Norman Abramson, information theorist and creator of the Ethernet precursor ALOHAnet (shared access wireless packet network), dead at 88
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/14212-the-legacy-of-norman-abramson.html

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Made our subscription management system open source after our startup failed
https://github.com/itshubble

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Bouncy Castle crypto authentication bypass vulnerability revealed: "This means that passwords that result in hashes that, for instance, don’t contain bytes between 0x00 and 0x3B match every other password hash that don’t contain them."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bouncy-castle-crypto-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-revealed/

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Better Quake strafe-jumping with genetic algorithms (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBodLDT_yrg

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Back to the '70s with Serverless
http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html

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A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

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How U.S. agencies' trust in untested software opened the door to hackers
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/19/how-federal-hack-happened-448602

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Ryzen 5800X vs Apple M1: Programming-focused benchmarks
https://github.com/tuhdo/tuhdo.github.io/blob/c3b417ba2fc81768f656dadf87bf3dd28ba47182/emacs-tutor/zen3_vs_m1.org

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The web is 30 years old today
https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

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The "rm -rf *" story - insights
https://secalert.net/interview-with-rmrf-engineer.html

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Fast Static Symbol Table (FSST): fast text compression that allows random access, so individual strings can be decompressed without touching the surrounding data
https://github.com/cwida/fsst

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SerenityOS got pwned at hxp CTF 2020! Significantly harder than last year but they still got us :) Full exploit and writeup
https://hxp.io/blog/79/hxp-CTF-2020-wisdom2/

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"I took FSF Europe to court."
https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court

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Cyberpwned: Beating Cyberpunk 2077's hacking minigame in ~50 lines of Python
https://nicolas-siplis.com/blog/cyberpwned

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UNIX Recovery Legend, coming back from rm -rf *
https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html

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Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer talks about hunting bugs in task manager and space cadet pinball
https://youtu.be/4UduzUmetP4

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There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i

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Hotwire: An alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1341420143239450624?s=20

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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
https://medium.com/@larseidnes/we-rendered-a-million-web-pages-to-find-out-what-makes-the-web-slow-72bbba9ade96?source=friends_link&sk=f320883b433b49e1db07761caa4205d9

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C Is Not a Low-level Language
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

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