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The Ukrainians have called on the "hacker underground" to defend against Russia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462219 Everyone of us here has above average computer skills, but most of us don't have offensive…

If you upvote or downvote a post on Hackernews, and it failed (e.g. because you have hit the 1-request-per-second limit), there is no error, and the vote silently fails. Only if you refresh the page will you see that…

The book High Performance Browser Networking was absolutely fascinating because it explained the history, challenges and design decisions of the Internet in a high level way (no deep tech background necessary), allowing…

How do you actually "sell" a stock to somebody? Does some counter in one database get decreased by 1, and another counter is increased? Surely it must be more sophisticated. Also, how can two brokers trade securities…