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Computer and network security, reverse engineering, security vulnerability research and exploitation, high-performance computing, GPGPU, assembly optimization, free and open source software, Unix kernels internals, decentralized cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin), entrepreneurship, angel investing, etc.

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2026 1

  1. Caldera-like Feature of 6-7 km Diameter Around the "Boiling River of the Amazon"

2023 1

  1. Shipping companies underestimate dim weight by 0.7%

2021 1

  1. Linux Kernel Patch to Support ECC Memory on AMD Ryzen 5000 APUs

2020 3

  1. Booting unmodified Windows 10 over USB
  2. Evidence of the effectiveness of stay-at-home orders in the US
  3. The Case Fatality Ratio of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

2019 1

  1. Reverse Engineering and Cloning the Costco Digital Membership Card

2018 1

  1. Reviewing Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin research reports

2017 5

  1. Running a Bitcoin full node on $5 a month
  2. The case for increasing Bitcoin's block weight limit
  3. Attacks on Merkle Tree Proof
  4. Electricity consumption of Bitcoin: a market-based and technical analysis
  5. Serious faults in Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

2016 7

  1. The unfairness of the US presidential election system
  2. Nginx resolver vulnerabilities allow cache poisoning attack
  3. Timeline of Bitfinex exchange theft
  4. Release of a HA blogging platform & finally a new design for this blog
  5. Bitcoin Mining is Not Wasteful
  6. My Experience With the Great Firewall of China
  7. Libav 9.18 Cannot Generate WMV2/WMA2 Files Compatible with PowerPoint

2015 1

  1. Miracle Baby

2014 3

  1. Visualizing the Ongoing California Drought
  2. Cdn53 a super distributed cdn
  3. A Decentralized API to Personal Information

2013 6

  1. 1 Bitcoin = 1000 US dollars
  2. "I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower Than Other Operating Systems. Here Is Why."
  3. ASIC Development Costs are Lower Than You Think
  4. Bitcoin Hits All-Time Trading High — This Time With Increased Economic Activity
  5. Live Demonstration of Intel "Packet of Death"
  6. The Insane Bitcoin ASIC Race — And The Winner is...

2012 4

  1. Company Announces 65nm Chip for Mining Bitcoins, Funded with Venture Capital
  2. What the heck, Pandora?
  3. Linode Attack Enables Theft of $220k (So Far)
  4. Bitcoin: The Simplest Non-technical Explanation

2011 20

  1. Revenue Idea for Twitter: $1 per Month to Raise the Limit to 280 Characters
  2. Deleting 39794 Gmail conversations
  3. LAX Approach
  4. 1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month
  5. The Science Behind the E-Cat Cold Fusion Reactor
  6. 65k Open TCP Ports on open.zorinaq.com
  7. xdm and getty Confusion on Ubuntu 11.04
  8. Neutrinos Faster Than Light, or Artifacts of the FPGA?
  9. Bitcoin Inspires Copycats, First Tangible Good Sold for i0coins
  10. 72-hour Outage
  11. Major Attack on the World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange
  12. Verified by Visa Forces Users to Select Weak Passwords
  13. Tip to Use a Dremel to Cut Open a PCIe x1 Slot
  14. Astronaut Says Yes to Hypothetical One Way-Mission to Mars
  15. Dear Computer Industry, Please Embrace eSATAp
  16. DIY Coin-sized SATA Power Module to Replace a Harddrive Docking Station
  17. The Bitcoin Cryptocurrency
  18. Vint Cerf's "Internet experiment" quote
  19. Stupid Simple Cooling Hack for 4 x HD 5970 in one Computer
  20. 10 AMD/ATI GPUs in 1 Computer: SIGSEGV

2010 45

  1. 104-GPU Cluster Built to Unlock Nokia Phones and Piracy in the GSM Community
  2. New Power Distribution to 4 x HD 5970
  3. Whitepixel v2: configurable charset, higher performance (33.1 billion password/sec!)
  4. Whitepixel breaks 28.6 billion password/sec
  5. Diskless Windows 7 iSCSI boot from OpenSolaris 2009.06 ZFS Server
  6. DDRdrive X1 vs. SSDs: Look How Complex Benchmarking is
  7. MD5 Chosen-Prefix Collisions on ATI GPUs: "bday" Finally Released
  8. ZFS encryption, shipping in Solaris 11 Express
  9. NetApp: 40x Markup on the Price of NAND Flash
  10. Introducing Tianhe-1A: 4702 TFLOPS of GPU Power. Made in China. (And New World's Fastest Supercomputer).
  11. Decimal Prefixes Are More Common Than Binary Prefixes In The Computer Industry
  12. node.js Internals and Powerful Non-blocking I/O Libraries
  13. AMD Bulldozer and Oracle SPARC T3: Same Beefed-up SMT Microarchitectures
  14. Adobe's Primordial Flash Example is Incorrect
  15. Intel's Sandy Bridge to Deliver 2% of AMD's Top Graphics Performance
  16. OpenSolaris: How to Build CPAN Perl Modules with GCC Instead of the Sun Compiler
  17. Many SSD Benchmark Reviews Contain Flaws
  18. Specs of the Best Android Phones
  19. Panasonic R3 Power Jack Solder Joint Reflowing
  20. Intel Feature Fragmentation
  21. getdents() And lstat() Race Condition
  22. Perl Numeric Expressions And Backslashes
  23. A5/1 Cracker Using the Berlin Rainbow Tables
  24. Nvidia Poking Fun at Intel With Nebulae
  25. Engineering & Operations at Facebook
  26. Debunking Intel's Attempt to Debunk the GPU Performance Myth
  27. Sheepdog: QEMU/KVM Nirvana?
  28. Pictures of Nebulae, the Fastest GPU Supercomputer
  29. Microsoft Wrongly Accusing Google
  30. Improving Ant jar/zip Tasks Performance from O(n) to O(1)
  31. unrarhp
  32. Brute Forcing RAR Archives Encrypted with the "-⁠hp" Option
  33. A Look at the 4640-GPU Nebulae Supercomputer
  34. How I Defend Myself Against CSRF (and That New Type of Phishing Attack)
  35. WebM: The Future Video and Audio Standard of the Web
  36. The 5-second VGA Dummy Plug
  37. From 32 to 2 ports: Ideal SATA/SAS Controllers for ZFS & Linux MD RAID
  38. Early Adopter: AMD64, Netbooks, ZFS, Android
  39. PivotX Security Flaw: Insecure Password Hashing
  40. Ubuntu 10.04 as a Guest under QEMU/KVM using the Curses Driver
  41. A More Powerful, Stealthier and Uncommon ARP Poisoning Technique
  42. Conspicuous Typo in Android On-Screen Keypad
  43. Disk Vibrations and SSDs
  44. Looking at 6-, 8-, and 12-core Processors
  45. 3... 2... 1... Ignition^WBlogging!