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Golang SSH Redux
April 25, 2017I’d like to set a couple of things straight, for the record.I’ll cover the post/blog, and then I’d like to counter some misconceptions. While part of me thinks “I must’ve been very...
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Fusion reactors: Not what they’re cracked up to be
The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are...
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SimpleLegal (YC S13) Hiring All Sorts of Engineers in Mountain View, CA
Customer ExperienceCustomer Success ManagerMountain View, CACustomer Support RoleMountain View, CAImplementation ManagerMountain View, CASenior Customer Success ManagerMountain View, CASenior Customer...
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The Grim Biology of Being Poor
On paper alone you would never guess that I grew up poor and hungry.My most recent annual salary was over $700,000. I am a Truman National Security Fellow and a term member at the Council on Foreign...
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The Myth of a Superhuman AI
Illustrations by Michael Paul Young / YouWorkForThemI’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources, and humans will go...
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Backdoor in the firmware of Antminer Bitcoin mining hardware
Am I Vulnerable?All recent S9 hardware is affected, except possibly very early generation S9s. Additionally, L3, T9 and R4 series hardware are likely to be affected as well. The commit date for the...
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A vigilante trying to improve IoT security
The hacker’s name is Janit0r. You’ve probably never heard of him, but perhaps you’ve heard of his work. Janit0r is reportedly the one behind a particularly gnarly but undeniably fascinating form of...
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Show HN: Gopher Browser for Windows Client
The Gopher protocol is far from dead - there are many enthusiasts still maintaining Gopher sites (or 'holes' as they are known) across the internet. Gopher can be thought of as a predecessor of the...
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Robinhood stock trading app confirms $110M raise at $1.3B valuation
Zero-fee stock-trading app Robinhood has joined the unicorn club.That’s thanks to it reaching 2 million total users, and 17 percent month-over-month growth of its revenue-driving Robinhood Gold...
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Hanging up my spurs
A couple years ago, my wife Crystal and I were cleaning out our garage in Truckee when we came across an old notebook of mine from when I lived in Ireland at age 20. Back then, a friend had asked me,...
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New Evidence Suggests Humans Arrived in the Americas Earlier Than Thought
(Left) A close-up view of a spirally fractured mastodon femur. (Right) A boulder discovered at the Cerutti Mastodon site in San Diego County thought to have been used by early humans as a hammerstone....
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Linux Programming – Signals the easy way
Signals are the the necessary evil that almost nobody get rights. So this is all about dealing with them in a manageable way that will also make them usable again inside a normal program. Lets have a...
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Swift architecture at Uber
This is a talk by Tuomas Artman that was presented at Swift Summit in San Francisco, 2016IntroductionAll right, thanks for having me up here. I'm Tuomas Artman. I'm the tech lead for architecture and...
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India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste
Nearly three years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made one of the boldest comments on public health that I have ever heard from an elected official. It's still having a big impact today.He...
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Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)
Should I buy ECC memory?Should I buy ECC memory?Jeff Atwood, perhaps the most widely read programming blogger, has a post that makes a case against using ECC memory. My read is that his major points...
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Rust 1.17
The Rust team is happy to announce the latest version of Rust, 1.17.0. Rust is a systems programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency.If you have a previous version of Rust installed,...
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Dropbox Reaches Key Profit Milestone
Dropbox Inc.'s chief executive officer said the company is now generating a profit excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a key metric that investors are watching as the file-sharing...
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Smart Photos
By Mike Hall, Machine Learning LeadIt’s amazing how quickly an idea can go from a thought to a fully realized product. Last January, Tinder announced its first internal hackathon. Anyone in the company...
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New Bridges Rise in New York
But wait, there’s more.In a few months, the first of two cable-stayed crossings is to open over the Arthur Kill, between Staten Island and Elizabeth, N.J., replacing the Goethals Bridge. Then, in 2018,...
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A critique of trends in tech
For a long time I told the same basic joke about Silicon Valley, just updating as some new walled garden network replicated long-existing technology in a format better able to attract VC cash and,...
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