Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,414 posts.
I get a lot of requests from people for data from Have I been pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) that they can analyse. Now obviously, there are a bunch of people up to no good requesting the data but equally, there are many others who just want to run statistics.
With high-profile hacks in the headlines and government officials trying to reopen a long-settled debate about encryption, information security has become a mainstream issue. But we feel that one element of digital security hasn’t received enough critical attention: the role of government in...
Recently I came across two great articles on the Pusher blog: Low latency, large working set, and GHC’s garbage collector: pick two of three and Golang’s Real-time GC in Theory and Practice . The articles tell the story of how Pusher engineers reimplemented their message bus. The first take was done in Haskell. During…
National inventory continues to decline by 3.2%, clamping down on March home sales. Read on for more housing market news.
The startup world is an interesting place. As cities around the US work to establish their own Silicon XYZ, the variables required to build…
I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
Historical reference to Ian Denhardt’s Reflections On NixOS (2016-01-24), with archive and current documentation links.
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C has a reputation for being inflexible. But did you know you can change the argument order of C functions if you don't like them?
Hey TrueOS Community! I just wanted to take a few minutes to address what some of you may have already guessed. With a heavy heart, the TrueOS Project’s core
Several AWS teams are focused on simplifying and accelerating the process of moving on-premises data to the cloud. We started out with the very basic PUT operation and multipart upload in the early days. Along the way we gave you the ability to send us a disk, and made that process even easier by launching […]
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How changing a button increased a site's annual revenues by $300 million.
May 2019 UPDATE - The no-cost developer subscription now includes RHEL 8.
All I did was put together a trivial web app to scratch my own itch, and it keeps scratching it, while I drink my free beer.
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I just came across another manifestation of imposter syndrome, in the form of “Am I really a developer or just a good googler?”
