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Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
Largest systematic review of AI benchmarks highlights need for clearer definitions and stronger scientific standards.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,845 posts.
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Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
On each of the last two Fridays, Google has suspended SSLMate 's Google Cloud access without notification, having previously suspended it in 2024 without notification. But this isn't just another cautionary tale about using Google Cloud Platform; it's also a story about usable security and how Google's capriciousness…
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Amazon Aurora Backtrack
We’ve all been there! You need to make a quick, seemingly simple fix to an important production database. You compose the query, give it a once-over, and let it run. Seconds later you realize that you forgot the WHERE clause, dropped the wrong table, or made another serious mistake, and interrupt the query, but the […]
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Work Hard (2007)
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced … the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously… this feeling may last for hours at a tim…
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Firefox 118
Automated translation of web content is now available to Firefox users! Unlike cloud-based alternatives, translation is done locally in Firefox, so that the text being translated does not leave your machine. Many thanks to the various partners of the EU R&D Bergamot project.
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Books I Loved Reading in 2024
The Books I Enjoyed Most in 2024
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SHA-3 Buffer Overflow
Update: This result appeared in the proceedings of CT-RSA 2023. A preprint is available.
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Remote code execution vulnerability in apt/apt-get
tl;dr I found a vulnerability in apt that allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a machine i...
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PostgreSQL: Jsonb has committed
Great news: PostgreSQL introduced jsonb support, which is real data type with binary storage and indexing ! This work is a confluence of two projects - our hstore and json, which were existed in PostgreSQL for years in somewhat incomplete forms - hstore (10 years old!) implements key-value storage…
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BLUF: A military standard to make writing more powerful
BLUF is a military communications acronym — it stands for “bottom line up front” — that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.
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PostgreSQL: No More Vacuum, No More Bloat
PostgreSQL, a powerful open-source object-relational database system, has been lauded for its robustness, functionality, and flexibility. However, it is not without its challenges – one of which is the notorious VACUUM process. However, the dawn of a new era is upon us with OrioleDB, a novel engine designed for…
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How a double-free bug in WhatsApp turns to remote code execution
In this blog post, I’m going to share about a double-free vulnerability that I discovered in WhatsApp for Android, and how I turned it into an RCE. I informed this to Facebook. Facebook acknowledged and patched it officially in WhatsApp version 2.19.244. Facebook reserved CVE-2019-11932 for this issue.
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The next generation of Instapaper
When I launched Instapaper in 2008, it was a very basic web app. It quickly expanded to define the pillars of the read-later market: a one-click “read later” bookmarklet, a web sync service, an adjustable text view optimized for reading, and an iPhone app with offline saving. I did almost everything myself, which…
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Publisher Nacon Cracked and Pirated Our Game: The Sinking City
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
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Software development and screen readers at 450 words per minute
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Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payment card details
I enjoy breaking websites.
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Laguna S 2.1
Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.
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Writing copy for landing pages
Write copy that delights visitors, persuades prospects, and wins customers.
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I gave away my books and sales increased
In March, I made my DevOps books free to help anyone who wanted to learn new skills during the global pandemic lockdown. In April, Device42 generously extended that offer for another month. I originally had the idea to give the books away on a whim on a Sunday night, thinking I'd give up a fair chunk of revenue, but…
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Raspberry Pi security alarm – the basics
In November last year — I started building a DIY security alarm system, using a Raspberry Pi as the controller. My plan was to make a self-sustained system, using proper alarm hardware — like PIR sensors and sirens. Integration with Home Assistant would be an add-on, not a requirement. I wanted the system to be as…
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Python plays Grand Theft Auto V
Python Programming tutorials from beginner to advanced on a massive variety of topics. All video and text tutorials are free.
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Tor at the Heart: Firefox
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on...
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Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
I just got off one of the most surreal video calls of my life - a live video call with a candidate who was interviewing to become an L3 software engineer at Kapwing, our online video editing startup. The interview started extremely well - the candidate seemed like a clear
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Computer science courses that don't exist, but should
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Today at Next ‘26, we’re launching Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the trust platform for the agentic web and the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.
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Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident
We examine the recent CrowdStrike outage and provide a technical overview of the root cause.