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I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam
Hi all,I’m getting ready for a major initiative to shut down Windows Support. It’s like wack-a-mole, but I’m getting close to going nuclear on them. As fast as you can report fake “you have a virus...
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The Met Makes 375k Images Available for Free
PhotoEl Greco’s “The Vision of Saint John” (1609-14), is free to download in high resolution from the Met’s website, no permission required.Credit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York All images of...
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Show HN: Bdash – A simple business intelligence application
README.mdA modern SQL client application.FeatureSaving queryDrawing chartSharing resultYou can share the result with gist.https://gist.github.com/hokaccha/e128e1c3a68527ebf2c50d5e95a089b1Multiple data...
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Electronics robust enough for Venus
Day or night, the mean temperature on Venus is about 460 °C, an extreme demonstration of the heat-trapping efficiency of the carbon dioxide that makes up most of the planet’s thick atmosphere. At the...
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Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the Web, and to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level...
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What programming languages are used most on weekends?
For me, the weekends are mostly about spending time with my family, reading for leisure, and working on the open-source projects I am involved in. These weekend projects overlap with the work that I do...
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Redash: Connect to any data source, easily visualize and share your data
README.mdRedash is our take on freeing the data within our company in a way that will better fit our culture and usage patterns.Prior to Redash, we tried to use traditional BI suites and discovered a...
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20% slowdown in http benchmarks in Go 1.8 rc3
net/http: throughput regression for a simple hello world · Issue #18964 · golang/go · GitHubSkip to content You can't perform that action at this time.You signed in with another tab or window. Reload...
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New GM Cruise Self-Driving Video Shows More Mastery of SF Roads
Video Analysis: New GM Cruise Self-Driving Video Shows More Mastery of SF Roads... This Time with PiP ProofA couple weeks ago, GM's Cruise Automation released a remarkable self-driving video from the...
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NeXT: Steve Jobs’ Dot.com IPO That Never Happened
Steve Jobs, NeXT staff retreat, Sonoma, California (1986). Photograph by Doug Menuez.February 7, 2017: Today is the 20th anniversary of the formal completion of Apple Computer’s acquisition of NeXT...
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One million subscribers later, here's the state of Have I been pwned
I hit a bit of a milestone last week with HIBP which I thought deserved a little celebration:A million verified subscribers (that is they've received a welcome email and clicked a link to confirm they...
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Introducing Keybase Chat
02/08/2017FRIENDS!Today we're launching an end-to-end encrypted chat built into Keybase (downloadable here; source code here). It's easier to use than other crypto apps. It's scriptable too.TL;DR:...
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TensorFlow Image Recognition on a Raspberry Pi
February 8th, 2017Editor’s note: This post is part of our Trainspotting series, a deep dive into the visual and audio detection components of our Caltrain project. You can find the introduction to the...
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NSA contractor indicted over mammoth theft of classified data
An aerial view of the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Ft. Meade, Maryland, U.S. January 29, 2010. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo
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Wine Running on Windows with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
In build 15025, wine64-development runs directly on the Windows SubSystem for Linux.
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Finding Ticketbleed
Ticketbleed (CVE-2016-9244) is a software vulnerability in the TLS stack of certain F5 products that allows a remote attacker to extract up to 31 bytes of uninitialized memory at a time, which can...
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Archaeologists uncover first Dead Sea Scrolls cave in 60 years
The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the most important historical texts ever discovered, dating as far back as the third century BCE. These texts were spread across 11 caves, and for decades archeologists...
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Hypernormalisation (2016)
HyperNormalisation wades through the culmination of forces that have driven this culture into mass uncertainty, confusion, spectacle and simulation. Where events keep happening that seem crazy,...
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A first look at WebAssembly performance
WebAssembly gives us the promise to run high performance code in the browser in a standardized way. Now that there are a few WebAssembly previews available I decided it’s time to take a look at their...
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How Evernote moved 3 petabytes of data to Google's cloud
Evernote decided last year that it wanted to move away from running its own data centers and start using the public cloud to operate its popular note-taking service. On Wednesday, it announced that...
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