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The most popular blog posts about tools & productivity on Hacker News. 102 posts.

2018
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Hello wasm-pack

Introducing wasm-pack, a new tool for assembling and packaging Rust crates that target WebAssembly. These packages can be published to the npm Registry and used alongside other packages. This means ...

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50 CVEs in 50 Days: Fuzzing Adobe Reader

Research By: Yoav Alon, Netanel Ben-Simon Introduction The year 2017 was an inflection point in the vulnerability landscape. The number of new vulnerabilities reported that year was around 14,000, which is over twice the number from the year before (see table below). The probable reason for this is the increased…

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Python in Visual Studio Code

We are pleased to announce that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 38 issues including the stable release of our ptvsd 4 debugger, improvements to the language server preview, and other fixes.

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Tcpdump Examples

In these tcpdump examples you will find 22 tactical commands to zero in on the key packets. Know your network with this powerful packet capture tool. Examples for http, icmp, dns, snmp and more.

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Inside the Windows Console

Welcome to the third post in the Windows Command-Line series. In this post, we'll start to dig into the internals of the Windows Console and Command-Line, what it is, what it does ... and what it doesn't do!