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Congrats Philip on hitting #1 on Hacker News! Great piece of work!

Kind of, but you'll have to take the scenic route (long distance trains IC/EC/ICE are not included).

What's it with the perpetual reposting of meaningless rants like that? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=yager.io

I doubt that this is a genuine hijacking attempt. All it takes is a Cisco router and some IT admin making up an address.

That is just a different way of saying their (DSL) customers are their product, not their customers.

Provided "who you want" wants to peer with you. Peering is a mutual relationship after all.

While that is certainly true, that is not what I meant. For one, it's very cheap to reach such exchanges for companies like Hetzner, because they usually operate their data centers…

This reflects only the peering capacity available for public peering and only what has been documented by each ISP for that network. Private peerings (that are direct connections t…

The most important point the author is missing is code readability - being forced to write opinionated code is one thing. Having a chance to read somebody elses code (or your own c…

Curious why someone who still uses CVS in 2014 would cheer about dropping sendmail support.

At least with Chrome you can install the Daltonize! plugin. That plugin even has a "simulation" mode to help color-visible to see how your page looks like to (some of) the colorbli…

The answer is technically correct, if someone uses a weak enough cipher, they would be able to decode it. What else could they say? "We spend a lot of money on eavesdropping softwa…

Cliff Click: A Crash Course in Modern Hardware is high up for me http://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-modern...

The point that the folks over at Evernote are really missing is that Joe Average is using the very same credentials everywhere else, from their Gmail to the Amazon accounts. If Eve…