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QRXfer is one of those "I had to give it a try" ideas. The basic idea is that it is possible to play back QR code encoded data to a receiver that may be able to reconstruct the data and reproduce the file that was originally sent. Think about an…
22 April 2016Hacker News
A new word, every day. Get Daily Dictionary for iPhone. The Apple TV features Aerial screensavers, stunning slow-mo shots of various landmarks around the world. In tvOS 12, the aerials were expanded to include sweeping shots from the International Space…
22 April 2016Hacker News
21 April 2016Hacker News
19 April 2016WIRED
Google called it Borg, and for many years, it was among the company’s best-kept secrets. Borg ran just about everything within the company, including Google Search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Docs, and any other Google service you can think of—not to…
19 April 2016Hacker News
The idea is simple: You open your terminal and type, $ ssh chat.shazow.net Unlike many others, you might stop yourself before typing “ls” and notice — that’s no shell, it’s a chat room! While the little details sink in, it dawns on you that there is…
18 April 2016Hacker News
Weekend musings: How I hacked my local ISP and some general advice/learnings on keeping yourself safe on the Internet. TL;DR : Time Based Blind SQL Injection with some common sense. If you don't want to read all this technical jargon just scroll down to…
18 April 2016Hacker News
GoBGP is an open source BGP implementation designed from scratch for modern environment and implemented in a modern programming language, the Go Programming Language. We have the Slack and mailing list for questions, discussion, suggestions, etc. You…
18 April 2016Hacker News
Some months ago, Google launched their Alpha program for their upcoming CDN service. We kept a close eye to their development and in the meanwhile, in NEXT 2016 Google has already announced the Beta phase of their CDN. We already discussed how this new…
18 April 2016Hacker News
When IBM, Google, Mellanox, NVIDIA and Tyan founded OpenPOWER Foundation three years ago, the initiative was supported by only two server manufacturers: Google, which builds servers for itself, and Tyan. Today, OpenPOWER has expanded significantly in terms…
18 April 2016