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It's really a shame that VCs don't seem to have figured out how to do DD on science based startups. The same is probably somewhat true in tech generally, but VCs in this area don't…

Neat! I wonder why they're not part of kernel release tests.

That statement really resonated with me. So often something happens which seems like a total disaster, the end of the world, and you struggle desperately to fix it. In hindsight it…

The article mentions microcontrollers that use 100 milliwatts as the lower end of embedded CPUs. There are actually microcontrollers that use around 1milliwatt for very low power a…

As far as I can tell it appears to be a classic use of an uninitialized pointer. Are there not static analysis tools routinely used against Linux that should have caught this? Or r…

It feels like failures on the scale of Segway are now pretty run of the mill. They "only" raised a 166MUSD [1]. Doesn't really compare to modern failures like Theranos, 686MUSD. [1…

RISC-V really seems to be gaining momentum with 2 crowdfunded silicon implementations currently seeking funding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/onchip/open-v https://www.crowdsupply.c…

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I've been reading Cryptonomicon recently. There's an entertaining bit where one of the characters asserts that beards are "totems of the white male patriarchal privilege". It's a b…

Amusing and depressing, awesome stuff. Git's rise to become the de facto standard revision control system has been fascinating to watch. I think it does provided real benefit over …

In formlab's case they had a 1.8MUSD seed round prior to the crowdfunding. They raised ~3MUSD from crowdfunding. This probably helped give them some runway to put together a series…

Pretty terrifying. I'd love to see a more detailed analysis of the datasets they received. It sounds like both governmental and private surveillance systems in China may be pretty …

The author is essentially saying any API change has the potential to break backward compatibility and that we should define what kind of breakage is ok. That's kind of interesting,…

It's strange how the fact that it has an easily rememberable IP address has driven adoption of 8.8.8.8. I have a couple of other DNS servers memorized from before 8.8.8.8 appeared,…

Which is why I said potential rather than actual. Having users terminate their connection at Cloudflare always adds an extra layer, and a dependency on a US corporation and therefo…

To be frank I think that's a bit naive. These attacks are a numbers game. There's a low cost to sending the emails and a much larger payoff. Education helps, but it's still possibl…

I was think more of a specific mail scanning process for images that look exactly like UI elements, with some fuzzy match. If it matches, flag it with the usual warnings. It feels …

That's a real shame. There are certainly things they could do to prevent images looking quite so similar to UI elements.

The how to link in the description doesn't seem to be working but it's here: https://www.hackster.io/mathwuy/elite-dangerous-ship-assista... Neat hack! It's awesome that Amazon hav…

Looks really cool and must have been a fun project. I guess it's not hugely practical, partically as each Pi has a display attached. Mythic beasts in the UK are doing Pi based co-l…

Cloudflare's own statement also on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13372729 Adds more color to this. In any case, it's great that the EFF and Cloudflare have been fig…

Wow hugely interesting, including that Capitol Hill staff felt NSLs could not be issued against Cloudflare, when they were. One question I have, they chose to voluntarily redact th…

It's a shame this person didn't get to phone screen. I found the phone screens quite fun, particularly if you're are not too worried about concerned about getting the job. People s…

I guess it really depends. On projects where the level of commenting is low and theirs little to no documentation it can be tough. For C projects as there's usually a single point …

Debian bootstrapping is awesome and surprisingly easy to use. I've used it in the past to bring up a Debian install in a chroot on various otherwise unsupported devices (mostly And…