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codesections

2,582 karmaJoined July 5, 2018321 submissions

Free software developer working primarily in Raku and Rust. Former attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP; current member of the Raku Steering Council and The Perl & Raku Foundation board. My professional interests include web development, open source, and making things as simple as possible.

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Recent submissions

Following the Unix philosophy without getting Left Pad (opens in new tab)

(raku-advent.blog)

3codesections9mo ago0

Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?

Hacker News has an API¹ that doesn't require authentication and doesn't have a rate limit. Naively, that seems like a perfect recipe for DDoS attacks. Yet HN is typically a very reliable site. So what's the secret?

Fn 1: https://github.com/HackerNews/API

14codesections3y ago23

codesections

Recent submissions

Following the Unix philosophy without getting Left Pad (opens in new tab)

Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?

Court Says Bees Are Fish (opens in new tab)

Kickstarter for Brandon Sanderson’s new novels raises record £17m (opens in new tab)

Atmospheric CO2 causes lower protein, higher sugar content in modern crops (opens in new tab)

Recent submissions

Following the Unix philosophy without getting Left Pad (opens in new tab)

Ask HN: How does Hacker News avoid (successful) DDoS attacks?

Court Says Bees Are Fish (opens in new tab)

Kickstarter for Brandon Sanderson’s new novels raises record £17m (opens in new tab)

Atmospheric CO2 causes lower protein, higher sugar content in modern crops (opens in new tab)