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2016-12-31: Apple AirPods teardown.
2016-12-31: The best prime numbers of 2016.
2016-12-31: How command line parameters are parsed on Windows.
2016-12-31: About the PHPMailer CVE-2016-10033 and CVE-2016-10045 remote code execution vulnerabilities.
2016-12-31: Load Balanced DNS with dnsdist.
2016-12-30: Typography wars: has the Internet killed curly quotes?
2016-12-30: The Hardware Hacker: Bunnie Huang's tour-de-force book on his career so far.
2016-12-30: OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path (or the lack thereof...)
2016-12-30: US CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure.
2016-12-30: The history of keeping the damned women out: when Cambridge went co-educational.
2016-12-30: Hormonal contraceptives are linked to depression, and doctors can no longer ignore it.
2016-12-30: Non-compete clauses in employment contracts and developers' side projects.
2016-12-30: Firejail security sandbox, based on Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf.
2016-12-30: LoRaHam: Ham radio protocols and Arduino examples for LoRa on 70cm.
2016-12-30: A coding style guide horror story.
2016-12-30: Security risks with untrusted input and Python's new-style string formatting.
2016-12-29: How to triage an academic paper.
2016-12-29: DTrace at home: a kernel hacker bypasses a bug in Adobe Illustrator.
2016-12-29: How not to build a digital archive: lessons from the dark side of the force.
2016-12-29: From tape drives to memory orbs, the data formats of Star Wars suck.
2016-12-29: Modules in Clang.
2016-12-29: Detecting the use of `curl | bash` server side.
2016-12-29: Theresa May lacks courage to admit complexity of Brexit.
2016-12-29: Mealworms can happily and safely eat styrofoam.
2016-12-29: From secretary to software developer, the hard way.
2016-12-28: OONI: open observatory of network interference, detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation.
2016-12-28: New theory explains how the moon got there.
2016-12-28: Maslow's hierarchy of SRE / devops needs.
2016-12-28: What was it like working on the original iPhone project (codenamed Project Purple)?
2016-12-28: Live CO2 emissions of European electricity production.
2016-12-28: The mysterious virus that could cause obesity.
2016-12-28: How C compilers break for objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes.
2016-12-28: Chunked sequences: O(1) push and pop, O(log n) split and concat, low constant factors.
2016-12-28: A list of lists of falsehoods programmers believe about almost everything.
2016-12-27: Falsehoods programmers believe about CSV.
2016-12-27: twitter-export-image-fill: A script to download all the images that should be in your Twitter archive.
2016-12-27: ISO/IEC JTC1 SC22 WG14 N2086: C2x charter.
2016-12-27: Everyone quotes command line arguments the wrong way on Windows.
2016-12-27: Rogue One: an engineering ethics story.
2016-12-27: Making DNSSEC work for an AWS-hosted site.
2016-12-27: Reflecting on Haskell in 2016.
2016-12-26: Code style tip: Return early and clearly.
2016-12-26: μWWVB: A tiny WWVB station for setting radio-synced watches.
2016-12-26: The farmer who built her own gigabit FTTP ISP.
2016-12-26: No API? No problem! Scripting AJAX web UIs with Fiddler and PowerShell.
2016-12-26: All the talks from the Systems We Love conference.
2016-12-26: Kubernetes / AWS networking for dummies.
2016-12-26: A container networking introduction and overview.
2016-12-26: What the Guardian tech team learnt from their mistakes in 2016.
2016-12-26: Petros Vrellis: knitted pictures on a circular loom.
2016-12-26: ThreadTone: halftone images made of thread.
2016-12-26: Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor, 45 years old.
2016-12-26: The MySQL "swap insanity" problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture.
2016-12-25: Cambridge night climbing.
2016-12-25: gti: a steam locomotive for git users.
2016-12-24: Selected Usenet articles on computing.
2016-12-24: Constant-time crypto in BearSSL.
2016-12-23: Inside the Starshot mission to Alpha Centauri.
2016-12-23: Multiple DNS providers: synchronizing Dyn and to AWS Route 53, using nsnotifyd and cli53.
2016-12-23: Leap smear at Amazon.
2016-12-23: Top 10 Python libraries of 2016.
2016-12-22: How Heroku sped up SNI TLS handshakes in Erlang by 5x.
2016-12-22: Now, that's what I call Brexit! Delving into the Brexicon.
2016-12-22: Squaring the data protection circle with Brexit just got harder for the UK.
2016-12-22: Learning from a year of security breaches.
2016-12-22: Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC 1973. (YouTube)
2016-12-22: Multi-process Firefox project status report.
2016-12-21: Let Toys Be Toys 2016 end of year report.
2016-12-21: A history of the Washington-Moscow hotline.
2016-12-21: Furiosa's armor-plated cat feeder.
2016-12-21: The war on drugs in 2016.
2016-12-21: Solar now produces a better energy return on investment than oil.
2016-12-20: 20 years ago, Apple bought NeXT.
2016-12-20: Fabrice Bellard's 128-bit RISCVEMU RISC-V system emulator.
2016-12-20: Modern garbage collection vs Golang.
2016-12-20: The incompatible food triad is the most delicious philosophical problem of our time.
2016-12-20: A qp-trie implementation in Rust.
2016-12-20: A complete archive of the sf-lovers mailing list.
2016-12-19: A bit of history about sf-lovers.
2016-12-19: SF-lovers: archive of the first big non-technical ARPANET mailing list.
2016-12-19: GPS seismology: real-time high-rate sampling for tsunami warnings.
2016-12-19: The accidental tide guage: a GPS reflection case study from Alaska.
2016-12-19: How does a GPS tide guage work?
2016-12-19: GPS interferometric reflectometry for measuring the depth of snow.
2016-12-19: CYGNSS: a weather satellite system using reflected GPS signals to measure ocean winds.
2016-12-19: How Sweden has redesigned streets to route around bad human behavior.
2016-12-18: Why percentiles don't work the way you think.
2016-12-18: You need to rethink your ssh jump server.
2016-12-18: Three-tier support should be replaced with Swarming in a DevOps-oriented organization.
2016-12-18: Tired of Makefiles.
2016-12-18: Reliably compromising Ubuntu desktops by attacking the crash reporter.
2016-12-18: How Unix got into the CEO's office at AT&T.
2016-12-18: Some advice for dealing with narcissists like Trump.
2016-12-17: Project Wycheproof tests crypto libraries against known attacks.
2016-12-17: SQLines Oracle to PostgreSQL migration reference.
2016-12-17: Could the best way to make money from science be to give it away for free?
2016-12-17: A chemical chorus: "carol of the bells" played using NMR data.
2016-12-17: How Godbolt's compiler explorer works.
2016-12-16: Galileo, Europe's global navigation satellite system, goes into production.
2016-12-16: Compromise recent Linux desktops via gstreamer SNES emulation.
2016-12-16: The underhanded Rust contest.
2016-12-16: GitHub is building a coder's paradise. It's not coming cheap.
2016-12-15: Major flaws in university league tables: Governments and institutions should ignore them.
2016-12-15: Zero-cost futures in Rust.
2016-12-15: 9 places that reveal the hidden history of the cold war in Britain.
2016-12-14: Programming is forgetting: toward a new hacker ethic.
2016-12-14: What would happen if the USA went to war against Santa?
2016-12-14: Efficient markets? When to send an investing model into retirement.
2016-12-14: Kakoune: a vi-like editor with a better command grammar:
2016-12-14: Zone poisoning: the how and where of insecure dynamic DNS UPDATEs.
2016-12-14: Why you should not review for or publish with Elsevier.
2016-12-14: A faster sort algorithm for Rust.
2016-12-13: EPA admits that fracking can contaminate drinking water.
2016-12-13: Enormous uplift at a site of explosive volcanic eruptions on the Chile / Argentina border.
2016-12-13: Choose your own email adventure! A tool to help freelancers negotiate contract terms.
2016-12-13: Cheap-ass ECMP with an ethernet hub and non-contiguous netmasks.
2016-12-13: Where does 9600bps come from?
2016-12-13: Best practices in DNS anycast service provision architecture. (2006)
2016-12-13: Best practices in IPv4 anycast routing. (1997)
2016-12-13: Build your own anycast network in 9 steps.
2016-12-13: 3 million Brexit tweets reveal leave voters talked about immigration more than anything else.
2016-12-13: Hexml: a very fast but incomplete XML parser inC and Haskell.
2016-12-13: Pugixml: parsing XML at the speed of light.
2016-12-13: pugixml: Light-weight, simple and fast XML parser for C++ with XPath support.
2016-12-13: Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the modern whistle-blower.
2016-12-12: Revamped bubble wrap loses its pop.
2016-12-12: Commercial web sites must check all their link targets for piracy, rules Hamburg court.
2016-12-12: Discussion of server hardware for GitLab.com.
2016-12-12: Not giving up on PGP: how to set up stronger key encryption and use OpenKeychain on Android.
2016-12-12: Exchange Online message corruption breaks DKIM signatures on some forwarded messages.
2016-12-12: German judges explain why Adblock Plus is legal.
2016-12-12: Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator: At the cutting edge of technology.
2016-12-12: Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion stellarator's plasma confinement magnetic field.
2016-12-11: grafanalib: generate Grafana dashboards from simple Python scripts.
2016-12-11: jid: json incremental digger, like an interactive jq. (Golang)
2016-12-11: ansistrano: an Ansible port of the Capistrano web app deployment tool.
2016-12-11: pREST: an alternative to PostgREST written in Golang instead of Haskell.
2016-12-11: Fan is a tool-using animal.
2016-12-11: How to manage multistage environments with Ansible.
2016-12-11: NetData: scalable, distributed real-time performance and health monitoring.
2016-12-11: President of Colombia called for a rethink of the war on drugs in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
2016-12-10: Better insults.
2016-12-10: Only one activity is known to grow new neurons in adulthood: vigorous aerobic exercise.
2016-12-10: Command-line cartography with newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON).
2016-12-10: PG Wodehouse archives acquired by British Library.
2016-12-10: Five things we learnt from the Supreme Court Article 50 hearing.
2016-12-10: Don't cry over dead trade agreements.
2016-12-09: Breaking the exploit chain: Win32k API lockdown in Google Chrome.
2016-12-09: Hilary: the most poisoned baby name in US history.
2016-12-09: Passive WiFi could be 10,000 times more power efficient.
2016-12-09: A guide to the breads of India.
2016-12-09: Intel x86 documentation has more pages than the 6502 has transistors.
2016-12-09: Romer's gap / tetrapod triumph! Solving the mystery of the first land vertebrates.
2016-12-09: New measurements of the Earth's rotation from 720 BC to AD 2015.
2016-12-09: EU applications to Cambridge University fell after the Brexit vote.
2016-12-09: RISC-V BOOM: Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine.
2016-12-09: FOSSi: The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation.
2016-12-09: Faild: Fastly's in-house load balancing system.
2016-12-09: The right has its own version of political correctness. It's just as stifling.
2016-12-08: The half-life of code and the git of Theseus.
2016-12-08: Communications infrastructure in Cornwall. (YouTube)
2016-12-08: Announcing TypeScript 2.1.
2016-12-08: Compositional test-case shrinking in Hypothesis.
2016-12-08: Integrated vs type-based shrinking: Hypothesis vs QuickCheck.
2016-12-08: How to get someone to check a cable: ask them to blow the dust out of the connector.
2016-12-08: Mr. Robot killed the Hollywood hacker.
2016-12-07: An algebra of graphs.
2016-12-07: How not to fuck up your manufacturing startup.
2016-12-07: Secure ROM extraction on iPhone 6s.
2016-12-07: Starting a new Rust project right, with error-chain.
2016-12-07: The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the state to tell lies in court.
2016-12-07: Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017.
2016-12-07: The orphaned Internet: 120K domains vulnerable to the shared hosting takeover attack.
2016-12-07: Giving up on PGP.
2016-12-06: Ultra-stable optical clock with two cold-atom ensembles.
2016-12-06: NIST ZDT (zero dead time) dual ytterbium optical lattice clock sets new stability record.
2016-12-06: Azure Jupyter notebooks in action for CUED 1A computing.
2016-12-06: Azure Jupyter notebooks.
2016-12-05: SSD prices rise as NAND shortage bites; HDD shortage looms as components become scarce.
2016-12-05: How slow https processing in Python revealed a performance bug in macOS calloc().
2016-12-05: How I wrote the screenplay of Arrival, and what I learned doing it.
2016-12-05: V8 JavaScript engine: optimizing memory consumption.
2016-12-05: Torsors made easy.
2016-12-05: ripgrep code review.
2016-12-04: How to use PVS-Studio static analyser for free.
2016-12-04: Quantum physics and prime numbers: the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function.
2016-12-04: Origin of diversity in falling snow: how special are snowflakes?
2016-12-04: Tim Hayward's guide to making the ultimate gravy.
2016-12-04: ProtonMail deploys SRP to improve usability by unifying login and decryption passwords.
2016-12-04: IPv6 support for EC2 instances in AWS virtual private clouds.
2016-12-04: Canonical log lines: a single-line summary of each request.
2016-12-04: Brigadoon, the time machine.
2016-12-04: ojo: Fun one-liners with Mojo, a perl web framework.
2016-12-04: recs: A system for command-line analysis of data.
2016-12-03: Let's stop copying C.
2016-12-02: 15 years of concurrency at Microsoft.
2016-12-02: Service discovery at Stripe with Consul, HAProxy, and DNS.
2016-12-02: RoLR, Registrar of Last Resort: malicious domain quarantine.
2016-12-02: Avalanche law enforcement takedown.
2016-12-02: ‘Avalanche' botnet C&C dismantled in international operation.
2016-12-02: So long, Whitechapel bell foundry.
2016-12-02: How data analysis identified the Singapore Circle Line rogue train.
2016-12-01: Google OSS-Fuzz: continuous fuzzing for open source software.
2016-12-01: GNU Shepherd: the Guix system distribution's init process, written in Guile.
2016-12-01: An apocryphal story about defect rates when ordering electronics from Japan.
2016-12-01: Nichia LEDs: precise binning AND low minimum order quantities.
2016-12-01: AMD will sneak-peek its high-end Zen CPU in December, starting a new CPU war.
2016-11-30: Shipping maps win at the Information Is Beautiful awards.
2016-11-30: UK ratifies membership of new unified EU patent court, despite Brexit.
2016-11-30: The Emacs dumper dispute, or, unexec the awesomely horrible.
2016-11-30: A very precise calculation of exactly how many cows are being murdered to make the new fivers.
2016-11-30: A design for micron-scale atomic clocks using endohedral fullerenes.
2016-11-30: Raspberry Pi NTP stratum 1 microserver HOWTO.
2016-11-30: Browsix: Unix in the browser tab.
2016-11-30: Google public NTP servers with smeared leap seconds.
2016-11-30: Corrode C-to-Rust translator: goto considered (mostly) harmless.
2016-11-30: nom parser combinator library for Rust, version 2.0.
2016-11-30: Rust's iterators are inefficient, and here's what to do about it.
2016-11-30: Fujitsu and ARM collaborate for Japan’s Post K supercomputer.
2016-11-30: Barcelona supercomputing centre MareNostrum 4 will include Intel Xeon, Knights Hill, Knights Landing, IBM POWER 9, NVIDIA GPUs, Fujitsu ARMv8.
2016-11-30: Router / switch buffer size issues.
2016-11-30: New polymer £5 note added to Churchill archives centre, where it sits alongside Winston Churchill's unpaid bills.
2016-11-30: 10G ethernet switch buffer sizes.
2016-11-30: Betavoltaic devices.
2016-11-30: A new higher-power diamond betavoltaic battery.
2016-11-29: The surprising implications of the Microsoft / Ireland warrant case.
2016-11-29: LEGO Technics machine produces true braided rope.
2016-11-29: Ofcom orders BT to separate from Openreach to improve competition.
2016-11-29: Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism.
2016-11-29: The 14 characteristics of fascism.
2016-11-29: Narcissistic personality disorder: Coping with chaos in the White House.
2016-11-29: Chance of an 'orderly' Brexit within two years is less than 50%.
2016-11-29: The electoral college was not meant to overturn elections.
2016-11-28: The design of Vulkano, a Rust interface to Vulkan.
2016-11-28: Who speaks for the state? Brexit in court.
2016-11-28: On bullshit and the oath of office: the "LOL nothing matters" presidency.
2016-11-28: The blockchain paradox: once you address the problem of governance, you no longer need a blockchain.
2016-11-27: pgTAP: unit testing for PostgreSQL.
2016-11-27: pgrebase: easy management of Postgres functions, triggers, views, etc.
2016-11-27: Pictures of the GeoCities cage at Exodus Communications. (1999)
2016-11-27: Systemd is not magic security pixie dust.
2016-11-26: Building a Harlequin ZX Spectrum clone.
2016-11-26: Abusing MS Edge URL protocols.
2016-11-26: Lessons learned playing the programming game Shenzhen I/O.
2016-11-26: Approaches to applying spacing methods in seriffed and sans-serif typeface designs.
2016-11-26: What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
2016-11-25: Disobedient electronics: call for submissions.
2016-11-25: Don't build private clouds.
2016-11-25: On political and civic structures.
2016-11-25: Rust hash tables are accidentally quadratic.
2016-11-25: sccache, Mozilla's distributed compiler cache, now written in Rust.
2016-11-25: Putting the Rust in Trust: towards formal verification.
2016-11-25: Robigalia: a userland for seL4 written in Rust.
2016-11-25: CakeML: a formally verified implementation of ML.
2016-11-23: Aspartame may prevent weight loss by blocking an intestinal enzyme's activity.
2016-11-23: Solving imaginary scaling issues, at scale.
2016-11-22: Using Let's Encrypt within FreeBSD.org.
2016-11-22: Who will command the robot armies?
2016-11-22: Brussels prepares for a hard Brexit.
2016-11-22: US banks lay groundwork to leave London.
2016-11-22: A 4-bit calculator made from cardboard and marbles.
2016-11-21: How to chop garlic. (video)
2016-11-21: constexpr-8cc: a C compiler implemented in C++14 constant expressions.
2016-11-21: Cloudflare IPv6 state of play.
2016-11-21: This year is the first time the winner of the Interactive Fiction Competition can be played without a keyboard.
2016-11-21: A particular kind of seaweed can reduce methane in cow burps and farts to nearly zero.
2016-11-21: Lessons learned from South Australia power blackout.
2016-11-21: QP trie to be used in Knot DNS.
2016-11-20: German cities have come up with a cheap way to provide public toilets.
2016-11-20: How to make bots that successfully fight racism on Twitter.
2016-11-19: Blameless postmortem debriefing facilitation guide.
2016-11-19: SpaceX plans worldwide low latency gigabit satellite Internet service.
2016-11-18: "Sore winner" syndrome: Why are Donald Trump's supporters (and Brexiteers) still so angry?
2016-11-18: Election expenses exposed: Channel 4 news investigation into breaches of campaign law.
2016-11-18: Why Roman law did not succeed in England.
2016-11-18: Chernobyl containment arch moved into place in historic engineering feat.
2016-11-17: Stephen Wolfram on his contribution to the movie Arrival.
2016-11-17: NTP leap smearing test results.
2016-11-17: How Arrival's designers crafted a mesmerizing alien alphabet.
2016-11-17: Rust for C++ programmers.
2016-11-17: Learning Rust with entirely too many linked lists.
2016-11-17: Xnet protesters in Spain drove the criminal prosecution of top bankers.
2016-11-15: H L Mencken on Trump.
2016-11-15: Leaked brexit memo: ministers have multiple conflicting plans, and Whitehall is struggling to cope.
2016-11-15: Portable System Services: systemd takes over Linux containers.
2016-11-15: Thunderbolt 3 technology brief.
2016-11-15: Dutch principles of road design: Sustainable Safety in action.
2016-11-14: Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 processor opcodes on an emulated Nintendo.
2016-11-14: Refactoring Rust std lib for ultimate portability.
2016-11-14: More about the Fraunhofer Institute StEnSEA pumped storage system.
2016-11-14: StEnSEA under-sea pumped storage 1:10 trial under way.
2016-11-14: Cretonne as a backend for the Rust compiler.
2016-11-14: Cretonne vs LLVM.
2016-11-14: Cretonne: a low-level compiler back-end IR and retargetable code generator, implemented in Rust.
2016-11-14: Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend: on leaving tech.
2016-11-13: Some thoughts about DNS and DDoS.
2016-11-13: Stop asking me to empathize with the white working class.
2016-11-13: Solar panels surpass coal-fired electricity in UK over summer.
2016-11-13: pg_repack: reorganize PostgreSQL with minimal locks. (Alternative to vacuum.)
2016-11-13: What so many people don't get about the US working class.
2016-11-13: Authoritarianism, not the economy, explains Trump and Brexit.
2016-11-13: Sheffield University's vice chancellor on Theresa May's trade mission to India.
2016-11-12: DNS request analysis with open source software.
2016-11-12: Extreme bagpiping.
2016-11-12: The Cinemax theory of racism.
2016-11-12: Blink Shell: ssh and mosh terminal emulator for iOS.
2016-11-12: Why sorting an array makes a Python loop faster.
2016-11-12: Ted Chiang, the science fiction genius behind the film Arrival.
2016-11-11: What's the singular form of ‘cattle'?
2016-11-11: Things fall apart: a history of banking crises and ensuing political crises in Britain.
2016-11-11: Why the IETF should standardize JMAP.
2016-11-11: Getting "atomic" (WWVB) clocks to work indoors and in weak signal areas.
2016-11-11: CAN bus-off attack: error handling of in-vehicle networks makes them vulnerable.
2016-11-11: The Beagle2 Mars lander came excruciatingly close to success.
2016-11-11: Tor, TPMs and service integrity attestation.
2016-11-10: History tells us what may happen next with Brexit and Trump.
2016-11-10: Lies to children: Why electricity is hard to understand.
2016-11-09: Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over'.
2016-11-09: UK IPv6 council meeting October 2016 slides and videos.
2016-11-08: NAPALM: network automation and programmability abstraction layer with multivendor support, for Ansible or Salt.
2016-11-08: UK austerity policies 'amount to violations of disabled people's rights' says UN.
2016-11-08: Brutal reality of lower benefit cap hits home for struggling UK families.
2016-11-08: Akamai will smear the 2016 leap second.
2016-11-08: How do you feel about optical lattice clocks?
2016-11-08: Sun outage / interference prediction for geostationary orbit satellites.
2016-11-08: IoT goes nuclear: creating a ZigBee chain reaction worm that spreads by physical proximity.
2016-11-08: A list of headless browsers and related automation tools.
2016-11-08: Some thoughts on Python asynchronous API design in a post-async/await world.
2016-11-07: Locking in WebKit.
2016-11-07: Futexes are tricky.
2016-11-07: rq: record query, like a multi-format jq.
2016-11-07: Perl and the birth of the dynamic web.
2016-11-06: The "hard problem" of consciousness is a distraction from the "real problem".
2016-11-06: Docker in production: a history of failure.
2016-11-06: kpatch: patch a running Linux kernel.
2016-11-06: Harvard researchers created solid metallic hydrogen and saw it is a reflective metal at low temperature at 495GPa.
2016-11-06: The secret world of microwave networks.
2016-11-05: Brexit is jeopardizing Britain's universities.
2016-11-05: Holovect: holographic vector display. (Kickstarter)
2016-11-05: Jeff Erickson's Algorithms, Etc.
2016-11-04: BearSSL: a new small TLS implementation.
2016-11-03: Abusing systemd user services.
2016-11-03: Measuring Docker network overhead in multi-host clusters.
2016-11-03: Measuring Docker disk IO overhead by benchmarking Percona server.
2016-11-03: Measuring Docker CPU / network overhead by benchmarking Percona server.
2016-11-03: PornHub bypasses ad blockers by using WebSockets.
2016-11-03: Not so special: Why the US won't help Britain in the Brexit talks.
2016-11-02: Active Cyber Defence: tackling cyber attacks on the UK
2016-11-02: Benjamin Franklin's method for improving his writing.
2016-11-02: The Brexit campaign, physics and data science: Vote Leave's "Voter Intention Collection System" (VICS) now available for all.
2016-11-01: Polymorphism, subtyping, and type inference in MLsub.
2016-11-01: Maastricht 25 years on: what happened to the European dream?
2016-11-01: HP / Agilent / Symmetricom 5071A cesium beam tube photos.
2016-11-01: HP 9100A, their first RPN calculator.
2016-11-01: What's inside an atomic clock Cs beam tube?
2016-11-01: Eliminating excessive state in network, application, and services architectures as a DDoS defense strategy.
2016-11-01: I don't understand Python's asyncio.
2016-10-31: Glossary of government IT self-harm bullshit.
2016-10-31: Comedy script writer jargon.
2016-10-31: European parliament debates DST.
2016-10-31: Mituharu's enhanced emacs-mac port.
2016-10-31: Museu del Cinema, Girona.
2016-10-30: The USA spent $5.7 billion on a nuclear armageddon pyramid, then abandoned it.
2016-10-30: telnetlogger: record login attempts from the Mirai botnet.
2016-10-30: Michael Moore's Angel in the Tweets.
2016-10-30: Misc stuff about USB-C.
2016-10-30: Differing Thunderbolt 3 vs PCIe bandwidth in the late-2016 MacBook Pro USB-C ports.
2016-10-30: Why are there no USB-C Receptacle to Type-B plugs or Type-A plugs?
2016-10-30: Bus1: capability-based object-oriented inter-process communication on Linux.
2016-10-29: What comes after iptables? Its successor, nftables.
2016-10-29: The fourth argument to main() on macOS.
2016-10-29: Compatibility nightmare: USB-C and Thunderbolt 3.
2016-10-29: Buttery smooth Emacs: double-buffered rendering on X11.
2016-10-29: The DrK attack: de-randomize kernel ASLR using Intel TSX.
2016-10-29: Corrode C-to-Rust update: support from Mozilla, and new features.
2016-10-29: Home Office rules: social and economic policy after Brexit.
2016-10-28: 27th DNS root key ceremony: generating the future KSK.
2016-10-28: Cognitive bias cheat sheet.
2016-10-28: Hooked on DTrace.
2016-10-28: Intro to DTrace on macOS.
2016-10-28: DTrace (or rather BPF) for Linux 2016
2016-10-27: A visit to the museum of technology in Figueres.
2016-10-27: Museu de la Tècnica de l'Empordà, Figueres.
2016-10-27: Bimodal IT considered harmful.
2016-10-27: Gecko plus Servo: a quantum leap for the Web.
2016-10-27: Security operations centre (SOC) buyers guide.
2016-10-27: Passfault password strength analyser.
2016-10-26: Parsing JSON is a minefield.
2016-10-26: How Google almost killed ProtonMail.
2016-10-26: OpenSSL face to face meeting report: roadmap and platform updates, including TLS 1.3.
2016-10-26: IETF dots wg: DDoS open threat signalling.
2016-10-26: Attackers are now abusing exposed LDAP servers to amplify DDoS attacks.
2016-10-26: The fantasy of autonomous cars is already encouraging neglect of more efficient transit systems .
2016-10-26: Verisign public DNS recursive resolver service.
2016-10-26: PPRuNe discusses Concorde.
2016-10-25: task_t considered harmful: problems in the core of XNU / macOS / iOS.
2016-10-25: How not to do it: liquid nitrogen tanks.
2016-10-25: Brexit Britain is a narcissist nation.
2016-10-25: Marginal "Marginal evidence for cosmic acceleration from Type Ia supernovae".
2016-10-25: How Democrats killed their populist soul: post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power.
2016-10-24: Nobel prize overturned? No dark energy, no accelerating expansion of the universe?
2016-10-24: "They didn't tell us we could do that": Brexit, Mayism, and the economics of nationalism.
2016-10-24: Threat analysis of on-premises and cloud encryption.
2016-10-24: Charles Dickens' pet raven Grip inspired Edgar Allen Poe.
2016-10-23: cinf: Linux container info, and low-level namespace and cgroup prodding.
2016-10-23: A burning philosophical question: dumpster fires vs tire fires.
2016-10-23: Scaling Puppet and Puppet culture at GitHub.
2016-10-23: A guide to optimising software in C++.
2016-10-23: Rust roadmap for 2017.
2016-10-23: Internet Census 2012: Port scanning /0 using insecure embedded devices.
2016-10-23: The racist and sexist history of keeping birth control side effects secret.
2016-10-23: Kircher and Schott's computer music of the Baroque.
2016-10-23: Nomulus: Google's open source top-level domain name registry.
2016-10-22: Sunday Strip Watchmen: your favourite syndicated cartoons get the dark treatment.
2016-10-22: Dyn statement on 2016-10-21 DNS DDoS attack.
2016-10-22: Full(er) House: Exposing high-end poker cheating devices.
2016-10-22: Shami Chakrabarti's fall from grace: how a liberal hero lost her reputation.
2016-10-21: Goodbye World! The perils of error checking stdio.
2016-10-21: World's longest pub crawl: a travelling salesman problem solved between 25,000 UK boozers.
2016-10-21: Comodo issued X.509 certs to the wrong people because they used OCR to read whois data from .be and .eu.
2016-10-21: SANET 100Gbit NREN backbone based on TRILL.
2016-10-21: Why we lost the Brexit vote: Behind the scenes of the flawed campaign to keep the UK in the EU.
2016-10-21: Fixing Python performance with Rust.
2016-10-20: The dangerous dream: How a progressive alliance could split Labour's left.
2016-10-20: Architects Registration Board will not prosecute "Software Architects".
2016-10-20: "Software architect" is an illegal job title in the UK.
2016-10-20: How the Web became unreadable: against low-contrast typography.
2016-10-20: 8cc.vim: a C compiler written in vim script, based on ELVM.
2016-10-20: $ export TERM=aaa-60; : jwz resurrects an old terminal.
2016-10-20: Brexit: the death of British business.
2016-10-19: Greenland is melting. The floodgates may already be open.
2016-10-19: Bit-rot tolerance in digital archives doesn't work.
2016-10-18: History of actors in programming languages.
2016-10-18: The history and manufacture of pencils.
2016-10-18: Faster counting in PostgreSQL.
2016-10-18: Debugging with Bacon.
2016-10-17: A dramatic tour through Python's data visualization landscape.
2016-10-17: 12480: an alphanumeric writing system.
2016-10-17: The Birkana runic hexadecimal number symbols.
2016-10-17: How Twitch uses PostgreSQL.
2016-10-17: The Importance of Place: explaining the characteristics underpinning the Brexit vote across different parts of the UK.
2016-10-17: JMESpath: a query language for JSON.
2016-10-17: CIRA labs DSAP: DS automated provisioning, for third-party DNS operator DNSSEC maintenance.
2016-10-17: Irish leaders fear Brexit will bring economic disaster.
2016-10-16: Brexit: a story in maps.
2016-10-16: Yeti DNS root server testbed: the first experiments.
2016-10-16: Rolling the root zone DNSSEC KSK.
2016-10-16: ENT was here !!! A problem with DNSSEC validation and empty non-terminal names.
2016-10-16: Anycast vs. DDoS: evaluating 2016-11-30 attack on root DNS servers.
2016-10-16: The ops identity crisis.
2016-10-16: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table.
2016-10-16: Understanding cacheing in Postgres.
2016-10-16: Introduction to PostgreSQL physical storage.
2016-10-16: NOMMU Linux, without virtual memory.
2016-10-16: Unix command line utility style guide.
2016-10-16: MySQL 8.0: the end of MyISAM.
2016-10-15: Gradual typing for functional programming languages.
2016-10-15: Static types in Python, oh my(py)!
2016-10-15: What $50 buys you at Huaqiangbei, a huge electronics market in Shenzhen.
2016-10-15: This robot can do more push-ups because it sweats.
2016-10-14: How to speed up the Rust compiler.
2016-10-14: A single byte write opened a root execution exploit, via c-ares on Android.
2016-10-14: A look back at a view of categories of SDN from 2013.
2016-10-14: Bellringers banned from York Minster, one of the greatest rings of bells in the country.
2016-10-14: The AstroPy problem: lack of funding and recognition for work on scientific software.
2016-10-14: Hedy Lamarr: inventor of frequency-hopping spread spectrum.
2016-10-14: Benchmarking popcount: hand coded assembly beats compiler intrinsics.
2016-10-14: 101 ways to screw up when making a fake online identity.
2016-10-14: A dozen USB chargers in the lab.
2016-10-13: Your social media fingerprint: which web sites are you logged into?
2016-10-12: New algorithm solves the bounded fair cake-cutting problem.
2016-10-12: PostgreSQL major version upgrade options.
2016-10-12: OpenSSL key recovery attack on unsafe RFC 5114 DH parameters.
2016-10-11: Multics Emacs: the history, design, and implementation.
2016-10-11: Algorithms for making more interesting mazes.
2016-10-11: Hopper disassembler v4.
2016-10-11: Britain's raucous negotiating style will not help Brexit.
2016-10-11: WASM is switching from an AST representation to a stack machine bytecode.
2016-10-10: "Don't feed the trolls" really is good advice. Here's the evidence.
2016-10-10: The massacre at Monkey Hill: Solly Zuckerman's misunderstanding of the baboons of London Zoo.
2016-10-10: Why does the replication crisis seem worse in psychology?
2016-10-10: Microsoft's P programming language, for asynchronous event-driven programming.
2016-10-10: 6 reasons to choose PostgreSQL 9.6.
2016-10-10: SQL style guide.
2016-10-10: Still think you don't need HTTPS?
2016-10-10: Kubernetes without SDN.
2016-10-10: Real world microservices: routing RPCs with linkerd and namerd.
2016-10-10: Outage postmortems: on finding root causes and contributing conditions.
2016-10-10: Rules, benefits, patterns, and anti-patterns for pre-merge code reviews.
2016-10-10: Mattermost: open source alternative to Slack.
2016-10-10: IRCv3
2016-10-09: Bottled Water: Real-time integration of PostgreSQL and Kafka.
2016-10-09: Streaming updates from Postgres.
2016-10-09: Transit app: how their pretty auto-generated transit maps work.
2016-10-09: A JavaScript journey with only six different characters.
2016-10-08: szl: a scripting language inspired by Tcl, shell, and CPython.
2016-10-08: Don't listen to the 400 richest Americans: most on the list inherited their wealth.
2016-10-08: Just Too Much Administration: breaking JEA, PowerShell's new security barrier.
2016-10-08: Der Giftschrank: the poison cupboard of dangerous books.
2016-10-08: In Little England, the conceit of Brexit is on full display; says the South China Morning Post.
2016-10-08: FOSS nonprofits: judged on their merits at the IRS?
2016-10-07: Git didn't beat SVN, GitHub did.
2016-10-07: Science used to be polyglot, but now English rules. How did this happen, and at what cost?
2016-10-07: ructe: compiled templates for Rust.
2016-10-07: Are DDoS attacks a threat to the decentralized Internet?
2016-10-07: CloudFlare and RSS.
2016-10-07: Opposition to Galileo was scientific as well as religious.
2016-10-07: Three years of @fewerror.
2016-10-07: macOS Sierra permanently remembers SSH key passphrase by default.
2016-10-07: Possible backdoor in RFC 5114 Diffie-Hellman groups?
2016-10-06: On the causes of the huge Level 3 VOIP outage.
2016-10-06: Parallela Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor.
2016-10-06: ECDSA and DNSSEC: ready for prime time?
2016-10-05: The first computer music recording was programmed by Christopher Strachey on a machine designed by Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn.
2016-10-05: A mathematician looks at Wolfram's "new kind of science".
2016-10-05: The cost of forsaking C / why to teach C to undergrads.
2016-10-05: A tale of a DNS packet: BIND CVE-2016-2776.
2016-10-05: Fighting fire with fire: Eliminating standing queues with large UDP packet floods.
2016-10-05: Queueing in the Linux network stack.
2016-10-05: A bit about TCP BBR.
2016-10-05: BBR bottleneck bandwidth and RTT congestion control.
2016-10-05: Mr Grayling is wrong about the Brexit dividend to station platform heights.
2016-10-04: Letter opener? Paper knife? The mystery of the phantom page turner.
2016-10-04: Python packaging is not bad any more.
2016-10-04: Pull-based monitoring doesn't scale. Or does it? (Prometheus)
2016-10-04: Deep-fried data.
2016-10-04: A comparison of Logstash, Filebeat, Fluentd, rsyslog, syslog-ng, and Logagent.
2016-10-04: LinkedIn Autobuild: zero-touch provisioning of physical servers.
2016-10-04: XMLStarlet: a set of shell commands to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents.
2016-10-04: json_xs: convert to/from JSON and a dozen other serialization formats.
2016-10-04: gron: make JSON greppable.
2016-10-04: Debugging PostgreSQL performance, the hard way.
2016-10-04: Distributed authentication at Facebook using OpenSSH certificate authorization.
2016-10-04: Wayland to replace X in Fedora 25.
2016-10-04: Outlook/Exchange autodiscover allows web site compromise to escalate to email compromise.
2016-10-04: Timezone boundary builder: create shapefiles for Olson tz names using data from Open Street Map and node.js.
2016-10-04: Why the 27 are taking a hard line on Brexit.
2016-10-04: Brexit talks will be like the Greek bailout.
2016-10-03: 40 minute video of extremely soothing artisanal Nixie tube production.
2016-10-03: The day TravisCI deleted their VM images.
2016-10-03: Brexit is damaging UK science already. Here is a plan to fix it.
2016-10-03: Attitudes to potentially offensive language and gestures on TV and radio.
2016-10-03: rr: lightweight user-space record and replay debugging.
2016-10-03: High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history. (A review of "Blitzed".)
2016-10-03: Manufacturer usage description (MUD): automatic firewall configuration for the Internet of Things.
2016-10-03: Rendering ASCII Charts with D3.
2016-10-03: ASCIItoSVG: Convert ASCII diagrams to beautiful SVG, using PHP.
2016-10-03: asciidiagram: A freeform ASCII diagram parser for Haskell (inspired by Ditaa).
2016-10-03: ASCIIFlow: ASCII art diagram editor.
2016-10-03: Ascii to SVG, using Elm.
2016-10-02: The rebuilding of the Weston Library in Oxford, winner of the Stirling Prize.
2016-10-02: The accidental DBA.
2016-10-02: Nitrokey USB crypto devices.
2016-10-02: Will the Nobel Prize overlook Barry Barish, the master builder of gravitational wave detectors?
2016-10-02: When Paris closed a riverside expressway, half the motor traffic disappeared.
2016-10-02: What caused crime to decline in the U.S.?
2016-10-02: Lesser known Git options and aliases.
2016-10-01: Thoughts on cults, and compassion for victims of spiritual abuse.
2016-10-01: Visiting the secret laboratory inside the Monument to the Great Fire of London.
2016-10-01: An intro to interesting mathematical twittering.
2016-10-01: DNS-over-HTTPS proxies.
2016-10-01: Google public DNS: DNS-over-HTTPS.
2016-10-01: Announcing Rust 1.12: new error message format; MIR mid-level intermediate representation.
2016-10-01: You don't have to be stupid to work here, but it helps: how workplaces suppress intelligence.
2016-10-01: Postgres full-text search is good enough!
2016-09-30: PostgreSQL 9.6 released!
2016-09-30: Amazon's newest ambition: competing directly with UPS and FedEx.
2016-09-30: Using mathematics to repair an ancient artistic masterpiece.
2016-09-30: Phone-based 2fa and account recovery is not secure.
2016-09-29: How to lock up systemd in one tweet.
2016-09-29: Theresa May accused of trying to remove positive data from immigration report before Brexit vote.
2016-09-29: The protocol-relative URL.
2016-09-28: UTF-8 in OpenBSD: why and how you ought to keep multibyte character support simple.
2016-09-28: JVM warmup flame graphs.
2016-09-28: The three IT infrastructure mistakes your company must not make.
2016-09-28: Unsafe at any clock speed: Linux kernel security needs a rethink.
2016-09-28: Restoring a vintage Xerox Alto day 8: it boots!
2016-09-28: The fall and rise of SVG.
2016-09-28: Brexit Britain: The poor man of Western Europe?
2016-09-27: pgComparator: compare tables in different locations and report differences. (PostgreSQL / Perl)
2016-09-27: Largest health and safety fines in the UK.
2016-09-27: SC4-HSM USB cryptographic module / security token.
2016-09-27: Designing and producing 2FA tokens to sell on Amazon.
2016-09-26: Virtual Colossus: a simulation of the world's first electronic computer.
2016-09-26: The John Peel mistake: "Everyone I know's got a copy." "No, you know everyone who's got a copy."
2016-09-26: SSH implementation comparison: huge cipher support matrix.
2016-09-26: DDoS botnets: the democratization of censorship.
2016-09-26: Top 10 London sundials.
2016-09-26: RTP and leap seconds.
2016-09-26: The new Napster: Sci-Hub is blowing up the academic publishing industry.
2016-09-26: Microsoft's rollout of FPGAs in their Azure cloud.
2016-09-26: The many hurdles of Brexit.
2016-09-26: Traffic source analysis of the J-root DNS server anycast instances.
2016-09-26: TCP anycast: don't believe the FUD.
2016-09-26: Use "Sperner's Lemma" to split unequal rent fairly.
2016-09-26: Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net.
2016-09-26: Coping with the TCP TIME-WAIT state on busy Linux servers.
2016-09-26: Investigating the phrase "fills a much-needed gap".
2016-09-25: Animations of pinball flipper techniques.
2016-09-25: Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) suite and quantum computing FAQ.
2016-09-25: A riddle wrapped in an enigma: the NSA's policy on elliptic curve and post-quantum cryptography.
2016-09-24: PdB: ANSI C to Postscript compiler.
2016-09-24: List of humorous units of measurement.
2016-09-24: Hy-Brasil: an imaginary island that stayed on maps for five centuries.
2016-09-24: Corbyn has won, again. This could be the end of the Labour Party.
2016-09-24: srez: image super-resolution through deep learning.
2016-09-24: optimise-js: tweak IIFE coding style to reduce parsing overhead.
2016-09-24: The performance impact of ECDSA signatures on DNSSEC validation.
2016-09-24: An ode to the night train.
2016-09-23: The NSA's hubris and the Shadow Brokers 0-day.
2016-09-23: Streetmix: design, remix, and share your street.
2016-09-23: Why coffee is sometimes called mocha.
2016-09-23: Cisco vulnerabilities and Shadow Brokers EPICBANANA and EXTRABACON exploits.
2016-09-23: ripgrep: the usability of ag and the speed of GNU grep. (Written in Rust.)
2016-09-23: Globalization should be put to work for democracy.
2016-09-23: Bloomberg will smear the next leap second.
2016-09-23: QuickSpec: guessing formal specifications using testing.
2016-09-23: QuickSpec: equational laws for free!
2016-09-23: Humanity left Africa in one big surge.
2016-09-23: The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5 °C.
2016-09-23: Why Hanjin, the world's 7th-largest ocean freight carrier, was allowed to go bankrupt.
2016-09-23: 4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe.
2016-09-23: syncookied: offload syn flood protection.
2016-09-23: Introducing the GitHub load balancer.
2016-09-23: Norton's law: Over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.
2016-09-23: The winds have changed: bad statistics and invalid results in psychological and sociological research.
2016-09-22: Julia v0.5.0 release notes.
2016-09-22: Firefox 49 fixes sites designed with WebKit in mind, and more.
2016-09-22: MotionMark: WebKit's new graphics benchmark for web browsers.
2016-09-22: Which tent cost more? #GBBO or Henry VIII's field of cloth of gold?
2016-09-22: How to make the perfect fish fingers.
2016-09-22: The discredited PACE trial: bad science misled millions with ME / chronic fatigue syndrome.
2016-09-22: Animation of HEVC wavefront parallel encoding.
2016-09-21: Optical fibre connectors: cleanliness is a virtue.
2016-09-21: What it costs to run Let's Encrypt.
2016-09-20: Hackers were able to remotely activate a Tesla's brakes via a web browser privilege escalation vulnerability.
2016-09-20: The problem with cul-de-sac suburbia: more traffic fatalities than a dense grid.
2016-09-20: Roughtime: network time service that assumes both network and time servers are untrustworthy.
2016-09-20: Edgy humour isn't funny any more? Don't blame political correctness, bame Poe's law.
2016-09-19: Rewriting a Python program in Golang and Rust.
2016-09-19: Improving license and patent issues for LLVM: Apache v2 and GPL v2 compatibility.
2016-09-19: DNS stats graphing tools: DSC and alternatives.
2016-09-19: Pg-Strom large table scan acceleration with SSD-to-GPU direct DMA.
2016-09-18: Twice the bits, twice the trouble: vulnerabilities induced by migrating to 64-bit platforms.
2016-09-18: OSTN15: the new geoid for Britain (and why Calf Top is now a mountain).
2016-09-18: TCP BBR: bottleneck bandwidth and congestion control.
2016-09-18: Solitude, space junk and sea monsters: the eerieness of Point Nemo.
2016-09-18: In America, mass incarceration has caused more crime than it has prevented.
2016-09-17: EU countries in scramble to "steal" UK-based research centres, because brexit.
2016-09-17: Google's BBR TCP congestion control algorithm: bottleneck bandwidth and RTT.
2016-09-17: The iPhone 7's new CPU should worry Intel.
2016-09-17: The impossible Bridge book: enumerating every possible deal.
2016-09-17: Big Deal: a program for dealing Bridge hands.
2016-09-17: American Contract Bridge League to switch to more secure European Big Deal hand generation software.
2016-09-16: More LastPass security vulnerabilities.
2016-09-16: An introduction to Cherry MX mechanical keyboard switches.
2016-09-16: How much screen time do women get in Hollywood movies?
2016-09-16: Blocked! Database of web sites censored in the UK.
2016-09-16: There is no REST API.
2016-09-16: Sorry David Attenborough, we didn't evolve from "aquatic apes" – here's why.
2016-09-16: If you leave your kids alone, it’s not predatory strangers who are a risk.
2016-09-16: A floating point exception, a compiler bug, and a crash in Chrome.
2016-09-16: CC BY and data: not always a good fit.
2016-09-15: Mozilla Firefox debugger.html: more progress replacing XUL.
2016-09-15: qira, QEMU interactive runtime analyser: a timeless debugger.
2016-09-15: Mozilla WebReplay rewindable debugger project.
2016-09-15: PCH peering survey 2016.
2016-09-15: The DDoS awareness / hype cycle amongst senior managers.
2016-09-15: ISC tech note on DNS anycast ECMP clusters with BIND, Zebra, and FreeBSD.
2016-09-14: Sophie Dahl writes about her grandfather Roald Dahl for his centenary.
2016-09-14: Inside the spire of the Transamerica Pyramid.
2016-09-14: dhcplb: Facebook's open source DHCP load balancer.
2016-09-14: Yandex Mail migrated from Oracle to Postgres.
2016-09-13: Pascal said that to persuade someone they are wrong, first find out how they are right.
2016-09-13: Why do tourists visit ancient ruins everywhere except the United States?
2016-09-13: China will resurrect the Antonov AN-225, the world's largest plane.
2016-09-13: A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and cache flushing.
2016-09-13: Someone is learning how to take down the Internet.
2016-09-13: Notional results for the 2015 UK parliamentary election with the provisional constituency boundaries.
2016-09-13: The Doves Press typeface: the world’s most beautiful lettering was nearly lost forever.
2016-09-13: A digital reconstruction of the Doves Press typeface.
2016-09-13: European GDP at regional level.
2016-09-13: The sugar industry bought off scientists and skewed dietary guidelines for decades.
2016-09-13: How songbirds island-hopped their way from Australia to colonise the world.
2016-09-13: Inside the violent, geeky world of hardcore international medieval combat.
2016-09-13: The technological trends that will shape the next 30 years: an interview with Kevin Kelly.
2016-09-13: How to cheat at Bridge by breaking the tournament card-dealing random number generator.
2016-09-13: Constituency Boundaries: explore the impact of proposed changes to Parliamentary constituency boundaries.
2016-09-12: Jeremy Corbyn's disastrous year.
2016-09-12: Input threads in the X server.
2016-09-12: xkcd: Earth temperature timeline.
2016-09-12: Vanilla JS :-)
2016-09-12: Visible light vs transparency of water to electromagnetic radiation.
2016-09-12: DAV's Endian FAQ.
2016-09-12: Wreck of HMS Terror found nearly 170 years after disastrous Northwest Passage attempt.
2016-09-12: whatplug.global: find out about plugs, sockets and power adapters around the world.
2016-09-12: Brexit calendar for the rest of 2016 (and beyond).
2016-09-12: Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce's single-crystal turbine blade casting foundry.
2016-09-12: Rust vs graph structures and inheritance.
2016-09-12: The origin of C's cast syntax.
2016-09-12: The brightest part of a shadow is in the middle (if you have a circular object and a laser). (YouTube)
2016-09-12: Netnod NTP from a distributed timescale traceable to UTC.
2016-09-12: Swedish distributed time service, including a link to the FPGA NTP server source code.
2016-09-12: Netnod NTP time service: how and why?
2016-09-12: Brexit from the perspective of Brussels.
2016-09-12: Climate change will lead to more incidents of severe clear-air turbulence on passenger flights.
2016-09-12: The vDOS booter service got hacked, revealing their customer database.
2016-09-12: Cambridge peak-time congestion control points - FAQ.
2016-09-12: Cambridge peak-time congestion control points - quick guide.
2016-09-12: The loud sound of a fire suppression gas release destroyed dozens of hard drives at ING Bank's main data centre.
2016-09-12: The two cultures of mathematics.
2016-09-11: What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
2016-09-11: Lucille Ball and Star Trek.
2016-09-11: Tricki: a repository of mathematical know-how.
2016-09-11: When will New York City sink into the sea?
2016-09-11: The false promise of a free-trade paradise: Brexit Britain will lose access to 50 trade agreements.
2016-09-11: Failure of national welfare systems can be partly blamed for discontent with the EU.
2016-09-11: Teaching computational thinking with the Wolfram Language.
2016-09-11: Halide: a programming language for high performance image processing pipelines, embedded in C++.
2016-09-11: VW engineer's guilty plea could signal more indictments on diesel emissions scandal.
2016-09-11: Python 3.6 dict becomes compact and gets a private version; and keywords become ordered.
2016-09-11: Argument maps.
2016-09-11: How to write articles and essays quickly and expertly.
2016-09-10: Data snooping blunders by UK spies and police led to wrongful arrests.
2016-09-10: A zfs-style filesystem on Noms.
2016-09-10: Photos from inside NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain combat center.
2016-09-10: Pypy RevDB: reverse debugger for Python.
2016-09-10: The efficacy of donations and spending on Lib Dem seats at the 2015 UK general election.
2016-09-10: Brits will need a visa to visit the EU after Brexit.
2016-09-09: Discovering how Dropbox hacks your Mac to get accessibility privileges.
2016-09-09: Brexit: England's last gasp of empire.
2016-09-09: Evidence rebuts Chomsky's theory of language learning and universal grammar.
2016-09-09: Incremental compilation in Rust.
2016-09-09: The fierce, forgotten library wars of the ancient world.
2016-09-09: Why is printing "B" dramatically slower than printing "#"?
2016-09-08: Our assumption that spacetime is a continuum leads to many challenges in mathematical physics.
2016-09-08: Databases and CGI were the killer app for the WWW.
2016-09-08: DSA-3628: vulnerabilities due to perl loading modules from the current directory.
2016-09-08: Upcoming change to perl: current directory no longer in @INC.
2016-09-08: How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of supersmart children.
2016-09-08: Google obliterated a 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users.
2016-09-08: The people's priority? Free trade or immigration control? Ashcroft's Brexit poll.
2016-09-08: EasyJet moves maintenance base to Malta thanks to Brexit.
2016-09-08: Turing codec: BBC's open source HEVC H.265 video compression.
2016-09-07: Frowns are different in the UK and USA.
2016-09-07: The next steps for gmane.
2016-09-07: Dolphin emulator now boots the final GameCube game. (MMU emulation!)
2016-09-07: Thoughts on conducting a beginner level Rust workshop.
2016-09-07: A lucky iron fish helps fix anaemia in Cambodia.
2016-09-06: Compromised cryptographic key reuse remains widespread in embedded products.
2016-09-06: Unwieldy LEGO sculptures reveal a multitude of hidden shadow designs.
2016-09-06: Prime Minister says Secretary of State for Brexit's comments on the Single Market are not government policy.
2016-09-06: Autonomous driving: Mercedes-Benz E-Class vs Tesla Model S.
2016-09-06: ANTP: authenticated network time synchronization.
2016-09-06: One bit flips, one cloud flops: cross-VM rowhammer attacks and privilege escalation.
2016-09-06: German federal intelligence service BND violates laws and constitution.
2016-09-06: The XTS cipher mode: how it works and why you don't want to use it.
2016-09-06: One, two, three, four: Sesame Street, Frege, and the foundations of arithmetic.
2016-09-06: The secret to a breakthrough in fighting norovirus? Human bile.
2016-09-05: Moving from Docker to rkt.
2016-09-05: Inside OpenBSD's full disk encryption.
2016-09-05: Stabilized time lapse video shows Earth rotating under fixed stars. (YouTube)
2016-09-05: skypeopensource2: reverse engineered Skype client.
2016-09-05: What I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriter.
2016-09-05: Obama quashes prospect of fast-track Brexit UK-USA trade deal.
2016-09-05: Japan's unprecedented warning to UK over Brexit.
2016-09-05: A fighter pilot's guide to avoiding road traffic collisions.
2016-09-04: Computing with programmable logic (FPGA).
2016-09-04: What can a university teacher do to make compsci more inclusive?
2016-09-04: Big bad adjective order in English.
2016-09-04: The Shit Pyramids of King Sneferu: the learning process before the Great Pyramid of King Khufu.
2016-09-04: ThreatSTOP RPZ DNS firewall.
2016-09-04: The hacker, the scrapheap, and the first Apollo computer.
2016-09-04: The NSA hacked the Élysée in 2012.
2016-09-04: Flooding of American coast, caused by global warming, becomes hard to ignore.
2016-09-04: Let's build an igloo at the South Pole!
2016-09-03: Nick Clegg: ‘I did not cater for the Tories' brazen ruthlessness'
2016-09-03: 12 MORE ways to make it look like Brexit has happened!
2016-09-03: History of Gaussian elimination.
2016-09-03: Why do criminals launder money through restaurants?
2016-09-03: 100 million year old avian dinosaur wing found preserved in amber.
2016-09-03: pingfs: storage in ICMP in the cloud.
2016-09-03: A catalogue of extraordinary stranger-than-fiction people.
2016-09-03: Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker.
2016-09-03: Windyty: wind map and forecast.
2016-09-03: Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice.
2016-09-03: Brexit: there will be tears before bedtime.
2016-09-03: Solutions to integer overflow.
2016-09-02: Hidden assets, hidden costs: a review of the Panama Papers.
2016-09-02: WoSign's legal threats over their secret purchase of StartCom.
2016-09-02: A short history of Internet protocols at CERN. (1995)
2016-09-02: How to attack servers bound to localhost on someone else's workstation.
2016-09-02: Arrival (based on Ted Chiang's Story Of Your Life) is science fiction at its most beautiful and provocative.
2016-09-02: 3D printed Curta mechanical calculator.
2016-09-01: 40 years on, the Internet transmits every aspect of our lives.
2016-09-01: External issues in DNS scalability. (1995)
2016-09-01: y-cruncher: a multi-threaded pi program (the world record holder).
2016-09-01: Rclone: a command line program to sync files and directories to and from various cloud storage services.
2016-09-01: lzturbo: fast compressor.
2016-09-01: Zstandard: smaller and faster data compression from Facebook.
2016-09-01: Four reasons why Brexit negotiations are harder than you (or the Cabinet) might think.
2016-09-01: Rowhammer plus VM page deduplication leads to cross-VM crypto key compromise.
2016-08-31: A nice RAM latency chart.
2016-08-31: RAM access with TLBs is O(N log N).
2016-08-31: RAM access is O(√N) not O(1).
2016-08-31: How jvns made a zine about netstat, netcat, ngrep, tcpdump, wireshark, strace, eBPF, dstat, and perf!
2016-08-31: British officials don't have the expertise, the staff or a plan for the tortuous Brexit negotiations.
2016-08-31: The top 19 brexit promises.
2016-08-31: Theresa May calls for "unique" brexit deal: in the single market, without freedom of movement.
2016-08-31: The restructuring of Internet standards governance 1987-1992.
2016-08-31: Notes on the history of fork and join.
2016-08-31: Little: a statically typed, C-like scripting language compiled to Tcl bytecode.
2016-08-31: GNU JTW: Delphi-flavoured bournegol for Java.
2016-08-31: MIT problem set on regexes.
2016-08-31: scsh sre: scheme shell regular-expression notation.
2016-08-31: Emacs rx: readable regexes.
2016-08-31: SRL: simple (verbose) regex language.
2016-08-30: A Docker fork? Talk of a split is now on the table.
2016-08-30: PLOT3: programming language for old timers.
2016-08-30: bitdata: high-level views on low-level binary data representations.
2016-08-30: Zig: a C-like programming language which prioritizes optimality, safety, and readability.
2016-08-30: Game animation from rotoscoped filmed parkour.
2016-08-29: undebt: automatic refactoring for Python.
2016-08-29: Cambridge: a history of its railways and station.
2016-08-29: mpc: a micro parser combinator library for C.
2016-08-29: The price of solar power installations is declining to unprecedented lows.
2016-08-28: Sad puppies vs sf: radical futures and conservative sensitivities.
2016-08-28: How Chuck Tingle beat sf's sad puppies at their own game, and cured a case of writer's block.
2016-08-28: Rustdoc meets Emacs.
2016-08-28: Theresa May orders her cabinet ministers to come up with a plan for brexit.
2016-08-27: Investment managers with poor parents produce higher returns than those with rich parents.
2016-08-27: Human-induced climate change started in the 1830s.
2016-08-27: The wrong emotion.
2016-08-27: Taking over 20K domain names with lame servers pointing at DigitalOcean.
2016-08-27: Farming was invented twice in the Middle East, shows a genetic study.
2016-08-27: Rasputin and the "this is a work of fiction" disclaimer.
2016-08-27: Attack of the week: Sweet32 exploits birthday collisions in 64-bit ciphers in TLS.
2016-08-26: How many x86 instructions are there?
2016-08-26: What's new in C# 7.
2016-08-26: Technical analysis of Pegasus iPhone spyware.
2016-08-26: Million dollar dissident: NSO Group's iPhone 0days used against a UAE human rights defender.
2016-08-26: Decline and fall of the British lobbying empire.
2016-08-26: Database of 4200 predictions about the future of the Internet from the early 1990s.
2016-08-25: Traffic Light Protocol for controlled disclosure of sensitive security information.
2016-08-24: Rover: proof of concept exploit of CVE-2016-5696.
2016-08-24: 31 essential sf terms and where they came from.
2016-08-24: The Python JITs are coming.
2016-08-24: Dynamic branch prediction with perceptrons.
2016-08-24: The Ethernet PAUSE frame.
2016-08-23: Host of troubles: HTTP cache poisoning through Host: header misparsing confusion.
2016-08-23: Bubble-wrapped sponge makes steam using ambient sunlight.
2016-08-23: Samsung M1 ARMv8 core has a neural network branch predictor.
2016-08-23: libpnet: low level networking (and binary packet parsing) in Rust,
2016-08-23: Roaring bitmaps in C.
2016-08-23: Array layouts for comparison-based searching.
2016-08-23: Nail: A practical interface generator for data formats, such as DNS.
2016-08-22: The general method for solving all problems is: 1. Find the most difficult outstanding problem; 2. Solve it.
2016-08-22: Crash not accident: more neutral, constructive terminology when referring to collisions on the roads.
2016-08-22: City of London police is replacing fraud prosecutions with privatised-for-profit civil lawsuits.
2016-08-22: Playing with syntax: variations of setf in Common Lisp.
2016-08-22: Help to Buy ISA scandal: they cannot be used for initial deposit on homes as originally promised.
2016-08-22: A year of Rust and DNS.
2016-08-22: NIST's new password rules.
2016-08-21: Brexit ministers have not even got to base one in knowledge of EU treaties.
2016-08-21: The myth of the placebo effect.
2016-08-21: A suggestion on how to spend a day at home.
2016-08-21: The LMS Turbomotive 6202: steam turbine locomotive.
2016-08-21: Self-Hosted Kubernetes makes Kubernetes installs, scaleouts, upgrades easier.
2016-08-21: Nasa just made all its research available online for free.
2016-08-21: What is the colour of an atom?
2016-08-21: The hidden danger of big data.
2016-08-21: The difficulties of getting that Brexit deal.
2016-08-21: Brexiteers are short of a plan and the people to implement it.
2016-08-21: The war on cash.
2016-08-20: Power pricing: a handy rule of thumb for the annual cost of electricity.
2016-08-20: Research funding in a post-brexit world.
2016-08-20: "Hot" sex and young girls.
2016-08-20: Pro-EU folks in the UK: keep making your case, don't apologise.
2016-08-19: Interview with Jeffery Snover, inventor of PowerShell.
2016-08-19: ScanTailor: an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages.
2016-08-19: Manually dewarping photos of pages of books with Photoshop.
2016-08-19: Automatically dewarping photographs of pages of books.
2016-08-18: PowerShell is now open source and running on Linux.
2016-08-18: Empire of the air: the British imperial airship service.
2016-08-18: It's the future of web app deployment!
2016-08-18: The bedroom tax failed to free up larger homes.
2016-08-18: Beer archaeologist: how alcohol shaped our civilization.
2016-08-18: The Shadow Brokers mess is what happens when the NSA hoards zero-days.
2016-08-18: Intel licenses ARM technology to boost foundry business.
2016-08-18: Brexit trade deals: the gruelling challenge of taking back control.
2016-08-18: World's biggest banks already plotting mass exodus from London after Brexit.
2016-08-17: Close encounters of the Java memory model kind.
2016-08-17: A Palo Alto housing commissioner leaves town, and starts an affordable housing furor.
2016-08-17: TriforceAFL: full-system fuzzing with AFL and qemu.
2016-08-17: July was the hottest month since records began.
2016-08-17: public-inbox: mailing list archives stored in git.
2016-08-17: git-series: track changes to a patch series over time.
2016-08-17: Colorized man pages using LESS_TERMCAP.
2016-08-17: Why didn't Larrabee fail?
2016-08-17: NTIA to allow IANA functions contract to expire on October 1, relieving ICANN from US DoC supervision.
2016-08-17: Hitler and the reinvention of interpreting: simultaneous translation.
2016-08-17: The uniform European Union passport.
2016-08-17: Brexit is not going to happen, but it might need a second referendum.
2016-08-16: pgpdump: PHP packet visualizer.
2016-08-16: mb21: the UK transmission mast gallery.
2016-08-16: Quick Brexit illusion exposed in unusual tale of Greenland.
2016-08-15: Circumventing fuzzing roadblocks with compiler transformations that help AFL find magic numbers.
2016-08-15: Sonic black hole creates its own version of Hawking radiation.
2016-08-15: Implementing a Pratt parser in Rust.
2016-08-15: Tyre: typed regular expressions for Ocaml.
2016-08-15: Distributed logging architecture in the container era with fluentd.
2016-08-15: Sysdig tracers: system profiling for lazy developers.
2016-08-15: Why is the Greenwich Prime Meridian 102m west of the GPS zero meridian?
2016-08-15: Brexit could be delayed until late 2019. Whitehall doesn't even know the right questions to ask.
2016-08-15: wcc: the Witchcraft Compiler Collection - shared object extraction, conversion, and scripting.
2016-08-15: Java memory model pragmatics.
2016-08-15: A notation for algorithms written by hand on paper.
2016-08-14: A cyclist's view of road congestion in London.
2016-08-14: The beauty of polynomial roots.
2016-08-14: Incompetent Liam Fox's dept. deletes press release after making big Brexit EU admission.
2016-08-14: The brexit hangover just got worse.
2016-08-13: Could a ‘reverse Greenland' arrangement keep Scotland and Northern Ireland in the EU?
2016-08-13: New "bionic" leaf is roughly 10x more efficient than natural photosynthesis.
2016-08-13: PostgreSQL BDR 1.0: bi-directional replication.
2016-08-13: Lake Kivu's dissolved methane extraction project.
2016-08-13: Lake Nyos: the deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
2016-08-12: Enough David Brent, Brexit is serious!
2016-08-12: DiskFiltration: data exfiltration from speakerless air-gapped computers via covert hard drive noise.
2016-08-12: The proton radius puzzle: a muon orbiting around an atom confirms physics is broken.
2016-08-12: Elliptic curve calculator: a slide rule made from a sheet of paper and a straight edge.
2016-08-12: DDoSCoin: a cryptocurrency with a malicious proof-of-work.
2016-08-12: How Microsoft compromised their Secure Boot implementation.
2016-08-12: CENTRstats: data on European national TLD registries.
2016-08-11: Zero-cost futures in Rust.
2016-08-11: EMF TiLDA: ElectroMagnetic Field programmable con badges.
2016-08-11: Britain may soon leave Europol as a result of Brexit.
2016-08-11: These are the red lines Europe won't cross in Brexit talks.
2016-08-11: Wireless hacks can unlock millions of motor vehicles.
2016-08-11: On the performance of AES vs ChaCha.
2016-08-11: Brexit means Brexit, but in reality it's a long time away.
2016-08-11: "Biased" fit for work tests penalise poorer people.
2016-08-10: Linux performance tools, with maps of which tools do what.
2016-08-10: NEJM continues campaign against open data.
2016-08-10: US DEA agents profile travellers to seize cash, not to make arrests or build criminal cases.
2016-08-10: Ride like a girl: cycling is awfully similar to being a woman.
2016-08-10: Microsoft has accidentally left a hole in Secure Boot.
2016-08-10: The shape of errors to come in Rust.
2016-08-10: fast-cli: test your download speed using fast.com and node.js.
2016-08-10: On cybersecurity and being targeted: DNS compromise leads to narrowly avoided account compromise.
2016-08-10: Met Office weather radar upgrade can now capture the size and shape of raindrops.
2016-08-10: Brexit: almost a third of international students less likely to come to the UK to study.
2016-08-10: UK researchers excluded from European research network due to Brexit.
2016-08-09: Building fast.com, the Netflix speed test web site.
2016-08-09: Foghorn: a DNS greylisting proxy.
2016-08-09: Stop talking about the trolley problem.
2016-08-09: Behind the scenes with iOS security.
2016-08-09: Carto-Metro London rail and tube map v3.5.
2016-08-09: Notes on distributed systems for new engineers.
2016-08-09: Radicale: a simple CalDAV and CardDAV server.
2016-08-09: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail.
2016-08-08: How not to autoconf: it's hard work printing nothing.
2016-08-08: Mathematica version 11 announcement.
2016-08-08: ProjectSauron: top level cyber-espionage platform covertly extracts encrypted government comms.
2016-08-08: Why sodium and potassium really explode in water.
2016-08-08: DNA analysis shows the horse's smooth fast ambling gait originated near York in about 850 AD.
2016-08-08: Brexit: a divided nation.
2016-08-08: Think the north and the poor caused Brexit? Think again.
2016-08-08: I peeked into my node.js modules directory, and you won't believe what happened next!
2016-08-08: Guide to building lightning protection.
2016-08-08: Benchmarking integer and floating point operations on the JVM.
2016-08-08: Cuckoo filter: practically better than Bloom.
2016-08-07: American wire gauge and the 39th root of 92.
2016-08-07: Quanergy announces $250 solid-state LIDAR for cars, robots, and more.
2016-08-07: MIT and DARPA packed a LIDAR sensor onto a single chip.
2016-08-07: International Phonetic Alphabet reference chart.
2016-08-07: Fun facts about the International Phonetic Alphabet.
2016-08-07: About the International Phonetic Alphabet.
2016-08-07: Mapping the hidden worlds beneath Greenland's ice.
2016-08-06: Julia Reda: the political iconoclast at the center of Europe's tech policy debate.
2016-08-06: Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back from cars.
2016-08-06: EditorConfig: define and maintain consistent coding styles across different editors and IDEs.
2016-08-06: DCAS is not a silver bullet for nonblocking algorithm design.
2016-08-06: asyncpg: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python.
2016-08-06: RhodeCode: repo hosting for Hg, Git, SVN.
2016-08-06: Moving to GitLab! Yes, it's worth it!
2016-08-06: Ratas: A hierarchical timer wheel.
2016-08-05: Towards a unified theory of Operational Transformation and CRDT.
2016-08-04: $hell on earth: from browser to system compromise. Pwn2Own attack chain analysis.
2016-08-04: HEIST attack uses TCP to make the CRIME and BREACH TLS attacks easier.
2016-08-04: What's next for multi-process Firefox?
2016-08-04: Thoughts on Uber's list of Postgres limitations.
2016-08-03: Dynamically diagnosing type errors in unsafe C.
2016-08-03: Cipherli.st: strong TLS ciphers for Apache, nginx and Lighttpd.
2016-08-03: Prepaid or PAYG data SIM wiki.
2016-08-03: A unified theory of randomness.
2016-08-03: font-rs: the fastest font renderer in the world, written in Rust.
2016-08-03: C style and coding standards for SunOS.
2016-08-02: OpenWeatherMap.
2016-08-02: How to read a book.
2016-08-02: Structure literals vs constructors in Rust.
2016-08-02: Vector Space Systems aims for 100 launches per year, 50kg to LEO.
2016-08-02: Nigerian email scam fraudster arrested.
2016-08-02: Calling it PostgreSQL instead of plain Postgres was the single worst mistake the project ever made.
2016-08-02: A field guide to China's most indispensable meme.
2016-08-02: Looking back at Swift 3 and ahead to Swift 4.
2016-08-02: Stop hacking the Amazon Dash button and learn to solder.
2016-08-02: Surprises of the Faraday cage.
2016-08-02: Time Flies: levitating nixie clock.
2016-08-02: Netflix billing migration: self-hosted Oracle to MySQL on AWS.
2016-08-01: The vanishing civility.
2016-08-01: A geologist's guide to ancient history embedded in London's buildings.
2016-08-01: Boeing 747 production may soon cease.
2016-08-01: Dealing with COTS products in a DevOps world.
2016-08-01: Writing systemd unit files.
2016-08-01: systemd: mask services to disable them despite dependencies.
2016-08-01: Linux hardware information commands.
2016-08-01: Software over-engineering mistakes.
2016-08-01: Direct detection of the 229Th nuclear clock transition.
2016-08-01: USB polling intervals.
2016-08-01: Lumen: magic auto brightness based on screen contents. (Mac OS)
2016-07-31: Phantom types with Flow, a static type checker for JavaScript.
2016-07-31: How to avoid being called a bozo when producing XML.
2016-07-31: How the British government saved $2.2bn by going digital.
2016-07-31: America uses stealthy submarines to hack other countries' systems.
2016-07-31: Desalination now provides 55% of domestic water in Israel.
2016-07-31: Why not write dependently typed Haskell?
2016-07-31: Habits of highly mathematical people.
2016-07-30: Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way. No scripts.
2016-07-30: synsanity: iptables module for multicore SYN flood mitigation.
2016-07-30: Protocol Buffers v3.
2016-07-30: Mechanical techno: ghost in the machine music.
2016-07-29: The end of Gmane?
2016-07-28: The Rust Platform: a batteries-included Cargo metapackage.
2016-07-28: Troubleshooting tales: problems with pgbouncer in transaction pooling mode.
2016-07-28: Emacs horrors: unexec.
2016-07-28: PostgreSQL mailing list discussion of Uber's criticisms.
2016-07-28: Gravity Probe B: the world's most perfect gyroscopes.
2016-07-28: A biography of Alice and Bob.
2016-07-28: What is the roundest country?
2016-07-27: Structured deferral: synchronization via procrastination.
2016-07-27: Booter blacklist: DDoS-for-hire services.
2016-07-27: Using quiescent states to reclaim memory in concurrent data structures.
2016-07-27: A century of trends in adult human height.
2016-07-27: Log structured merge trees.
2016-07-27: Let's Encrypt now has full support for IPv6.
2016-07-27: What is the Q of Earth as an oscillator?
2016-07-27: No, it's not your opinion. You're just wrong.
2016-07-27: Brexit, euro clearing, and the City of London.
2016-07-26: Why Uber switched from PostgreSQL to MySQL.
2016-07-26: Tapping yeast genetics for better beer.
2016-07-26: Three implementation models for Scheme.
2016-07-26: Root DNSSEC KSK rollover plans: K-day will be 11 Oct 2017.
2016-07-25: Flent: the FLExible Network Tester. (Good for checking bufferbloat.)
2016-07-25: The effect of TCP tuning on BGP convergence efficiency.
2016-07-24: PgBouncer: a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL.
2016-07-24: repmgr: Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters.
2016-07-24: PostgreSQL vs the audacity of NoSQL.
2016-07-24: High availability for PostgreSQL with HAproxy, Governor, and etcd.
2016-07-24: The great British pensions cock-up.
2016-07-24: How archaeologists found the lost medieval megacity of Angkor. (LIDAR)
2016-07-24: Climate change is rapidly taking the planet apart.
2016-07-24: Why has Scotland risen above the anti-immigrant mood that fuelled the Brexit vote?
2016-07-24: David Chang's unified theory of deliciousness.
2016-07-23: Who is harmed by a "real names" policy.
2016-07-23: How we broke PHP, hacked Pornhub, and earned $20,000.
2016-07-23: Building Photoshop.
2016-07-22: Fuzzing with AFL is an art.
2016-07-22: The Erlang shell: a bit more (and less) than a REPL.
2016-07-22: se: a full-screen editor with the ed command set.
2016-07-22: e: the RAND full-screen text editor.
2016-07-22: LeoNTP inexpensive GPS time server.
2016-07-22: "I'm with the banned": Laurie Pennie not writing about Milo Yiannopoulos.
2016-07-21: Git for Windows accidentally creates NTFS alternate data streams.
2016-07-21: Brexit Blues.
2016-07-21: DeepMind reduces energy used for cooling Google data centers by 40% (15% less PUE).
2016-07-20: A brexit memo to David Cameron from the former Canadian High Commissioner to the UK.
2016-07-20: Fuzzing through multi-objective shrinking: combining a test case reducer with AFL.
2016-07-20: Graal and Truffle: radically accelerating innovation in programming language design.
2016-07-20: The British political crisis is a consequence of FPTP and lack of proportional representation.
2016-07-20: PRoot: user-space `chroot` and `mount --bind` implemented with ptrace() instead of LD_PRELOAD.
2016-07-20: pseudo: a suped-up replacement for fakeroot+fakechroot.
2016-07-20: UK Internet report: reachability of ISP core routers.
2016-07-19: On the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science.
2016-07-19: Significant accidents and close calls in human space flight. (interactive graphic)
2016-07-19: Vulkan tutorial: successor to OpenGL.
2016-07-19: Inter-procedural optimization and C++ inline functions.
2016-07-18: Stackless coroutines in LLVM (WIP).
2016-07-18: HTTPoxy: exploiting the fact that CGI scripts and HTTP clients both use the HTTP_PROXY environment variable.
2016-07-18: How the UK halved its teenage pregnancy rate.
2016-07-18: Android N will make raw GPS measurements available to apps.
2016-07-18: An Internet packet radio experiment in a Silcon Valley beer garden in 1976.
2016-07-18: Choose boring technology.
2016-07-18: A wait-free queue as fast as fetch-and-add.
2016-07-18: Passport index.
2016-07-18: Does 1+2+3... really equal -1/12?
2016-07-17: J-core open SuperH compatible processor.
2016-07-16: hydrogen: Run code inline in Atom using Jupyter kernels.
2016-07-15: How technology disrupted the truth.
2016-07-15: Up to 70% of people in developed countries got no richer between 2005-2014.
2016-07-15: Creating 3D models with HTML and CSS (and without JavaScript).
2016-07-14: Everything you need to know about international brexit negotiations.
2016-07-14: Sinking giggling into the sea: the ineffectiveness of anti-establishment satire.
2016-07-14: Calculating the power of the Trinity atom bomb by isotopic analysis of trinitite, 70 years later.
2016-07-13: CTEs are optimization fences in PostgreSQL.
2016-07-13: ejson: encrypt secrets using nacl for storage in git.
2016-07-12: Windows point-and-print driver malware insertion.
2016-07-12: TypeScript 2.0 beta.
2016-07-12: THOR: synchronized trades to beat HFT.
2016-07-12: A hedge fund has a patent on using atomic clocks to beat high-frequency traders.
2016-07-12: The mysterious syndrome impairing astronauts' sight.
2016-07-11: Systemd logind RemoveIPC=yes can break PostgreSQL.
2016-07-11: Cross-reference Theresa May's speech and voting record. Did she mean anything she said?
2016-07-11: Fundamental limits on invisibility cloaks.
2016-07-11: A history of infographics and data visualization.
2016-07-11: Algorithmic emoji suggestions in Dango.
2016-07-11: History of the URL: path, fragment, query, auth.
2016-07-11: History of the URL: domain, protocol, and port.
2016-07-11: Why CERN can't scale up the LHC to probe quantum gravity.
2016-07-11: Rust vs C vs asm in the *ring* crypto library.
2016-07-11: microG: a free software replacement for Android Google Play Services.
2016-07-10: Writing REST API clients in Rust.
2016-07-09: Areas with low immigration voted mainly for brexit.
2016-07-09: corrode: C to Rust translator.
2016-07-09: Bee Bread: pollen stored in the hive.
2016-07-08: A second brexit referendum is probably legally required.
2016-07-08: Yesterday's NeWS.
2016-07-08: Green sky: global warming, hydrogen sulphide, and mass extinction.
2016-07-07: cq (code query): extract parts of JavaScript programs using CSS-style selectors.
2016-07-07: Acorn and Amstrad.
2016-07-07: Brexit: a coup by one set of public schoolboys against another.
2016-07-07: For the first time in my life, I feel ashamed to be British.
2016-07-07: Why don't people trust experts?
2016-07-07: Source code for Lucasfilm's Habitat.
2016-07-07: The lessons of Lucasfilm's Habitat.
2016-07-07: Descriptions of the Speaking Clock from 1937 and 1954.
2016-07-07: Why does pepperoni curl?
2016-07-07: Unpleasant design and hostile urban architecture.
2016-07-06: Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins.
2016-07-06: Make a Sugihara circle/square optical illusion out of paper.
2016-07-06: Horrifying PDF experiment: Breakout.
2016-07-06: The hazard of Tesla's approach to driverless cars (as opposed to Google's).
2016-07-06: When you can average percentiles.
2016-07-05: NetBox: IP address management (IPAM) and data center infrastructure management (DCIM) tool.
2016-07-05: Brexit voters are not the left behind.
2016-07-05: ICANN's new domain transfer policy is a lot more secure.
2016-07-04: The psychology of voting for brexit.
2016-07-04: Disaster capitalism: how the Tories will use Brexit to roll back the state.
2016-07-04: The moral economy of tech.
2016-07-04: Dozens of banks have been compromised; hundreds of millions of dollars have been stolen via SWIFT.
2016-07-04: MRI software bugs could upend years of research.
2016-07-04: Gigabytes per wafer of DRAM are growing faster than the market's demand.
2016-07-04: "How I cracked a keylogger and ended up in someone's inbox."
2016-07-03: Ciphering: personalized generative jewellery.
2016-07-03: etcd3: a new etcd.
2016-07-03: Labour: a coup without a clue.
2016-07-03: On Brexit: stabbed in the eye.
2016-07-03: Heavy metal and natural language processing.
2016-07-02: The Daredevil camera: images from a microphone array.
2016-07-02: WireGuard: fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel.
2016-07-02: What happens when you try to publish a failure to replicate in 2015/2016.
2016-07-01: Growth of cities, going back 6,000 years. (video map)
2016-07-01: Anniversary of record breaking 1976 heatwave.
2016-07-01: Hillary Clinton says a fond farewell to The Toast.
2016-07-01: The really big one: a magnitude 9ish earthquake in the Cascadia subduction zone.
2016-06-30: StartEncrypt considered harmful.
2016-06-30: Butter consumption is not correlated with chronic disease or mortality.
2016-06-30: Anomalous traffic on the root DNS servers on 2016-06-25.
2016-06-30: Machine pong: when a TFTP server falls in love with a DNS server.
2016-06-30: USE Method: Linux performance checklist.
2016-06-30: Looking behind the Brexit anger.
2016-06-29: How can I decent feminist ideas if I'm terrible at arguing?
2016-06-29: Are US millennial men just as sexist as their dads?
2016-06-29: Sugar causes heart attacks.
2016-06-28: The languages which almost became CSS.
2016-06-28: Open plan offices are basically terrible in every way.
2016-06-28: Sqitch: database change management.
2016-06-27: Scalable run-time detection of uninitialized memory reads and data races with LLVM sanitizers.
2016-06-27: Brexit lies are opening up a terrifying new opportunity for the far-right in Britain.
2016-06-27: Ludicrously cheap HDMI capture for Linux.
2016-06-27: H-day: when Sweden swapped to driving on the right.
2016-06-27: British Army 77th Brigade information warfare unit.
2016-06-27: The "Cobra Effect" that is disabling paste on password fields.
2016-06-26: The problem with reinforced concrete.
2016-06-26: Typography for user interfaces.
2016-06-26: Alresfordism: hell is other Britons.
2016-06-26: Why American politics really went insane.
2016-06-26: On the mistrust of science.
2016-06-25: Brexit is about more than the EU: it's about class, inequality, and voters feeling excluded from politics.
2016-06-25: Scientific journal subscription costs in Finland 2010-2015.
2016-06-25: Thoughts on the sociology of brexit.
2016-06-25: The process of withdrawing from the EU. (House of Lords Europe cttee)
2016-06-25: The ABCs of socialism (from an American perspective).
2016-06-25: How American politics became so ineffective.
2016-06-25: H2O HTTP/2 server 2.0.1 / 2.1.0-beta1 released, with new features and performance optimizations
2016-06-24: The Scottish / British / European political singularity.
2016-06-24: Brexit wins. An illusion dies. What now for the radical left in Labour and beyond?
2016-06-24: Lancaster innovation hub cardboard office. (WebGL + Google Cardboard)
2016-06-24: Fire in microgravity.
2016-06-24: Unicode power symbol: how a comment on HackerNews lead to 4½ new characters.
2016-06-24: Unlocking ordered parallelism with the Swarm architecture.
2016-06-24: MIT Swarm processor makes parallel programs run many times faster with one-tenth the code.
2016-06-23: Comodo is attempting to improperly register trademarks for Let's Encrypt.
2016-06-23: Rem Koolhaas EU barcode flag.
2016-06-22: The new Panama Canal: a risky bet.
2016-06-22: Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? (YouTube)
2016-06-22: Gun manufacturer Remington is trying to seal its marketing documents in the Sandy Hook lawsuit.
2016-06-22: Silicon Valley's bloody plant burger smells, tastes, and sizzles like meat.
2016-06-22: Ethereum is doomed.
2016-06-21: Where geek girls come from.
2016-06-21: Building a strandbeest walking bicycle.
2016-06-21: Tire pressure: stop guessing and read the science.
2016-06-21: APFS in detail.
2016-06-21: CAR: clock with adaptive replacement, a cache replacement policy inspired by ARC.
2016-06-21: Suspension losses confirmed: very hard tires don't go faster.
2016-06-21: You don't need JavaScript for that.
2016-06-21: Press embargoes: a threat from the shadows to open access.
2016-06-21: Executive summary of the independent report on e-voting in Estonia.
2016-06-21: Traffic lights in 's-Hertogenbosch: an interview.
2016-06-21: Open access: All human knowledge is there, so why can't everybody access it?
2016-06-21: Holloways: roads sunk into the earth by time.
2016-06-20: The management myth: the MBA vs the philosopher.
2016-06-20: The Independent State of Greater Cambridge.
2016-06-19: How to publish a scientific comment in 1 2 3 easy steps.
2016-06-19: Ethererum and the DAO: thinking about smart contract security.
2016-06-19: Field notes on ElasticSearch at petabyte scale on AWS.
2016-06-19: The DAO's etherium smart contract was dumb.
2016-06-19: Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer.
2016-06-19: Small-memory JVM techniques for microservice sidecars.
2016-06-18: rans_static: another rANS coder.
2016-06-18: ryg_rans: simple rANS encoder/decoder.
2016-06-18: Finite State Entropy: a new breed of entropy coder.
2016-06-18: Apple data compression library documentation.
2016-06-18: Asymmetric numeral systems (ANS): the theory behind finite state entropy (lzfse).
2016-06-18: lzfse: Apple's finite state entropy compressor.
2016-06-18: FiniteStateEntropy: combines the speed of Huffman encoding with the effectiveness of arithmetic encoding.
2016-06-17: Godwin's Law was created in 1990, but it wasn't a prediction, it was a warning.
2016-06-17: What is `git diff --histogram`?
2016-06-17: A heavily fragmented file in an NTFS volume may not grow beyond a certain size.
2016-06-17: How the earth moves. (YouTube)
2016-06-17: HTTP header injection and request smuggling in Python urllib.
2016-06-16: Tail recursion and debugging.
2016-06-16: The Russian guide to brexit.
2016-06-16: GoDaddy wins lawsuit to declare RPost's patents on email invalid.
2016-06-16: The 8 stages of genocide.
2016-06-16: It's time to secure Microsoft Office macros.
2016-06-16: Samsung acquires Joyent.
2016-06-16: Microsoft extended volatile semantics for C.
2016-06-16: A guide to server setup for user data security.
2016-06-16: We can already see a post-Brexit economy emerging. It's grim.
2016-06-15: Britain's decline: its causes and consequences. (1979)
2016-06-15: Microsoft wants to turn LinkedIn profiles into a central identity for the workplace.
2016-06-15: How to POST documents to validator.w3.org for checking.
2016-06-15: How three dots changed JavaScript.
2016-06-15: Reagents: lock-free programming for the masses.
2016-06-15: ZFS: Apple’s new filesystem that wasn’t
2016-06-15: Checked C: a language extension that adds bounds checking to C.
2016-06-15: What is differential privacy?
2016-06-14: Among climate scientists gloom has set in. It's worse than we think, but they can't really talk about it.
2016-06-14: Network support for TCP fast open: middleboxes break it for 20% of users.
2016-06-14: 1.5 million households in America have an income of less than $2 per person per day.
2016-06-14: ISC.org is considering a licence change of BIND to the MPL.
2016-06-14: Signed overflow in an early edition of the C Reference Manual.
2016-06-14: Finding pearls fuzzing ClamAV.
2016-06-14: English Dialect Dictionary.
2016-06-14: A new revised version of Johnston's London Underground typeface for its 100th anniversary.
2016-06-14: How to write service status updates.
2016-06-13: Effective learning strategies for programmers, and others: growing skills not fixed aptitudes.
2016-06-13: Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple's new file system.
2016-06-13: How to spy on a Ruby program.
2016-06-13: Riot finds workplace toxicity correlates with bad behaviour when playing League Of Legends.
2016-06-13: ldc 1.0.0: a D programming language front-end for LLVM.
2016-06-12: The end of the router?
2016-06-12: A useful new strace feature: -y translates file descriptors to paths.
2016-06-11: An open letter to Wired about ad blockers and malvertising.
2016-06-10: Why you should not share confidential links on Facebook.
2016-06-10: Bytebeat.
2016-06-10: Asynchronous I/O on Windows is terrible.
2016-06-10: National Library of Scotland browsable online map archive.
2016-06-10: 1961 Ordnance survey map of Cambridge and Ely.
2016-06-10: Asynchronous disk I/O is terrible.
2016-06-10: Heapsort, quicksort, and entropy.
2016-06-10: Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom.
2016-06-09: Lightweight affine static capabilities for implementing TLS in Rust.
2016-06-09: $1,884 to quote 300 words from The New York Times in a book: Two authors try to stand up for fair use.
2016-06-09: Moby: long ambients.
2016-06-09: Typosquatting programming language package managers.
2016-06-09: Twinklr: a modern music box.
2016-06-08: Tracking issue for implementing headless mode for Chrome.
2016-06-08: Headless Chromium.
2016-06-08: SlimerJS: a headless browser (compatible with CasperJS).
2016-06-08: Nightmare.js: a headless browser.
2016-06-08: DB-19: resurrecting an obsolete connector.
2016-06-08: The state of SourceForge since its acquisition in January 2016.
2016-06-08: Why you should never use MongoDB.
2016-06-08: Hunting HiPPOs: tips to avoid executive randomization from the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion.
2016-06-08: Wells Fargo will introduce an API to replace screen scraping by third party accounting services.
2016-06-08: ‘Doesn't Mary have a lovely bottom?': Catholicism, sex and girls in Father Ted.
2016-06-07: MBAs are everywhere, yet the industries where you find fewer of them tend to be the most successful.
2016-06-07: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster, for a select group of people.
2016-06-07: Crouching tiger, hidden DNS: inconsistent parsing allows malware to hide in Windows DNS settings.
2016-06-07: NoScript website hosts malware ads?
2016-06-06: Autoclave: a pressure cooker for programs. Stress-test to find intermittent bugs.
2016-06-06: A 3.2km beer pipeline in Bruges.
2016-06-06: Disadvantages of purely functional programming.
2016-06-06: Prime after prime: correlations in consecutive primes.
2016-06-06: Enabling polyhedral optimizations in Julia.
2016-06-06: The Condorcet Paradox at work? Rock-paper-scissors in the EU referendum.
2016-06-06: Criticisms of systemd-resolved.
2016-06-06: Common shell script mistakes.
2016-06-06: Colout: multicolour search result highlighting.
2016-06-06: WTF is operations? #serverless #devops #sre
2016-06-05: The Desscriptor: a definition of the Burroughs B5000 information processing system.
2016-06-05: A new approach to the functional design of a digital computer: the Burroughs B5000.
2016-06-04: Water from tinned chickpeas can be used as a vegan substitute for egg whites in meringue.
2016-06-04: How Mark Zuckerberg led Facebook's war to crush Google Plus.
2016-06-04: How Microsoft lost its mojo: Steve Ballmer and corporate America's most spectacular decline.
2016-06-04: Some C#/.NET generics research project history: the MSR Cambridge white paper from mid-1999.
2016-06-04: Why is a Rust executable large? An exploration of build options and big libraries.
2016-06-03: Starting an ISP in a developing country.
2016-06-03: Microbe-linked solar panels are 10x better than plants at converting sunlight to energy.
2016-06-03: https reduces ad revenue.
2016-06-03: Newspaper industry asks FTC to investigate "deceptive" adblockers.
2016-06-03: UK at risk of web blacklist false positives, warns human rights watchdog.
2016-06-03: Promises, observables, async and await in JavaScript.
2016-06-02: BPF hardware offload.
2016-06-02: Hedge funds are planning to do a George Soros bet on Sterling on EU referendum day.
2016-06-02: How to win at Monopoly (and lose all your friends).
2016-06-01: Holopainting combines light painting, stop motion, and hyperlapse.
2016-06-01: The world is drawing battle lines against American tech giants.
2016-06-01: Cable One uses credit scores to determine quality of customer service.
2016-06-01: Police are filing warrants for Google's vast store of Android location data.
2016-06-01: The invention of the paper bag was a triumph of feminism.
2016-06-01: Israeli hacking company Ability compromised SS7 to spy on any phone on the planet.
2016-06-01: Nonce-disrespecting adversaries: practical forgery attacks on GCM in TLS.
2016-06-01: Postgres meet Andl.
2016-06-01: How Daylight Saving Time came to Ireland.
2016-06-01: New cores underpin Cavium's Thunder X2.
2016-06-01: Intel benchmarks Cavium ThunderX ARM against Xeon.
2016-05-31: Protected bike lanes reduce risk of injury by 90%
2016-05-31: Geared unicycles: riding faster on one wheel.
2016-05-31: How not to reclaim social media from abuse.
2016-05-31: Iridium / Satelles / Boeing satellite time and location service white paper.
2016-05-31: Iridium now provides a satellite time and location service with a stronger signal than GPS.
2016-05-31: Full-Text RSS: convert redacted feeds or multipage articles to properly useful RSS.
2016-05-30: ARM Cortex A73 "Artemis" unveiled.
2016-05-30: LLVM EfficiencySanitizer.
2016-05-30: A tour of some physical infrastructure for the Internet, including a transatlantic cable landing site.
2016-05-30: How big an issue is nausea caused by virtual reality headsets?
2016-05-29: How to generate secure random numbers in various programming languages.
2016-05-29: Returning from the "threshold of misery".
2016-05-29: Just two factors explain post-PhD gender pay gap.
2016-05-29: Harvey OS: an effort to port Plan 9 to compile with gcc and clang.
2016-05-29: The glorious horror of TECO.
2016-05-28: cppp: a C partial preprocessor, like unifdef.
2016-05-28: The delightful perversity of Quebec's Roman Catholic swearing.
2016-05-28: Sarah Guppy gave her design for the Clifton suspension bridge to Brunel.
2016-05-28: systemd developers ask tmux to add a workaround for a bug in systemd.
2016-05-28: An Internet cable will soon cross the Arctic from Britain to Japan via Alaska.
2016-05-28: Google is making the same mistake on iOS that Microsoft did on Mac OS in the 1990s.
2016-05-28: Hacking Transcend WiFi SD cards.
2016-05-28: systemd breaks screen and tmux by killing background processes after user logs out.
2016-05-27: A 200TB computer-assisted proof of the Boolean Pythagorean triples problem.
2016-05-27: The tootsie-pop model for unsafe code in Rust.
2016-05-27: Dr Heimlich uses his Heimlich manoeuvre for the first time aged 96.
2016-05-27: Star Wars episode IV vs VII comparable shots. (Vimeo)
2016-05-27: Realization of a timescale with an accurate optical lattice clock.
2016-05-26: The path to Rust.
2016-05-26: exwm: Emacs X11 window manager.
2016-05-25: La grotte de Bruniquel, un site archéologique exceptionnel. (Neanderthal)
2016-05-25: Neanderthal constructions and fire found in a cave in France.
2016-05-25: IPv6 excuses.
2016-05-24: Logswan: a fast Web log analyzer using probabilistic data structures.
2016-05-24: Fizzbuzz in tensorflow.
2016-05-24: The godless outnumber Christians in England and Wales.
2016-05-24: The diminishing volume of higher-dimensional balls.
2016-05-24: Policing whipped cream: Home Office publishes advice for Psychoactive Substances Act.
2016-05-24: Behind the master controls of GPS.
2016-05-24: clojure.spec: type annotations for documentation and testing.
2016-05-24: Failure to archive: institutional silences and the digital dark age.
2016-05-23: Why CERN made cling.
2016-05-23: Cling: C++ interpreter (interactive compiler) based on clang and LLVM.
2016-05-23: ClusterHAT: four Pi Zeroes mounted on a Raspberry Pi.
2016-05-22: Autonomous mini rally car teaches itself to powerslide.
2016-05-22: TOTP ssh port fluxing.
2016-05-22: The de editor: a mixture of vi and acme.
2016-05-22: Setting up Raspberry Pi Zero OTG with just a µSD card, µUSB cable, and a host computer.
2016-05-22: Oric-1 repair: reset circuitry.
2016-05-22: Rendering a Buddhabrot at 4K and other bad ideas.
2016-05-22: Automation should be like Iron Man, not Ultron.
2016-05-22: The eternal mainframe.
2016-05-22: binwalk: firmware analysis and reverse engineering tool.
2016-05-22: Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in a hotel.
2016-05-22: "Anguish": esoteric programming with invisible Unicode characters.
2016-05-22: Security vulnerabilities due to "ignorable" characters in HFS+ filenames on Mac OS.
2016-05-21: SCP Foundation: special containment procedures for hazardous paranormal anomalous objects.
2016-05-21: Web development best practices are killing mobile web performance.
2016-05-21: The French invasion of London 800 years ago.
2016-05-21: For champion Nigerian Scrabble players, SHORT Tops SHORTER.
2016-05-21: Universal.css: The only CSS you will ever need.
2016-05-21: Trello CSS guide.
2016-05-21: CSS coding techniques.
2016-05-21: How (not) to write a paper.
2016-05-20: DJB's sarcastic notes on writing papers.
2016-05-20: Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard.
2016-05-20: An exact value for the Planck constant: why reaching it took 100 years.
2016-05-20: #!/proc/self/exe
2016-05-20: #! abuse
2016-05-20: How I accidentally captured the SpaceX Falcon 9 landing. (Great night-time photos!)
2016-05-20: A history of spam bots.
2016-05-20: libsixel: bitmap graphics for DEC terminals (and xterm).
2016-05-20: Persistent clocks for batteryless sensing devices: using SRAM decay as an hourglass.
2016-05-20: Cycling fallacies.
2016-05-20: Improving Docker with Unikernels: Introducing HyperKit, VPNKit and DataKit.
2016-05-20: Project GREAT 2016a: testing general relativity time dilation by taking atomic clocks up a mountain.
2016-05-20: Google TPU: TensorFlow machine learning accelerator chip.
2016-05-20: Perfect Security: unpickable locks only existed for about 70 years.
2016-05-20: Two approaches to x86 memory encryption.
2016-05-20: Publishing code without a license is a much more radical statement than the GPL.
2016-05-19: How to create an unfair coin and prove it with math.
2016-05-19: FORTH vs the 6502 indirect JMP.
2016-05-19: Is the moon full? Just ask the CERN LHC operators.
2016-05-19: CERN LEP collider measurements confirm train time tables.
2016-05-19: Using the failure ratio to debug an ASN.1 interop problem.
2016-05-19: Debugging behind the Iron Curtain.
2016-05-19: Computer-related horror stories, folklore, and anecdotes.
2016-05-19: The car that was allergic to vanilla ice cream.
2016-05-19: 85% of people running red lights in Dublin are motorists.
2016-05-18: Kung fu motion visualization.
2016-05-18: Multicore OCaml.
2016-05-18: The Flambda IR: a better inliner for OCaml.
2016-05-18: Survival analysis of hard disk drive failure data.
2016-05-17: A breakthrough in the theory of random number generation.
2016-05-17: Stoned drivers are a lot safer than drunk ones, says US government data.
2016-05-17: All-knowing DNS: synthetic forward and reverse DNS for IPv6 SLAAC.
2016-05-17: The MOnSter 6502: a microprocessor made from discrete components.
2016-05-16: The bank job: security analysis of a mobile banking app.
2016-05-16: The evolution of programming languages designed for children.
2016-05-16: How to make caramel without melting sugar.
2016-05-16: "I fly 747s for a living. Here are the amazing things I see every day."
2016-05-16: Don't blame Sykes-Picot for the mess in the Middle East.
2016-05-16: The Warburg effect, and metabolic approaches to treating cancer.
2016-05-16: Lambda expressions in C++11, C++14, and C++17.
2016-05-16: Glasgow's high mortality rate blamed on Westminster social engineering.
2016-05-15: NPL open house, Tuesday 2016-05-17.
2016-05-15: Why is the lambda calculus named after that Greek letter? Randomness, not typography.
2016-05-15: git secret: gpg encrypt data in a git repository.
2016-05-15: The EFF's Let's Encrypt client renamed to certbot.
2016-05-15: Building and scaling the Fastly network, part 1: Fighting the FIB.
2016-05-15: On the "right fix": Mozilla's "Slaughterhouse" project and the Bugzilla security breach.
2016-05-15: Taking Rust everywhere: cross-compiling with rustup.
2016-05-15: Neo900: a crowdsourced Maemo device.
2016-05-15: Fancy Rust development with Emacs.
2016-05-15: London became Britain's capital after Boudicca's revolt.
2016-05-15: The many ways of handling TCP RST packets.
2016-05-13: Warning signs: a checklist for recognising attempts to undermine cryptography.
2016-05-13: A history of SHOUTING WITH CAPITAL LETTERS.
2016-05-13: Electronic mail at MIT in the 1960s.
2016-05-13: The curious case of the military flail, a weapon that didn't exist.
2016-05-13: A home-made camera to take pictures with light beyond the visible spectrum.
2016-05-11: The death of TRILL, routing bridges for large ethernets.
2016-05-11: Druid: a fast column-oriented distributed data store, good for time series.
2016-05-11: PostgreSQL scalability: towards a million or more TPS.
2016-05-11: The Sourceware Operating System proposal: what if Sun went open source 10 years earlier?
2016-05-10: Why do old statues have small penises?
2016-05-10: A history of breakfast.
2016-05-10: Elm 0.17: a farewell to FRP.
2016-05-10: Proposed WebUSB API. What could possibly go wrong?
2016-05-10: How a dildo-shaped malachite stalactite relates to the municipal water poisoning disaster in Flint.
2016-05-10: Doppio: a JVM in JavaScript.
2016-05-10: JavaPoly.js: Java in the browser without a plugin.
2016-05-10: True Colour (16 million colours) support in various terminal applications and terminals.
2016-05-09: Learning from Lancaster's winter storm power cuts.
2016-05-09: Magnets and marbles! A Rube Goldberg machine. (YouTube)
2016-05-08: Why suburbia sucks.
2016-05-08: Which countries study which languages in DuoLingo?
2016-05-08: A bit of background on compilers exploiting signed overflow undefined behaviour.
2016-05-08: Pragmatic Debian packaging.
2016-05-08: Lagom LCD monitor test pages.
2016-05-08: sshguard: a C program to automatically firewall off brute force login attacks.
2016-05-08: Writing a DIY ssh client for fun and profit.
2016-05-08: Performance checklists for SREs.
2016-05-08: A collection of Linux sysadmin/devops interview questions.
2016-05-08: Preventing Debian / Ubuntu / systemd from starting daemons when a package is installed.
2016-05-07: tq: command line HTML lookup by CSS selector.
2016-05-06: Cambridge Museum of Technology funding campaign.
2016-05-06: Empirically testing Godwin's law with data from Reddit.
2016-05-06: Rebel without a call: control of communications technology was a key target in the Easter Rising.
2016-05-05: The Apple Music subscription service will delete your music.
2016-05-05: Simple guided fuzzing for libraries using LLVM's libFuzzer.
2016-05-05: Address Sanitizer is not a security hardening feature.
2016-05-05: Some memory safety tools for C.
2016-05-05: The Brix System: modular handcrafted wooden electronic devices inspired by LEGO.
2016-05-04: Oracle PeopleSoft: still a threat for enterprises.
2016-05-04: The economics of long-term data storage, after the end of Kryder's law.
2016-05-04: Performance impact of ECMAscript 6 features.
2016-05-04: The Futhark programming language: purely functional data-parallel array programming on the GPU.
2016-05-04: glium: Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
2016-05-04: ImageTragick details.
2016-05-04: Weep for graphics programming: stringly-typed CPU/GPU interfaces.
2016-05-03: ImageTragick: remote code execution vulnerability in ImageMagick. (with cute name, vanity domain, and logo)
2016-05-03: Stratified Synthesis: automatically learning a formal semantics of the x86-64 instruction set.
2016-05-03: Using DNSSEC and DNSCrypt in Debian.
2016-05-03: How we found that the Linux nios2 memset() implementation had a bug!
2016-05-03: More RAM: an LD_PRELOAD malloc() wrapper hack to use GPU memory when mmap() fails.
2016-05-03: ElastAlert: easy and flexible alerting with ElasticSearch/LogStash/Kibana.
2016-05-03: GNU make jobserver implementation.
2016-05-03: OpenSSH plans to eliminate support for SSH protocol 1.
2016-05-03: Ubuntu LTS: which packages actually get long-term support?
2016-05-03: A review of Showstopper! a book about Dave Cutler and the creation of Windows NT.
2016-05-03: libressl progress report with "more vague promises".
2016-05-03: Previously ambivalent, now a systemd convert.
2016-05-02: Some programming quips.
2016-05-02: What happened to Google Maps?
2016-05-01: The design of the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
2016-05-01: Six simple web accessibility tests.
2016-05-01: Grains vs tubers and their different consequences for civilisation and economic development.
2016-05-01: Myths and legends about integer overflow in Rust.
2016-05-01: TAL: typed assembly language.
2016-04-30: A field guide to the North American utility pole.
2016-04-30: Claude Shannon, the father of the information age, turns 1100100.
2016-04-30: Variable assignments in POSIX make are Turing complete.
2016-04-30: Why you can't rely on exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies.
2016-04-30: Lua target for Haxe.
2016-04-30: Who's downloading pirated papers? Usage data from Sci-Hub.
2016-04-30: On the (small) number of atoms in the universe.
2016-04-29: An integer bignum formula for Fibonacci numbers.
2016-04-29: Why are America's most innovative companies still stuck in 1950s suburbia?
2016-04-29: Inside "emojigeddon", the fight over the future of the Unicode consortium.
2016-04-29: SIL: Swift intermediate language.
2016-04-28: Introducing MIR, the Rust compiler mid-level intermediate representation.
2016-04-28: Gambit Scheme compiles to portable C.
2016-04-28: Chez Scheme: formerly commercial optimising compiler, now under Apache licence.
2016-04-28: Larceny: optimising research compiler for Scheme.
2016-04-28: An opinionated guide to scheme implementations.
2016-04-28: Extend Python, don't embed Python.
2016-04-27: Lots of resources for learning about Kalman filters and robot movement control.
2016-04-27: How Uber conquered London.
2016-04-27: klaus: a simple git web server. (Python WSGI)
2016-04-27: git-remote-dropbox: use a Dropbox (shared) folder as a git server.
2016-04-27: Whether it's tea or sex, consent is not actually that complicated.
2016-04-27: Cisco IOS XR 6.0 replaces QNX with Linux.
2016-04-26: Fortuna-based /dev/random patch for Linux.
2016-04-26: On the difference between engineering in theory and in practice.
2016-04-25: China's WeChat is the state of the art in conversational user interfaces.
2016-04-25: QBE: quick compiler backend, 70% of the features with 10% of the code.
2016-04-25: On the timing of time zone changes.
2016-04-23: 630,000 cars recalled in Germany due to widespread cheating on diesel emissions regulations.
2016-04-23: Naming poll failures - I like the "Fred Durst society for humanities and arts" :-)
2016-04-23: The financial insecurity of middle-class Americans.
2016-04-23: Boaty McBoatface and the false promise of democracy.
2016-04-23: The rise of academic pirate libraries.
2016-04-22: Woodward's strange thrust device.
2016-04-22: Doubts about McCulloch's EmDrive explanation.
2016-04-22: The curious link between the fly-by anomaly and the "impossible" EmDrive thruster.
2016-04-21: How to derive Vose's alias method for sampling from a discrete probability distribution in O(1).
2016-04-20: SystemInfoKit: a more elaborate Apple SMC etc. Objective C library. (GPL)
2016-04-20: SMCWrapper: an Objective C library for talking to an Apple SMC. (GPL)
2016-04-20: SMCKit: a Swift library and tool for talking to the Apple SMC.
2016-04-20: A complete guide to the Apple SMC for programmers.
2016-04-20: CoCCA SRS domain registry software.
2016-04-20: FRED: free registry software for ENUM and domains.
2016-04-20: On the insignificance of the gyroscopic effect when riding a bicycle.
2016-04-18: Cycling and feminism.
2016-04-18: Apple iOS pre-9.3.1 can be bricked by spoofed pre-1970 NTP responses.
2016-04-17: How to build an economic model in your spare time: advice on assembling and presenting your ideas.
2016-04-17: The best versions of QuickCheck in every programming language.
2016-04-17: Britain's scientists must be allowed to criticise the government.
2016-04-17: sysdig troubleshooting cheatsheet: comparisons with strace, htop, lsof, tcpdump, iftop.
2016-04-17: Linux network metrics: why you should use nstat instead of netstat.
2016-04-17: How to use vim in a pipe (with big caveats).
2016-04-17: Flyboard Air: a real jet-powered hoverboard?
2016-04-17: Studying the language and structure in non-programmers' solutions to programming problems.
2016-04-16: MNT VA2000, an Amiga 2000 Graphics Card (Zorro II), written in Verilog.
2016-04-16: The vigilante who hacked Hacking Team explains how he did it.
2016-04-16: A review of Terry Pratchett's memorial event.
2016-04-16: Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett's memorial, his screen adaptation of Good Omens, his nonfiction book, and his baby.
2016-04-16: CESG advises against forcing regular password expiry.
2016-04-16: First on-chip non-magnetic RF circulator allowing full-duplex radio with a single antenna.
2016-04-16: Honouring David MacKay's contribution to sustainable energy: "being pro-arithmetic".
2016-04-16: A basic introduction to NumPy's einsum function.
2016-04-16: A revolutionary discovery of ancient texts in China.
2016-04-16: A guide to naming variables.
2016-04-16: Protesters who blockaded London arms trade fair acquitted after judge sees evidence of illegal weapons on sale.
2016-04-16: Introducing Ignition: the new CoreOS machine provisioning utility.
2016-04-16: Brewster Kahle's "Distributed Web" proposal.
2016-04-16: Introducing Facebook's new terrestrial connectivity systems: Terragraph and Project ARIES.
2016-04-16: An introduction to code review with Gerrit.
2016-04-15: Lawyers who won "happy birthday" copyright case sue to free "we shall overcome".
2016-04-15: Lead and crime: another look.
2016-04-15: Cheap Docker images with Nix.
2016-04-15: China upgrades Tianhe-2 supercomputer with home-grown ARM processors.
2016-04-15: Nominet sets sights on .org after its Minds+Machines registry takeover.
2016-04-15: Remake: a fork of GNU make with comprehensible tracing and a debugger.
2016-04-15: Neoliberalism: the ideology at the root of all our problems.
2016-04-15: A systematic analysis of the Juniper Dual EC DRBG backdoor.
2016-04-15: How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control.
2016-04-15: The Linux scheduler: a decade of wasted cores.
2016-04-15: Using jemalloc to get to the bottom of a Java memory leak.
2016-04-14: Safer Unix programming with Rust.
2016-04-14: Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more.
2016-04-14: Velocipedia: realistic renderings of badly-drawn bikes.
2016-04-14: Google compute engine BGP anycast outage postmortem.
2016-04-13: In almost every way imaginable, the car, as it is deployed and used today, is insane.
2016-04-13: A one-transistor SRAM.
2016-04-13: It's the rheo thing: measurements showing ketchup is thixotropic.
2016-04-13: Records found in a dusty basement undermine decades of dietary advice.
2016-04-13: An analysis of OpenSSL's random number generator.
2016-04-13: USB3 interference with 2.4GHz WiFi and Bluetooth devices.
2016-04-12: How to deal a hand from a deck of 2^64 cards: the best algorithm no-one knows about.
2016-04-12: Another proleptic UTC: what if leap seconds were extended into the distant past?
2016-04-12: Hot-desking offices wreck productivity.
2016-04-12: Average history: how the mean triumphed over the median.
2016-04-11: The curious case of the unexpectedly aborted slow transfers.
2016-04-11: Bolstering https security.
2016-04-11: Leap second behaviour of NTP servers.
2016-04-11: Space weapons (including nukes in space and Project Orion)
2016-04-11: Why the UK has the worst electoral integrity in Europe.
2016-04-11: Notes on Google's site reliability engineering book.
2016-04-11: Bad interaction between Tor, Unbound, and GoDaddy breaks DNS resolution.
2016-04-11: GoDaddy's selective DNS blackout policy.
2016-04-11: Architecture of database management systems.
2016-04-11: Following a SELECT statement through Postgres internals.
2016-04-10: How MaxMind fingered a farm in the centre of the USA as the location for all sorts of online badness.
2016-04-10: Film dialogue from 2,000 screenplays, broken down by gender and age.
2016-04-10: Security officer rigged lottery random number generator to fraudulently claim millions.
2016-04-10: Inigo Quilez: fractals, computer graphics, mathematics, demoscene and more.
2016-04-10: The Book of Shaders.
2016-04-10: The Erlang 19.0 garbage collector.
2016-04-09: It's possible to reduce prejudice by canvassing: a story of scientific fraud and experimental validation.
2016-04-09: In-jokes and injunctions: how the British press deal with forced secrecy.
2016-04-09: HIV overcomes CRISPR gene-editing attack.
2016-04-09: Anti-adblock killer: avoid malvertising on sites that try to block ad blockers.
2016-04-08: s3git: git for AWS cloud storage.
2016-04-08: End-to-end security for sleepy smart object networks.
2016-04-08: Crypto performance and the Internet of Things.
2016-04-08: The Windows subsystem for Linux is not as good as Interix was.
2016-04-08: WinObjC: Objective-C for Windows / Windows Bridge for iOS.
2016-04-08: Ubuntu on Windows is now available.
2016-04-08: Kakoune: a code editor inspired by vim.
2016-04-08: vis: a vim-like text editor.
2016-04-07: GCHQ intervenes to stop catastrophically insecure smart meter plan.
2016-04-07: MetaLibm: parameterized code generation for libm.
2016-04-07: Google BeyondCorp: hard and crunchy security all the way through, without IP-based access control.
2016-04-07: The sugar conspiracy.
2016-04-07: What is a "good job"?
2016-04-07: Cloud Git: a git storage system using OpenStack, redis, and JGit.
2016-04-07: Introducing DGit: GitHub's dynamically distributed git storage system.
2016-04-07: Not 'going dark': 15 out of 15 recent EU terrorists were known to the authorities in multiple ways.
2016-04-06: A review of DNS-OARC 24.
2016-04-06: Intel SSD denial of service vulnerability.
2016-04-06: Ganeti: open source VM cluster manager.
2016-04-06: The design and implementation of Debian code search.
2016-04-05: Linux networks stack latency spikes with large numbers of listening sockets.
2016-04-05: The Terminator theme tune has a time signature of 13/16.
2016-04-04: AWS Lambda: back to stored procedures.
2016-04-04: A history of Dick: Batman and Robin's gay subtext.
2016-04-04: ChaCha20-Poly1305 in TLS.
2016-04-04: An update on the Revolv smart home hub: Google will brick all the devices.
2016-04-04: DNS zombies.
2016-04-04: OpenToonz: the Studio Ghibli animation software available as open source.
2016-04-04: An introduction to tmux.
2016-04-04: bcc: dynamic tracing tools for Linux-4.1+ eBPF.
2016-04-04: Lwan: lightweight asynchronous web server.
2016-04-04: The Association for Computational Heresy, home of the SIGBOVIK 1st April conference.
2016-04-04: How to build your own rogue GSM BTS for fun and profit.
2016-04-04: Reading "The City and the City" as an international lawyer: territoriality, jurisdiction and transnationality.
2016-04-04: Meet the founder of SciHub, Alexandra Elbakyan.
2016-04-04: Not IEEE754: a radical approach to computation with real numbers.
2016-04-04: Blood tests and the tampon of the future.
2016-04-04: An introduction to distributed systems.
2016-04-04: Propositions as filenames; builds as proofs: the essence of make.
2016-04-04: Joi Ito on disobedience.
2016-04-04: How to gracefully step down from being a volunteer organizer.
2016-04-04: A paper model Enigma cipher machine.
2016-04-04: Psychoactive Substances Act delayed while the Home Office works out what it has banned.
2016-04-04: A decade of container control at Google.
2016-04-04: Containers are not VMs.
2016-04-04: Failure and recovery of a 1.7 PB Lustre filesystem.
2016-03-31: Why trust beats hierarchy: civil service culture and the prisoners' dilemma.
2016-03-30: You can run Ubuntu Linux ELF userland binaries on Windows 10.
2016-03-30: The design principles of Konrad Zuse's mechanical computers.
2016-03-29: fermi paradox by mercury: 64K demo competition winner. (Video)
2016-03-29: The December 2015 root DNS server DDoS was not aimed at the root servers.
2016-03-29: On pockets, and the gendered nature of being unencumbered.
2016-03-29: Why women's clothes have useless pockets: a history.
2016-03-29: tis-interpreter: a C interpreter for detecting undefined behaviour.
2016-03-29: tel: a remote login wrapper for routers and other devices.
2016-03-29: Structurally fixing string injection bugs. (LangSec)
2016-03-29: CRT NTSC TV simulation in Super Win the Game.
2016-03-29: Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will).
2016-03-29: String types in Rust.
2016-03-29: Anxiety and depression are symptoms, not diseases.
2016-03-28: Beyond the sea: great circle arcs from coastal viewpoints.
2016-03-28: Caring for file formats: making them secure and future proof.
2016-03-28: Levi Strauss are opening up their methods for making jeans with less water.
2016-03-28: Poem codes: WWII cryptography.
2016-03-27: Flag stories: infographics comparing national flags.
2016-03-27: The sky is the limit: human powered cranes and lifting devices.
2016-03-27: "Women in computing" as problematic: a summary.
2016-03-27: Gravitational Teleport: ssh for clusters and teams.
2016-03-27: Zero downtime upgrade with Ansible and HAProxy.
2016-03-27: Rspamd spam filtering system.
2016-03-27: ASA2PDF: line printer emulator.
2016-03-27: Microsoft Tay was toxic even before human contact.
2016-03-26: How to make a chat bot that isn't racist.
2016-03-26: When did porn become sex ed?
2016-03-26: Ocean farmers on the front line of climate change.
2016-03-26: Confirmshaming: passive-aggressive spam confirmation popups.
2016-03-26: Hey, Microsoft, the Internet made my bot racist too.
2016-03-26: Fibonacci flim-flam.
2016-03-26: Why anti-authoritarians are diagnosed as mentally ill.
2016-03-26: Jasper: control everything with your voice.
2016-03-26: Build your own Amazon Echo with a Raspberry Pi.
2016-03-26: ECDSA key extraction from mobile devices via nonintrusive physical side channels.
2016-03-25: Julius open-source large vocabulary speech recognition engine.
2016-03-25: CMU Sphinx open source voice recognition toolkit.
2016-03-25: Citus unforks from PostgreSQL and goes open source.
2016-03-25: Houdini: towards programmable CSS and browser rendering polyfills.
2016-03-24: Why didn't my protocol get adopted by the IETF?
2016-03-24: On Dan Bernstein's impending cryptography monoculture.
2016-03-24: An administrator accidentally deleted the production database, and other disaster stories.
2016-03-23: MongoDB: the Frankenstein monster of NoSQL databases.
2016-03-23: In Angola, free access to Wikipedia is being used for copyright piracy.
2016-03-23: How to backdoor Diffie-Hellman.
2016-03-23: Intel says tick-tock is over.
2016-03-23: Battle short: disable electrical safety features during critical operations.
2016-03-23: Don't give up on TDD.
2016-03-22: HIV genes successfully edited out of immune cells.
2016-03-22: Measuring SMTP STARTTLS deployment quality.
2016-03-22: Legalize it all: how to win the war on drugs.
2016-03-22: Newegg comes to the rescue in foam arrow patent troll case.
2016-03-22: Transcranial neurostimulation: better living through electrochemistry.
2016-03-22: StartSSL domain validation bypass vulnerability.
2016-03-22: A C++ almost-never-auto style conversion tool.
2016-03-22: A C++ almost-always-auto style conversion tool.
2016-03-22: Why we are upset with the NYTimes Paris terrorist article.
2016-03-22: Paris terrorists used burner phones, not encryption, to evade detection.
2016-03-22: Strange Maps: the shipping forecast.
2016-03-21: Mind-blowing magic polymagnets! "maxels", magnetic pixels. (YouTube)
2016-03-21: When will the last all-male clubs admit women? A portrait of institutional upper-class misogyny.
2016-03-21: OS6: an operating system for a small computer. (1972)
2016-03-21: There was no concept of pathnames in PDP-7 Unix.
2016-03-21: Thank you for blocking ads: reminiscences of an adtech operator.
2016-03-21: Whose phone number is 2^31-1?
2016-03-21: Falsehoods frogrammers believe about ...
2016-03-21: Falsehoods programmers believe about geography.
2016-03-21: Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers.
2016-03-21: The failures of introductory TDD.
2016-03-21: Courgette: Google Chrome update diff / patch algorithm.
2016-03-21: Ironsides: DNS server written in Ada / SPARK.
2016-03-21: Statically recompiling NES games into native executables with LLVM and Golang.
2016-03-21: Postmortem of a PostgreSQL autovaccum-related outage at Joyent.
2016-03-21: No more full-table vacuums in PostgreSQL.
2016-03-18: Atmospheric methane feedback loop.
2016-03-17: What the AlphaGo team learned from the Go match against Lee Sedol.
2016-03-17: WG14 preliminary C2x charter.
2016-03-17: NANOG discussion of collectd and alternatives for network traffic graphs.
2016-03-17: NeuStar runs a private DNS root to support GSM mobile roaming.
2016-03-17: Three Golang landmines.
2016-03-16: Blackberry 10 QNX security architecture.
2016-03-16: The 9 circles of testing crypto code.
2016-03-16: The encryption debate enters phase two: if not backdoors, then what?
2016-03-16: Git Ketch: a fault-tolerant multi-master git server based on jgit and raft.
2016-03-16: Wikipedia and the momentum of tiny edits: why are some articles longer than others?
2016-03-16: What ISPs can see when snooping your Internet traffic.
2016-03-16: ispc: Intel SPMD Program Compiler.
2016-03-16: Previewing WebAssembly experiments in Microsoft Edge.
2016-03-16: pytest-nodev: a test-driven search engine for Python code.
2016-03-16: APNIC DNSSEC outage 16th March 2016.
2016-03-16: Experimental support for WebAssembly in the V8 JavaScript engine.
2016-03-16: A WebAssembly milestone: experimental support in multiple browsers.
2016-03-15: The Broderers of St Paul’s Cathedral.
2016-03-15: Remote code execution vulnerability in git < 2.7.1: CVE-2016-2324, CVE-2016‑2315.
2016-03-15: RFC 7754: technical considerations for Internet service blocking and filtering.
2016-03-15: All research papers should be free.
2016-03-15: GitHub pages for non-Rubyists.
2016-03-15: Docker security.
2016-03-15: What happens when a Linux / systemd machine boots with a corrupt /bin/sh.
2016-03-15: The strict aliasing situation in C and C++ is pretty bad.
2016-03-15: ICANN agrees multistakeholder governance model to replace US DoC oversight.
2016-03-15: The strong law of small numbers: you can't tell by looking.
2016-03-14: Despair fatigue: how British political hopelessness got boring.
2016-03-14: The "premature optimization is the root of all evil" myth.
2016-03-14: Rbitrary standards: a FAQ about R.
2016-03-14: Mathematicians discover a prime number conspiracy.
2016-03-14: Odroid C2 vs Raspberry Pi 3.
2016-03-14: LXD 2.0: introduction to the Linux container daemon.
2016-03-14: Discussion of Dropbox Magic Pocket.
2016-03-14: Dropbox's Magic Pocket exabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
2016-03-14: The story of Dropbox's move off Amazon AWS.
2016-03-14: Some reasons why Dropbox are using Rust.
2016-03-14: The European weather forecasting model is the world's best, and it just got better.
2016-03-14: The first images from direct observation of a hydrogen atom's wave function.
2016-03-14: According to the US govt, a "data center" is any room containing one or more servers (including test or dev servers).
2016-03-14: Benjamin Franklin's striking sundial.
2016-03-14: Orthoprint: DIY plastic tooth realignment.
2016-03-14: Why are we fighting the crypto wars again?
2016-03-13: Flow: static checker with gradual typing for JavaScript.
2016-03-13: State of the art JavaScript in 2016.
2016-03-13: Facebook's new front-end server hardware improves performance per watt.
2016-03-12: Ten years of curve 25519.
2016-03-12: Pouring molten salt into water - explosion! (YouTube)
2016-03-12: Ineffective Java and Android TLS X.509 certificate pinning implementations.
2016-03-12: A world map that scales country size to number of ccTLD registrations.
2016-03-12: Time to rethink mandatory password changes.
2016-03-12: Windows filtering platform: what those binary blobs in the registry do.
2016-03-12: A trip through the graphics pipeline. (2011)
2016-03-12: How OpenGL works: a software renderer in 500 lines of code.
2016-03-11: How to build static checking systems using orders of magnitude less code.
2016-03-11: 10 lessons from 10 years of AWS.
2016-03-11: Map of the world's nuclear power plants.
2016-03-10: bind() before connect() for TCP scaling on Linux.
2016-03-10: Systemd vs. Docker.
2016-03-09: L-root DNS server IPv6 renumbering.
2016-03-09: Debugging why ping was broken inside Docker.
2016-03-09: Self-documenting makefiles.
2016-03-09: Ansible vs Chef.
2016-03-09: How they flipped a large introductory biostatistics course at Calgary.
2016-03-09: conserver: serial console multiplexer and logger.
2016-03-09: Freetserv: open-source hardware terminal server built around a Raspberry Pi.
2016-03-09: ARIN DNSSEC outage 8th March 2016.
2016-03-09: PDP-7 Unix in action.
2016-03-09: New spaceship speed c/10 in Conway's Game of Life.
2016-03-09: New small c/10 orthogonal spaceship discovered in Conway's Game of Life.
2016-03-09: char-rnn: multi-layer recurrent neural networks for character-level language models.
2016-03-09: Xterm and UTF-8 on OpenBSD.
2016-03-09: Fast fully automated paper airplane gun.
2016-03-08: The Nefertiti 3D scan heist is a hoax.
2016-03-08: Power wastage on a Windows laptop.
2016-03-08: Cloning performance optimization in Mercurial 3.6.
2016-03-08: Google's internal controls strictly limit staff access to private user data.
2016-03-08: Cyclops 𐙀 is a programming language written in Linear A.
2016-03-08: There's something fishy about the surreptitious 3D scan of the Other Nefertiti.
2016-03-08: A brief history of how America was sold toxic lead.
2016-03-07: You can unlock a fingerprint-protected phone with an inkjet printer and conductive ink.
2016-03-07: The possibility of secure non-secret digital encryption: James Ellis's GCHQ paper on public key crypto.
2016-03-07: Silicon Valley Time: the predictable press narrative of a startup.
2016-03-07: Summary of the December 2015 DDoS attack on the .tr TLD.
2016-03-07: CHAOSNET address support in BIND: the DNS CLASS field is only for tecno necromancy?
2016-03-07: Dragons with unusual hoards.
2016-03-07: How to build stable systems.
2016-03-07: The car century was a mistake. It's time to move on.
2016-03-07: A differential approach to undefined behaviour detection.
2016-03-07: abc: a compiler for the B programming language.
2016-03-05: All New York city streets are not created equal.
2016-03-05: Golang channels are bad.
2016-03-04: Underground mathematics: A-level resources for exploring the connections that underpin maths.
2016-03-03: Wintergatan Marble Machine. (YouTube)
2016-03-03: Andrews Air Force Base EMSEC emissions security guide.
2016-03-03: Funtenna: radio transmission from a cheap printer.
2016-03-03: Analog and Digital TV (DVB-T) signal generation from a VGA card.
2016-03-03: System Bus Radio transmits radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware.
2016-03-02: HighwayHash is significantly faster than SipHash for all measured input sizes.
2016-03-02: The unbearable asymmetry of bullshit.
2016-03-01: The network industry is stuck in the 1980s: Cisco's embrace of complexity.
2016-03-01: Attack of the week: DROWN.
2016-03-01: The DROWN attack: using SSLv2 as a decryption oracle for snooped TLS traffic.
2016-03-01: The wrong way to teach mathematics.
2016-03-01: 10 things to avoid in Docker containers.
2016-03-01: Plan 9 on the Raspberry Pi.
2016-03-01: rust-stm: Haskell-style software transactional memory for Rust.
2016-02-29: Four pitfalls of A/B test hill climbing.
2016-02-29: CloudFlare secure DNS registrar.
2016-02-29: CVE-2015-7547: you can't prevent a glibc exploit by restricting DNS message size.
2016-02-29: NTPsec: code review and cleanup of the NTP reference implementation.
2016-02-29: ActorDB: a distributed SQL database.
2016-02-29: PostgreSQL replication and Bucardo.
2016-02-29: Bucardo: asynchronous PostgreSQL replication system.
2016-02-29: Outlook 2016's new POP3 bug deletes your emails!
2016-02-29: SSD reliability in the real world: Google's experience.
2016-02-28: Towards an exploratory medium for mathematics.
2016-02-28: A robot that can 3D print a bridge in mid-air.
2016-02-28: Anatomy of a SQL index.
2016-02-28: PostgreSQL indexes: first principles.
2016-02-28: Doing mathematics differently: Leibniz, elegance, incompleteness, complexity.
2016-02-28: Pentium? Core i5? Core i7? Making sense of Intel's convoluted CPU lineup.
2016-02-28: Why maps are inaccurate in China.
2016-02-28: MentalHealthError: an exception occurred.
2016-02-27: rqlite: SQLite replicated with Raft consensus.
2016-02-27: Some advantages of documentation driven development.
2016-02-27: Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience for Open Access.
2016-02-26: DIY Dog: BrewDog's beer recipes published free online.
2016-02-25: A report on the 26th Jan 2016 GPS glitch.
2016-02-25: How does it feel to be a French person living in London?
2016-02-25: Nissan LEAF vehicle remote control API is unauthenticated and completely open.
2016-02-24: Hacking the Zsun WiFi SD card reader.
2016-02-24: bind_exporter: stats collection from BIND to Prometheus.
2016-02-24: GitLab 8.5 release notes.
2016-02-24: Using Facebook's Infer static analyser to audit the Argon2 password hash competition winner.
2016-02-23: Putting out the Twitter trashfire.
2016-02-23: Neuro-hit or neuro-myth? What science has to say about education and the brain.
2016-02-23: C compiler "optimizations" based on undefined behaviour can hurt performance.
2016-02-23: What's next in computing?
2016-02-23: Refurbishing a 1927 telephone operator switchboard.
2016-02-22: A comparison of hard-state and soft-state signalling protocols.
2016-02-22: Recursion: it is what it is (and nothing else).
2016-02-22: Debugging a memory leak: why 2008-06-14 23:29:20 Z is HTTP time.
2016-02-22: The update, the vent, and the disaster: on weekly 1:1 meetings.
2016-02-22: Nonfiction writing advice.
2016-02-22: WebKit's B3 JIT: a bare-bones backend to replace LLVM.
2016-02-22: A computer-generated border treaty between Canada and Denmark.
2016-02-22: SoftLayer uses network-wide IP address blocks to enforce US trade sanctions.
2016-02-22: Lamdu: live, type-safe, effect-aware programming.
2016-02-22: Modern makers are bringing back ham radio.
2016-02-22: International free and open source software law book.
2016-02-22: An iptables extension module for DNS filtering.
2016-02-21: Umberto Eco's anti-library.
2016-02-21: How undefined behaviour for signed integer overflow in C helps optimization in gcc.
2016-02-21: Republishing a book when all you have is a book.
2016-02-21: Artists covertly scanned the bust of Nefertiti and released the data free online.
2016-02-21: Cheap Bluetooth buttons and Linux.
2016-02-21: The joy and agony of Haskell in production.
2016-02-20: Breaking homegrown crypto.
2016-02-20: Early effects of Letsencrypt measured using data from Certificate Transparency logs.
2016-02-20: A typographic analysis of Apple's San Francisco typeface.
2016-02-20: 555 timer teardown: inside the world's most popular IC.
2016-02-20: Simple, safe multimethods in Racket.
2016-02-20: CVE-2015-7547 glibc DNS bug: a skeleton key of unknown strength.
2016-02-20: 3Blue1Brown: animated mathematics.
2016-02-20: Mandelbrot pertubation theory glitch improvement.
2016-02-20: Superfractalthing maths: fast rendering of deep Mandelbrot zooms with much less multiprecision arithmetic.
2016-02-19: How to make your text look futuristic.
2016-02-18: Wikipedia's list of lists of lists.
2016-02-18: Deny capabilities for safe, fast actors.
2016-02-18: netbsd-libcurses ported to Linux / musl-libc.
2016-02-17: jsbeeb: an in-browser BBC Micro emulator.
2016-02-17: US/Israel malware attack against Iran went well beyond Stuxnet.
2016-02-17: Dijkstra's set comprehension notation.
2016-02-17: New warning options in gcc 6.
2016-02-17: Stack Overflow architecture, 2016 edition.
2016-02-17: How to safely store passwords in 2016.
2016-02-17: Modern microprocessors: a 90 minute guide.
2016-02-17: Against security nihilism.
2016-02-17: Put down all behaviour hurtful to productive informality!
2016-02-17: CharybdeFS: a failt-injecting FUSE filesystem for software testing.
2016-02-17: Sparse integer sets: using uninitialized memory for fun and profit.
2016-02-16: Getting clean the Tudor way.
2016-02-16: Pascal's triangle and prime numbers.
2016-02-16: The NSA's SKYNET drone warfare program may be killing thousands of innocent people based on metadata and bogus AI.
2016-02-16: Ordnance Survey map of Mars.
2016-02-16: Two Malthusian scares in the last 50 years.
2016-02-16: trapperkeeper: ingest SNMP traps and hold them for use by stateful monitoring services.
2016-02-16: China moves 10,000 people to make a radio-quiet region around FAST, the Five hundred metre Aperture Spherical radio Telescope.
2016-02-16: New model of turbulence may explain heat loss in fusion reactors.
2016-02-15: UK Environment Agency LIDAR open data allows archaeologisis to locate lost Roman roads.
2016-02-15: Kotlin 1.0 released! A pragmatic language for the JVM and Android.
2016-02-15: Carbon3D: continuous liquid interface production (CLIP) cures a photosensitive resin with a UV projector.
2016-02-14: Australian birds may be deliberately spreading fire.
2016-02-14: Diary of Anne Frank is still restricted by copyright in the USA.
2016-02-14: Choose GitLab for your next open source project.
2016-02-14: The discovery of Apache ZooKeeper's poison packet.
2016-02-14: Linux containers virtual ethernet TCP checksum failure.
2016-02-13: gertty: a command line interface to Gerrit code review.
2016-02-12: So you want to write a package manager?
2016-02-12: The cost of false positives.
2016-02-12: Unicode emoji ZWJ sequences considered harmful.
2016-02-12: Unicode emoji ZWJ (zero-width joiner) sequences.
2016-02-11: der-ascii: a reversible ASN.1 pretty-printer.
2016-02-11: HOW TO WRITE TELEGRAMS PROPERLY STOP
2016-02-11: Design lessons from the amazing 1980s Usborne books that taught kids to code.
2016-02-11: ESlint considers moving away from GitHub.
2016-02-11: What you will learn from running an open source project.
2016-02-11: Rustic coding tips.
2016-02-11: Change the (S)Channel! Deconstructing a Microsoft TLS session resumption bug.
2016-02-11: Redlock discussion.
2016-02-11: A Pirate Bay for scientific papers.
2016-02-11: Humans are the only animals with chins, and no-one knows why.
2016-02-11: The Zen of Erlang.
2016-02-10: Static and Ahead of Time (AOT) compiled Julia.
2016-02-10: Advantages and disadvantages of various syslog alternatives.
2016-02-10: Deadlock Empire: Slay dragons! Master concurrency!
2016-02-10: HTTP response splitting vulnerability in node.js: root cause analysis.
2016-02-10: Warner Music pays $14 million to end 'Happy Birthday' lawsuit, and agrees it is in the public domain.
2016-02-10: Sourceforge has been acquired, and has stopped intentionally distributing malware.
2016-02-10: Gender bias in open source: acceptance of GitHub pull requests by men and women.
2016-02-10: The bitter rivalry behind the world's smallest chess program.
2016-02-10: Is Redlock safe?
2016-02-09: Twitter represents everything wrong with corporate America.
2016-02-09: Not-so-secret atomic tests: Why the photographic film industry knew what the American public didn't.
2016-02-09: Midori's error model.
2016-02-08: A brief history of cheese.
2016-02-08: Redlock: how (not) to do distributed locking.
2016-02-08: Of mansplaining and mastectomies.
2016-02-08: Colour blindness and network reliability.
2016-02-08: A lambda is not (necessarily) a closure.
2016-02-08: Junction: new concurrent hash maps for C++.
2016-02-08: Let's remember Alexandre Dumas this Black History Month.
2016-02-08: So you want to understand Hindley-Milner?
2016-02-07: Usborne 1980s computer books free to download.
2016-02-07: Mbox: a lightweight sandbox for any unprivileged user on commodity operating systems.
2016-02-07: Diesel: a safe, extensible ORM and SQL query builder for Rust.
2016-02-07: Frinkiac: The Simpsons screenshot search engine.
2016-02-07: Hacking the battery DRM on a Lenovo laptop.
2016-02-06: The myth of shared space.
2016-02-06: How to fix over-complicated code based on the wrong abstraction.
2016-02-06: Learn enough Git to be dangerous.
2016-02-06: Recreating Aerodynamic by Daft Punk in Sonic Pi.
2016-02-06: Faking Fissile Material: the underhanded C competition winner.
2016-02-06: Zip files all the way down!
2016-02-06: After 100 years, scientists are finally closing in on gravity waves.
2016-02-05: "Woohoo!" email stokes rumor that gravitational waves have been spotted.
2016-02-05: crontab guru.
2016-02-05: 155-year-old mouse trap claims its latest victim.
2016-02-05: The keybase filesystem.
2016-02-05: GCHQ's spam problem.
2016-02-05: Great Fire: The grid system for London that never happened.
2016-02-05: The Fitzwilliam Museum is 200 today!
2016-02-05: French spelling reform says «oignon» is now «ognon».
2016-02-04: Chipophone: a homemade 8-bit synthesizer built into an old electric organ.
2016-02-04: Report on the k-root DNS traffic flood on 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2015.
2016-02-03: Postmortem of GitHub's outage on 28th Jan.
2016-02-03: The spreading plague of ghastly façadism.
2016-02-03: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist.
2016-02-03: A review of the Julia programming language.
2016-02-03: GPS glitch broke DAB digital radio broadcasts in the UK.
2016-02-03: AnywhereUSB: network-attached USB-over-IP hub.
2016-02-03: Airconsole: serial console adaptors.
2016-02-03: DNS at FOSDEM.
2016-02-02: 6 lessons to forget before you start learning to code.
2016-02-02: Octopus stinkhorn: cthuloid horror fungus.
2016-02-02: A 15 hour spatial reasoning course boosts retention of women in undergrad engineering by 20%-30%.
2016-02-02: Where is the borderline between adopting slang and cultural appropriation?
2016-02-02: CERT VU#714121 incorrect NXDOMAIN responses from AAAA queries could cause denial-of-service.
2016-02-01: The renewables revolution is now unstoppable.
2016-02-01: A brief history of markup languages.
2016-02-01: Matrix.org FAQ: open decentralized instant messaging / pub-sub over http+json.
2016-02-01: GPS glitch caused outages, and fuels arguments for a backup service.
2016-02-01: A history of grep.
2016-02-01: Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux.
2016-01-31: Map of building ages around the UK.
2016-01-31: 18F CSS style guide.
2016-01-31: The twelve days of crisis: a retrospective on Linode's holiday DDoS attacks.
2016-01-30: The automation paradox: computerizing jobs often increases the need for human employees.
2016-01-30: The design of a modern cache.
2016-01-30: Rethinking weight loss and the reasons we're 'Always Hungry'.
2016-01-30: Schema evolution in Avro, Protocol Buffers and Thrift.
2016-01-29: Pssst! Your PGP is leaking metadata.
2016-01-29: There's wifi in the only place in the USA where wifi is forbidden.
2016-01-29: Code from Kernighan & Pike, The Practice of Programming. (with Markov programs)
2016-01-29: Scientists open the ‘black box' of schizophrenia with dramatic genetic discovery.
2016-01-29: McCullough effect: visual after-effects that can last months.
2016-01-29: Panama disease will kill the Cavendish banana like it did the Gros Michel.
2016-01-29: USA rejects better font for highway signs.
2016-01-28: Typesetting mathematics according to the ISO standard.
2016-01-28: RabbitMQ internals.
2016-01-28: ENTRADA: .nl's Hadoop platform for analyzing DNS traffic.
2016-01-28: IETF documents describing the future RFC format.
2016-01-28: Glittering Blue.
2016-01-27: AlphaGo: mastering the game of Go with machine learning.
2016-01-27: Why the calorie is broken.
2016-01-27: The rising sophistication of network scanning: how to discover and probe unpublished random IPv6 addresses.
2016-01-26: UK rail travel station usage map, 1997-2015.
2016-01-26: Why Lancaster's main electrical substation is near the river.
2016-01-26: What happens when there is a lengthy power cut in a modern city.
2016-01-26: Cxx.jl: Julia C++ ffi.
2016-01-26: Irish postcodes.
2016-01-26: Michael Lewis: the sourge of Wall Street.
2016-01-25: A DIY electronic bee counter.
2016-01-25: Godwin's law of Hitler comparisons helps prod glib online rhetoric into something more thoughtful.
2016-01-25: The creator of Mercurial is winding down from leading the project.
2016-01-25: Why the Web beat Gopher in the battle for protocol mindshare.
2016-01-25: Herbie: rewrite arithmetic expressions to minimize floating-point precision errors.
2016-01-24: How Target's Canadian expansion failed.
2016-01-24: Counting legal positions in the game of Go.
2016-01-24: Statesman or skatesman?
2016-01-23: Unikernels are unfit for production.
2016-01-23: Institutionally constrained technology adoption: why England's enemies didn't copy the longbow.
2016-01-22: The most metal \m/ deaths in Middle Earth, ranked.
2016-01-22: How do bank payments actually work in the UK?
2016-01-22: So you're learning OCaml...
2016-01-22: 6 quick ways to spot fake news.
2016-01-22: TinEye reverse image search.
2016-01-22: So you have a a Git mess on your hands...
2016-01-20: Building John Harrison's impossibly accurate pendulum clock.
2016-01-20: Efficient optional blocking of advertising domains in PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0.
2016-01-19: Unboxed values in Guile.
2016-01-19: Rethinking John Wanamaker in the age of adtech and adblockers.
2016-01-17: Raspberry Pi bare metal hello world in Rust.
2016-01-17: How many times can I re-use deep frying oil?
2016-01-17: Tranquility: nighttime light adjustment for Mac OS X.
2016-01-16: Christoph Laimer's 3D printed tourbillon pocket watch.
2016-01-15: So you think you can program an elevator.
2016-01-15: Elevator Saga: the elevator programming game.
2016-01-15: Ansible 2.0 porting guide.
2016-01-15: ShellCheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts.
2016-01-15: How a fraudster used the prison library to expose the Stingray cell-site simulator secret.
2016-01-15: How to write a version check. (How to be compatible with Python 4!)
2016-01-15: Adding a complete C++ FFI to a language basically means embedding a complete C++ compiler.
2016-01-14: Why are Pluto and Charon so different?
2016-01-14: Fast regex matching in Rust using Aho-Corasick.
2016-01-13: Towards an understanding of technical debt.
2016-01-12: Ingrid Burrington's article series about Internet infrastructure.
2016-01-12: The true meaning of "turn the other cheek".
2016-01-12: It's time for Europe to turn the tables on bullying Britain.
2016-01-12: An interview with the author of The Global Transformation of Time.
2016-01-12: Introducing optical lattice clocks; more precise than caesium fountain atomic clocks.
2016-01-12: A brief history of modern timekeeping.
2016-01-12: Europol makes arrests in "DD4BC" DDoS for Bitcoin extortion case.
2016-01-11: Allegro: a game programming library.
2016-01-11: Blynk is a platform with iOS and Android apps to control your own IoT devices.
2016-01-11: In 2015, the dark forces of the Internet became a counterculture.
2016-01-10: Fast multi-thread event-driven socket servers.
2016-01-09: Another Maunder Minimum starting in the 2030s?
2016-01-09: Curtin University meteorite discovery could hold clues to solar system creation.
2016-01-09: Britain, immigration, and brexit.
2016-01-09: How to cultivate the art of serendipity.
2016-01-09: dumb-init: PID 1 for Docker containers.
2016-01-08: FreeBSD jails the hard way.
2016-01-08: Raspberry Pi Zero USB gadget mode.
2016-01-06: PCIe non-volatile storage: implications of the performance of storage-class memory.
2016-01-06: rumps: ridiculously uncomplicated Mac OS X Python status bar apps.
2016-01-06: AnyBar: display a modifiable coloured dot in the Mac OS X menu bar.
2016-01-06: BitBar: put the output of a program in the Mac OS X menu bar.
2016-01-05: Freezing water drops. (YouTube)
2016-01-05: Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum.
2016-01-05: Galloping Gertie: the struggle to understand the strange, spectacular collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge.
2016-01-05: Kart: key alteration for radix tries.
2016-01-04: FreeRouter: a routing daemon written in Java.
2016-01-04: Stories about compiler optimization on the PDP11 and VAX.
2016-01-03: Using flame graphs to find why your code is blocking on Linux.
2016-01-03: GPU text rendering with vector textures.
2016-01-03: github-backup: keep you own copy of data on GitHub.
2016-01-03: 52 concepts for your cognitive toolkit.
2016-01-03: End-of-buffer checks in decompressors: relaxing an invariant and milking it for all it's worth.
2016-01-02: A brief history of generative models for power-law and lognormal distributions.
2016-01-02: CPython development will move to GitHub.
2016-01-02: Why Facebook won, and other hard truths about blogging.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>