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Free VPN in Opera 40(opera.com)
25 points by dineshp2 10y ago|12 comments
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TorrentHound Shuts Down, Another Big Torrent Site Bites the Dust(torrentfreak.com)
2 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Using Vault as a Certificate Authority for Kubernetes(digitalocean.com)
2 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Faster parallel computing(news.mit.edu)
12 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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6.6M plaintext passwords exposed as site gets hacked to the bone(arstechnica.com)
3 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0: An interview with Silk Road’s new boss (2014)(arstechnica.com)
4 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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FBI Director wants 'adult conversation' about backdooring encryption(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by dineshp2 10y ago|1 comments
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Our Thai prison interview with the alleged top advisor to Silk Road(arstechnica.com)
5 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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The first chatbot arrest, but what are the implications?(venturebeat.com)
2 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Why can't Apple spend its way out of security vulnerabilities?(theverge.com)
3 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
The fact that all traffic is decrypted at their servers makes possible caching optimizations (what most users care about) and inject content,headers. This is the best example of the centralization of the internet. Does anyone know what Cl
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> That page argues against your point, even the basic plan does quite a bit to fend of DDOS. In particular, the most common and effective type of DDOS, which is volumetric and based on reflected UDP traffic, is defended against, even on
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Could you elaborate? Which plan are you on? What was the size of the DDoS attack?
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Tangential, but how do you find OVH? Their hardware, bandwidth, uptime, customer service? I ask because of the conflicting reviews of OVH that a quick google search reveals.
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by dineshp2 10y ago
https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ Look at the "Advanced security" section. I also used Siege to flood a site behind Cloudflare's free plan and brought it down.
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by dineshp2 10y ago
The paid plan, yes. But the commonly used free plan does not do much to prevent DDoS or DoS attacks.
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Ask HN: How do you handle DDoS attacks?
223 points by dineshp2 10y ago|106 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> I wish having an advanced degree was a criteria here. A few years ago, I noticed that Britain would give a blanket visa to anyone with an MBA from a list of top international schools. Care to explain the reasoning? It seems shortsighte
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> I wouldn't worry too much about what's being said or not said on HN. There are great ideas and topics to be covered here for sure, but they're sprinkled on top of a giant cake made with 1-part self-loathing, 2-parts day-
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Court rules that ISPs do not need to give up information on copyright infringers(privateinternetaccess.com)
6 points by dineshp2 10y ago|1 comments
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AMD Zen Microarchitecture: Dual Schedulers, Micro-Op Cache and Memory Hierarchy(anandtech.com)
190 points by dineshp2 10y ago|131 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Interesting interview, but I felt Sam could have asked more probing questions (for the lack of a better phrase) and I don't mean the controversies from the early days of Facebook. What was the thinking behind acquiring WhatsApp for suc
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Google isn’t safe from Yahoo’s fate(techcrunch.com)
40 points by dineshp2 10y ago|43 comments
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How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using cURL in PHP? (2013)(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
> at least some of this money will be used to pay off initial investors with a nice profit. To clarify, do you mean some of the money will be used to buy back shares from early investors giving them a nice profit?
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by dineshp2 10y ago
Looking at the title, I was expecting them to share the juicy details of how they handled the huge amount of traffic, the hacking attempts and the engineering problems they are facing. Instead I was met with some sort of PR attempt to expla
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by dineshp2 10y ago
The reason piracy is so popular is because it is free and because it's incredibly convenient, in that order. The convenience factor is basically, if you want some content (movie, game) it's a simple search and download away (strea
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The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 1 (2015)(wired.com)
4 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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Flying Aquila: Early lessons from the first full-scale test flight(code.facebook.com)
1 points by dineshp2 10y ago|0 comments
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by dineshp2 10y ago
I was hoping Xiaomi would also launch a version with Ubuntu as the default OS. An i5, 8GB DDR4 Ram, 256GB SSD, backlit keyboard and 10 hours battery backup at $750 sounds like a sweet deal. I know Ubuntu can still be installed on the Window

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