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Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
Investigation of the practice of port scanning site visitors for fingerprinting and tracking.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,780 posts.
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
Browser fingerprinting is a hidden way websites and third parties can identify your web browser based on a mix of device details, settings, and system characteristics. Firefox helps prevent browser fingerprinting with built-in protections designed to reduce that tracking and give you more control over your online…
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Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
Make Search Great Again (or just kill it)
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Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)
Free online social skills guide. Contains information on understanding body language, making conversation, and setting good social skills goals.
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Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.
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Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat
The U.S. Patent Office has proposed new rules about who can challenge wrongly granted patents. If the rules become official, they will offer new protections to patent trolls. Challenging patents will become far more onerous, and impossible for some. The new rules could stop organizations like EFF,...
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Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died
Aisha Washington is a global people and culture executive with more than two decades of experience driving enterprise growth through HR M&A integration, workforce AI transformation, high-performance culture, and team
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How uv got so fast
uv’s speed comes from engineering decisions, not just Rust. Static metadata, dropping legacy formats, and standards that didn’t exist five years ago.
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Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
I always loved the visual aesthetic of dithering but never knew how it’s done. So I did some research. This article may contain traces of nostalgia and none of Lena.
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Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
Signal still knows nothing about you, but inexplicably the government continues to ask.
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Apple announces Self Service Repair
Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.
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Please put units in names
Using strong types, or putting units in names, is a small effort that can make a tremendous difference for code readability.
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Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found
When AISLE tested Mythos's showcase vulnerabilities on small, cheap, open-weights models, most found the same bugs. Here's what that means for cyber.
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Zenbleed
If you remove the first word from the string "hello world" , what should the result be? This is the story of how we discovered that the answer could be your root password!
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Shame on Y Combinator
Peter Thiel, an investor who often participates in Y Combinator, is donating $1.25 million to Donald Trump’s political efforts , which has incited outrage among the tech community with many calling for Y Combinator to sever ties with Thiel.
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Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.
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Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
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Reddit’s disrespectful design
An overview of Reddit's adversarial and seemingly counter-productive changes.
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Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
Discover Twilio’s shift to a single powerful service! Learn cloud communication trends, customer success stories, and how to build scalable apps. Join now!
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Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?”
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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.
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Nano Banana Pro
Nano Banana Pro is our new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind.
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On the Use of a Life
First, to dispense with the philosophical argument: Yes, this is my life, and yes, I'm free to use — or waste — it however I please; but I don't think there's anything wrong with asking if this is how my time could be best spent. That applies doubly if the question is not merely about the choices I made but is rather…
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Do Things that Don't Scale
July 2013 One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised. Or they…