Demystifying the regular expression that checks if a number is prime (2016)(illya.sh)

125 points by aquir 2 years ago | 35 comments

Irregular Expressions(tavianator.com)

61 points by signa11 3 years ago | 32 comments

The true power of regular expressions (2012)(npopov.com)

61 points by uneven9434 2 months ago | 49 comments

Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy (2011)(journal.stuffwithstuff.com)

134 points by memalign 2 years ago | 47 comments

Random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings(lemire.me)

39 points by adunk 3 years ago | 51 comments

An ode to TypeScript enums(blog.disintegrator.dev)

47 points by disintegrator 1 year ago | 42 comments

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform(github.com)

592 points by doener 3 months ago | 274 comments

GitHub repository for PeerTube, an AGPL-licensed ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform that uses P2P delivery in the browser.

Pgactive: Postgres active-active replication extension(github.com)

327 points by ForHackernews 1 year ago | 86 comments

GitHub repository for pgactive, an AWS open-source PostgreSQL extension providing active-active (multi-master) replication.

Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

523 points by md224 2 years ago | 473 comments

Blog post by cryptographer Matthew Green examining whether Telegram actually qualifies as an encrypted messaging app, given its default lack of end-to-end encryption.

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

539 points by tbillington 1 year ago | 253 comments

Blog post by ProgramMax announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.

Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty(blog.tripu.info)

416 points by gasull 3 years ago | 200 comments

A personal blog essay arguing that end-to-end encrypting private data and communications has become an ethical duty, using a glass-walls analogy.