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What is the typical use case for such a thing?

> WireGuard doesn't work over TCP Can somebody well versed explain what the difference between TCP and UDP in this case? I obviously know what these are, I just don't understand wh…

Is this a new oil? That could speed up the space exploration.

This is suspicious. They have the VPN traffic, now they want passwords. Encrypted of course, but still. The trust just isn't there. The company is too young. I don't trust them jus…

I don't like that file operations are controlled by F1-F8 keys. This UX is unfriendly to macOS environment. Most users' F-row is in media keys mode by default, so you have to hold …

Where are these new battery technologies that are invented every 6 months, according to the news?

Is this the second or third time the're fixing Meltdown?

I think Intel might get away with it. Last 5 years they were slacking off, because economically there is no reason to go over the usual 10-15% yearly performance bump. But actually…

Does it include patches from wine-staging (CSMT)?

What's the difference between SentinelJS and DOM Mutation Observers? I glanced at the source code, it seems this lib is using some kind of hack based on CSS animations. Why not jus…

One of the biggest use cases of Evernote for me – OCR notes with search. All my important checks, slips and papers are going there. It's seems that Laverna doesn't have this featur…

What about "rsync"? I use this command pretty often.

Relying on JS illogical behaviour: [] === [] // false It's more confusing and error prone than other options mentioned in the article.

10 years since The Wire season 4, the situation is still the same.

It's very sad that our industry is so hype driven. Nothing really changed, you could write Android apps on Kotlin before, as well as on any other JVM language. But now "Kotlin is t…

> Resolved CPU throttling with AWS t2.micro instances What does it mean? I know that all t2.micro instances are CPU throttled (credits system)

Unfortunately, you can't. For example, it's impossible to properly install PostgreSQL. Also, no 256 colors support. Currently, there are 733 open issues https://github.com/Microsof…

Oh wow, 2.4 is out next week? I thought we're stuck with 2.3 for a long time. Top 1 daily Hacker News submission incoming.