erin post. On finding, in app pentesting, the only game worth loving, and turning that into Starfighter: a company that hires people by letting them play it.
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A Neural Network in 11 Lines of Python
A machine learning craftsmanship blog.
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Deprecating Non-Secure HTTP
Today we are announcing our intent to phase out non-secure HTTP. There's pretty broad agreement that HTTPS is the way forward for the web. In recent months, there have been ...
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Finding bugs in SQLite, the easy way
SQLite is probably the most popular embedded database in use today; it is also known for being exceptionally well-tested and robust. In co...
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Project Zero: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
Posted by Mark Seaborn, sandbox builder and breaker, with contributions by Thomas Dullien, revers...
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Main is usually a function – when is it not?
It began when my coworker, despite already knowing how to program, was forced to take the intro level Computer Science course at my university. We joked with...
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Backblaze Storage Pod 5.0
To get the latest updates and information on ALL of the Storage Pod versions, click here. A couple of months ago, we gave you a sneak peek as we designed
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Neon: Node plus Rust
If you’re a JavaScript programmer who’s been intrigued by Rust’s hack without fear theme—making systems programming safe and fun—but you’ve been waiting for inspiration, I may have something for you! I’ve been working on Neon, a set of APIs and tools for making it super easy to write native Node modules in Rust.
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Working at Netflix
Working at Netflix 2015: What is it like to work at Netfilx? Brendan Gregg describes his job and experiences at Netflix after several months as a senior performance architect.
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Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers
There are many tech hubs in the United States (which this article will cover exclusively, sorry) but which ones are able to maintain low costs of living while also having high average salary for software developers? This post will address that question using a few calculations and data sourced from publicly available…
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Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
Today we’re releasing Signal 2.0, with support for TextSecure private messaging. It is now possible to send end-to-end encrypted group, text, picture, and video messages between Signal on iPhone and TextSecure on Android, all without SMS and MMS fees. Signal 2.0 blends private phone calls and pri...
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How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity
My name is Andrés Iniesta and my only mistake was having the exact name and last name as a famous football player.
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The Failure of Agile
I am proud to be one of the 17 founders/authors of the The Agile Manifesto back in 2001. I think it provided a jolt of energy, hope of a better way of doing things, of creating software and making the world work better. It was a pivotal turning point.
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Users Have Been Betrayed in the Final TPP Deal
Trade negotiators from the U.S. and its 11 Pacific Rim partners announced their agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) today, concluding the final round of closed negotiations in Atlanta and marking the culmination of seven years of secrecy. Throughout all that time, the U.S....
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Divisibility by 7 is a Walk on a Graph (2009)
Mathematics, applications of mathematics to life in general, and my life as a mathematician.
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Juniper: Recording Some Twitter Conversations
Update : Ralf wrote up some notes from his work. These now include an update themselves with information from Willem Pinckaers that suggests that the presumed Dual-EC output is exposed to the world in Juniper devices.
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How I do my computing
As of 2022 I use a Thinkpad x200 computer, which has a free initialization program (called Libreboot when it was installed, but now called GNU Boot) and a free operating system (Trisquel GNU/Linux). It was not sold that way by Lenovo, however; small businesses buy them used, recondition them, and install the free…