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Vulnerabilities continue to be found in long standing software. Is it possible that we just keep finding vulnerabilities as we throw more compute at finding them? Maybe there’s no such thing as secure? I’m concerned for…

Meet Pobshell. Think cd, ls, cat, and find — but for Python objects instead of files. Stroll around your code, runtime state, and data structures. Inspect everything: modules, classes, live objects. Plus recursive…

Hi HN, I've just launched Pobshell. Think cd, ls, cat, and find — but for Python objects instead of files. Stroll around your code, runtime state, and data structures. Inspect everything: modules, classes, live objects.…

If Russia has root access to the most important US Government computers, and has potentially installed many backdoors or trojans. What is to stop those trojans from wiping the disks?

Here's my opinion, I'd like to hear what HN'ers think: * You get a multiplier from using the right tools * You get a multiplier from using tools you know well * You get a multiplier from having solved a similar problem…

Pop is a new code search tool for Mac aimed at students and other coders who are learning a new programming language or API. In the marketing we're trying to walk a narrow line between encouraging people to look at…

By project, by tool? What do you do with pdfs and reference stuff, surely not Dewey Decimal?

I have several development systems ranging from an ancient Win 7 desktop through to a Macbook a couple of years old. I've avoided patching until now, because I didn't want to run hastily written OS patches on systems I…

I sat with my wife at my laptop and discussed whether to buy a particular coffee machine or office chair as I looked them up on Amazon UK (my account) and read reviews. One hour later they showed up on Amazon ads on her…