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A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails
Secure the modern software stack with Koi. Gain visibility, context, and real-time protection over extensions, MCPs, and autonomous AI agent endpoints.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,903 posts.
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OpenWrt 24.10.0 – First Stable Release
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HDR QR Code
Here’s an HDR QR Code . If you’re viewing this on an Apple device’s built-in display, it should work. If the big QR code is brighter than the smaller one, it works.
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jQuery 3.0 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs
And the results surprised me
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Ticketmaster’s attempt to game arbitration services fails
In an effort to curb mass arbitration, Ticketmaster sought to switch arbitration service providers to New Era ADR, including for past ticket purchases. New Era incorporated some defense-favorable provisions to its mass arbitration provision. The Ninth Circuit holds those provisions...
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The care and feeding of software engineers, or why engineers are grumpy (2012)
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection
Reverse-engineering Safeway's coupon APIs to automate adding digital offers to an account.
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TimescaleDB raises $40M
We just raised a $40M Series B to bring our relational database for time-series to developers everywhere. Learn how we got started and what’s still yet to come.
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A 1.5GB string
In my previous role, I supported a Java service that operated similarly to RDP or Citrix by enabling remote UI functionality. This service relied on sessions, which consisted of interconnected Java objects that were supposed to be cleaned up either when a user logged out or after a predetermined timeout period.
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Netflix now supports TLS 1.3
By Sekwon Choi
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DigitalOcean introduces Load Balancers
Load balancing, simplified. Scale your apps and improve availability, security and performance across your infrastructure.
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Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
The original 1881 serial ended in chapter fifteen with the puppet hanging dead from an oak tree. Italian children wrote in begging the author to continue. He resumed reluctantly. What followed — donkey-skin drums, dead-girl fairies, a satire of every other moralising children's book in Italy — became one of the most…
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Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use
I’ve been leading a team developing an application using Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView for the last 18 months and accumulated some thoughts on the stack. For the most part, it has been a very pleasant experience.
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All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess u…
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Unison: a next-generation programming platform
A friendly programming language from the future.
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The Piston image library is now pure Rust
A user friendly game engine written in Rust
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Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell
Using logic programming to beat the game
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World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
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Missouri governor’s office responsible for teacher data leak
Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following revelations that the data…
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Forging signed commits on GitHub
Creating fake signed commits
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Javascript: call functions without using parentheses
A nice to know feature, good for impressing others
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Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business
The story of how a couple of failed SaaS ideas and a bunch of ugly Less stylesheets turned into my life's work.
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Pinboard Turns Seven
Heh, don't worry, that's just the whiskey talking. Pinboard is seven years old today!
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down the pace of AI progress. I believe you’re being sincere, so…