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<< 2014-09 >>

• 2014-09-30: Hacker News is a cesspit.
• 2014-09-30: A review of the High Sierra shower head.
• 2014-09-30: Idiomatic generics in golang as a service.
• 2014-09-30: Opening the source repository with anonymous CVS.
• 2014-09-30: Limitations of iOS 8 MAC address randomization.
• 2014-09-30: Tory party wants to roll back weights and measures education to the 1800s.
• 2014-09-30: Krakatoa made a sound so loud it circled the earth four times.
• 2014-09-30: Postgres full-text search is good enough!
• 2014-09-29: Most people addicted to drugs simply grow out of it.
• 2014-09-29: DNSSEC: how far have we come?
• 2014-09-29: The various unix shells.
• 2014-09-29: Beyond the selfie stick: the personal photography drone.
• 2014-09-29: Langsec: From "shotgun parsers" to more secure stacks.
• 2014-09-29: Bash's parser is locale-sensitive.
• 2014-09-29: E-cigarettes: a scientific review.
• 2014-09-29: Bye bye Microsoft Research Silicon Valley.
• 2014-09-29: Take the Red Pill *and* the Blue Pill: how to provide a trusted path for authenticating online transactions.
• 2014-09-29: The start of the digital revolution at Bell Labs and the NSA: the SIGSALY system that inspired Shannon.
• 2014-09-28: Writing high-performance .NET code.
• 2014-09-28: ML programmer's guide to ATS.
• 2014-09-28: LibreSSL: five months in.
• 2014-09-27: Optimizing a compression algorithm's byte value histogram calculation.
• 2014-09-27: systemd: the end of Linux?
• 2014-09-27: Trademark case could set a precedent for website blocking.
• 2014-09-27: Firefox's new privacy button.
• 2014-09-27: The bash shellshock bug: a failure to apply formal grammars.
• 2014-09-27: Why academics stink at writing.
• 2014-09-27: How to write consistently boring scientific literature.
• 2014-09-27: CVE-2014-6277: another bug in bash.
• 2014-09-27: Penetration testing using DNS.
• 2014-09-27: Automasymbolic differentiation.
• 2014-09-27: About the PKCS#1 signature validation bug in NSS.
• 2014-09-27: Developing software in a hostile environment: OpenBSD's experiences with exploit mitigation.
• 2014-09-27: How to make error handling less error-prone: rescuing techniques from the 1970s.
• 2014-09-27: Yahoo plans to kill the web index it was founded on.
• 2014-09-27: The secret Goldman Sachs tapes reveal a supine Fed.
• 2014-09-27: Breaking the Silk Road CAPTCHA.
• 2014-09-27: xlwings: use Python instead of VBA in Excel.
• 2014-09-27: Code highlighting should use different colours for each name.
• 2014-09-27: John Carmack on big procedures and manually inlined code.
• 2014-09-26: The great lightbulb conspiracy.
• 2014-09-25: Left-Right: a concurrency control technique with wait-free population-oblivious reads.
• 2014-09-25: Bill Weaver's Blackbird broke up around him at Mach 3+.
• 2014-09-25: Nanotechnology leads to better, cheaper LEDs for phones and lighting.
• 2014-09-25: How do male scientists balance the demands of work and family?
• 2014-09-25: Neil Gaiman explains, Terry Pratchett isn't jolly. He's angry.
• 2014-09-25: The SSD endurance experiment: only two remain after 1.5PB.
• 2014-09-24: Oxytocin: the morality molecule.
• 2014-09-24: Total moving face reconstruction.
• 2014-09-24: Another patent troll slain. You are now free to rotate your smartphone.
• 2014-09-23: Central Madrid bans non-resident cars.
• 2014-09-23: Tonic Advance: promoting gender equality in theatres around Britain.
• 2014-09-23: When good NICs do bad things: a blast of IPv6 multicast listener discovery queries.
• 2014-09-23: Can you safely deliver entropy to a remote system?
• 2014-09-22: Harmony: an LLVM profiling tool for tackling Amdahl's law.
• 2014-09-22: Why Xenix 1.0 fails to run on an i386.
• 2014-09-22: APNIC policy SIG chair resigns.
• 2014-09-21: Why is Thomas Piketty's Capital a bestseller?
• 2014-09-21: Uselessd: a stripped down systemd.
• 2014-09-21: Lots of Lisp Machine links.
• 2014-09-21: OpenGL in 2014.
• 2014-09-21: Cattack: deter cats from messing up the garden.
• 2014-09-21: What a can of Coke contains.
• 2014-09-20: Futures aren't ersatz threads.
• 2014-09-20: The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction.
• 2014-09-20: Doing agile badly is cheaper than doing waterfall badly.
• 2014-09-20: 12 Java Snippets you won't believe actually compile.
• 2014-09-20: Intel unveils new Xeon CPU with integrated FPGA.
• 2014-09-20: Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++.
• 2014-09-20: The McDonald's cocaine spoon fiasco.
• 2014-09-20: To get more out of science, show the rejected research.
• 2014-09-19: Your iOS 8 data is not beyond law enforcement's reach… Yet.
• 2014-09-19: Open source font development tools from Adobe.
• 2014-09-19: Gandi CLI is now open source.
• 2014-09-19: numdiff: show numeric differences between files.
• 2014-09-19: CloudFlare keyless SSL.
• 2014-09-19: Victims of .prod gTLD name collisions respond "fuck Google!".
• 2014-09-19: Signed pushes for git.
• 2014-09-19: Charlieplexed LED displays.
• 2014-09-19: Thoughts on five years of the Emerging Languages conference.
• 2014-09-19: Apple's warrant canary disappears.
• 2014-09-19: Erlang in anger.
• 2014-09-19: A scientist stole my root beer.
• 2014-09-19: Tweet a program in the Wolfram language.
• 2014-09-18: Privacy violations using microtargeted ads: a case study.
• 2014-09-18: Pranking a roommate with eerily targeted Facebook ads.
• 2014-09-18: sshrc: bring your dotfiles with you when you ssh.
• 2014-09-18: Understanding weak isolation of database transactions is a serious problem.
• 2014-09-18: Smoking rates increase in New York after e-cigs are banned.
• 2014-09-18: Power of Optics: a chain reaction machine video.
• 2014-09-17: Five large UK government contracts are being investigated for fraud.
• 2014-09-17: What you need to know about the C++14 standard.
• 2014-09-17: Where do children's earliest memories go?
• 2014-09-17: Upgrading Github to Rails 3.0 with zero downtime.
• 2014-09-17: Galt's Gulch Chile libertarian utopia falls apart almost immediately.
• 2014-09-16: What you might learn when you become the Internet's most hated person.
• 2014-09-16: How the super-rich got richer: inequality in the UK.
• 2014-09-16: Lessons from real-life revolutions that fictional dystopias ignore.
• 2014-09-16: Who killed lard?
• 2014-09-16: Incremental garbage collection: the train algorithm.
• 2014-09-16: Incremental mature garbage collection using the train algorithm.
• 2014-09-16: The courts have greatly restricted the Information Commissioner's powers to fight spam texts.
• 2014-09-16: Gmail accounts can take days to sync over IMAP.
• 2014-09-16: Netflix has a new slogan: Chaos Engineering.
• 2014-09-16: Desmos graphing calculator.
• 2014-09-16: Press and hold a key to get a mathematical symbol.
• 2014-09-16: Mathway
• 2014-09-16: MATHJQ: WYSIWYG equation editor supporting MathML and LaTeX.
• 2014-09-16: A visual equation editor.
• 2014-09-16: Online handwritten equation recognizer.
• 2014-09-16: Windows math input panel typesets handwritten equations.
• 2014-09-16: Detexify: handwritten symbol recognition for LaTeX.
• 2014-09-16: ASCIIMathML.js translates ASCII math notation to MathML and graphics.
• 2014-09-16: ASCIIMathML: mathematical markup without the backslashes.
• 2014-09-16: KaTeX: The fastest mathematics typesetting library for the web.
• 2014-09-15: Mailpile enters beta. It's like Gmail, but you run it on your own computer.
• 2014-09-15: The road to Rust 1.0.
• 2014-09-15: Android browser up to version 4.4 has easy JavaScript same-origin policy bypass.
• 2014-09-15: "You just chip away everything that doesn't look like David."
• 2014-09-15: Schizophrenia not a single disease but multiple genetically distinct disorders.
• 2014-09-15: Types don't know #: type-independent hashing for C++
• 2014-09-15: What the Internet's most infamous trolls tell us about online feminism.
• 2014-09-15: Notch is leaving Mojang and Minecraft.
• 2014-09-15: Atchafalaya: sinking Louisiana. (1987)
• 2014-09-15: Ghostbusters is the best comedy ever made about the limits of the Lovecraftian worldview.
• 2014-09-14: Why is it taking so long to secure BGP?
• 2014-09-14: Onity wins: hotels don't have standing to sue them over their easily hacked locks.
• 2014-09-14: Wears jump suit. Sensible shoes. Uses husband's last name. Marked women, unmarked men.
• 2014-09-14: Fifteenth anniversary of the Cluetrain Manifesto.
• 2014-09-14: Algomation: animated algorithms.
• 2014-09-14: Get a copy of the New York City Transit Authority Graphic Standards Manual.
• 2014-09-13: A free qemu image of Coherent Unix.
• 2014-09-13: Certificate Transparency in ACM Queue.
• 2014-09-13: Software patents are crumbling, thanks to the Supreme Court.
• 2014-09-13: The Rust Guide.
• 2014-09-13: Louisiana is sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.
• 2014-09-12: Rich, educated and stupid parents are driving the vaccination crisis.
• 2014-09-12: Superbugs meet their match in rapid genome sequencing.
• 2014-09-12: Exploring TLA+ with two-phase commit.
• 2014-09-12: iPhone 6 screens demystified.
• 2014-09-12: The curious case of the iPhone 6+ 1080p display.
• 2014-09-12: Hands on with USB type C reversible connectors.
• 2014-09-12: Probable DNS cache poisoning of mail handling domains.
• 2014-09-12: US Government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 per day for not complying with PRISM.
• 2014-09-12: Death of RAID predicted, film at 11.
• 2014-09-12: netresolv: libc resolver, descendent of libbind.
• 2014-09-12: When no redundancy is more reliable than RAID 5.
• 2014-09-12: A termination detection algorithm for distributed computations.
• 2014-09-12: When random is better: parallel file tree walking.
• 2014-09-12: dcp: copy files in parallel on a distributed system.
• 2014-09-12: Problems copying lots of files with GNU cp: massive time and memory overhead.
• 2014-09-12: Copyright law offers such powerful remedies that it is increasingly being used in non-copyright cases.
• 2014-09-12: Dan Bricklin on disconnected mobile database apps.
• 2014-09-11: CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2015 shows UK has most breweries per head of population.
• 2014-09-11: How the US DoD DREN selects IPv6 capable suppliers.
• 2014-09-11: Firefox add-on enables web developer tools on other browsers and devices.
• 2014-09-11: Parliament without Scottish MPs: how would it have looked different since 1997?
• 2014-09-11: Hiding a WiFi network makes its mobile clients broadcast SSID probes instead of the AP.
• 2014-09-11: The character of physical law: Feynman's Messenger Lectures at Cornell, 1964.
• 2014-09-11: D-Wave: the revolutionary quantum computer that may not be quantum at all.
• 2014-09-11: No quantum speed-up from D-Wave computers?
• 2014-09-10: Apple Pay's identification revolution.
• 2014-09-10: Why we fight wars.
• 2014-09-10: America's climate swerve.
• 2014-09-10: The curious case of the cyclist's shaven legs.
• 2014-09-10: Perspectives on Brewer's CAP theorem.
• 2014-09-10: git-as-svn: a svn server daemon with a git repository backend.
• 2014-09-10: How Apple Pay works and why it matters for developers.
• 2014-09-10: Power Dive into the danger zone: copyright and 555uHz.
• 2014-09-09: The design of the REXX programming language.
• 2014-09-09: The London Hydraulic Power Company's extensive mains network.
• 2014-09-09: C100M: 100 million clients, 6.5 million requests per second, with userland TCP+HTTP.
• 2014-09-09: openSUSE gardened: Linux kernel with SUSE and grsec patches.
• 2014-09-09: Portal power: free energy with railway technology.
• 2014-09-09: The real Men in Black, Hollywood, and the great UFO cover-up.
• 2014-09-09: Socratic electronics.
• 2014-09-09: All about circuits.
• 2014-09-09: Google is pushing web sites to upgrade from SHA-1.
• 2014-09-09: What the online security experts tell their kids about Internet safety.
• 2014-09-08: How upvotes and downvotes shape user behaviour.
• 2014-09-08: When your prey's in a hole and you don't have a pole, use a moray.
• 2014-09-08: OpenSSL security policy.
• 2014-09-08: IPv6 neighbor discovery problems with layer 2 multicast state.
• 2014-09-08: Recommended reading on computer security.
• 2014-09-08: Notes from the development of xkcd's "Pixels".
• 2014-09-07: The design and implementation of probabilistic programming languages.
• 2014-09-07: Solarpunk: notes toward a manifesto.
• 2014-09-07: Alien Contact: a comic on gender roles.
• 2014-09-07: Twitter should not algorithmically curate the timeline.
• 2014-09-07: The phantom menace of militant atheism.
• 2014-09-07: IPv6 doom at MIT: the network nightmare that ate a week.
• 2014-09-07: YunoHost is a server operating system aiming to make self-hosting accessible to everyone.
• 2014-09-07: iRedMail: free, open source mail server solution for Linux/BSD.
• 2014-09-07: How to run your own e-mail server with your own domain.
• 2014-09-07: Sovereign: Ansible playbooks for personal replacements for cloud services.
• 2014-09-07: Mail-in-a-Box.
• 2014-09-06: Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator IC.
• 2014-09-06: 300 (and more) flat-out evil lies: David Brin on Frank Miller's sequel.
• 2014-09-06: Designing analog chips.
• 2014-09-06: Water's edge: the crisis of rising sea levels.
• 2014-09-06: 33 things to do before climate change ruins everything.
• 2014-09-06: The ramifications of the SCotUS "Alice" patent legality decision.
• 2014-09-06: Bullet Journal: a paper note-taking system.
• 2014-09-06: Designing a personal knowledgebase.
• 2014-09-06: Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto.
• 2014-09-06: Why Amazon has no profits (and why it works).
• 2014-09-06: Memorizing "$19.05" helps you outsmart the New York MTA.
• 2014-09-06: Why a dead alkaline battery bounces more than a fresh one.
• 2014-09-06: Walking helps us think.
• 2014-09-06: Zeroing buffers is insufficient.
• 2014-09-05: Adding bike lanes in New York actually reduced traffic delays.
• 2014-09-05: The kind of story Facebook's algorithm finds positively toxic.
• 2014-09-05: Irish postcodes at last but random numbers don't address efficiency.
• 2014-09-05: Twitter CFO promises to kill its main selling point.
• 2014-09-04: How to zero a buffer. (Interesting volatile trick.)
• 2014-09-04: Ten surprises from numerical linear algebra.
• 2014-09-04: Better identification of Viking corpses reveals many of the warriors were female.
• 2014-09-04: Answers to 10 frequent comments on feminist blogposts.
• 2014-09-04: Notes on the celebrity nude photo data theft.
• 2014-09-04: vfmd: Markdown with a formal spec.
• 2014-09-04: Standard markdown.
• 2014-09-04: The few tough species known to survive the rigors of space.
• 2014-09-04: Visualizing garbage collection algorithms.
• 2014-09-04: DHCP client problems on systems with no battery backed clock.
• 2014-09-03: UK Government bans all schools from teaching creationism as science.
• 2014-09-03: A brief history of AUTODIN. (1973)
• 2014-09-03: Recalling the AUTODIN.
• 2014-09-03: The origins of network mail.
• 2014-09-03: Email history through RFCs.
• 2014-09-03: Bitsquatting: DNS hijacking via bit error name corruption.
• 2014-09-03: An epic rant about nude photos.
• 2014-09-03: A call for a low-carb diet that embraces fat.
• 2014-09-02: High performance packet filtering with pflua.
• 2014-09-02: Why is Huffington Post running a multi-part series promoting a guy who pretends he invented email?
• 2014-09-02: Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse.
• 2014-09-02: The C book.
• 2014-09-02: On teaching introductory computer science using "How To Design Programs".
• 2014-09-02: Formal methods in safety-critical railway systems.
• 2014-09-02: Rationale for the design of the Ada programming language.
• 2014-09-02: Invertible Bloom lookup tables.
• 2014-09-01: On the origins of "fuck", part 2: but what about the "d"?
• 2014-09-01: btrfs as a Linux packaging system.
• 2014-09-01: A Minnesota man built a 3D printed concrete folly in his back garden.
• 2014-09-01: Digi-Comp II: wooden ball-bearing toy computer.
• 2014-09-01: A culture of innovation: insider accounts of computing and life at BBN.
• 2014-09-01: End-to-end arguments in the Internet: principles, practices, and theory. (test IDN link)
• 2014-09-01: End-to-end arguments in the Internet: principles, practices, and theory.
• 2014-09-01: Resurrection of the 1973 ARPANET IMP code.
• 2014-09-01: A technical history of the ARPANET.
• 2014-09-01: In TCP, we have a model: Sender --(miracle)-- Receiver.