1591
DuckDuckGo included in Opera
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,021 posts.
1592
Ford EV Customers to Gain Access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers
The official home for stories from Ford. Get the latest news, in-depth vehicle features, media site information, and meet the people and ideas driving our company forward.
1593
Exploring Mastodon
With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon
1594
1595
7zip.com Is Serving Malware
A convincing lookalike of the popular 7-Zip archiver site has been silently turning victims’ machines into residential proxy nodes.
1596
New macOS malware steals info, including a user's entire Keychain database
ThreatDown detects new macOS malware like MacStealer that targets Keychain databases and steals sensitive user information. Talk to our security team.
1597
Closing a stale SSH connection
Suppose you’re connected to a remote host with SSH and after a while the SSH session goes stale. The terminal is unresponsive and no keypress seem to take effect. There might be something with the network, the remote host is restarting or maybe your machine has been in hibernation, there could be multiple reasons for…
1598
1599
Migrating Millions of Concurrent WebSockets to Envoy
Slack has a global customer base, with millions of simultaneously connected users at peak times. Most of the communication between users involves sending lots of tiny messages to each other. For much of Slack’s history, we’ve used HAProxy as a load balancer for all incoming traffic. Today, we’ll talk about problems we…
1600
A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
I wrote a specification for a new terminal escape sequence: OSC 7501, the Program Status Protocol . It lets any program tell the terminal what it's doing: idle, working, waiting on the user, finished, or failed, and why.
1601
BPF, XDP, Packet Filters and UDP
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
1602
My other email client is a daemon
I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely lose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon!
1603
Rediscovering CardDAV
I can no longer sync iOS’ Contacts with my macOS Catalina’s Finder (the iOS sync portion of iTunes is now built into the Finder in macOS Catalina); the OS insists I’ve iCloud configured for Contact...
1604
1605
1606
1607
IRCv3
IRCv3 is a working group of client/server software authors and network operators from the community, set up to advance the IRC protocol.
1608
How Tutanota replaced Google’s FCM with their own notification system
As mentioned in This Week In F-Droid 17, Tutanota is now on F-Droid. In this special post Ivan from Tutanota, tells us the story. Hi, I’m Ivan and I am devel...
1609
1610
EFF Review of Verizon and Google's Net Neutrality Proposal
Efforts to protect net neutrality that involve government regulation have always faced one fundamental obstacle: the substantial danger that the regulators will cause more harm than good for the Internet. The worst case scenario would be that, in allowing the FCC to regulate the Internet, we open...
1611
Against DNSSEC
10 years later and still unrebutted: DNSSEC is pageantry, it's not security, which is why so few security teams deploy it.
1612
1613
Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Let's experiment with controlling Bluetooth Low Energy devices from a web browser with this LED project and balenaCloud.
1614
How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things
New radios that combine miles of range with years of battery life are changing the way we build and use connected devices. Here’s how.
1615
TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector
A new reflection/amplification distributed denial of service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks.
1616
1617
Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
1618
Google’s QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP
QUIC replaces TCP with UDP for faster connections, eliminating head-of-line blocking and reducing latency. Learn how it works and why it matters.
1619
Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
1620
The July Galileo Outage: What happened and why
By bert hubert / bert@hubertnet.nl This post is an excerpt of a far longer post on Galileo, its structures and the cause of the outage. Here we’ll only focus on the outage - the potential underlying reasons behind it are described in the full article. Since the week-long outage in July I’ve been fascinated by Galileo…