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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,426 posts.
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Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking
After just a few hours the Hacking Team emails archive has already provided many tasty leaks. I want to focus on a routing security issue since this is my main research activity for this year.
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This Week in Servo 43 (submitted via Servo itself)
What's up with Servo for the weeks of 16 Nov 2015 - 30 Nov 2015
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A better way to teach technical skills to a group
Thank for you sharing this method – it sounds great, and I’m keeping it mind for the next time I have to do some teaching like this (which doesn’t come up so often for me).
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Path Tracing 3D Fractals
In some ways path tracing is one of the simplest and most intuitive ways to do ray tracing.
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Blockspring: Do anything in a spreadsheet
“Learn to code,” they say. But most working professionals don’t have the time to do that. They know that software is becoming more central to their business, and they’d love to learn how to code, but they can’t spare months or years to self-educate in computer science. They just need an easier on-ramp to their...
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Lower Cost S3 Storage Option and Glacier Price Reduction
Like all AWS services, the Amazon S3 team is always listening to customers in order to better understand their needs. After studying a lot of feedback and doing some analysis on access patterns over time, the team saw an opportunity to provide a new storage option that would be well-suited to data that is accessed […]
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Forgotten Language: Jorf could have been Python or Ruby (2005)
A long time ago, there was no Internet. Ok, there was an internet, but I lived outside of it. It was 1992 or 1993, and I only saw my first webpage and send my first email in 1995. And I was perhaps…
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Look Before You Leap – The Coming Leap Second and AWS
My colleague Mingxue Zhao sent me a guest post designed to make sure that you are aware of an important time / clock issue. Note: This post was first published on May 18, 2015. We made some important additions and corrections on May 25, 2015. — Jeff; The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems (IERS) […]
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Non-blocking UI's with interface previews
Improving the perceived speed of interfaces using skeleton loading screens plus other front-end/UX performance gains.
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How to Download a List of All Registered Domain Names
Security and Programming Blog
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Hundreds of Thousands of Google Apps Domains’ Private WHOIS Leaked
This post was authored by Nick Biasini, Alex Chiu, Jaeson Schultz, and Craig Williams. Special thanks to William McVey for his contributions to this post.
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Django Community Survey
Posted by Tim Graham on May 7, 2015
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Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix
I have been working on Open Source Software (in one way or another) since 2011 (just over 4 years since my first open source commit on a project). When I started writing open source software it was for fun. I was not a Computer Science/Engineering student. Programming was a hobby and open sourcing the code was fun and…
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Node.js running in the new Airbus A350 inflight servers
A couple of months ago Finnair announced the launch of the new A350 aircraft, making it the first European airline to start operating the model. We are
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Inside a $34 smartphone
This Huami H3 smartphone cost me $34US (210RMB) in January. It's sold with a 5 inch screen, Bluetooth, WiFi, 4G cell connectivity, Android 4.4 and an 8 core processor.
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Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you per default, making it very difficult or impossible for you to opt-out.
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AWS Lambda: Run Java Code in Response to Events
Many AWS customers are using AWS Lambda to build clean, straightforward applications that handle image and document uploads, process log files from AWS CloudTrail, handle data streamed from Amazon Kinesis, and so forth. With the recently launched synchronous invocation capability, Lambda is fast becoming a favorite…