Stories by ColinWright

SegmentSmack: kernel: tcp segments with random offsets may cause a remote DOS

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

The web looks like shit

The Death of Expertise

Caucher Birkar to Receive New Fields Medal

Description of, and warning about, another PayPal-based scam

CycleStreets, a free-to-use national cycle journey planner for the UK

PebblePost: Look at your browsing, deduce your address, send ads in the post

Flight Tests to Prove Commercial Systems Fit for Human Spaceflight

Warning about another another PayPal-based scam – this one ends happily ...

Schlep Blindness (2012)

This Simple Visual Trick Makes GIFs Looks Three-Dimensional

Rainworks – Rain-Activated Positive Messages and Art

Why a detachable cabin probably won't save your life in a plane crash

PayPal closed my account with no explanation. It could happen to you

Is algolia having problems?

Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (2010)

Ask HN: Can you work out how this is done? (repost)

Ask HN: Can you work this out? What do you think of the puzzle?

Private and secure multiparty histograms