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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,414 posts.
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Building a software-defined radio from scratch
The FreeSRP is an affordable software-defined radio (SDR) I decided to design because there were no existing options that filled the gap between the $300 and relatively narrow bandwidth and low resolution HackRF and the better performing USRP s you can get for about $700. Of course it will be fully open source, but…
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Curl Security Audit
"the overall impression of the state of security and robustness of the cURL library was positive." I asked for, and we were granted a security audit of curl from the Mozilla Secure Open Source program a while ago. This was done by Mozilla getting a 3rd party company involved to do the job and footing … Continue…
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Site requests bank logins for online purchases
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to educate people on being careful with credentials. It really doesn’t help when I try to place a purchase with a “legitimate” supplier, and, after handing over valid credit card details, I get this:
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Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python
News about asciinema development and new releases
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Breaking homegrown crypto
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ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) is only a few short weeks away , and with it comes one of the most exciting new features Linux has seen in a ve...
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Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
A new study of one of our closest invertebrate relatives, the acorn worm, reveals that regenerating body parts might one day be possible.
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On Cybersecurity and Being Targeted
Last month, I was the subject of a targeted cyber attack. Someone went through substantial lengths to attempt to gain access to my GitHub account, but were...
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Lossless compression with Brotli
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming
People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales . Instead of debating how much Apple will try to monetize the iPhone user base with services (not as much as consensus thinks), the company is instead planning its largest pivot y
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Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (2014)
The dominant word processing program for personal computers in the 1980s was DOS-based WordPerfect. Microsoft Word for DOS, which had been released in 1983, was an also-ran.
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How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
We've also tried Facebook marketing. In this blog post we describe our successes and failures with the marketing channel Facebook.
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Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leadin
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Task_t considered harmful
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroThis post discusses a design issue at the core of the XNU kernel ...
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The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able to Cut Off Your Internet Access
EFF, Public Knowledge, and the Center for Democracy and Technology Urge The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to Protect Internet Subscribers in BMG v. Cox. No one should have to fear losing their Internet connection because of unfounded accusations. But some rights holders want...
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I Love Go; I Hate Go
I liked Go right away. It was close enough to C and Java to be instantly familiar, the examples and tutorials were straightforward, and I was quickly writing…
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The Mirai Botnet Is Proof the Security Industry Is Broken
Appcanary makes sure you never run vulnerable software on your servers. Like our blog? Subscribe to our newsletter or podcast . Browse the archive , or follow us on twitter , github or rss .
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Why is Python slow
In case you missed it, Marius recently wrote a post on the Pyston blog about our baseline JIT tier. Our baseline JIT sits between our interpreter tier and our LLVM JIT tier, providing better speed…
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Freelance Isn't Free Act Passes in NYC
In a truly historic moment, New York City became the first city in the nation to protect freelance workers against client nonpayment today on October 27, 2016. This landmark victory is a testament to what can be accomplished when we stand together for the rights of the new workforce. Today,
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One Billion Drive Hours and Counting: Q1 2016 Hard Drive Stats
61,590 hard drives were used in our data center during Q1, 2016. We take a deep dive into the usage to see what we can learn about their performance.
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Announcing R Tools for Visual Studio
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An introduction to IPFS
By Dr. Christian Lundkvist and John Lilic
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