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Today's CPU vulnerability: what you need to know
Posted by Matt Linton, Senior Security Engineer and Pat Parseghian, Technical Program Manager [Google Cloud, G Suite, and Chrome customers...
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The most popular blog posts about systems & performance on Hacker News. 2,560 posts.
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Collapse OS — Bootstrap post-collapse technology
I expect our global supply chain to collapse before we reach 2030. With this collapse, we won't be able to produce most of our electronics because their production depends on a very complex supply chain that we won't be able to achieve again for decades (ever?).
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An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector
The computer itself ceases to exist.
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Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Update Jun 18, 2014: I have made some corrections since the original version of this post.
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Routing & Network Namespaces
Like all Linux network interfaces, WireGuard integrates into the network namespace infrastructure. This means an administrator can have several entirely different networking subsystems and choose which interfaces live in each.
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Mitigating Spectre with Site Isolation in Chrome
Posted by Charlie Reis, Site Isolator Speculative execution side-channel attacks like Spectre are a newly discovered security risk for web...
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Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT)
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web.
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Microsoft finds underwater datacenters are reliable, practical and use energy sustainably
Microsoft retrieved the Northern Isles underwater datacenter from the seafloor off Scotland's Orkney Islands. Project Natick is proving the concept of underwater datacenters is feasible as well as logistically, environmentally and economically practical.
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Diagnosing a Double-Free Concurrency Bug in Rust's Unbounded Channels
Explore how Materialize engineers diagnosed and resolved a rare concurrency bug in Rust's unbounded channels that led to undefined behavior through double-free memory errors.