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Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:47PM (#39554826)
There was one in the Phoenix Framework (Elixir) about issuing certificates with an invalid end date: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/5737

Interestingly, Azure had this bug some years ago too leading to an outage. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...

This article describes their efforts at streamlining their systems, which resulted in lawsuit against Accenture:

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/10/case-study-hertz-acce...

You can check out the following project as a reference. It incorporates many of the modern techniques others have mentioned and is well built.

https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android

Re:Java record pattern matching in JDK 19 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @12:26PM (#31379552)
Java 14 does have something similar

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/305

Native apps can register their own URI handlers to handle interprocess communication, like: org.example.myapp://auth
Re:How to Detect IMSI Catchers on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:05AM (#30965819)
Thanks for the article!

Can you explain, how an IMSI catcher works on a protocol level?

Edit: Tough this is a community contribution with no official approval yet.
It looks like they'll revert the change: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/pull/22262
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