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It's interesting that the author picked the home depot delivery as an example, because I don't think it was caused by software bugs at all. The delivery notifications right at the …

NuvoAir | Senior Backend Engineers | Onsite or Remote (EU/US) NuvoAir focuses on complex patients, initially targeting respiratory conditions such as COPD and asthma. The relations…

Glovo | Senior (Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers) | Barcelona & Madrid, ES | Warsaw, PL | Onsite after Covid | VISA Glovo is not just another food delivery…

Glovo | Senior Software Engineers | Data Scientists | Engineering Managers | Barcelona & Madrid, ES | Warsaw, PL | Onsite after Covid | VISA Glovo is not just another food delivery…

The German postal service is still paying for a couple of flights during the night to make sure it can guarantee E+1 delivery. They use regular passenger planes with a special set …

If you want to catch a glimpse into the lives of some of those workers, kolostories.com[1] "interviews" the workers of their captcha solving microworking site. It's macabre yet fas…

The items from the Cuil collection were "made dark" (i.e. you can not directly view/download them). I do not know the specifics, but as far as I know most web crawl data on the Int…

It may have been this article: The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain - Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/antonio-damasio-tells-... h…

At the 26C3 congress in 2009 there was a talk[1] about just that happening: companies that were looking for abandoned ASNs/IPv4 allocations and then using shady tricks (creating si…

The log tab says error, but it still displays a PDF. Actually, it displays the last PDF that was rendered on the server, even if that PDF was created by a different user.

I wrote a Django app that uses LaTeX to create invoices and some other stuff. It allows me to create nice-looking invoices and reports without manually specifying the (x, y)-positi…

I don't know what exactly you want to do with the pen input, but you could use native messaging[0] to get the data into chrome. Basically a small, native program that (bidirectiona…

Actually they have improved on this a lot. If you lose access to your account and your configured mail address, there are various actions (like sending bank statements, government …

On the German DHL package tracking page, you have to enter the recipient ZIP code before being shown recipient details like name and signature. The tracking code itself is 20 decim…

Does null voting leave the seats in parliament empty? Or do the other parties just get a bigger share?

When they get an abuse mail for your server, all they do is forward it to you. You then have 24 hours to fill out a form detailing what you did to stop whatever caused the abuse me…

See also: "The Cool Cam"[1] on The Daily WTF. 1: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-The-Cool-Cam.asp...

Hacker News features many programming and technology related articles as well.

In Germany there is a "swapping" service[1] for SIM cards where you can send your prepaid SIM and will get a random SIM that another person sent in. And in Austria you can purchase…

So a gaping security hole that compromises all data is less important than using a deprecated interface?

There are many people with different interests on HN. Startup people, web developers, and even some hardcore cryptographers. While the former will find you article interesting and …

Even a captcha that can separate humans from machines with 100% accuracy does not defend against cheap labour ($1-5 / 1000 captchas) in developing countries like India.