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• 2017-05-31: Seville shows what makes a city great for cycling: the number of cycleways, or their connectivity?
• 2017-05-31: SHA-3 should probably not be used.
• 2017-05-31: New DNS infrastructure at GitHub.
• 2017-05-31: Problems with OCSP stapling and Must-Staple and why certificate revocation is still broken.
• 2017-05-31: HTTP/2 push is tougher than you might expect.
• 2017-05-31: Federal Circuit loses again: US Supreme Court categorically rejects enforcement of post-sale patent restrictions.
• 2017-05-30: Golden Carrots: Kenya's M-PESA, W3C's Web Payments, Australia's NPP.
• 2017-05-30: Venus has very few volcanoes. Weirdly, this might be why it's as hot as hell.
• 2017-05-30: What went wrong in the British Airways data centre?
• 2017-05-30: Avert your eyes from the server "humping" trend in GPU compute chassis.
• 2017-05-30: DST causes an estimated 30 traffic accident deaths per year in the USA.
• 2017-05-30: Scaling Amazon Aurora at ticketea: compensating for DNS propagation delay.
• 2017-05-29: STEM: still no shortage of qualified people in the USA.
• 2017-05-30: CalVer: calendar-based version numbers.
• 2017-05-29: LLVM's shifty semantics.
• 2017-05-29: The atomic bomb considered as a Hungarian high school science fair project.
• 2017-05-30: Conference speaking as a software vendor / talks as a product design tool.
• 2017-05-29: The world Is running out of (the right kinds of) sand.
• 2017-05-29: The rise of the QR code and how it has forever changed China's social habits.
• 2017-05-29: Harnessing the energy generated when freshwater meets saltwater.
• 2017-05-13: Physical separation of cyclists from traffic "crucial" to dropping injury rates, shows U.S. study.
• 2017-05-29: Hacking Golang's type system.
• 2017-05-28: Trump stole the Davies coat of arms from the former owners of Mar-a-Lago.
• 2017-05-29: Book Review: The Entrepreneurial State.
• 2017-05-29: Building the Lego Saturn V.
• 2017-05-29: Template for an outage post-mortem review document.
• 2017-05-19: The fold-and-cut problem: make any shape by folding paper flat and making one cut?
• 2017-05-29: What's the difference between the COM and EXE extensions?
• 2017-05-29: Jitterdämmerung
• 2017-05-25: Why Flamingos are more stable on one leg than two.
• 2017-05-29: View counting at Reddit, with Redis HyperLogLog, Kafka, and Cassandra.
• 2017-05-28: SSD rowhammer: vulnerabilities in MLC NAND flash memory programming.
• 2017-05-29: RFC 3484 address sorting is a bug: DNS resolution in Golang and Cgo.
• 2017-05-26: Rocket Lab's New Zealand space launch is first from a private site.
• 2017-05-27: traintimes.org.uk performance notes.
• 2017-05-20: Troublesome OCSP server outage handling in Apache.
• 2017-05-21: Improving qsort worst case behaviour on OpenBSD, plus multipivot quicksort.
• 2017-05-03: The sandwich alignment chart.
• 2017-05-19: North Sea Wind Power Hub: A giant wind farm to power all of north Europe.
• 2017-05-09: Innovation is an overrated ideology, say historians of technology. Maintenance means more to most peoples' lives.
• 2017-05-28: How to use conscious purpose without wrecking everything.
• 2017-05-26: Faster command line tools in D, with simple TSV as an example.
• 2017-05-08: Did Macron outsmart Russian hackers?
• 2017-05-27: JOSE (Javascript Object Signing and Encryption) is a bad standard that everyone should avoid.
• 2017-05-01: Rust your ARM microcontroller!
• 2017-05-19: The replication crisis in psychology: Daryl Bem "proved" ESP is real, which means science is broken.
• 2017-05-25: Let's Encrypt OCSP and issuance outage postmortem.
• 2017-05-26: Simple and Happy: is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
• 2017-05-26: uTT: lightweight and efficient MQTT broker. (WIP)
• 2017-05-27: Don't go to the doctor: PREVENT's effects on British muslims.
• 2017-05-23: Who owns England? Land ownership map.
• 2017-05-20: CRLite: a scalable system for pushing all TLS X.509 certificate revocations to all browsers.
• 2017-05-20: Escaping hell with monads.
• 2017-05-25: Rust's built-in traits: the when, how, and why.
• 2017-05-26: Rocket Lab's Electron conducts inaugural flight from New Zealand.
• 2017-05-26: MH17 and the utility of NOTAMs.
• 2017-05-23: After seven years, Microsoft is finally fixing the "J" email bug.
• 2017-05-24: Using TLS1.3 with OpenSSL.
• 2017-05-24: Google buys a /12 IPv4 address block: further concentration of internet haves and have nots.
• 2017-05-26: Chrome won the browser war.
• 2017-05-25: Meld: a visual diff and merge tool for developers
• 2017-05-08: Migrating from Heroku to AWS.
• 2017-05-24: Turning the database inside out with Apache Kafka and Samza.
• 2017-05-24: Rocket Lab's first Electron launcher "It's a Test" is set to lift off from New Zealand.
• 2017-05-25: Saint Architeuthis is the patron saint of doomed sailors.
• 2017-05-10: Truly seamless reloads with HAProxy: no more hacks!
• 2017-05-03: LEGO Ideas 21309 NASA Apollo Saturn V.
• 2017-05-25: Linux kernel dentry cache growth causes performance problems.
• 2017-05-24: System programming in Rust: beyond safety.
• 2017-05-12: Optimal probabilistic cache stampede prevention.
• 2017-05-24: Tutorial: CSV parsing with Rust.
• 2017-05-23: Chaos Computer Club breaks iris recognition system of the Samsung Galaxy S8.
• 2017-05-13: How to reduce Lua boilerplate with D.
• 2017-05-19: FizzBuzz in Haskell by embedding a domain-specific language.
• 2017-05-18: Flang: a Fortran compiler based on the PGI front end and LLVM back end.
• 2017-05-17: Everything you need to know about HTTP security headers.
• 2017-05-23: 1Password travel mode: protect your accounts when crossing borders.
• 2017-05-18: A Rust optimization guide.
• 2017-05-19: Performance problems due to false dependency in Intel popcnt instruction.
• 2017-05-01: Laffer curve: Everything right-wingers get wrong about trickle-down economics.
• 2017-05-15: Check whether Intel AMT is enabled and provisioned under Linux.
• 2017-05-10: A history of relay computers.
• 2017-05-22: HTTPS on Stack Overflow: the end of a long road.
• 2017-05-07: A dog that rescues cats.
• 2017-05-19: Temporal tables PostgreSQL extension.
• 2017-05-21: How basic performance analysis saved us millions. (PostgreSQL, perf, flame graphs)
• 2017-05-09: Writing a fast hash table with a tiny memory footprint.
• 2017-05-10: Beware of the background colour of transparent pixels.
• 2017-05-05: Rediscovering the Intel AMT remote firmware authentication vulnerability.
• 2017-05-15: Designing robust and predictable APIs with idempotency.
• 2017-05-17: 4chan: the skeleton key to the rise of Trump.
• 2017-05-05: Background and introduction to BBR TCP.
• 2017-05-19: Swift is like Kotlin.
• 2017-05-12: A public key that crashes ssh-keygen. (2015)
• 2017-05-03: Programming as theory building. (Peter Naur)
• 2017-05-22: On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint. (YouTube)
• 2017-05-21: Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding.
• 2017-05-21: SILE: a typesetter written in Lua.
• 2017-05-21: CPU utilization is wrong.
• 2017-05-21: Approximating sin(x) to 5 ULP with Chebyshev polynomials.
• 2017-05-21: Pattern matching for Java.
• 2017-05-21: Google PhotoScan takes glare-free pictures of pictures with a smartphone.
• 2017-05-21: Prepack: partial evaluator for JavaScript.
• 2017-05-21: Generating fantasy maps.
• 2017-05-21: New in Debian Stretch: nftables.
• 2017-05-21: Programming as a way of thinking.
• 2017-05-21: Writing a new time series database for Prometheus.
• 2017-05-21: fireflowers: advocating Rust, in the words of its practitioners.
• 2017-05-20: ARM's ASL: architecture specification language.
• 2017-05-20: XML parsing accelerator with Intel SSE4.
• 2017-05-20: Generating datasets with varied appearance and identical statistics through simulated annealing.
• 2017-05-20: Myth: it's easier to multiply and divide with Hindu-Arabic numerals than with Roman ones?
• 2017-05-20: The politics of the NHS WannaCrypt ransomware outbreak.
• 2017-05-20: An introduction to monoids with FizzBuzz.
• 2017-05-20: Freshly Remember'd: Kirk drift.
• 2017-05-20: Slovak Radio building.
• 2017-05-20: Criticisms of RFC6979 deterministic ECDSA.
• 2017-05-20: Where have all the insects gone?
• 2017-05-19: Disable the GNU libstdc++ memory allocator to avoid leaks.
• 2017-05-19: NVidia Tesla Volta data center GPU.
• 2017-05-19: Monitoring PostgreSQL streaming slave lag.
• 2017-05-19: How to restart MySQL fast: the difference between knowledge and experience.
• 2017-05-19: pgsidekick: scheduler (pglater) and external tool invoker (pglisten) for PostgreSQL.
• 2017-05-19: Replacing Disqus with Github comments.
• 2017-05-19: How Trump could get fired.
• 2017-05-19: P-hacking "Mindless Eating", or how to send an entire life of research into question.
• 2017-05-19: Let us paste passwords!
• 2017-05-19: secure-operator: a DNS server proxy to Google's DNS-over-HTTPS.
• 2017-05-19: Teller reveals his magical secrets.
• 2017-05-18: Cargo Rust crate registry format.
• 2017-05-18: The quantum thermodynamics revolution.
• 2017-05-18: How to accidentally stop a global cyber attack. (WannaCry)
• 2017-05-18: PlantNet: ‘Shazam' for plants will identify French plants from a picture.
• 2017-05-18: Sensible new password guidelines from NIST.
• 2017-05-18: Cap'n Proto 0.6 Released: Two and a half years of improvements.
• 2017-05-18: Remotely exploitable Javascript type confusion bug in privileged Microsoft Security Essentials AV scanner.
• 2017-05-18: Rules for successful hotel Wi-Fi.
• 2017-05-18: Caddy 0.10 released. (Golang http server)
• 2017-05-18: go-audit: Slack's tool for syscall auditing at scale.
• 2017-05-17: Getting started with headless Google Chrome.
• 2017-05-17: How ssh got port 22.
• 2017-05-17: "Me and SVG" - Amelia Bellamy-Royds.
• 2017-05-17: Prolog under the hood: an honest look.
• 2017-05-17: Fusion reactors: Not what they're cracked up to be.
• 2017-05-17: VME broken on AMD Ryzen. (Affects 16bit virtual machines.)
• 2017-05-17: How we fine-tuned HAProxy to achieve 2,000,000 concurrent SSL connections.
• 2017-05-17: New LLVM JIT in Azul's Zing JVM.
• 2017-05-17: The SQL layer in CockroachDB.
• 2017-05-17: Kryptonite: an ssh agent on your phone with Touch ID authorization.
• 2017-05-17: Intent to remove support in Google Chrome for commonName matching in X.509 certificates.
• 2017-05-17: Aspirin and pandemic influenza mortality, 1918–1919: pharmacology, pathology, and historic evidence.
• 2017-05-16: UPSERT race condition with MERGE on Microsoft SQL Server.
• 2017-05-16: Fewer mallocs in curl.
• 2017-05-16: Notation as a tool of thought. (Ken Iverson)
• 2017-05-16: Akumuli storage engine design.
• 2017-05-16: Is the preprocessor still needed in C++?
• 2017-05-16: Wax worm caterpillars can dissolve plastic shopping bags surprisingly fast.