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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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Building a personal website in 2021
This post sparked quite a discussion on hackernews. You can read all the interesting comments in this thread. Thanks to everyone who contributed.
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Bring Your Own Client
Just a little note about the main problem I'm pondering these days...
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PayPal shuts down long-time Tor supporter
Larry Brandt, a long-time supporter of internet freedom, used his nearly 20-year-old PayPal account to put his money where his mouth is. His primary use of the payment system was to fund servers to run Tor nodes, routing internet traffic in order to safeguard privacy and avoid country-level...
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I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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The database servers powering Let's Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt helps to protect a huge portion of the Web by providing TLS certificates to more than 235 million websites. A database is at the heart of how Let’s Encrypt manages certificate issuance. If this database isn’t performing well enough, it can cause API errors and timeouts for our subscribers. Database…
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The Big DevOps Misunderstanding
When the term DevOps came up it was all about a simple idea:
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macOS Nix setup: an alternative to Homebrew (2020)
I recently got a new Macbook, and began setting up the Nix package manager to install my developer toolset. I mainly did this to try and have a working setup without installing Homebrew. Since I ran into a few issues, I wanted to briefly document what I did and why in case others wanted to try the same. Why Nix? (and…
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Issues with Cloudflare Images
Status: 5/9 fixed I’m a huge fan of the various Cloudflare offerings, and have been impressed time after time with the innovations and solutions offered by CF. This writeup therefore pains me, as I usually don’t have anything negative to say about CF, but after some months in production, and a severe lack of any…
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A Look at iMessage in iOS 14
Posted By Samuel Groß, Project Zero On December 20, Citizenlab published “The Great...
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Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum
Data on over 1.5 billion Facebook users is being sold on a hacking-related forum, enabling cybercriminals advertisers to target users.
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Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
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It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
The DMCA was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998. It has a weird history. Its inception came from Bruce Lehmann, Microsoft's chief copyright enforcer, whom Clinton tapped to serve as his Copyright Czar. This was back in the "Information Superhighway" days, when Al Gore was holding hearings on the demilitarization…
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Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab
Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer some huge physics questions.
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Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
From the announcement made on November 10th, 2020, users have had high hopes for the new Apple M1 devices. With its powerful Apple Silicon processor smashing benchmarks all over the place, users and developers were both asking if a native Dolphin build would be possible. Now we have the answer. Apple's M1 hardware is…
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Against 3x Speed
It’s okay to not know everything. The world rewards people who develop expertise. When that expertise is unique, it’s developed through direct experience and deliberate reflection.
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The Expanse UI Design
Here’s a look at the various FUI designs from the sci-fi series The Expanse . Special thanks to Brian Benton who suggested this and provided some great links as well! A lot of the images have been collected from this massive image dump from drainsmith and further below we have some insights and
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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Zoom zero-day discovery
White hat hackers demonstrated a Zoom vulnerability allowing a Remote Code Execution attack at the Pwn2Own event.
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Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law
Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection following an LSE report demonstrating they have capacity to experience pain or distress.