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2015-12-31: Introducing Guesstimate, a spreadsheet for things that aren't certain.
2015-12-31: pgcli: a REPL for PostgreSQL.
2015-12-31: pgweb: web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Golang.
2015-12-31: DBeaver: universal database manager.
2015-12-31: pgAdmin: PostgreSQL administration and management tools.
2015-12-31: SQL Tabs: rich Postgres console.
2015-12-30: The open source software developers who helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone.
2015-12-30: Conceptual debt is worse than technical debt.
2015-12-30: The missing 11th of the month.
2015-12-29: Guide to awesome Mac OS X command line tools.
2015-12-29: Miami is flooding. (Not just Miami.)
2015-12-29: DLL hijacking just won't die.
2015-12-29: The Grammar of Graphics. (free edition)
2015-12-29: OLEOutlook: bypass executable email attachment checks.
2015-12-28: The Feynman lectures on physics, free online.
2015-12-27: Discussion of the 0th Edition Unix manual.
2015-12-27: Unix 0th edition manual / technical report.
2015-12-27: printbf: brainfuck translated to printf format strings.
2015-12-27: Raspberry Pi vs SPARCstation 20.
2015-12-25: The weirdest natural languages.
2015-12-25: Normalization of deviance.
2015-12-25: Debunking the periodic table showing incorrect "relative abundance" of elements on Earth.
2015-12-25: Direct left-recursive parsing expression grammars. (PEGs)
2015-12-25: Open letter to Mozilla: bring back Persona.
2015-12-25: VisUAL: an ARM emulator for teaching assembly language programming.
2015-12-24: A warm and sunny Christmas to all.
2015-12-24: The problem with Friendly C.
2015-12-23: Why spinlocks are bad on iOS and Mac OS X.
2015-12-23: Rayon: safe data parallelism in Rust.
2015-12-23: libsnark: succinct zero-knowledge proofs.
2015-12-23: A proposal for a secure stateless laptop.
2015-12-23: RK808 clock has 31 days in November.
2015-12-23: Andrea Rossi E-cat scam.
2015-12-23: Why do scientists dismiss the possibility of cold fusion?
2015-12-23: Subtleties of the C standard.
2015-12-23: The encryption/terrorism delusion.
2015-12-22: Quantum cryptography can be broken with ordinary light.
2015-12-22: African countries are planting a great green wall to beat back the Sahara desert.
2015-12-22: Background on the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch and landing.
2015-12-22: On the Juniper crypto backdoor.
2015-12-22: boringcc: a proposal for a C compiler without undefined behaviour.
2015-12-22: There should be a customary semantics of C.
2015-12-21: Two swans come and ask to be disentangled. (YouTube)
2015-12-21: Untethered lowRISC: getting closer to a free system-on-chip.
2015-12-21: What it's like to be Noam Chomsky's assistant.
2015-12-21: Safe native code in Midori (a Microsoft research operating system).
2015-12-21: RIPE DNSSEC algorithm roll-over.
2015-12-21: Juniper ScreenOS ssh backdoor.
2015-12-21: Deadly sins of project estimation.
2015-12-21: The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil.
2015-12-21: Waterstone's is thriving.
2015-12-20: Postgres BDR: bi-directional asynchronous multi-master replication.
2015-12-20: Emacs fireplace.
2015-12-20: Mac OS X system font patcher.
2015-12-20: The long, incredibly tortuous, and fascinating process of creating a Chinese font.
2015-12-20: Juniper: a government backdoor gone rogue?
2015-12-19: Xen XSA 155: hidden double fetches in C switch() cause vulnerabilities in virtual devices.
2015-12-18: Open source IP address management software.
2015-12-18: Varnish replaced by Nginx at the BBC.
2015-12-17: Verign's perspective on the recent root DNS server DDoS attacks.
2015-12-17: IETF mailing lists are a spam magnet.
2015-12-17: George Hotz made a self-driving car by himself.
2015-12-16: The call of the sad whelkfins: the continued relevance of How To Suppress Women's Writing.
2015-12-16: On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit.
2015-12-16: How they replaced GitHub's merge feature.
2015-12-16: Generating good syntax errors with bison using examples.
2015-12-15: A British astronaut FAQ.
2015-12-15: Draft Investigatory Powers bill factsheets.
2015-12-15: Secure private collaboration tools we need but do not have.
2015-12-15: Voight-Kampff empathy test 2015.
2015-12-15: Very fast reservoir sampling.
2015-12-14: Leslie Lamport on computer science and state machines.
2015-12-14: Dave Prosser's standard C preprocessing algorithm.
2015-12-14: In the 1700s books looked like smartphone screens.
2015-12-14: Gaffer: GCHQ's large-scale graph database optimised for retrieving data on nodes of interest.
2015-12-14: git appraise: distributed code review.
2015-12-14: Why I don't use my campus email address.
2015-12-14: Lego difference engine.
2015-12-14: Skrot: customizable compression for short strings.
2015-12-14: Root DNS server operators: diversity is the key.
2015-12-13: Top 10 DTrace scripts for Mac OS X.
2015-12-13: Filesystem reliability is hard.
2015-12-13: Cephalopod GIFs.
2015-12-13: Many outstanding interactive maps of 2015.
2015-12-13: TimeToAnywhere: travel time maps.
2015-12-12: A Zulu and Xhosa negotiation tactic brought the Paris climate-change summit to consensus.
2015-12-12: UK IPO says digital copies of public domain works are also public domain.
2015-12-12: Help! My sin() is slow and my FPU is inaccurate!
2015-12-12: earth: a global multi-projection map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions.
2015-12-11: A philosophy of science book reading list.
2015-12-11: Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work.
2015-12-11: What got us into the SHA1 deprecation mess.
2015-12-11: Seymour Cray and the development of supercomputers.
2015-12-11: DNS censorship as seen by RIPE Atlas probes.
2015-12-11: Ada Lovelace 200!
2015-12-10: How to pronounce hexadecimal.
2015-12-10: First plasma in Wendelstein 7-X.
2015-12-10: OpenFastPath: user-space TCP/IP stack.
2015-12-09: Boxing clever: Crossrail at Paddington.
2015-12-09: Gender bias simulator.
2015-12-09: $1bn bullion shipwreck caught in three-way court battle.
2015-12-09: Theremin's bug: how the Soviet Union spied on the US Embassy for 7 years.
2015-12-08: The juggling font.
2015-12-08: ISC Kea DHCP server to be released under Mozilla Public Licence.
2015-12-08: How a buggy Hitler-obsessed Soviet AI nearly caused World War III in the 1980s.
2015-12-08: Root DNS server query floods on 2015-11-30 and 2015-12-01.
2015-12-08: The moral character of cryptographic work.
2015-12-08: Volunteers aid pioneering Edsac computer rebuild.
2015-12-08: Choosing an HTTP status code.
2015-12-06: Letsencrypt stats.
2015-12-06: The quantum source of space-time.
2015-12-05: England's immigrants 1330 - 1550.
2015-12-05: caddy: a simple web server with automatic letsencrypt TLS provisioning.
2015-12-05: acme-tiny: minimal letsencrypt client.
2015-12-05: Get HTTPS for free! Browser-based letsencrypt client.
2015-12-05: simp_le: simple letsencrypt client.
2015-12-04: The Turkey City lexicon of sf tropes.
2015-12-04: Access denied: disintermediation is changing journalism.
2015-12-04: Dooring alert systems.
2015-12-04: Fuzzing math: miscalculations in OpenSSL BN_mod_exp. (CVE-2015-3193)
2015-12-04: The oncoming train of enterprise container deployments.
2015-12-04: Visual gate-level simulation of the ARM1.
2015-12-04: Raspberry Pi A and Pi Zero USB OTG gadget mode - discussion and links to bug reports.
2015-12-03: Developing and benchmarking Python HDBSCAN against the reference implementation in Java.
2015-12-02: The CMU/FBI deanonymization attack on Tor.
2015-12-02: Economists tested 7 welfare programs to see if they made people lazy. They didn't.
2015-12-01: kcc: an executable formal semantics of C.
2015-12-01: The C standard formalized in Coq.
2015-12-01: Hammerspoon: script Mac OS X with Lua.
2015-12-01: Notmuch, just an email system.
2015-11-30: Chris Hadfield and Randall Munroe in conversation.
2015-11-30: Earth impact database.
2015-11-30: Contributor Covenant: a code of conduct for open source projects.
2015-11-30: Inclusiveness and hacker culture.
2015-11-28: FlexSC: flexible system call scheduling with exception-less system calls.
2015-11-28: A retrospective on Butler Lampson's 1999 views on what has worked in computer science.
2015-11-28: DRAM rowbuffer side channel attacks.
2015-11-28: Stalk anyone on Telegram.
2015-11-27: Jagubox A/UX software archive.
2015-11-27: Shoebill: a Macintosh II emulator that runs A/UX.
2015-11-27: How not to execute a trillion lines of PHP when launching the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero.
2015-11-27: Raspberry Pi USB driver probably broken in OTG device mode.
2015-11-27: Raspberry Pi Linux kernel forces USB OTG host mode.
2015-11-27: 40 Linux-friendly hacker SBCs. (December 2014)
2015-11-27: Haute circuits: Boldport shows off jewellery with custom PCBs.
2015-11-27: House of keys: industry-wide private key reuse endangers millions of devices worldwide.
2015-11-27: Raspberry Pi boot from USB.
2015-11-27: Fun and games with the Videocore IV quad processor units.
2015-11-27: vc4asm: macro assembler for Broadcom VideoCore IV.
2015-11-26: Testing the IPv4 evil bit.
2015-11-26: Magspoof: contactless magstripe emulator.
2015-11-26: Macbook charger teardown.
2015-11-24: What can a technologist do about climate change?
2015-11-24: Maxwell's equations: 150 years of light.
2015-11-24: What is HPKP for?
2015-11-23: On Proebsting's law: compilers double the performance of generated code every 18 years.
2015-11-23: Leapsecond announcements via DNS.
2015-11-22: The CA's role in fighting phishing and malware.
2015-11-20: Forget paleo, go mid-Victorian: it's the healthiest diet you've never heard of.
2015-11-19: Even the LastPass will be stolen.
2015-11-19: On APIs: Cars, not assembly lines.
2015-11-19: Engineers are much more likely to become fundamentalist terrorists.
2015-11-19: The earliest known abecedary.
2015-11-19: Trackography: who's tracking what you're reading online?
2015-11-18: Array layouts for comparison-based searching.
2015-11-18: Cache-friendly binary search.
2015-11-17: How C-Reduce uses unifdef to help pin down compiler bugs.
2015-11-17: Anne Frank foundation upsets Anne Frank museum by trying to prevent her diary entering the public domain.
2015-11-17: The advertising bubble.
2015-11-16: We need less powerful programming languages.
2015-11-16: nom 1.0 is here! A parser combinator library for Rust.
2015-11-16: More privacy, less latency: improved handshakes in TLS-1.3.
2015-11-16: English is weirdly different from other languages.
2015-11-13: The design philosophy of the DARPA Internet protocols.
2015-11-13: Innovative features of Hypothesis property-based testing.
2015-11-13: Introducing theft: property-based testing for C.
2015-11-13: Anecdotes vs property-based testing.
2015-11-13: A quasipolynomial-time algorithm for graph isomorphism.
2015-11-13: SoftEther VPN, with IP-over-ICMP and IP-over-DNS.
2015-11-13: Google Maps lite mode.
2015-11-12: How the western diet has damaged our gut microflora.
2015-11-12: Alarm design: From nuclear power to WebOps.
2015-11-12: A history of sugar - the food nobody needs, but everyone craves.
2015-11-12: SerializeKiller: scan a lot of servers for the Java deserialization vulnerability.
2015-11-12: Fossil fuel failures are driving the UK towards power blackouts.
2015-11-11: Malicious LuaJIT bytecode.
2015-11-11: eM Client: mail and calendaring software for Windows.
2015-11-10: Which language has the brightest potential as a replacement for C and why?
2015-11-10: A big result on graph isomorphism: reduced from exponential to quasipolynomial time.
2015-11-10: Investigatory powers bill: the juicy bits.
2015-11-10: Viral sheet music: the creative notation of John Stump and others.
2015-11-10: Window-TinyLFU cache replacement policy.
2015-11-09: Software configuration management and revision control security.
2015-11-09: PowerDNS security status polling.
2015-11-09: How computers broke science and how we can fix it.
2015-11-09: Embracing Conway's law.
2015-11-09: 3D-printed digital sundial.
2015-11-09: tz maps: a set of shapefiles for the Olson timezone database.
2015-11-09: iOS 9 security features from the hacker point of view.
2015-11-09: Translating gender: Ancillary Justice in five languages.
2015-11-08: 1729: Ramanujan surprises again.
2015-11-08: Obesogens.
2015-11-07: The triumph of the UK surveillance state.
2015-11-07: What do WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Jenkins, OpenNMS, and your application have in common? This vulnerability.
2015-11-07: Opaleye's sugar on top: SQL in the type system where it belongs. (Haskell)
2015-11-07: The best way to learn math is to learn how to fail productively.
2015-11-06: Password security: past, present, future.
2015-11-06: How could Volkswagen's top engineers not have known?
2015-11-06: First thoughts on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
2015-11-05: Smoothing data with Julia's @generated functions.
2015-11-05: Characterizing people as non-linear, first-order components in software development.
2015-11-04: A few billion lines of code later: Coverity uses static analysis to find bugs.
2015-11-04: Ireland to 'decriminalise' small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use.
2015-11-04: Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century.
2015-11-04: Cycling and the Dutch: an ever-growing love affair.
2015-11-04: Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over its high price and lack of open access.
2015-11-04: The road to 2 million websocket connections in Phoenix.
2015-11-04: Helping students overcome command-line bullshittery.
2015-11-03: TLS in the wild: an Internet-wide analysis of TLS-based protocols for electronic communication.
2015-11-03: New ISPs getting off the ground without IPv4?
2015-11-03: Software is made of decisions.
2015-11-02: An architectural overview of QNX.
2015-11-02: Back to the futu-rr-e: deterministic debugging with rr.
2015-11-02: No need for black chambers: testing TLS in the e-mail ecosystem at large.
2015-11-02: Human computation: algorithmic upper bounds and complexity theoretic lower bounds for calculating in your head. (video)
2015-11-02: Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture.
2015-11-01: Coffee reduces the risk of some cancers.
2015-11-01: The art of picking Intel registers.
2015-11-01: SF's Hugo Awards and the battle for pop culture's soul.
2015-10-31: Three quarters of cars stolen in France 'electronically hacked'.
2015-10-31: Clifford's device.
2015-10-31: Qflow: open source digital circuit synthesis tool suite.
2015-10-31: Project IceStorm open source FPGA synthesis.
2015-10-30: Understanding silicon circuits: inside the ubiquitous 741 op amp.
2015-10-30: You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform...
2015-10-30: So you want to abolish time zones?
2015-10-29: PostgreSQL on the command line.
2015-10-29: Network link conditioner: simulate low bandwidth / high delay networks on Mac OS X.
2015-10-28: Google punishes Symantec for generating 2622 naughty test X.509 certificates.
2015-10-28: Wendelstein 7-X stellarator: €1 billion German fusion experiment.
2015-10-28: Evil maid attacks: leaving laptops in hotel rooms is a bad idea.
2015-10-28: letsencrypt-nosudo: python script to walk through the ACME protocol without root privilege.
2015-10-28: Britain is heading for another crash like 2008.
2015-10-28: Neither snow nor rain nor MITM... an empirical analysis of email delivery security.
2015-10-27: A short guide to Linux kernel debugging.
2015-10-27: Contractors fined for data centre electrocution death in London.
2015-10-27: Intel x86 considered harmful / untrustworthy.
2015-10-27: Berlin Fernsehturm Sonnenuhr.
2015-10-26: MAGIC: malicious aging in circuits/cores. Software acceleration of hardware failure.
2015-10-26: Using genetically optimized AIs to find gameplay flaws in strategy games.
2015-10-26: Escape from Mercator.
2015-10-26: Command-line control of the Mac OS X application layer firewall.
2015-10-26: vim insertion is quadratic.
2015-10-26: primesieve: fast prime number generator for numbers up to 2^64.
2015-10-26: How much can your computer do in a second?
2015-10-26: Benchmarking a 1986 Mac Plus vs a 2007 dual core PC.
2015-10-25: Swarm v. Fleet v. Kubernetes v. Mesos.
2015-10-25: zxcvbn: password strength estimator.
2015-10-22: MiNID: miniature programmable network interface device in an SFP sleeve.
2015-10-22: Graph of memory prices decreasing with time.
2015-10-21: Hell of a handshake: abusing TCP for reflective amplification DDoS attacks.
2015-10-20: hyperscan: high performance multiple regex matching library for deep packet inspection.
2015-10-20: Just a brown hand.
2015-10-20: Mythryl status update.
2015-10-20: Some notes on BoringSSL.
2015-10-20: GDM: git dependency manager.
2015-10-19: All your modem are belong to us. (Radio DSP in GNU Octave.)
2015-10-19: iOS apps caught using private APIs.
2015-10-18: Fixing the core memory in a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe.
2015-10-17: The magic resampling kernel.
2015-10-17: 66% of VPN's do not in fact have weak DH parameters.
2015-10-17: Mapping FinFisher's continuing proliferation.
2015-10-16: DavMail: proxy standard protocols to Exchange.
2015-10-16: What we know about spreadsheet errors.
2015-10-16: Atul Gawande on the checklist. (2007)
2015-10-16: Benchmarking CRC32 and PopCnt instructions.
2015-10-15: Advanced R.
2015-10-15: R vs Python head-to-head for data analysis.
2015-10-14: BeagleBoard X15 preview.
2015-10-14: dn42: a big VPN for learning BGP and other networking technology.
2015-10-14: NetApp wins $1.4M costs from patent troll Acacia.
2015-10-14: Discrepancies in new definition of the kilogram resolved at last.
2015-10-14: LIDAR map of England.
2015-10-13: Environment Agency LIDAR survey of England available as open data.
2015-10-13: Six myths of product (and software) development.
2015-10-13: Benchmarking radix tree / crit-bit trie / red-black tree / qp trie.
2015-10-13: Distribution of English letters towards the beginning, middle, and end of words.
2015-10-12: Internet-wide scan data repository.
2015-10-12: Majestic Million list of top web sites.
2015-10-12: Billionaires don't drive economic growth, and crony billionaires strangle it.
2015-10-11: Python, wat?!
2015-10-10: Bugzilla CVE-2015-4499: MySQL truncation allows email address spoofing.
2015-10-10: Britain's missing voters: effect of changes to electoral registration.
2015-10-10: Beware the builtins: bad bit-banging by gcc.
2015-10-09: Fuzzing Raft for fun and publication.
2015-10-09: Gene patents probably dead worldwide following Australian court decision.
2015-10-09: The Honeywell Heat Generator enhanced central heating systems with a pot of mercury.
2015-10-08: DP World London Gateway: Inside the megaport you didn't know existed.
2015-10-08: Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3.
2015-10-08: Parallelism, concurrency, and asynchrony in Perl 6.
2015-10-08: The shappening: freestart collisions for SHA-1.
2015-10-08: Why Intel added cache partitioning.
2015-10-07: Read-log-update: a lightweight synchronization mechanism for concurrent programming.
2015-10-06: James Bond illustrates Perl 6 macros.
2015-10-06: In defense of X.509 client certificates.
2015-10-06: UK IPv6 Council meeting September 2015.
2015-10-06: Handy tips on getting info about FTTC DSL out of BT.
2015-10-05: Deckard: a DNS software test harness.
2015-10-05: Has the routability of prefixes longer than /24 changed?
2015-10-05: Introduction to content-addressable memory.
2015-10-05: Tagged pointers in Rust.
2015-10-04: Watch uranium emit radiation.
2015-10-04: Bill Nye's solar noon clock at Cornell.
2015-10-04: A new map of the differences between standard time and mean solar time.
2015-10-04: Rust's type system is accidentally Turing complete.
2015-10-04: FRACTRAN.
2015-10-04: Surprisingly Turing complete.
2015-10-03: Matters Computational: bit twiddling hacks and other cunning algorithms.
2015-10-03: FLIF: free lossless image format.
2015-10-01: Knot DNS Recursive goes beta.
2015-09-30: Engineering effectiveness at Twitter: let 1000 flowers bloom, then rip 999 out by the roots.
2015-09-29: Particle.io: prototyping tools for the internet of things.
2015-09-29: Error Prone: Java static analyser.
2015-09-28: How different team topologies influence devops culture.
2015-09-28: Modernizing the BSD networking stack.
2015-09-27: Is there a CAP theorem for durability?
2015-09-27: Running Rust on the Rumprun unikernel.
2015-09-27: Lazy Redis is better Redis.
2015-09-26: The inside story behind MS08-067.
2015-09-25: Vannevar Bush: as we may think. (with annotations by Doug Engelbart)
2015-09-25: Ted Nelson: computer lib / dream machine.
2015-09-24: Ams-IX traffic passes 4Tbit/sec.
2015-09-24: A new universal caption for New Yorker cartoons.
2015-09-24: Amazon AWS DynamoDB service disruption postmortem.
2015-09-24: Uber uses customer phones as their primary data store.
2015-09-24: What really went wrong at Addenbrooke's hospital.
2015-09-24: Duktape: small embeddable JavaScript interpreter.
2015-09-23: nginScript: a JavaScript subset for scripting nginx.
2015-09-23: What shape is the internet? (according to diagrams in patents.)
2015-09-23: What happens next will amaze you: adtech vs adblock.
2015-09-23: ScyllaDB: fast C++ NoSQL column store database replacement for Apache Cassandra.
2015-09-22: Counting objects efficiently in Git.
2015-09-22: Using GitHub in Education.
2015-09-22: Brotli: a new compression algorithm.
2015-09-22: Second-hand IPv4 addresses reaping big bucks.
2015-09-22: The VW Turbo Diesel Injection scandal.
2015-09-22: Pigfucking and paedophilia: how power is whipped into control by the British elite.
2015-09-22: A function decorator to add goto support to Python.
2015-09-22: Optimizing allocation memory bandwidth in the Azul Vega CPU.
2015-09-22: A critique of the CAP theorem.
2015-09-21: Inside Shoreditch's disused Tube trains.
2015-09-21: Very long-term backup: a modern Rosetta Stone.
2015-09-21: cmix: highest lossless compression ratio with very large CPU and memory requirements.
2015-09-20: C++ core guidelines.
2015-09-20: Subresource integrity: protection against compromised CDNs.
2015-09-20: The world's human-powered speed record is now 86.5 mph.
2015-09-20: Freezing requirements for fish intended to be eaten raw or lightly cooked.
2015-09-19: Winds of change at Dyson.
2015-09-19: Transport for London geographical train and tube map.
2015-09-19: Statistics for programmers.
2015-09-19: Bare-metal Rust on an ARM microcontroller.
2015-09-19: Time on multi-core, multi-socket servers.
2015-09-19: Microsoft Azure Cloud Switch based on Linux.
2015-09-18: Ten years of DNSSEC at .se!
2015-09-18: Some old lists of root DNS servers.
2015-09-17: WarGames: a look back.
2015-09-17: "Hackers" at 20.
2015-09-16: How to write a git commit message.
2015-09-16: The C++ FQA is now on GitHub.
2015-09-16: gdb curses text user interface.
2015-09-16: gdb dashboard in Python.
2015-09-16: Envelope: write web applications with just JS, HTML, and SQL on Postgres.
2015-09-16: Windows Server 2012 R2 DNS logging and diagnostics.
2015-09-16: Concurrency Kit: concurrency primitives and non-blocking data structures in C.
2015-09-15: The asshole filter.
2015-09-15: Spotify account hijacking via incomplete Unicode canonicalization.
2015-09-15: Dark corners of Unicode.
2015-09-15: How to squeeze a lexicon: efficiently create a minimal DFA from a finite language.
2015-09-15: Army of lame ducks: is copyright irrelevant in the viral age?
2015-09-14: Sharp regrets: top 10 worst C# features mostly inherited from C.
2015-09-14: Don't teach a man to fish. Just give him the goddamn fish.
2015-09-14: Designing your website to work best with 1Password.
2015-09-14: Reddit discussion of YouTube connectivity and performance.
2015-09-13: On the wrong-headed advice of Strunk & White.
2015-09-13: A Disney artist's deceptive VR demo still heralds a new digital art future.
2015-09-13: Getting rid of women's periods with contraception is perfectly safe.
2015-09-13: Object oriented programming considered harmful.
2015-09-12: Best night club scene ever! (Youtube mashup)
2015-09-12: An information age glossary.
2015-09-11: OpenOffice is insecure abandon ware; use LibreOffice instead.
2015-09-11: voicecode: advanced voice control for use with Dragon Dictate.
2015-09-11: How SoundCloud ended up with microservices.
2015-09-11: How the net was won: MERIT, NSFNET, and the birth of the Internet.
2015-09-11: From random polygon to ellipse.
2015-09-11: K&R C.
2015-09-11: Labour day: why taxes, unions, and quotas are good.
2015-09-10: Homo Naledi: 6 cavers, 15 skeletons, and an amazing new species of ancient Human.
2015-09-09: Steve Albini's punk rock approach to business.
2015-09-09: Moore's law ended in 2005.
2015-09-09: CESG blog article on passwords.
2015-09-09: CESG/CPNI password system design guidelines.
2015-09-08: Flame Warriors: a guide to the Internet's argumentative inhabitants.
2015-09-08: The True Size: drag countries around a map to see how bad the Mercator projection is.
2015-09-08: Social Decay: tweets can predict the death of an app.
2015-09-08: 6 problems with caches.
2015-09-07: Munich contributes to open source to support their Linux workstations.
2015-09-07: The scalable commutativity rule: designing APIs that do not hinder software performance.
2015-09-07: Some ethernet cables can accidentally cause a hard reset on a 48 port Cisco Catalyst 3650 or 3850.
2015-09-06: DataHand keyboard.
2015-09-06: Type is not in Type, demonstrated using JonPRL.
2015-09-06: Circular rainbow.
2015-09-05: The mystery of the fifteen-millisecond breakpoint instruction.
2015-09-05: Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy.
2015-09-05: redhook: write LD_PRELOAD hacks in Rust.
2015-09-05: The History of Cartography available free online.
2015-09-05: A bibliography of BSD-related books and papers.
2015-09-05: Madoko: markdown + LaTeX.
2015-09-04: Eleanor Rigby.
2015-09-04: McSweeney's interactive guide to ambiguous grammar.
2015-09-04: How to write a great error message.
2015-09-03: Stateless zlib compression: when full fat zlib is too big.
2015-09-03: Salad is bad.
2015-09-03: World airports voronoi.
2015-09-03: The Murray Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
2015-09-03: Factoring RSA keys by attacking TLS forward secrecy.
2015-09-02: A png with the most pixels in the fewest bytes.
2015-09-02: C on the JVM for JRuby extensions.
2015-09-02: GitHub: Scaling on Ruby, with a nomadic tech team.
2015-09-02: Cydia app store for jailbroken iPhones is riven with nasty malware.
2015-09-02: Exploiting Ripple transaction ordering for fun and profit.
2015-09-01: The Cavendish lab, Britain's most important historic laboratory, to be redeveloped.
2015-09-01: Mac OS X Yosemite security and privacy guide.
2015-09-01: wmutils: command line X11 window manager.
2015-09-01: Samsung Pay's magstripe NFC.
2015-08-31: Tufte in R.
2015-08-31: Save OS X: binary pkgsrc distribution.
2015-08-31: Useful Mac OS X commands.
2015-08-30: Algorithmic botany.
2015-08-30: How the ballpoint pen changed handwriting.
2015-08-30: Charlesproxy: web debugging proxy.
2015-08-29: How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors.
2015-08-29: Lock-freedom without garbage collection in Rust.
2015-08-28: Taking Apple's NAT64 implementation for a spin.
2015-08-28: A tale of three failed backdoors.
2015-08-28: Dr. Memory: memory debugger for Windows and Linux.
2015-08-28: Fuzzing capstone using AFL persistent mode.
2015-08-28: Omega and why maths has no TOEs.
2015-08-27: watchman: multi-platform file change notifications.
2015-08-26: Cutting 200ms off every POST request: Nagle vs delayed ack vs short writes.
2015-08-26: Jiscom: commercial access to JANET.
2015-08-25: vim on a mechanical typewriter.
2015-08-25: Behind four walls: Barcelona's lost utopia.
2015-08-25: The bugs we have to kill: parsers, weird machines, verification and types.
2015-08-24: The network is Turing complete: emulating Rule 110 on a statically configured network.
2015-08-24: What's new in CPUs since the 1980s, and how does it affect programmers?
2015-08-23: Remora compiler.
2015-08-23: Remora: an array-oriented language with static rank polymorphism.
2015-08-23: A collection of debugging stories.
2015-08-22: How to port-scan all of IPv4 every day.
2015-08-22: Jitsu: just-in-time summoning of unikernels in response to DNS queries.
2015-08-22: Cake anti-bufferbloat queue discipline for Linux.
2015-08-21: An analysis of TLS handshake proxying, aka CloudFlare Keyless SSL.
2015-08-21: Automatic patch-based exploit generation.
2015-08-20: FreeBSD's security features make hacking the PlayStation 4 difficult.
2015-08-20: Schiphol baggage handling video.
2015-08-20: Kubernetes reserves 10.0.0.0/8 for itself.
2015-08-20: pmem.io: persistent memory programming on Linux.
2015-08-19: Technical details of the Amazon Dash Button.
2015-08-18: The Turing digital archive.
2015-08-18: Actively measuring 50% of the DNS namespace every day.
2015-08-18: On the meaning of "respect".
2015-08-18: Cecilia Payne determined the composition of the sun, and that hydrogen is the most abundant element.
2015-08-18: "Why I don't talk about race with white people."
2015-08-18: Decertifying the worst voting machine in the US.
2015-08-18: How to hack Amazon's $5 WiFi button to track baby data.
2015-08-18: Baby names in England and Wales since 1996.
2015-08-18: The strange death of Labour Britain has a Liberal precedent.
2015-08-18: The dustbin of geography: the WGS84 meridian at Greenwich.
2015-08-18: Use VLC to fix movies that are really quiet, then REALLY LOUD.
2015-08-18: RPC portmapper is the new UDP DDoS reflection amplifier.
2015-08-17: SQLBong: apply sqlite to CSV files.
2015-08-17: csvkit: utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
2015-08-17: q: SQL for CVS/TSV files.
2015-08-17: xsv: index, slice, analyze, split, and join CSV files.
2015-08-17: Miller: like sed, awk, cut, join, and sort for name-indexed data such as CSV.
2015-08-16: PEP 0383: Python's UTF-8B handling of binary in filenames etc.
2015-08-16: libutf8b: UTF-8B codecs for C and Python.
2015-08-16: UTF-8B: lossless handling of binary data by unicode readers and writers.
2015-08-16: Rust in 2016.
2015-08-14: GSMem: transmitting from a computer memory bus over GSM frequencies.
2015-08-14: Hypothesis: QuickCheck for Python.
2015-08-13: Why the Greenwich meridian moved.
2015-08-13: Making Travis CI a family-friendly place to work: parental leave for US employees.
2015-08-12: Insider trading on every company by hacking the news wire press release services.
2015-08-12: Security compromise at OpenSRS.
2015-08-12: Copyright lawsuits against breakbeat percussion loops.
2015-08-12: How to register a death without anyone dying, or register a birth without a baby.
2015-08-12: Frequent spicy meals linked to human longevity.
2015-08-12: Attack on the pentagon reveals new way to tile the plane.
2015-08-12: Google reveals details about its data centre networks.
2015-08-12: Jupiter Rising: A decade of Clos topologies and centralized control in Google's datacenter network.
2015-08-11: Reordering git commits with git-commit-tree.
2015-08-11: A brief history of time.
2015-08-11: XMPP myths.
2015-08-11: Big list of naughty strings for testing user input.
2015-08-11: SecLists: lists of input strings for application security testing.
2015-08-11: Database versioning best practices.
2015-08-10: A collection of outage postmortems.
2015-08-10: Belgian government friently phishing test goes offtrack.
2015-08-09: Zone Vision: inspect DNS zones like a superhero.
2015-08-08: Bringhurst's elements of typographic style applied to the web.
2015-08-08: Recommendations for typography on the web.
2015-08-08: Netflix streaming performance test video.
2015-08-07: Tufte CSS.
2015-08-07: Emacs multi-term.
2015-08-07: Emacs is my X11 window manager.
2015-08-07: exwm: turn Emacs into a tiling X11 window manager.
2015-08-06: Principles of traditional animation applied to 3D computer animation. (Pixar, 1987)
2015-08-05: How to set up and use a private PyPI repo.
2015-08-05: Python Wheels.
2015-08-05: Python on wheels.
2015-08-05: The paranoid style in American politics. (1964)
2015-08-05: A journalist crashed a Wall Street secret society.
2015-08-05: PostgreSQL when it's not your job.
2015-08-05: Use the index, Luke! A guide to database performance for developers.
2015-08-04: Comparison of different SQL implementations.
2015-08-04: libFirm: an optimising C compiler.
2015-08-03: LLVM for grad students.
2015-08-03: Duncan Campbell's life unmasking GCHQ.
2015-08-03: GitXiv: collaborative open computer science. arXiv+GitHub+links+discussion.
2015-08-02: How to a destroy a library's special collections with social media.
2015-08-02: Using Kotlin on Android.
2015-08-02: Talking To Vula: secret communications in the struggle against apartheid.
2015-08-02: Security economics: The market for silver bullets.
2015-08-02: dns-fuzzing: unique DNS packets for seeding AFL.
2015-08-02: High school student proves professor was wrong to deny existence of anti-Irish racism.
2015-08-02: Microsoft's new small print: how your personal data is (ab)used.
2015-08-02: 96 MacBook Pro's in one rack.
2015-08-02: How to fuzz a DNS server with AFL.
2015-08-02: Crack Brink's CompuSafe with a keyboard masher to escape Windows XP kiosk mode.
2015-08-02: Meshtag: drawable QR codes.
2015-08-02: Filmmakers fighting "Happy Birthday" copyright find their smoking gun.
2015-08-02: SWITCH.ch RPZ DNS Firewall.
2015-08-02: In praise of the AK-47.
2015-08-02: The stamp collector: a parable about objectivism.
2015-08-02: Vegetable calligraphy. (YouTube)
2015-08-02: GUNMAN: how the Soviets bugged typewriters in U.S. embassies.
2015-08-02: Rowhammer.js: software-induced hardware fault attack in JavaScript.
2015-08-02: Hacking Team: a zero-day market case study.
2015-08-02: A discussion about modern JavaScript tooling.
2015-08-02: Meet the master of old-school IBM model M refurbished clicky keyboards.
2015-08-02: JerryScript: JavaScript engine for microcontrollers.
2015-08-02: Websites, please stop blocking password managers!
2015-08-02: Detecting VPN and proxy users on the server.
2015-08-02: Receiving weather satellite images with an £8 SDR dongle.
2015-08-02: sregex: a non-backtracking regex engine.
2015-08-02: vsftpd-3.0.3 and the horrors of FTP over SSL.
2015-08-02: libmill: golang concurrency for C.
2015-08-02: HTTPS/FTPS protocol confusion leads to XSS.
2015-08-02: Plasma: KDE-based software for mobile phones.
2015-08-02: Why Kotlin is a good alternative to Java.
2015-08-02: The essence of FRP.
2015-08-02: pgcli: a command-line interface for Postgres with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
2015-08-02: Why is it so hard to get a great bagel in California?
2015-08-02: Augustine and the "mathematicians".
2015-08-02: bocker: Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash.
2015-08-02: Engine placement in jet aircraft.
2015-08-02: Drawing the Mandelbrot set in SQL and other languages.
2015-08-02: Thoughts arising from CircleCI's July 2015 outage.
2015-08-02: Mac OS X 10.10 DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE local privilege escalation vulnerability.
2015-08-02: Vim cheat-sheet.
2015-08-02: Web design: the first 100 years.
2015-08-02: Petition for a referendum on electoral reform like the one in New Zealand.
2015-08-02: Recovering a bricked Netgear DGN3500 via JTAG.
2015-08-02: Argon2 is the winner of the password hashing competition.
2015-08-02: EnChroma: colour for the colourblind.
2015-08-02: The end of capitalism has begun.
2015-08-02: Jay Leno's Doble E-20 steam car. (YouTube)
2015-08-02: Condensers and boilers for steam-powered cars.
2015-08-02: The New York Times bestseller that didn't exist.
2015-08-02: The last great steam car.
2015-08-02: Why are we so afraid of radiation?
2015-08-02: Custom daisy-chained SATA power cables.
2015-08-02: Bad male gamers are more likely to be hostile towards female gamers.
2015-08-02: A mathematical glossary.
2015-08-02: Firehose: handle 40Mpps on one core.
2015-08-02: UK report details what happens when police spying goes wrong.
2015-08-02: Cycling in Britain is a joke.
2015-08-02: How do types affect programming productivity and correctness?
2015-08-02: Kafkapocalypse: a cascade failure postmortem.
2015-08-02: The OpenZFS write throttle.
2015-08-02: Hack your Mazda 3 infotainment system.
2015-08-02: The potato paradox and other food-related maths.
2015-08-02: High Court rules UK government surveillance is unlawful.
2015-08-02: The not-planets.
2015-08-02: Intelligence and criminal behavior in a total birth cohort.
2015-08-02: From zero to Docker: how NewRelic migrated an existing service.
2015-08-02: "I ate 40 teaspoons of sugar a day. This is what happened."
2015-07-30: Why Docker is not yet succeeding widely in production.
2015-07-28: Metal CAPTCHA: are you a metalhead or a bot?
2015-07-28: Depict: a browser add-on that helps the visually-impaired understand images on the web.
2015-07-27: SleepWatcher: run a command when your Mac sleeps or wakes.
2015-07-20: Initial report on loss of connectivity to Cambridge University due to flooding.
2015-07-19: Golang 1.5 garbage collector.
2015-07-19: Why you don't need two-factor authentication.
2015-07-15: Cookie decryption attack on RC4 now takes less than three days.
2015-07-15: Ordnance Survey Code-Point Open: location of every postcode.
2015-07-15: Outlier detection at Netflix.
2015-07-15: Identify trees by leaf.
2015-07-13: Things your language should steal from Perl.
2015-07-12: 3D maps of every London Underground station.
2015-07-11: Doing something about the "impossible problem" of abuse in online games.
2015-07-08: The early history of Smalltalk.
2015-07-07: DNS resolver DDOS mitigation.
2015-07-06: Hermann Zapf obituary.
2015-07-06: Leap second at NICT in Japan, 2015. (YouTube)
2015-07-06: Leap second at NICT in Japan, 2012. (YouTube)
2015-07-03: Misfeatures Rust does not have.
2015-07-02: Graffiti: pressure wash or paint red?
2015-07-01: RedMonk rpogramming language rankings June 2015.
2015-07-01: Tetris as a C++ template metaprogram.
2015-07-01: NTP pool accuracy before and after leap second. 10% failed to leap.
2015-07-01: Shit Academics Say: the story behind a social media experiment.
2015-07-01: Numeronyms.
2015-07-01: Ordnance Survey open data.
2015-07-01: NIST draft guide for DNS-based secured email.
2015-06-30: f5 BIG-IP reboots when it gets an NTP leap second indication.
2015-06-30: s2n: a small C99 implementation of TLS from Amazon.
2015-06-30: Blocking-resistant https with domain fronting.
2015-06-30: HTML_CodeSniffer: web page coding standard checker in JavaScript.
2015-06-30: tota11y: accessibility visualization for websites.
2015-06-30: There was a time before Mathematica…
2015-06-29: US government best practices for the leap second tomorrow.
2015-06-28: John Locke against freedom.
2015-06-28: Covariance and Contravariance: a fresh look at an old issue, with examples in Perl 6.
2015-06-28: Blind return-oriented programming.
2015-06-28: Sigreturn-oriented programming.
2015-06-28: Return-oriented programming.
2015-06-28: SafeStack documentation for LLVM / clang.
2015-06-28: Code pointer integrity. (SafeStack for LLVM)
2015-06-27: Graphs in Rust using vector indices.
2015-06-27: Graphs and arena allocation in Rust.
2015-06-27: The Unsafe Rust Programming Language.
2015-06-26: Visualizing git concepts with D3.
2015-06-26: Time in Erlang.
2015-06-25: What is C in practice? Survey conclusions.
2015-06-25: M-Lab: a better measurement tool provides more data on Internet peering congestion.
2015-06-24: Adobe Type Manager PostScript Charstring security vulnerabilities.
2015-06-24: Angular commit message style.
2015-06-24: Ditch verbal mike-based Q&A sessions and use written questions instead.
2015-06-24: An algorithmic approach to data center cabling.
2015-06-24: NAPALM: network automation and programmability abstraction layer with multivendor support. (Ansible support for routers.)
2015-06-23: Did Watson and Crick really steal Rosalind Franklin's data?
2015-06-23: A monadic Pratt parser.
2015-06-22: Empty symlinks and full POSIX compliance.
2015-06-22: Mega-processor: an 8-bit computer made from discrete transistors and LEDs.
2015-06-21: codeface: typefaces for source code beautification.
2015-06-21: Stealing keys from PCs using a radio: cheap electromagnetic attacks on windowed exponentiation.
2015-06-21: Folly Futures for C++11 at Facebook.
2015-06-20: LF Examiner: large format film projection.
2015-06-19: Introduction to WebKit content blockers.
2015-06-19: Quantitative analysis of issues found by afl in mandoc.
2015-06-19: crt.sh: certificate transparency log searcher.
2015-06-19: IPv6 leakage and DNS hijacking in commercial VPN clients.
2015-06-19: New policy on browser autocomplete vulnerabilities.
2015-06-19: Major roads of Great Britain.
2015-06-19: Whitaker's WORDS on GitHub.
2015-06-19: Whitaker's WORDS: a Latin-English dictionary program.
2015-06-17: WebAssembly FAQ.
2015-06-17: From asm.js to WebAssembly: bytecode for browsers.
2015-06-17: When Solid State Drives are not that solid: TRIM bugs.
2015-06-15: CppMem: an interactive C/C++ memory model explorer.
2015-06-15: System integrity protection in Mac OS X.
2015-06-15: HTTP/2 implementation status.
2015-06-15: Why I dislike systemd.
2015-06-15: The Chaos: Gerard Nolst Trenité on English pronunciation.
2015-06-15: Transparent and accountable governance in 10 words.
2015-06-14: Global cybercrime has infected the very soul of capitalism.
2015-06-14: Japan's biggest optical disc manufacturer will stop production this year.
2015-06-13: Wifibroadcast: analog-like transmission of live video data.
2015-06-13: Why did the Universe start off with Hydrogen, Helium, and not much else?
2015-06-11: Every noise at once.
2015-06-11: Mythic Beasts' view of IPv6 growth.
2015-06-10: Kaspersky finds new nation-state attack malware in its own network.
2015-06-10: Akamai's view of IPv6 growth.
2015-06-10: A tale of two file names: FAT 8.3 long name mangling.
2015-06-10: xhyve: lightweight virtualization on OS X based on bhyve.
2015-06-10: The danger of anti-virus vendors still relying on MD5.
2015-06-10: A sundial for the blind.
2015-06-08: Rogue IPv6 addresses with 4006 prefix in home network.
2015-06-08: Chemical dependency is not the main cause of addiction.
2015-06-08: Crash course on notation in programming language theory.
2015-06-08: The Batteriser examined.
2015-06-08: Philadelphia train crash investigation derailed by muddled time zones.
2015-06-07: How Plex is doing HTTPS for all its users.
2015-06-07: Speaker style bingo: 10 presentation anti-patterns.
2015-06-07: A large-scale study of flash storage failures at Facebook.
2015-06-06: The end of HTML.
2015-06-06: Some notes on HAProxy.
2015-06-06: Three months of Rust.
2015-06-04: SSDs: A gift and a curse.
2015-06-04: A world of languages, and how many speak them.
2015-06-03: Which Unicode character should represent the English apostrophe? (And why the Unicode committee is very wrong.)
2015-06-03: 60th anniversary of the atomic clock.
2015-06-03: Batch-GCDing Github SSH keys.
2015-06-03: Auditing GitHub users' SSH key quality.
2015-06-02: Joule thief.
2015-06-02: Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends alkaline battery life 800%
2015-06-02: Five different ways to handle the leap second with NTP.
2015-06-02: The intuition behind why a randomly networked data center works.
2015-06-02: How Rust achieves thread safety.
2015-06-01: Exploring 1Password's crypto in golang.
2015-06-01: Running an oncall rota.
2015-05-30: "Mahna Mahna": How a ditty from a soft-core Italian movie became the Muppets' catchiest tune.
2015-05-30: Animography: animated typefaces.
2015-05-30: How not to seed a random number generator: Blockchain.info's Android Wallet.
2015-05-30: A guide to the regional ramen of Japan.
2015-05-30: databranches: using git as a database.
2015-05-30: swift: a multiparty transport protocol - BitTorrent at the transport layer.
2015-05-30: Announcing GitTorrent: a decentralized git service.
2015-05-29: Spy in the sandbox: practical cache sidechannel attacks in Javascript.
2015-05-29: The Kindle finally gets typography that doesn't suck.
2015-05-29: VAT rules for food. (much bogglement)
2015-05-29: Null Island.
2015-05-29: The Republic of Null Island.
2015-05-29: After FBI domain expires, seized domains serve up malware.
2015-05-28: KUNG FURY (YouTube)
2015-05-28: What I learned from six months of GMO research: None of it matters.
2015-05-28: Railway oriented programming, or, error handling with the Either monad.
2015-05-28: Rust for Python programmers.
2015-05-28: Inside Google's war against ad fraud.
2015-05-28: lsyncd: live filesystem sync / mirror daemon.
2015-05-27: How to fool journalists into saying chocolate helps weight loss.
2015-05-27: Five lists of six things about Rust.
2015-05-26: Elements of scale: composing and scaling data platforms.
2015-05-25: CAP: if all you have is a timeout, everything looks like a partition.
2015-05-25: A plea for culinary modernism.
2015-05-25: Saving coffee from extinction due to global warming.
2015-05-25: Australia's Defence Trade Control Act could criminalise teaching cryptography.
2015-05-25: There is no link between saturated fat and heart disease.
2015-05-25: Top-down operator precedence. (remastered)
2015-05-25: La famille TGV, guide d'identification.
2015-05-25: Letter to a young Haskell enthusiast.
2015-05-25: Capstone: the ultimate disassembly framework.
2015-05-25: Snowman: ARM/x86/AMD64 to C/C++ decompiler.
2015-05-25: Python 3 typecheck-decorator.
2015-05-25: The medieval 'New England': an Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast.
2015-05-25: Typography shapes our perception of truth.
2015-05-24: Extracting audio from pictures.
2015-05-24: Mach7: pattern matching for C++.
2015-05-24: Duncan Campbell talks to GCHQ (interception not required).
2015-05-23: What IBM Watson AI chef told me to cook.
2015-05-23: Greaseless autonomous decentralised bearings eliminate sliding friction.
2015-05-22: Australian stock exchange leap second plans.
2015-05-21: Public Toilets and the magic of open data.
2015-05-21: Cambridgeshire traffic congestion monitoring interactive map.
2015-05-20: Free open source code signing certificates.
2015-05-19: Ceilings of Deus Ex.
2015-05-19: How a frame is rendered in Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
2015-05-19: Amazon implements linear leap smear for AWS (except EC2) for the coming leap second.
2015-05-19: About the supposed factoring of a 4096 bit RSA PGP key.
2015-05-19: Linux signalfd is useless.
2015-05-18: SCIpher: a scholarly message encoder based on SCIgen.
2015-05-17: Julia issue #8839: Jeff Bezanson's PhD thesis: abstraction in technical computing.
2015-05-16: Sourdough crumpets.
2015-05-16: A taste of Rust.
2015-05-16: eBPF: programmable tracing for Linux.
2015-05-15: Poor man's stack trace profiler.
2015-05-15: Amazon AWS tips.
2015-05-15: This British bill of rights could end the UK.
2015-05-14: Linux futex_wait() lockup bug.
2015-05-14: Geoff Huston's review of the DNS-OARC workshop.
2015-05-14: India's experiment in basic income grants.
2015-05-13: BIND 9 internals documentation.
2015-05-12: Accidentally Quadratic: `puppet apply`.
2015-05-12: The tree of old-world language families.
2015-05-12: “Politics of fear” to blame for Lib Dem collapse, says former Cambridge MP Julian Huppert.
2015-05-12: Six ways Nick Clegg led the Liberal Democrats to disaster.
2015-05-11: Detecting Malware Based on DNS Graph Mining.
2015-05-11: Tory plan to repeal the Human Rights Act faces almost insurmountable odds.
2015-05-11: PowerDNS review of the DNS-OARC Spring Workshop 2015.
2015-05-11: The first microprocessor: the F15 central air data computer.
2015-05-11: Texas Instruments TMX 1795: an 8008 clone produced before the Intel 8008.
2015-05-10: Lego brick street view.
2015-05-10: Thoughts on the way forward for the Lib Dems.
2015-05-10: The 14 worst human rights myths.
2015-05-10: Paris plans to line the Seine with parks instead of cars.
2015-05-10: All about this in JavaScript.
2015-05-10: Scroll Back: theory and practice of camera focus in side-scrolling games.
2015-05-10: How to solve chronic homelessness.
2015-05-09: Scale errors in funding public benefit activities.
2015-05-09: How the measles vaccine reduces mortality from other infectious diseases.
2015-05-08: opmsg: an alternative to pgp.
2015-05-08: The discovery of Apache ZooKeeper's poison packet.
2015-05-07: The Whig party.
2015-05-06: Centimetre-accurate GPS for mobile phones.
2015-05-06: DHCP, RPF verify, HSRP and ECMP: when protocols collide.
2015-05-05: How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world.
2015-05-04: Parental choice led to decline in standard of Swedish education.
2015-05-04: Animal fat mayonnaise.
2015-05-03: Corpus of Historical American English (400 million words).
2015-05-03: The search for a more perfect kilogram.
2015-05-03: What would happen if the EU opened its borders to everyone?
2015-05-02: Project MF: blue-box phreaking with an Asterisk PBX.
2015-05-01: Wallpapered: maps for walls.
2015-05-01: Reprojected raster map tiles.
2015-05-01: GDAL: geospatial data abstraction library.
2015-05-01: Cartographic map projections.
2015-05-01: Natural Earth: public domain map data.
2015-05-01: Printing a wall-sized world map.
2015-05-01: Functional education: strengths and weaknesses of various Haskell teaching materials.
2015-04-30: David P. Reed on the invention of UDP.
2015-04-30: Can your static type system handle linear algebra?
2015-04-29: Static checking of units in Servo using Rust phantom types.
2015-04-29: Measurements of Newton's gravitational constant and the length of day.
2015-04-29: Eight lessons learned hacking on GitHub Pages for six months.
2015-04-29: Bye bye Labour.
2015-04-29: The austerity delusion: The case for cuts was a lie. Why does Britain still believe it?
2015-04-28: How well do you know Cambridge? A population statistics quiz.
2015-04-28: Bad forensic "science".
2015-04-28: Reenix: implementing a toy Unix in Rust.
2015-04-28: ShellCheck script analyzer.
2015-04-28: Crash Boys: the weird flash crash case against Navinder Singh Sarao.
2015-04-27: Teenager cuts nearly a third of a second off Rubik's Cube world record.
2015-04-27: What it is like to have half a million followers on Twitter.
2015-04-27: MySQL gotchas.
2015-04-26: Non-constant constant-expressions in C++.
2015-04-26: rust-bindgen: automatic API converter for Rust.
2015-04-26: Rust once, run everywhere: FFI and interop with other languages.
2015-04-25: How photography was optimized for pale skin.
2015-04-25: 28 words to use instead of "awesome".
2015-04-25: What every programmer should know about solid-state drives.
2015-04-24: A brief history of /proc
2015-04-24: Verifone credit card terminals have used same password since 1990s.
2015-04-24: Google Safe Browsing observes the GreatFire / GitHub Chinese DDoS.
2015-04-24: Games on a hyperbolic plane.
2015-04-24: HyperRogue: a roguelike on a hyperbolic plane.
2015-04-23: Holt-Winters forecasting applied to poisson processes in real time.
2015-04-23: Lessons learned in software development.
2015-04-23: Make your own digital sundial.
2015-04-23: K-root DNS server expansion plans.
2015-04-22: 1ML: uniting ML's core and modules into a single language.
2015-04-21: What is C in practice? (a survey)
2015-04-21: Martin Burgess / John Harrison "Clock B".
2015-04-20: Liberty Reserve: bank of the underworld.
2015-04-20: ub-canaries: a collection of programs that detect compiler exploitation of undefined behaviour.
2015-04-20: Burgess Regulator: modern construction of John Harrison's last clock design.
2015-04-19: John Harrison's last clock is accurate to less than one second in 100 days.
2015-04-19: Notational Velocity: Mac note-taking app.
2015-04-19: Semantic linefeeds in document markup: one line per sentence or clause.
2015-04-18: 30 logos that have a hidden message.
2015-04-18: Lots of emacs tips.
2015-04-18: Spacemacs: emacs configuration framework based round evil-mode.
2015-04-18: Chord progressions of 25 000 songs.
2015-04-17: Why an academic historian wrote a book in plain text (with pandoc).
2015-04-17: A complement to blame: an overview of the blame calculus for gradual typing.
2015-04-17: Anatomy of an account hijack
2015-04-17: Yes, you can catch insanity: infectious disease and mental health.
2015-04-17: eight: Python 2 to the power of 3.
2015-04-16: For good measure: estimating undiscovered vulnerabilities.
2015-04-16: Optimizing TLS for high bandwidth applications on FreeBSD.
2015-04-16: 11 proverbs for the digital age.
2015-04-15: The American middle class is no longer the richest in the world.
2015-04-15: Miura-Ori map fold.
2015-04-15: The bones beneath London: Crossrail archaeology.
2015-04-15: Remote code execution vulnerability in IIS on Windows: HTTP byte range parsing error.
2015-04-15: Reverse-engineered WipEout WebGL track viewer.
2015-04-15: Lots of leap second bug reports.
2015-04-14: Moore's Law at 50: Its past and its future.
2015-04-14: Finding bugs in SQLite with afl.
2015-04-14: The Hobsbawm File. (Radio 4)
2015-04-14: Protecting infrastructure secrets with Keywhiz.
2015-04-14: Usability of voter-verifiable, end-to-end voting systems: Helios, Prêt à Voter, and Scantegrity II.
2015-04-14: British viagra spammers sent to prison.
2015-04-14: What's wrong with statistics in Julia?
2015-04-13: Rockwell retro-encabulator. (YouTube)
2015-04-13: git fanfic.
2015-04-13: Insurance jingle fanfic.
2015-04-13: How to fix rootpipe privilege escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.
2015-04-13: Indexes beat actively managed funds again in S&P study.
2015-04-13: The mutual fund industry is a huge scam that costs investors billions of dollars a year.
2015-04-13: Electricity distribution map of the East of England.
2015-04-13: National risk register of civil emergencies. (2015 edition)
2015-04-13: London's lost pneumatic railway: the second underground.
2015-04-12: Experiments in columnar joints in drying corn starch.
2015-04-12: Why neovim is better than vim.
2015-04-12: Benefit sanctions: Britain's secret penal system.
2015-04-12: The Analytical Engine In Glorious Technicolour!
2015-04-12: The multiple lives of Moore's law: how it survived for 50 years.
2015-04-12: 1K colours on CGA: How it is done.
2015-04-11: Out of print? How to regain copyright and make your book more available.
2015-04-11: Codes that Changed the World: a history of programming languages on Radio 4.
2015-04-11: Detailled London rail map.
2015-04-11: How are Rust Traits different from Golang Interfaces?
2015-04-10: VeinViewer means no more poking people with needles repeatedly.
2015-04-10: Extracting the private key from a TREZOR bitcoin safe with a $70 oscilloscope.
2015-04-10: Fearless concurrency with Rust.
2015-04-10: Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple Mac OS X.
2015-04-10: Windows concurrent IO API zoo.
2015-04-10: TCP OOB sends Chrome and Node.js into infinite loops due to OS X kqueue bug.
2015-04-10: ExaBGP: routing swiss army knife. (Used by RIPE for anycast.)
2015-04-10: nsec3map: DNSSEC zone enumerator.
2015-04-10: How can life exist on a planet without a star?
2015-04-09: Wall Street fees wipe out $2.5 billion in New York City pension funds.
2015-04-09: Software interrupts and realtime Linux.
2015-04-09: T-pylon foundations.
2015-04-09: First new-style T-pylon has been installed.
2015-04-08: What kind of talks and papers are wanted at USENIX LISA.
2015-04-08: Tendermint: consensus without mining.
2015-04-08: Stellar Consensus Protocol: proof and code.
2015-04-08: Differential calculus with datatypes.
2015-04-08: BeagleBone Black timer capture driver for precise PPS interrupts.
2015-04-08: Various GeoIP checking and bug reporting links.
2015-04-08: Inside 8088 MPH: we break all your emulators.
2015-04-08: Breaking XML signature and encryption.
2015-04-07: How to own any Windows network with group policy hijacking attacks.
2015-04-07: How Heartbleed could have been found with afl and address sanitizer.
2015-04-07: Contranyms, holophrasms and negaffirmatives: when "no" is positive.
2015-04-07: Treating British tourists in Europe costs five times more than treating foreign visitors in the UK.
2015-04-07: Never doubt that a small group of deranged trolls can ruin anything (even the Washington Monument and the Hugo Awards).
2015-04-07: Gil Tene's basic settings to reduce latency spikes on Linux.
2015-04-07: Cheese changed the course of Western civilization.
2015-04-06: The puppy-free Hugo award voter's guide.
2015-04-06: Is 10% of the population really gay?
2015-04-06: Why the name? Etymologies of Unix and Linux programs.
2015-04-05: 8088 MPH: a demo for the original IBM PC with CGA adapter.
2015-04-04: Why, after all these years, don't we have something better than latex for condoms?
2015-04-04: Linux's bad disk scheduling causes long GC pauses on the JVM.
2015-04-03: Reviewing the second year of OCaml Labs in 2014.
2015-04-03: Pin-pointing China's attack against GitHub.
2015-04-02: Google Chrome will not trust any new CNNIC X.509 certificates.
2015-04-02: Mozilla will be distrusting new CNNIC X.509 certificates.
2015-04-01: Terry Pratchett, guilty of literature, vs. VATMOSS. (Ansible 333)
2015-04-01: Ignore the ‘pro-business' rhetoric: a pro-rich government is anti-business.
2015-04-01: Crypto algorithm confusion vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token libraries.
2015-04-01: China's man-on-the-side attack on GitHub.
2015-03-31: My quantified self email analysis experiment: a failure.
2015-03-31: Chinese authorities compromise millions in cyberattacks on GitHub and GreatFire.
2015-03-31: The real story of how America became an economic superpower.
2015-03-30: Metaprogramming beyond decency in Python.
2015-03-30: Hypothesis: QuickCheck-style property-based testing for Python.
2015-03-30: systemd will require a specially patched Linux kernel.
2015-03-29: "Turing got a pardon. I want one, too."
2015-03-29: Why Baidu has been hijacked to attack Github.
2015-03-29: VHDL 101: a minimal 16 bit stack-based CPU.
2015-03-29: Debunking the myth of the job-stealing immigrant.
2015-03-28: The myth of Europe's "little ice age".
2015-03-28: KaTeX: the fastest math typesetting library for the web.
2015-03-28: Paper review: "an analysis of production failures in distributed data-intensive systems"
2015-03-28: Baidu's traffic hijacked to DDoS GitHub.com.
2015-03-27: Porno copyright troll Perfect 10 hit with $5.6M in fees after failed Usenet lawsuit.
2015-03-27: UK Court of Appeal issues game changing judgment in Google / Safari privacy case.
2015-03-27: The horror of document.write in JavaScript.
2015-03-25: Cap'n Proto security advisory, and how to catch integer overflows with template metaprogramming.
2015-03-25: A comprehensive study of convergent and commutative replicated data types.
2015-03-25: pg_rewind in PostgreSQL 9.5: better replication and failover.
2015-03-24: Telstra runs out of IPv4 addresses.
2015-03-24: Which clang warning options control which warning messages?
2015-03-24: Which UK constituencies have ever elected someone who is not a white man?
2015-03-23: Popcorn Time: the piracy party that Hollywood cannot stop.
2015-03-23: Real ale vs craft beer: a battle for the soul of booze.
2015-03-21: Why the human retina is wired back-to-front.
2015-03-21: Google's distributed cron service.
2015-03-21: 12 minute Mandelbrots on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe.
2015-03-21: Negative criticism and ineffective feedback.
2015-03-21: The science of protecting people's feelings: why we pretend all opinions are equal.
2015-03-21: Mac OS X drivers for CH340 / CH341 / PL2303 USB serial devices.
2015-03-21: Monodraw: UTF8 art drawing tool for Mac.
2015-03-21: Replacing Photoshop with NSString: ASCII art connect-the-dots rendering.
2015-03-21: Why does the International Space Station have such a weird shape?
2015-03-20: GoDaddy accounts vulnerable to social engineering.
2015-03-20: Windows 10 will allow hardware vendors to lock out alternate operating systems.
2015-03-20: Dolaucothi Roman gold mines.
2015-03-20: Las Médulas roman gold mines.
2015-03-20: cURL is 17 years old.
2015-03-20: The untold story of the British Rail logo.
2015-03-20: Textures.js: SVG patterns for data visualization.
2015-03-20: The myopia boom seems to be due to too much time indoors.
2015-03-20: Sorting algorithms in COBOL.
2015-03-20: Where is the generic insulin?
2015-03-20: miTLS: A verified reference TLS implementation.
2015-03-19: Conference katamari.
2015-03-19: PyPy and RPython: fast enough language VMs in fast enough time.
2015-03-19: NSF will require open access to research it funds.
2015-03-18: f3: find fake flash devices.
2015-03-18: NTP developer Harlan Stenn and the Network Time Foundation need money.
2015-03-18: Richard Stallman's GNU Manifesto is 30 years old.
2015-03-17: I can text you a pile of poo, but I can't write my name.
2015-03-17: How do I convert a video to GIF using ffmpeg, with reasonable quality?
2015-03-17: RgbQuant.js playground.
2015-03-17: Arbitrary-palette positional dithering algorithm.
2015-03-17: libimagequant: image quantization library.
2015-03-17: Colour quantization.
2015-03-17: High quality GIFs with FFmpeg.
2015-03-17: Amazon is losing billions.
2015-03-16: reop: a pgp-alike based on nacl / libsodium.
2015-03-16: Attacks only get better: new more efficient password recovery attack on RC4 in TLS.
2015-03-16: Norway police illegally set up IMSI catchers around parliament.
2015-03-16: Anti-doxxing techniques.
2015-03-15: The state of SIMD.js performance in Firefox.
2015-03-15: DHCPv6 and the trouble with MAC addresses.
2015-03-15: An algorithm to synchronise a computer to UTC using a dial-up reference time source.
2015-03-15: Why it is hard to compile Perl 6.
2015-03-15: Oxford's New Bodleian Library has had a radical modernist refurbishment.
2015-03-15: Branch cuts for complex elementary functions, or, much ado about nothing's sign bit.
2015-03-15: ashd: a "sane" HTTP daemon, using Unix processes as modules.
2015-03-15: FastCGI is pointless.
2015-03-15: The OpenBSD httpd.
2015-03-14: The sad state of system administration.
2015-03-14: The Ten Commandments of egoless programming.
2015-03-14: $2500 to get your .sucks domain before it opens to all comers.
2015-03-14: How genre fiction became more important than literary fiction.
2015-03-14: alt.fan.pratchett dinner at Trinity College Cambridge. (1995)
2015-03-14: Trigger: a network automation toolkit in Python.
2015-03-14: How Apple makes the Watch: metallurgy and machining.
2015-03-13: Factoring 512 bit RSA for fun (and a $9000 saving).
2015-03-13: Lucene: the good parts.
2015-03-13: A door broke in Germany and the most memetacular thing happened.
2015-03-13: xorg maxes out at 256 clients.
2015-03-13: There is no now.
2015-03-13: You can play Snake with the fountains at Kings Cross Granary Square.
2015-03-13: The robustness principle reconsidered.
2015-03-13: bind9stats: a Munin plugin to get data from the BIND 9 statistics channel (XML format v3).
2015-03-13: Accidentally Quadratic.
2015-03-13: Bitcoin is being used by African migrant workers to send money home.
2015-03-13: Wardley mapping: a set of useful posts.
2015-03-12: How GitHub conquered Google, Microsoft, and everyone else.
2015-03-12: Google Code is shutting down.
2015-03-12: Pi, phase space, and bouncing billiard balls.
2015-03-12: Blinky: peripheral vision for Quake, with configurable projections.
2015-03-12: The Pannini projection.
2015-03-11: Patents are innovation's worst enemy.
2015-03-11: Piketty discusses "Capital in the 21st Century".
2015-03-11: Raytracing a Black Hole.
2015-03-11: Inflicting suffering on those in need is now at the heart of our welfare system.
2015-03-11: Backblaze Vault storage architecture.
2015-03-11: Strengthening JavaScript.
2015-03-11: New design for K-root DNS server nodes.
2015-03-11: Wodin: an IMAP server
2015-03-10: USB killer.
2015-03-10: The number of legal 18x18 Go positions.
2015-03-10: Yes, I'll defend daylight saving time.
2015-03-09: Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges.
2015-03-09: The East India Company: The original corporate raiders.
2015-03-09: Linux getrandom(2).
2015-03-09: UK politicians could learn a lot from the Pirate Party.
2015-03-09: Winners of the underhanded crypto contest.
2015-03-09: Signs that you are a bad programmer.
2015-03-08: Lenin meets Corleone: understanding Vladimir Putin.
2015-03-08: An analysis of Wellcome Trust open access spending, 2013-2014.
2015-03-08: The sinister treatment of dissent at the BBC.
2015-03-08: The Eiffel Tower now has some wind turbines.
2015-03-08: What happens when the Queen dies.
2015-03-08: A USB 3.1 disk benchmark.
2015-03-08: Security services complain that Silicon Valley executives do not want security clearance.
2015-03-08: London congestion charge led to a dramatic fall in accident rate.
2015-03-08: Name constraints on root CAs.
2015-03-07: GitLab joins Y Combinator.
2015-03-07: SMS cards: the circuit packaging technology in IBM's 1960s mainframes.
2015-03-07: What might a functional SQL look like?
2015-03-07: Capitalism's love affair with bureaucracy.
2015-03-07: American democracy is doomed.
2015-03-06: Reverse execution for better debugging with rr.
2015-03-06: rr: record execution and replay deterministically for debugging.
2015-03-06: IPFS: peer-to-peer content-addressing for the permanent web.
2015-03-06: pflask: simple Linux containers.
2015-03-06: Exponential backoff and jitter.
2015-03-05: Could a 'citizen's income' work?
2015-03-05: Finding files fast. (1983)
2015-03-05: ZX81 1K chess.
2015-03-05: Software Freedom Conservancy sues VMware over GPL compliance.
2015-03-05: The North/South divide: we have never even tried.
2015-03-05: DNSSEC validation at Spark NZ, a large ISP.
2015-03-05: A leap second is coming: leap smear at QTNet in Japan. (Slideshare)
2015-03-05: GitHub alternatives.
2015-03-05: GitLab acquires Gitorious.
2015-03-05: Your open source project does not need a contributor licensing agreement.
2015-03-04: Exploiting a use-after-free bug in Adobe Flash Player.
2015-03-04: Widespread leapsecond bugs in BeiDou GNSS receivers.
2015-03-04: Perforce Helix distributed version control.
2015-03-04: Solved by Flexbox: cleaner, hack-free CSS.
2015-03-04: Khronos Vulkan, next generation OpenGL: graphics and compute belong together.
2015-03-04: Internet services engineering reading list.
2015-03-04: PCG: a family of better (non-crypto) random number generators.
2015-03-03: Don't blame gerbils for the plague.
2015-03-03: SSL attack of the week: "FREAK", or, factoring RSA for fun and profit.
2015-03-03: "FREAK" SSL downgrade attack exploits 1990s export strength ciphers.
2015-03-03: Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious.
2015-03-03: The worst insurance contract ever? The man who could own Aviva.
2015-03-03: Jet lag is worse if you live on Mars time.
2015-03-03: Khronos unveils Vulkan: OpenGL rebuilt for modern systems.
2015-03-02: ATtiny85 does over-the-air NTSC.
2015-03-02: How simian immunodeficiency virus became HIV, on several occasions.
2015-03-02: Plastic as strong as steel and three times lighter.
2015-03-02: No, it's not the end of XMPP for Google Talk.
2015-03-02: lcc: a retargetable C compiler.
2015-03-02: pcc: portable C compiler.
2015-03-02: tcc: tiny C compiler.
2015-03-02: sdcc: a C compiler targeting small devices.
2015-03-02: nwcc: a simple portable C compiler.
2015-03-02: 8cc: a small C11 compiler.
2015-03-02: Pyston LLVM-based Python implementation: version 0.3 release.
2015-03-02: ISO/IEC 9899:2011 C11 final committee draft.
2015-03-02: The Brompton bicycle production line.
2015-03-01: First train journey from China to Spain and back.
2015-03-01: How to sabotage encryption software (and not get caught).
2015-03-01: 30 years of above average global temperatures.
2015-03-01: Abusing BluRay players: sandbox escapes.
2015-03-01: Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity.
2015-03-01: Kitchen rhythm: a year in a Parisian pâtisserie.
2015-02-28: You do not want ISPs to optimise for minimal packet loss.
2015-02-28: GPS PPS with Raspbian wheezy 2015-02-16.
2015-02-28: Raspberry Pi stratum 1 NTP server with PPS.
2015-02-28: u-blox 6 GPS receiver description and protocol specification.
2015-02-28: u-blox NEO-6 GPS data sheet.
2015-02-27: FCC is asking for more buffer bloat in ISP networks?
2015-02-27: More thoughts on working with GnuPG.
2015-02-27: Internet slang meets American Sign Language.
2015-02-26: Watch a decade of data coming to life on OpenStreetMap.
2015-02-26: The path to parallel JavaScript.
2015-02-26: Sans Bullshit Sans: a font that leverages the synergy of ligatures.
2015-02-26: Technical aspects of leap second propagation and evaluation.
2015-02-26: Psychology journal bans p-value significance testing.
2015-02-26: Malaysia steals Mali's ccTLD.
2015-02-26: Why it is worth classifying and naming antipatterns and failure modes.
2015-02-26: How to calculate current on a 3-phase, 208V rack PDU.
2015-02-25: "Get them on the blower!" London's lost pneumatic tube network.
2015-02-25: Gemalto's investigation into the GCHQ/NSA attacks.
2015-02-25: What Color Is Your Xen? Different virtualisation modes.
2015-02-24: Hardware variability may be greater than algorithmic improvement.
2015-02-24: Great Firewall of China DNS poisoning DDoS attack.
2015-02-24: When builders nearly flooded the JANET EastERN PoP.
2015-02-24: Formal methods show TimSort is broken.
2015-02-24: PrivDog adware is worse than Superfish.
2015-02-23: The Emterpreter: run asm.js code before it can be parsed.
2015-02-23: Typographic universal shaping engine in Windows 10.
2015-02-23: Be prepared: journalists and security researchers.
2015-02-23: Media training is an OPSEC skill.
2015-02-23: ECMAscript 6.
2015-02-23: Big data won't improve business strategy for most companies.
2015-02-22: Open Addresses: multiplying address data.
2015-02-22: Superfish round-up.
2015-02-21: An exploration of ARM TrustZone technology.
2015-02-21: Generalized tic-tax-toe: k-in-a-row on an n-by-m board.
2015-02-21: Most types of cancer are not due to "bad luck".
2015-02-21: Advertising vs. editorial.
2015-02-21: Derek Bickerton's advice on reading.
2015-02-21: Windows SSL interception: MITM attacks gone wild.
2015-02-21: Komodia/Superfish SSL validation is broken.
2015-02-20: AppleVis lists of iOS and OS X accessibility bugs.
2015-02-20: Some notes on Superfish.
2015-02-20: Will the madness never end? Komodia SSL certificates are EVERYWHERE.
2015-02-20: A tangled mess: Android X.509 root certificate stores.
2015-02-19: Superfish: a history of malware complaints and international surveillance.
2015-02-19: Freeing up the UK DWP unused /8 IPv4 addresses.
2015-02-19: Extracting the SuperFish private key.
2015-02-19: Your college major is a pretty good indication of how smart you are.
2015-02-18: HTTP/2 is done.
2015-02-18: Too much finance is bad for the economy.
2015-02-18: Provision Tor relays with Ansible.
2015-02-18: Speaking while female.
2015-02-18: A 14-year-old hacker caught the car industry by surprise.
2015-02-18: Underscores in Python.
2015-02-18: The paradoxes of modern cosmology.
2015-02-17: Duplicate SSH keys everywhere.
2015-02-17: pattern.en: part-of-speech tagger and other linguistic tools for English.
2015-02-16: UK UPRN (unique property reference numbers) may now be used freely for open government data.
2015-02-16: 7GUIs: a benchmark comparing programmability of GUI frameworks.
2015-02-15: Sugar increases the risk heart disease, regardless of age, sex, exercise, or BMI.
2015-02-14: Bigram frequencies for Emacs key chords.
2015-02-14: Analysis of NTP autokey.
2015-02-14: OCaml: what you gain.
2015-02-14: Apple Lightning connector reverse engineering.
2015-02-14: Low-fat diet advice was based on undercooked science.
2015-02-14: FDA inspections: Fraud, fabrication, and scientific misconduct are hidden from the public and doctors.
2015-02-14: Overflow semantics in Rust.
2015-02-14: Rust 1.0 status report and final timeline.
2015-02-13: The two big bangs.
2015-02-13: Markdown style guide.
2015-02-13: Returning self or void suggests mutability.
2015-02-13: Asciinema: record and share your terminal sessions the right way.
2015-02-13: "Shopping cart" patent comes back to court and loses again.
2015-02-10: DNS poisoning via bad authority sections.
2015-02-10: PolarSSL is dead; long live "mbed TLS".
2015-02-09: Modern C.
2015-02-08: How secular and religious family values compare.
2015-02-08: Duverger's law: voting systems influence the number of political parties.
2015-02-08: NetPGP: digital signatures and encryption.
2015-02-08: Electrically powered bacteria.
2015-02-07: HFT doesn't harm investors, and other absurdities.
2015-02-07: DRM tractors.
2015-02-06: How to transfer large amounts of data across the network.
2015-02-05: Getting beyond static vs dynamic types in Perl 6.
2015-02-05: Backblaze hard drive data.
2015-02-05: Haskell in the large.
2015-02-04: JVM implementation challenges: the future is hard but worth it.
2015-02-04: Daylight hours explorer.
2015-02-04: A Secret History of Silicon Valley.
2015-02-04: Usenix NSDI paper on VPNgate.
2015-02-04: VPNgate: evade the Great Firewall using many VPN relays.
2015-02-02: A brief history of types in programming.
2015-02-02: DNSSEC TLD deployment report.
2015-02-02: Chinese DNS censorship turns into a DDoS attack.
2015-02-01: novm: a Linux KVM-based hypervisor written in golang.
2015-02-01: Key rotation in OpenSSH 6.8+.
2015-02-01: I don't want to be right: on the difficulty of changing minds.
2015-01-31: Leslie Lamport tells mathematicians how to write proofs.
2015-01-30: Crocker's rules of communication.
2015-01-30: CloudFlare DNSSEC done right.
2015-01-30: Being a man who was raped by a woman.
2015-01-30: Collision avoidance predicts pedestrian behaviour.
2015-01-30: There are no beans in chili con carne.
2015-01-30: TCP/IP over Lego model train.
2015-01-30: Individuals can be identified from 3 or 4 "anonymized" credit card purchase records.
2015-01-28: Boom: a British bank-bombing burglary binge.
2015-01-28: Free access to back issues of Significance magazine.
2015-01-28: Pair programming with junior developers.
2015-01-28: Spork: an awk-alike for XML and HTML, based on CSS selectors and Python expressions.
2015-01-28: A typology of tasks.
2015-01-28: Mid-January leap second bug in some GPS receivers.
2015-01-28: Vivaldi: a new browser for fans of Opera.
2015-01-28: Mapillary: traffic sign recognition for crowdsourced street view.
2015-01-27: Earth: a primer.
2015-01-27: The judgment on the Taylor & Son(s) Ltd typo case.
2015-01-27: A one letter typo accidentally destroyed a 124-year-old engineering business.
2015-01-27: NASA's ten rules for safety-critical code.
2015-01-27: A technical analysis of the Qualys GHOST.
2015-01-26: Why does crypto software fail?
2015-01-26: Postcards from the post-XSS world.
2015-01-26: How TCP listen backlog works.
2015-01-26: Musicless MacGyver. (YouTube)
2015-01-26: 20 fun facts about hexagonal grids.
2015-01-26: The *.c.uk typosquat security threat.
2015-01-26: The five tribes of UKIP.
2015-01-26: huptime: restart daemons without closing and re-opening listening sockets
2015-01-25: It is statistically impossible for mass surveillance to be effective against terrorism.
2015-01-25: Partitioned heap to protect Firefox from use-after-free bugs.
2015-01-25: BPA is safe.
2015-01-25: The story behind the xmas Kings Cross problems.
2015-01-24: Markets are efficient if and only if P=NP.
2015-01-23: London squared map.
2015-01-23: T-DNS: connection-oriented DNS to improve privacy and security.
2015-01-23: Watch this archer do amazing things.
2015-01-23: GoDaddy CSRF vulnerability allowed domain takeover.
2015-01-22: Gun nuts simulate Paris shooting and get shot by simulated terrorists.
2015-01-22: Everybody hates Pearson.
2015-01-21: PubCSS: formatting academic publications in HTML and CSS.
2015-01-21: It is cheaper for Netflix to make their own movies than to licence them from studios.
2015-01-21: Speechwriters: Don't write differently for women, write differently for men.
2015-01-20: A sketch towards a taxonomy of meta-desserts.
2015-01-20: GitSlave: concurrent development on multiple related repositories.
2015-01-19: When an awk script is 235x faster than a Hadoop cluster.
2015-01-18: Transgender people can explain why women don't advance at work.
2015-01-18: How to understand the drawbacks of k-means clustering.
2015-01-18: Teams with more women tend to be more effective.
2015-01-18: Why I no longer contribute to StackOverflow.
2015-01-18: High performance C extensions for JRuby+Truffle.
2015-01-18: Scalability! But at what COST? When a laptop outperforms a Big Data cluster.
2015-01-18: Zero-maintenance RAID: 99.999% reliable over 4 years with no human intervention.
2015-01-17: A year in the merde: Charlie Hebdo covers in context.
2015-01-17: What kind of prejudice discourages women and ethnic minorities from certain academic fields?
2015-01-16: Virgin Media rolling out IPv6 this year.
2015-01-16: Comments on the debate over the proposal to redefine UTC and abolish leap seconds.
2015-01-16: GoGo does not need to run MitM attacks on YouTube.
2015-01-16: Five recent papers about high-performance data paths.
2015-01-16: A day in the life of a sysadmin after David Cameron bans encryption.
2015-01-14: dateutils: command line tools for handling dates.
2015-01-14: Gitrob: search github for leaked security-sensitive files.
2015-01-14: A quick comparison of the Nim and Rust programming languages.
2015-01-13: Why and how to replace Mac OS X 10.10 discoveryd with mDNSresponder from 10.9.
2015-01-13: Privacy-conscious email services.
2015-01-13: Wicher: Polish decryption of Enigma before WWII.
2015-01-13: The Harriss spiral: a fractal curve inspired by the golden spiral.
2015-01-13: 25 writing hacks from a hack writer.
2015-01-13: Towards a re-definition of the second based on optical atomic clocks.
2015-01-13: TTY input pushback privilege escalation vulnerability in su.
2015-01-13: Stretching the "peer reviewed" brand until it snaps.
2015-01-13: Thoughts about Rust from a D programmer.
2015-01-12: KeySweeper: stealthy wireless keyboard snooping device.
2015-01-12: 151-byte static Linux binary in Rust.
2015-01-12: Tiling a chessboard.
2015-01-12: The simple proof of the Tetris Lamp.
2015-01-12: On Charlie Hebdo: A letter to my British friends.
2015-01-11: JavaScript equality table.
2015-01-11: Time code formats for space data systems.
2015-01-11: Markus Kuhn on this year's leap second.
2015-01-11: Linus Torvalds on this year's leap second.
2015-01-11: Feminism and the plight of the bitter lonely nerd.
2015-01-11: Best new maths puns of 2014.
2015-01-11: Torch7: scientific computing with LuaJIT.
2015-01-11: Your toaster is a USB HID for playing DooM. (YouTube)
2015-01-11: Code review checklists in the style of Atul Gawande.
2015-01-11: Yet another code review checklist.
2015-01-11: Another code review checklist.
2015-01-11: Angular code review checklist.
2015-01-11: Hadoop code review checklist.
2015-01-11: Code review checklist.
2015-01-11: Comparing cloud service uptime over the last year.
2015-01-10: Performance-oriented congestion control.
2015-01-10: redgrep: a searcher based on derivatives or regular expressions with an LLVM JIT.
2015-01-10: The uncensored French language.
2015-01-10: Move constructors in C++.
2015-01-09: Rust 1.0 alpha.
2015-01-08: PowerDNS tools to analyse DNS traffic.
2015-01-08: High-fructose corn syrup is more toxic than table sugar for mice.
2015-01-07: Contract grading.
2015-01-07: The 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996.
2015-01-07: In defense of inclusionism on Wikipedia.
2015-01-07: Inside Putin's information war: Russian TV propaganda.
2015-01-07: GamerGate vs Eliza.
2015-01-06: Configure ssh to thwart the NSA and GCHQ.
2015-01-06: Write You a Haskell: a tutorial on modern functional programming language implementation.
2015-01-06: Wipe 2014 - Adam Curtis. (YouTube)
2015-01-06: A collection of xmas cockentryce: fantastic mediæval cooking at Hampton Court.
2015-01-05: Continuous delivery at the Guardian.
2015-01-05: Why spaghetti snaps in three, explained with slow motion video.
2015-01-05: Gogo statement on their MitM attack.
2015-01-05: Gogo inflight Internet intentionally MitM its customers.
2015-01-05: Clonezilla: disk imaging software.
2015-01-05: Bolt: an embedded key/value database for golang.
2015-01-05: LMDB: LDAP at lightning speed.
2015-01-04: A robot learns to cook by watching videos on YouTube.
2015-01-04: Serge Hochar, producer of Chateau Musar in Lebanon, dies aged 75.
2015-01-04: NixOS and stateless deployment.
2015-01-04: A VAXcluster of Raspberry Pi.
2015-01-04: GCC is wonderful: a better ARRAY_SIZE macro.
2015-01-04: key-checker: monitor and analyse DNSSEC key rollovers.
2015-01-04: Nuclear power is the greenest option, say senior biological scientists.
2015-01-04: Sugar should be taxed like tobacco, says Jamie Oliver.
2015-01-04: Data structures for text editors.
2015-01-04: Joyent packages: binary pkgsrc builds for Mac OS X etc.
2015-01-04: Using pkgsrc on Mac OS X.
2015-01-04: Graphical vi quick reference.
2015-01-04: Are some diets "mass murder"?
2015-01-03: The hidden complexity costs that developers ignore (and how to reduce them).
2015-01-03: Visual C++ 2015 is finally modern enough to support COM well.
2015-01-03: Finding and exploiting ntpd vulnerabilities.
2015-01-03: HSTS supercookies: how to use HTTP strict transport security to track users.
2015-01-03: Tartessian, Europe's newest and oldest Celtic language.
2015-01-02: TPM-based remote attestation from a server to an Android phone.
2015-01-02: Why Sweden has the world's safest roads.
2015-01-02: A diff algorithm in 50 lines of Python.
2015-01-02: Agincourt600: events marking the battle's anniversary later this year.
2015-01-02: Zone 1 Tube station walking times.
2015-01-02: The end of gangs: cleaning up Los Angeles.
2015-01-02: Your princess is in another castle: misogyny, entitlement, and nerds.
2015-01-02: What is special about the Nim programming language?
2015-01-02: Random non-standard tie knots.
2015-01-02: The great plate count anomaly that is no more: the right way to prepare an agar Petrie dish.
2015-01-01: tufte-latex: a Tufte-inspired LaTeX class for producing papers, handouts, and books.
2015-01-01: tab: a modern text processing language.
2015-01-01: Thunderstrike: how to insert malware into a Mac's boot ROM via its Thunderbolt port.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>