Best of 2017

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2017. 2,293 posts.

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Classic NES Series Anti-Emulation Measures

Some of you may remember a series of peculiar Game Boy Advance games that came out over the course of 2004. In stark contrast with the usual dark grey cartridges with colorful labels, a set of light grey cartridges with simple labels were released containing games ported from the original Nintendo Entertainment…

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On mutex performance and WTF::Lock

One of the things I’ve been doing this quarter is removing Gecko’s dependence on NSPR locks . Gecko’s (non-recursive) mutexes and condition variables now use platform-specific constructs, rather than indirecting through NSPR. This change makes things smaller, especially on POSIX platforms, and uses no dynamic memory…

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Announcing the New AWS Secret Region

The AWS Secret Region can operate workloads up to the Secret U.S. security classification level. Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. AWS customers benefit from data center and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations. AWS supports more classification…

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Consul 1.0 Released

Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.0. Consul is a tool for service discovery and runtime configuration for distributed applications and infrastructure. Consul joins Vagrant and Packer as the third HashiCorp product to reach the 1.0 milestone.

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Ghost in the Shell FUI Design

Here’s a look at the recent film Ghost in the Shell, showcasing some FUI work by MPC ,  Territory Studios  and Ash Thorp . It looks like a huge amount of work was put into the development of this world, it’s visually rich and littered with lots of interesting tech. In this art