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Rethinking how technology uses our personal data
The NIST Post-Quantum Crypto “Competition” [pdf]
Re:Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @02:40PM (#16757626)
The Ars Technica article on their lawsuit against Apple [1] said they advertised a product on their website but received zero revenue from that product and seemingly didn't have any engineers working on it.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/full-scale-of-ap...
Edit: Added the link.
Re:Cryptographic Right Answers
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:48PM (#16750877)
Which of those answers are going to hold up in the post-quantum world?
Re:Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:42PM (#16748922)
Perhaps somewhere close to AMS-IX? For me, that would be network latency to non-US customers.
Ask HN: Windows antivirus that has a fully sandboxed engine?
Recent Twitter discussions have surfaced the fact that many antiviruses on Windows still do not properly sandbox their scanning engines, which often use legacy code to unpack and parse untrusted content. So by installing an antivirus, you may actually increase the attack surface dramatically. (For example, when an antivirus is parsing a freshly downloaded PDF file to analyze it, a malicious PDF...
Ask HN: Any US banks who are friendly to international founders?
Are there any startup-friendly banks that non-US founders can use for the initial stages of the company before their revenue starts to grow rapidly?Ideally, I’d like to find someone who does not require us to visit the US at all.
Re:OVH CEO: Unlike Amazon, Google, “we will never be in competition wi...
on Saturday March 31, 2018 @03:45PM (#16724817)
Can you elaborate on Fastly exposing the origin servers to DDoS? Is there a link to learn more about that?
Potential implementation issues with 0-RTT in TLS 1.3
Why we’re switching Ulysses to Subscription
Ask HN: Did anyone learn Haskell as their first language?
Did you learn Miranda or Haskell as your first programming language? Tell us about your experience.Do you mainly use Haskell now? If not, why?
Which Internet Registries Offer the Best Protection for Domain Owners?
Go runtime: FreeBSD memory corruption involving fork system call
Ask HN: Is Rust too complex for mere mortals?
C++ is notorious for often being too hard to get your code completely right. Is Rust affected by the same curse?Did you work on a Rust project in a team with ordinary, non-genius programmers? How does the expressive power and complexity of the language affect the quality of their code?I want to understand how demanding Rust is to developers compared to C++, C, and Go.
Dynalist, a note-taking app inspired by WorkFlowy
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Facebook Files
Apple betrayed by its own law firm (2013)
Re:Startup School 12: Alan Kay, Part II [video]
on Saturday May 13, 2017 @12:56PM (#14331847)
Okay, let’s wake up and dream away. What kind of distant future would you like to be part of?
Re:Alan Kay at Startup School [video]
on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:23PM (#14318746)
Can anyone clarify the baseball analogy about errors? (It’s at 38:00.) I’m a bit confused.
Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region
on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:50AM (#14313893)
Is Google’s us-east-1 unreliable? Would you mind to share any details?
Ask HN: What’s the biggest traffic spike you got?
Tell us your story. Please do share even if your site was still small at the time. It’s always relative to your usual traffic figures.Where did the crowd come from? How many requests per second did it reach at peak? How did your site handle the load? How long did the surge last? How many unique visitors came to your site during the surge? How did this affect your business?
RFD: the alien abduction prophecy protocol
Deterministic Components for Interactive Distributed Systems
Re:Startup School 8: Jan Koum of WhatsApp
on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:38AM (#14254818)
Why did they avoid any media attention?
New York City Street Tree Map
Ask HN: What’s the biggest traffic spike you got?
Tell us your story. Please do share even if your site was still small at the time. It’s always relative to your usual traffic figures.Where did the crowd come from? How many requests per second did it reach at peak? How did your site handle the load? How long did the surge last? How many unique visitors came to your site during the surge? How did this affect your business?