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Why We Disagree with The New York Times
In the early days of mobile, we built a set of APIs that enabled other companies to recreate the Facebook experience. This is very different from the public APIs used by third-party developers.
Terraforming 1Password
We are excited to finally have all our development, test, staging, and production environments managed with Terraform.
gRPC-Web is going GA
On behalf of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, I’m excited to announce the GA release of gRPC-Web, a JavaScript client library that enables web apps to communicate directly with backend gRPC…
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…
Lessons Learned from Writing Over 300k Lines of Infrastructure Code
Infrastructure code lessons from a HashiConf 2018 talk by Gruntwork, with the video, the slides, and a condensed written version of five key takeaways.
We are rewriting CodeMirror
In-browser code editor
Italian Anti-Corruption Authority Adopts Onion Services
Anonymity technologies are becoming a legal requirement for public agency and corporate anti-corruption compliance.
Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more
Elixir v1.6 includes a code formatter, defguard, dynamic supervision and new module attributes that improves code quality and the developer experience.
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.
Police search homes of Zwiebelfreunde board members and OpenLab in Augsburg
On June 20th, board members of the „Zwiebelfreunde“ association in multiple German cities had their homes searched under the dubious pretence that they were „witnesses“ while their computers and...
Startup School 2018 – Curriculum
Two weeks ago we announced Startup School 2018 [https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2018/]. Our free, online course will kick off in just three weeks, on August 28th. We also let founders know that 100 of the companies that complete the course will receive $10,000 in equity-free funding from YC…
Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time
The Thunderbird Project is hiring for a software engineer! We’re looking for an amazing developer to come on board to help make Thunderbird the best Email client on the planet! If you are interested you can apply via the link below, following the job description. Here’s the job description: Title: Thunderbird Software…
So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
Why the New V8 Is So Damn Fast
The entire V8 compiler pipeline was overhauled and shipped with Node.js version 8. This post investigates what speed improvements we can expect as a result.
Google AMP case study: leads dropped by 59%
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