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Introducing the Keybase filesystem
Browse technical documentation on the public-key cryptography that powers Keybase. Learn how Keybase Chats, Files, Teams, and Git are secured.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,929 posts.
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Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing?
Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have mixed feelings about caches. One on hand, caching is critical to the performance of systems at every layer, from CPUs to storage to whole distributed architectures. On the other hand, caching being this critical means that designers need to carefully consider what…
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Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps
Chrome 72 for Android shipped the long-awaited Trusted Web Activity feature, which means we can now distribute PWAs in the Google Play…
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Testing the strength of different wood species
After I Built my wood strength tester , two fellow YouTubers offered to send me some samples of different wood species. These ones are from Peter Collin , already cut to size.
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How Facebook's Instagram Acquisition Led to the Open Sourcing of React.js
Pete Hunt, CEO @ Smyte. OG React.js. Ex-Facebook and Instagram [React](/react) is now one of the most popular JavaScript UI libraries in
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Thought Leaders and Chicken Sexers
From the moment I started paying attention to the tech industry, Paul Graham was there. My first job out of college was in SoMa, around the corner from the Justin.tv offices, and his essays were just floating around in the ether, impossible to ignore. His popularization of Lisp was a small part of why I tried Clojure…
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The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
For many years I was whole hog into the open-source movement and at the time I rarely wrote a stitch of code in my free time that didn’t find itself in a public Sourceforge/GCode/Github repo. 1 However, over time I came to learn that the burden that came with publicly offering code to the universe, to put it mildly…
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Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network
Intro - Testing Google Sites and Google Caja In March 2018, I reported an XSS in Google Caja, a tool to securely embed arbitrary html/javascript in a webpage. In May 2018, after the XSS was fixed, I r
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Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps Vision (2017)
How we're building GitLab into the complete DevOps toolchain.
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Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (2012)
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are."
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Reflections on Rusting Trust
The Rust compiler is written in Rust. This is overall a pretty common practice in compiler development. This usually means that the process of …
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Photography Composition
The most comprehensive free Photography Composition tutorial on the internet. "Rules" explained, tons of examples, charts and food thought. Time to step up!
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Intel 8080 emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show
An Intel 8080 processor emulator written in less than 4K of C language and able to run CP/M. It won the Best of Show category (first place) of the 19th IOCCC. The 8080 originated the Zilog Z80 and started the personal computer's revolution.
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Real-Time Noise Suppression Using Deep Learning
Imagine waiting for your flight at the airport. Suddenly, an important business call with a high profile customer lights up your phone. Tons of background noise clutters up the soundscape around you…
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Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF
By Jose Fernandez, Sebastien Dabdoub, Jason Koch, Artem Tkachuk
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Linux tracing systems and how they fit together
Linux tracing systems & how they fit together
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Chaos Computer Club congratulates Netzpolitik.org
Nach nur kurzer Prüfung einer Strafanzeige des Verfassungsschutzes ermittelt der Generalbundesanwalt gegen die Redaktion von netzpolitik.org. Der Chaos Computer Club (CCC) gratuliert der Redaktion...
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FrontierCode: An eval to measure whether you would actually merge the code
Today’s coding benchmarks have established that models can write correct code, but the question we should really be asking is: can models actually write…
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Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent
This post explores using WebTorrent for serverless data synchronization in web apps, demonstrated by modifying the Voice Memos PWA. The goal was to enable data sharing between devices without a backend server. The solution involves generating magnet URLs that allow peer-to-peer data transfer via WebTorrent. The demo…
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Storing OpenAI embeddings in Postgres with pgvector
An example of how to build an AI-powered search engine using OpenAI's embeddings and PostgreSQL.
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Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old
Intel's groundbreaking 8008 microprocessor was first produced 45 years ago. 1 This chip, Intel's first 8-bit microprocessor, is the ancesto...
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Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus
Cloudflare Research is building a global consensus service called Meerkat that uses a new consensus algorithm called QuePaxa. We plan to use Meerkat to build a strongly consistent, fault-tolerant key-value store, and other applications.
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Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format
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Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
We’ve just open sourced , Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use studio-quality audio effects in your code, rather than just in your digital audio workstation (DAW).
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