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> decrypt your messages wholesale. Eek, that sounds fun :) Tell us more?

If I'm not mistaken (and haven't read up on this stuff in years, so probably), the majority of encryption modes rely on XORing the stream of bits from the cipher with your plain te…

I think it's quite simple, and we're all guilty of it at some time or other: it's much easier to reinvent and reshape already solved problems in our own image than it is to innovat…

Creepily, it claims someone is already signed up for my username.

Literally just poll this single page: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=forgotusername once every 30 minutes, extract the thread structure, generate some message IDs, and keep…

It's just an alternative for someone already offering to work for free – I'm certainly not about to write a business plan around it. My use case is simply that I like my own commen…

I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP auth…

Everyone bumps into this at some time on their journey through Python, however personally it's not something I've contended with in years and there is good reason for that: > Suppo…

Evil routing has been employed a whole bunch of times going back decades, most visibly a couple of years ago when IIRC Iran (?) started advertising bad routes for a bunch of big si…

Torvalds must be on drugs or also trolling hard to be talking about an absence of carrier lock-in and Android in the same sentence - an OS rendered practically unusable should you …

I've no doubt this presentation makes some interesting points, but I'm as inclined to finish reading it after noticing it's destroying my browser history as I would continue evalua…

Missed one (which I still consider valid): making it trivial for others to extend the firmware might endanger other products on sale. ATI learned this a few years ago, when it was …

The cash market spread is usually something like 4-6 basis points for major pairs (i.e. 0.04%), even accounting for the fictitious mid rate, you still have orders of magnitude diff…

The release version is available through TechNet subscriber downloads

Couldn't help but do a little digging.. In the first 99 comments of this page, average comment text size is 231 bytes. Counting all comments in articles on the front page right now…

> but if you can put in any data you want, you could poison the compression enough to put it into a bad state -- one where effectively nothing compresses properly, and you end up w…

Free markets are not immune to panic.. a few hours break in trading that affects everyone is fair, and allows participants time to analyse whatever news release occurred, rather th…

It most certainly wasn't meant as a jab, more genuine sorrow for the industry's growing maturity. The disconnected, experimental environment where even a modem was a luxury, that g…

Really sorry to hear this, IRC just became a much less interesting place. My experience of Uriel is sadly limited to the occasional joust where his fabulously distinctive views of …

Note the classic 'bus lock' is a worst case nowadays: caches in SMP machines have their own protocols for invalidating and locking individual lines, so the entirety of the machine'…

A few weeks back Google Finance was reporting GOOG's own earnings incorrectly. Most people with interest in such things recommend avoiding it like the plague

Could do worse than leafing through here (perhaps change date range to cover 2005): https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=uk&tbm=nws&#3...