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Vulnerability research is cooked
Vulnerability discovery has always been gated by elite attention. Elite attention is now abundant. What happens next?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,921 posts.
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Amazon has no idea how to run an app store
Zet Casino 2026: tysiące gier, bonus powitalny, wpłaty BLIK i krypto, wypłaty w minutach oraz polskie wsparcie 24/7. Sprawdź naszą ofertę.
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DevOps didn’t exist when I started as a developer
Explore the history of DevOps and its impact on the tech industry from the perspective of a long-time software engineer and developer advocate.
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The death of a TLD
Another one bites the dust. The gTLD gold rush is now seeing a steady flow of TLD’s that clearly just didnt work out.
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Pairing With GPT-4
GPT-4 won't build your application for you, but it can be a very helpful addition to your toolbox.
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The best browser bookmarking system is files
(Thanks for getting this on front page of HackerNews!) Along the years I have tested various...
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WP Engine is not WordPress
It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was confused and thought WP Engine was an official thing. Their branding, marketing, advertising, and entire promise to cus…
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The Fourier transform is a neural network
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How to Train Yourself to Go to Sleep Earlier
Whether you want to get more sleep, wake up earlier, or change your nighttime routine, learn science-backed tips for to going to sleep earlier.
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The sad state of web app deployment
I spent a good chunk of the last four days installing an Internet web forum, which claims it can be up and running in 30 minutes. I like to think I’m pretty alright at computers. So what went wrong here? Well let me tell you.
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The challenges of soft delete
Exploring alternatives to the archived_at column pattern: triggers, application events, and WAL-based change data capture.
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Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
Be My Eyes’ AI assistant, powered by GPT-4, is rolling out to hundreds of thousands of iOS and Android users over the next several weeks.
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Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
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Attacking an Ethereum L2 with Unbridled Optimism
On 2/2/2022, I reported a critical security issue to Optimism—an "L2 scaling solution" for Ethereum—that would allow an attacker to replicate money on any chain using their "OVM 2.0" fork of go-ethereum (which they call l2geth).
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Python Type Hints – *args and **kwargs (2021)
When I started writing type hints, I was a little confused about what to do with Python’s variable argument operators, * and ** (often called *args and **kwargs). Here’s what I figured out.
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Julia 1.5 Highlights
Julia version 1.5 has been released, featuring many performance improvements and new capabilities.
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CIA, MKUltra, and the cover-up of U.S. germ warfare in the Korean war (2022)
CIA & Army Counterintelligence involved in secret “processing” of U.S. POWs who confessed to using biological weapons against China, No…
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Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams
How does it work? Every meeting of the flemish government in Belgium is live streamed on a youtube channel. When a livestream starts the software is searching for phones and tries to identify a distracted politician. This is done with the help of AI and face recognition. The video of the distracted politician are then…
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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
A checklist for configuring Mozilla Firefox for a more private browsing experience.
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Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record
In the past experimentation round Wendelstein 7-X achieved higher temperatures and densities of the plasma, longer pulses and the stellarator world record for the fusion product. Moreover, first confirmation for the optimisation concept on which Wendelstein 7-X is based, was obtained. Wendelstein 7-X at Max Planck…
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Are we shooting ourselves in the foot with stack overflows?
How-to articles about designing safe, reliable, and secure embedded systems.
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Storage on Vercel
New to the Vercel dashboard: Vercel KV, Vercel Postgres, and Vercel Blob. Announcing serverless storage solutions available on Vercel.
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Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
Aww yeah, our first release since leaving Twitter is here with Bootstrap 2.2.0! We originally planned to release this as 2.1.2, but given the timing and scope…
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Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver
The Carlson School of Management research showed replicated and expanded on what was previously found: bronze medalists were more likely to exhibit a smile than silver medalists, while gold medalists were happier than other medalists.