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How Booking.com manipulates users
Many websites and applications these days are designed to trick you into doing things that their creators want. Here are some examples from timewellspent.io:
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REST is the new SOAP
A journey through a trendy hell
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Milestone: 100M Certificates Issued
Let’s Encrypt has reached a milestone: we’ve now issued more than 100,000,000 certificates. This number reflects at least a few things: First, it illustrates the strong demand for our services. We’d like to thank all of the sysadmins, web developers, and everyone else managing servers for prioritizing protecting your…
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A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine
This project, the M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine, was on my to-do list for a long time. I finally managed to complete the project after working on it for several months in my free time. The machine uses an Arduino microcontroller, stepper motors, an RGB colour sensor and 3D-printed parts to sort several types of…
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Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
The differences between system administrators and software developers as well as why all software developers should have some amount of sysadmin experience.
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Why Many Cities Have No Money
Problems have solutions. Predicaments have outcomes. We're in a predicament.
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Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the Web, and to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level graphics and general purpose computation.
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YC Research: Universal Healthcare
Four years ago, Watsi [http://Watsi.org] became YC’s first non-profit. They’ve since raised over $7.5 million to fund life-changing healthcare for more than 10,000 patients in 24 countries. Today, we’re excited to announce that YC Research is funding Watsi for a project that will study using technology to improve the…
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4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys
So I have been working on Miegakure for a long time now, and I have created and accumulated many cool 4D things of all sorts. I think it’s about time that I share some of them, so…
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Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a dangerous hoax known as “ swatting ,” wherein the perpetrator falsely reports a dangerous situation at an address…
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary f
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HTTPS on Stack Overflow: The End of a Long Road
Today, we deployed HTTPS by default on Stack Overflow. All traffic is now redirected to https:// and Google links will change over the next few weeks. The ac...
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
It wasn’t too long ago that I was on a development team working toward completing a software project by a release deadline and facing the challenges most software teams face today in developing applications. Challenges such as new project environment setup, team member collaboration, and the day-to-day task of keeping…
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Outraged about the Google diversity memo?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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A million-dollar engineering problem
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Why Should I Start a Startup?
A lot of people ask themselves this question. They often mull over one or more of the following facts: 1. The vast majority of startups are not successful 2. For talented technical people, it’s relatively easy to get a job and make a large salary 3. Large companies offer opportunities to work on very difficult…
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Four Column ASCII
I found this gem on Hacker News the other day. User soneil posted to a four column version of the ASCII table that blew my mind. I just wanted to repost this here so it is easier to discover.
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Why Use Postgres?
Five years ago I wrote a post that got some good attention on why you should use Postgres. Almost a year later I added a bunch of things I missed. Many of those items bear repeating, and I’ll recap a few of those in the latter half of this post. But in the last 4-5 years there’s been a lot of improvements and more…
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Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered
To find the cause of the Galaxy Note7 incidents, Samsung examined every aspect of the Gala
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Machine learning without centralized training data
Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research ScientistsStandard machine learning approaches require centralizing the training data on one ...
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Beware of Transparent Pixels
If you use sprites with transparency in your game — and you most likely do for the UI at least — you’ll probably want to pay …
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The Line of Death
When building applications that display untrusted content, security designers have a major problem— if an attacker has full control of a block of pixels, he can make those pixels look like anything…
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ESO Telescopes Observe First Light from Gravitational Wave Source
ESO’s fleet of telescopes in Chile have detected the first visible counterpart to a gravitational wave source. These historic observations suggest that this unique object is the result of the merger of two neutron stars. The cataclysmic aftermaths of this kind of merger — long-predicted events called kilonovae …
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Washington Post integrates Talk – Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform
To engage readers, build community, and strengthen journalism, Mozilla’s open-source commenting platform will be integrated across washingtonpost.com
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Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research
We’re excited to announce that we’re expanding Watsi to provide health coverage! Together, Watsi Crowdfunding and Watsi Coverage will help create a world where everyone has access to care––whether that’s by raising money through crowdfunding or enrolling in health coverage.