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Code review can be better
Slightly unusual genre today: a negative result about our git-review tool for a different take on code review process, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
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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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The Global Dollar Short Squeeze
Published February 2020 There is currently a short squeeze affecting most of the global economy, slowing its growth. This has been the case well before the impacts from the trade war and the coronavirus. A short squeeze occurs when something that is heavily shorted goes on to rise sharply in price for one reason or […]
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JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart
After four years of development, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone in the evolution of Stalwart — the full implementation of JMAP for Calendars, Contacts, File Storage, and Sharing. With...
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Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Remastering Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with Machine Learning
The site for the Remako Mod, a Final Fantasy VII mod that uses AI to improve the graphics of this classic JRPG.
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I Want to Fix Goodreads
I use goodreads a lot because I like to read books and want to find more books to read. This morning I was reading a thread on hackernews on Sarah Manavis’s ...
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The Worst Website in the Entire World
The Worst Website In The Entire World is owned by Broadcom
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The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
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I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
The target system was a distributed data processing platform that ran across hundreds of thousands of machines. At such scales, a 0.5% improvement would easily make up my salary going forward, and 2% was a good result for the half.
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How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
From Markdown to paperback and Kindle without proprietary software.
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Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)
I was creating a Google Workspace account for my company, as everyone knows, it’s a pretty straightforward sign-up process, until I’m hit with a weird, confusing error when I type my domain name:
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Considered "18+"
Vodafone UK has taken it on themselves to make the world better by marking this website (daniel.haxx.se) "adult content". I suppose in order to protect the children. It was first reported to me on May 2, with this screenshot from a Vodafone customer: And later followed up with some more details from another user in ……
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Raising money fucked me up
My reflections on raising money for Skald Labs
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YOLOv5: State-of-the-art object detection at 140 FPS
YOLOv5 license and commercial-use guide: AGPL-3.0 terms, specs, resources, and alternatives. Compare YOLOv5 against other vision models free.
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Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
Rice neuroengineers designed the first self-rectifying magnetoelectric material and showed it can not only precisely stimulate neurons remotely but also reconnect a broken sciatic nerve in a rat model.
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Advice to new programmers
It’s not every day where students new to programming get to ask 709 software developers for advice. Overview There is a school here in Malmö, Sweden called The Game Assembly. This school focuses on teaching students game production. Everything from programming to art and design. This is a three year...
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Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
Clojure 1.12.0 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
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AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover
How Wiz Research found a common misconfiguration in Azure Active Directory that compromised multiple Microsoft applications, including a Bing management portal
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Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
Like all good nerds, I generate a unique email address for every service I sign up to. This has several advantages - it allows me to see if a message is legitimately from a service, if a service is hacked the hackers can't go credential stuffing, and I instantly know who leaked my address. A few weeks ago I signed up…
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This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0. This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure conn...
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`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete
We show that a system that has only GNU's find and mkdir commands is Turing-complete.
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YC’s 2018 Summer Reading List
A post about summer reading [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576] on Hacker News inspired us to put a list together for 2018. Here’s what we’ve been reading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Years of Lyndon Johnson…
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Reclaiming the web with a personal reader
There’s a kind of zen flow that programmers unblock when they experience their software daily as an end user. There’s no better catalyst for ideas and experimentation, no better prioritization driver than having to face the bugs, annoyances, and limitations of an application first-hand.