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Burying exploitation attempts in the logs with a flood of api requests?

Additionally you could also use something like fwknop[1]. It opens the ssh port for your ip when you need it and closes it after a preset time has passed. [1] http://www.cipherdyne…

I think it's dangerous to go on record beforehand claiming something is "bullshit". If I've learned anything over the last view days it's that reports like these should be taken se…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstad_Network

All the organizations in question have a permanent smut on their record. The angle I'm missing in this discussion is that this is a business opportunity for something new and bette…

As long as there is fragmentation then flash will not be obsolete. For example the lack of a common supported audio format or shader language in browsers to name two.

> European merchants who want to take advantage of Braintree to accept online and mobile payments can now apply for an account online. I feel this is a common misconception that ac…

Nope http://i.imgur.com/JndIYjW.png

Link removal requests can also be malicious. A blackhat seo will check his competitors domain to see if there's a spf record, if they're signing their mail, and if there's a catch-…

Bootstrap was actually build on code from ZURB http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4590315 The competition between the two frameworks just benefits the end user as they compete to …

If you have the icons as svg you could also try raphaeljs [1][2]. It'll render the svg path as svg on most modern browsers and as vml on older IE browsers (ie6+). The added benefit…

Besides the regular Qrcode there's also Mirco Qrcode[1]. Also the Reed–Solomon error correction in qrcodes take up a lot of datablocks. If a new standardisation for mirco qrcodes w…

Another good feature I didn't see mentioned is haxes' quick memory access. http://haxe.org/api/flash/memory It's basically an api for the opcodes which adobe alchemy used if you co…

http://digicube.fr/rapidserveurs 1gbps with unlimited traffic start at 25e. I've been hosting an irc server with them now for just under a year; and it's been down once for 2 hours…

Here's a similar thing also made from infrared images of the milky way http://djer.roe.ac.uk/vsa/vvv/iipmooviewer-2.0-beta/vvvgps5....

This was also a much used trick: http://news.ycombinator.com@1249739877 Although most browsers have implemented a warning of some sort it can still hoax spam-filters that use a reg…

Why is that? Flash seems pretty logical to me. If you were giving the choice to either design with a single language that compiles to bytecode and runs in a vm(jit), or an array of…

HaXe and HaXeNME come pretty close. Especially NME with which you can create GUIs and games compile to c++, compile to html5 using jeash, create native phone apps, and compile SWFs…

In my opinion it's fine the way it is. HN comments are compact and only separated by the bare minimum, which makes for easy and fast reading. Stackoverflow doesn't digest that well…

In a lawsuit filed against spam tool providers in april; twitter claimed it had 140 million active users. 140 million claim is right on page 1. http://www.scribd.com/doc/88206156/T…

Certainly a bizarre move by Cisco. Besides the data tracking and privacy issues; imagine the damages if they ever had a security breach. 4. Your Responsibilities as a Cisco Connect…