How to fix a long pause with a black startup screen in OS X

Macworld

Steven Seiden wrote in with a situation he’s having with his Mac: > My Mac hangs at a black screen for almost 45 seconds after producing the startup chime before showing the Apple logo. It’s really annoying! Is there any way to fix this? I’ve seen this…

11 July 2016

Backdooring an AWS account

Hacker News

So you’ve pwned an AWS account — congratulations — now what? You’re eager to get to the data theft, amirite? Not so fast whipper snapper, have you disrupted logging? Do you know what you have? Sweet! Time to get settled in. Maintaining persistence in AWS…

10 July 2016

Ben Heck's Raspberry Pi Zero portable computer

Engadget

In this episode we bring you a Raspberry Pi Zero build. This elusive single-board computer was kindly donated by an element14 Community member. Of course, Ben then did what comes naturally to him: He turned it into a portable computer. The part...

10 July 2016

Implementing a fuzzy suggestion mechanism at Skroutz

Hacker News

Our Fuzzy Otto project is all about improving the autocomplete functionality of our search field, by providing suggestions for mistyped keyphrases. The autocomplete functionality of Skroutz’s main search field is probably the first interaction a user…

4 July 2016

Real-time log monitoring in your browser

Hacker News

Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Log messages are tagged with stream, node, and log level information based on user configuration. Log.io has no persistence layer. Harvesters are…

4 July 2016

Building My $1,200 Hackintosh

Hacker News

When you build a Hackintosh (or any custom PC) you need to actually build the machine, which means getting a ton of boxes delivered to your door from Amazon, taking every one out of the package, and then assembling the computer from scratch. Before this…

3 July 2016

Chronix: A fast and efficient time series storage

Hacker News

Get up and running with Chronix in 3 minutes with our quickstart guide: You need Java 8 installed on your system. That's it :-) The Chronix showcase consists of two parts. Pick the latest releases of the Chronix Server (download) and…

2 July 2016

How we added HTTPS support for all customers

Hacker News

HTTPS provides the little green padlock in the top left-hand corner of your browser. HTTPS does a few good things: Gives users confidence the communication between the browser and the web server is secure. We provide HTTPS Web Hosting for all of the…

28 June 2016