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Announcing Keyless SSL
CloudFlare is an engineering-driven company. This is a story we're proud of because it embodies the essence of who we are: when faced with a problem, we found a novel solution.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,822 posts.
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Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status
By now, everyone knows that something “big” just got announced regarding computer security. Heck, when the Daily Mail does a report on it …
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300ms Faster: Reducing Wikipedia's total blocking time
How two simple steps improved the responsiveness of Wikipedia's mobile site
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Time-zone database used by Unix shut down due to IP litigation
Today (2011-10-06), the time-zone database was closed down . It is perhaps easy to read that line, think it doesn't affect you, and then ...
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Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
SQLite does not use the Git version control system. SQLite uses Fossil instead, which is a version control system that was specifically designed and written to support SQLite.
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Apple, Epic, and the App Store
The App Store is not one thing: it is installation, payments, and customer management; the further Apple gets from iOS, the worse its actions are for users and developers.
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Why are Adults so busy?
As a kid, I'd always wonder what it was about adults that made them so busy. What could they be possibly doing with all their time? After I (kinda) became one, it hit me. There's an alarmingly large list of things adults do that we never quite grasp until we're there.
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AI is stifling new tech adoption?
AI coding assistants are React evangelists.
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Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be fake or spam
TL;DR - From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of five datasets including a variety of active (i.e.
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The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
This was several years back. Keep in mind that early in my career, my father had told me that doing a good job often meant doing what needed to be done in spite of your boss. And by that he meant that you can either make your boss successful and happy or you can run every decision by your boss. In which case no one is…
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Firefox 96
We’ve made significant improvements in noise-suppression and auto-gain-control as well as slight improvements in echo-cancellation to provide you with a better overall experience.
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Surveilance bill rushed through Australian parliament in 24 hours
New Australian surveillance bill enables police to hack your device, collect or delete your data, and take over your social media accounts.
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I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
We showcase a critical vulnerability with the official GitHub MCP server, allowing attackers to access private repository data. The vulnerability is among the first discovered by Invariant's security analyzer for detecting toxic agent flows.
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Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”
More than just a yearly release, Supernova is a modernized overhaul of Thunderbird, but still feels comfortable and familiar.
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New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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CircleCI trusts 8 analytics companies with your source code and API tokens
When you navigate to your project in CircleCI's UI, Javascript from eight different analytics companies gets loaded and executed in your browser.
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Code and Let Live
How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.
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Deep Learning Is Applied Topology
Everything lives on a manifold
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Prompt injection explained, with video, slides, and a transcript
I participated in a webinar this morning about prompt injection, organized by LangChain and hosted by Harrison Chase, with Willem Pienaar, Kojin Oshiba (Robust Intelligence), and Jonathan Cohen and Christopher …
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Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
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Mistral ships Le Chat – enterprise AI assistant that can run on prem
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Quantized Llama models with increased speed and a reduced memory footprint
As our first quantized models in this Llama category, these instruction-tuned models retain the quality and safety of the original 1B and 3B models, while achieving 2-4x speedup.
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Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq
You may one day find yourself in a position where you’re eager to work on a startup but limited by the amount of time you can put into it due to a day job, family or other obligations. In this post…
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Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets
Today we’re rolling out new features in Sheets that make it even easier for you to visualize and share your data, and find insights your teams can act on.