Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
Federal law enforcement has been asking for a backdoor to read Americans’ encrypted communications for years now. FBI Director Christopher Wray did it again last week in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. As usual, the FBI’s complaints involved end-to-end encryption employed by popular...
In the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, John Connor uses a laptop to crack the PIN of a stolen debit card.
How Polygon’s first billion-dollar protocol unraveled.
Overview On March 25, 2021, 360 NETLAB's BotMon system flagged a suspiciousELF file (MD5=64f6cfe44ba08b0babdd3904233c4857) with 0 VT detection, the sample communicates with 4 domains on TCP 443 (HTTPS), but the traffic is not of TLS/SSL. A close look at the sample revealed it to be a backdoor targeting
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain
A 6502 (or 65C02) in an FPGA, running at 100 MHz, ready to plug into your vintage computer
The Belgian government has removed 'backdoor requirement' from new law after international protest.
I have been working at Facebook as a software engineer for a while now. During this time, I have got different inquiries from friends and…
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A few months ago, I left SeatGeek without much of a plan of what to do next. My green card was finally issued in 2021, which means that I didn’t have to scramble to find a new job in forty days. Fo...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sent by abusing…
GraphQL support is in development for PostgreSQL + Supabase.
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A redacted document showed extremely sensitive information. Google's lawyer accidentally made it public.
All Godot contributors are delighted to release our latest milestone today, Godot 3.3, after more than 7 months of development! This release was initially planned as a 3.2.4 update to the 3.2 branch, but it grew to become a feature-packed update well worth of opening a new stable branch.
There is a lot more on the internet than just social media and banking websites…
Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji
In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining the relation between international, US, EU and German law, and showing why this request was very different from what most…
The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies
Comparing the core values of our text editors, describing the history of Neovim's development, and discussing the rise of VSCode.
It was midnight on May 22nd, 2016 that I pushed my first commit to GitHub for a new idea. Little did I know what would happen next.
Crusader Kings III is a pretty impressive game. It’s impressive not only for its official content, but also for its extensive modding…
How does AWS Lambda work under the hood? Let's find out together!
Should we stop hate speech? What makes you think we can?
Accounts that have never been disabled include the accounts for Rocket League (a game whose Mac support [Epic discontinued in January 2020][rl]), and separately, Unreal Engine. My understanding is that none of those accounts are affected by Apple’s decision not to reinstate the Fortnite developer account.
