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Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel
How a failing rsync run led to the discovery of a long-standing bug in the Linux TCP implementation.
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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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Developer tools can be magic but instead collect dust
Three research developer tools that made programmers dramatically faster (Reflexion Models, the WhyLine, MatchMaker), and why none still run.
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What's New in SQLite 3.35
Math functions, column removal and RETURNING clause.
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Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy
How accurate is Ikea's Vindriktning air quality sensor? This review covers PM2.5 behavior, limitations, and how it compares with better monitors.
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code
Virtually all compilers — programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code — are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted vulnerabilities into any software without being detected, new research released today warns. The vulnerability…
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
tldr: Rust/coreutils is good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox and the Linux Kernel.
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Why is everything so hard in a large organization?
Update : this post has comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28692026 You're a member of a team that is part of a large organiza...
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain
Create your virtual HQ in seconds with a free trial of Spot.
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What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
“What the pandemic showed is we can take marketing down to zero and still have 95% of the same traffic as the year before. So we’re not going to forget
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.
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Emulating AirTags to upload arbitrary data via Apple's FindMy network
Apple AirTags: Arbitrary data can be uploaded from non-internet-connected devices by sending Find My BLE broadcasts to nearby Apple devices. We're releasing an ESP32 firmware that turns the microcontroller into an (upload only) modem, and a macOS application to retrieve, decode and display the uploaded data.
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North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
WILMINGTON, N.C.—Wayne Nutt is an engineer. He graduated with a degree in engineering and worked most of his career in North Carolina without ever needing […]
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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
init7 recently announced that with their FTTH fiber offering Fiber7, they will now sell and connect you with 25 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X2) or 10 Gbit/s (Fiber7-X) fiber optics, if you want more than 1 Gbit/s. While this offer will only become available at my location late this year (or possibly later due to the supply chain…
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Malicious PyPI packages stealing credit cards and injecting code
JFrog finds a new supply chain attack targeting python developers using the PyPI repository
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Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript
JavaScript implementation of so-called Seam Carving algorithm for the content-aware image resizing and objects removal. Dynamic programming approach is applied to optimize the resizing time.
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Firefox 85
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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The Document Culture of Amazon
A look at Amazon's culture of writing and reading
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Firefox Release 89.0
Say hello to a fresh new Firefox, designed to get you where you want to go even faster. We’ve redesigned and modernized the core experience to be cleaner, more inviting, and easier to use.
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Go is not an easy language
Go is not an easy programming language. It is simple in many ways: the syntax is simple, most of the semantics are simple. But a language is more than just syntax; it’s about doing useful stuff . And doing useful stuff is not always easy in Go.
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Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
This letter has been sent by the undersigned to EU & US regulators, to urge them to take action on banning surveillance-based ads, as recommended by the NCC.
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Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors
Louis Rossmann has created a movement around right to repair. It's not just iPhones. It's everywhere.
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Our self imposed scarcity of nice places
Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?
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Groups never admit failure
Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to. A group will never admit they were wrong. More
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CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
Get ready for the CCPA compliance scams from Princeton.
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One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
I became a big fan of Minecraft when I first started playing it in early-2011. I have stopped in recent years since I find it dangerously addictive, though I sometimes keep up with the new changes. Today I want to look back at a development mistake that was made in Beta 1.8, one that took a decade to recover from.