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WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95
In Firefox 95, we're shipping a sandboxing technology called RLBox — developed with researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Texas
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,859 posts.
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How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn
I remember fondly two years ago, when 2-Factor-Authentication (2FA) became popular and well used across major web applications (Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others). I found, my naive sixteen year old self unable to come to terms for why the genius idea had not been thought of before. At
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Krita 4.4.0
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
Major milestone release Apache Kafka 4.0 removes ZooKeeper entirely, provides early access to Queues for Kafka, and enables faster rebalances, in addition to many other new KIPs.
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Fewer mallocs in curl
Today I landed yet another small change to libcurl internals that further reduces the number of small mallocs we do. This time the generic linked list functions got converted to become malloc-less (the way linked list functions should behave, really). Instrument mallocs I started out my quest a few weeks ago by…
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The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)
It was the summer of 1952, and the executives of Tombow Pencil were about to revolutionize the Japanese pencil industry—or, possibly, fall flat on their faces. Hachiro Ogawa, the son of founder Harunosuke Ogawa, was Tombow's managing director, and he had just finished a years-long project, at
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Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day
A co-worker watched me type the other day and noticed that I use certain Unix commands for purposes other than they are intended. Yes, I abuse Unix commands.
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Call me maybe: Elasticsearch
This post covers Elasticsearch 1.1.0. In the months since its publication, Elasticsearch has added a comprehensive overview of correctness issues and their progress towards fixing some of these bugs.
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Beating NumPy matrix multiplication in 150 lines of C
A detailed blog post on optimizing multi-threaded matrix multiplication for x86 processors to achieve OpenBLAS/MKL-like performance. Tags: High-performance GEMM on CPU, Fast GEMM on CPU, High-performance matrix multiplication on CPU, Fast Matrix Multiplication on CPU, Matrix multiplication in C, GEMM in C, Matrix…
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Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla
We've been working on the development of rust-minidump. The first in this two-part series explains what minidumps are and how we made rust-minidump.
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Thunderstrike – Apple EFI firmware vulnerability
31C3 presentation on the Thunderstrike firmware vulnerability in MacBooks
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62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
50% of strong liberals support firing Trump donors, 36% of strong conservatives support firing Biden donors; 32% are worried about missing out on job opportunities because of their political opinions.
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Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
I run FreeBSD as my daily driver on both my main workstation and on all my servers and I have been running FreeBSD since about 1999 because I consider it an amazing operating system. In this article I will address some of the technical reasons for choosing FreeBSD over a GNU/Linux distribution.
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The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering city street driving
Over the last year we’ve shifted the focus of the Google self-driving car project onto mastering city street driving.
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Apple vs the Law
Apple & Google at the EU DMA compliance workshops, June 2025.
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Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment
Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.
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Ruby 3.2.0 is from another dimension
I don’t know what you were doing on 25th of December 2022. I was eating pierogis, while Ruby team did some epic sh***!
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Em dashes are amazing
An ode to a punctuation mark
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Cal.com is going closed source
Cal.com goes closed source after 5 years. Here’s why rising AI-driven security risks and vulnerability discovery are forcing us to protect customer data.
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Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised
A compromised npm maintainer account published 637 malicious versions across 317 packages including size-sensor, echarts-for-react, timeago.js, and hundreds…
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High-Level Problems with Git and How to Fix Them
When Git first came onto the scene in the mid 2000's, I was initially skeptical because of its horrible user interface. But once I learned it, I appreciated its speed and features - especially the ease at which you could create feature branches, merge, and even create commits offline (which was a big deal in the era…
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The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a standards development group for the advertising industry. Their members love tracking users. They want to know where you are, who you're with, what you're buying, and what you think. All so they can convince you to spend slightly more on toothpaste. Or change your…
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...
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Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
The answer to this question is still "Yes!" Here I demonstrate yet another way for the server to access your data, the issues being structural.
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Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure
As of April/2021 for people planning on integrating deeply with a Cloud provider services (not going for cloud-agnostic-solutions) choosing to depend on Google Cloud instead of AWS or Azure will more often than not prove to be an expensive mistake.