John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity — Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years — and The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

Issue #1281 — October 11, 2023

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John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity venturebeat.com \| points: 893 \| comments: 420

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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years bugzilla.mozilla.org \| points: 885 \| comments: 315

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The largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps cloud.google.com \| points: 652 \| comments: 400

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Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started arxiv.org \| points: 341 \| comments: 248

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ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs sunshowers.io \| points: 323 \| comments: 180

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DSLinux – Linux for the Nintendo DS dslinux.org \| points: 291 \| comments: 67

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The novel HTTP/2 ’Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack cloud.google.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 79

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A real-time 3D digital map of Tokyo’s public transport system minitokyo3d.com \| points: 251 \| comments: 79

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Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren’t enough players macrumors.com \| points: 241 \| comments: 469

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Simulation Islands box2d.org \| points: 233 \| comments: 12

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Postgres: The next generation redmonk.com \| points: 214 \| comments: 57

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Show HN: Building a 42-inch E-Ink frame for generative art eliot.blog \| points: 205 \| comments: 91

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How Netflix uses Java infoq.com \| points: 204 \| comments: 169

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Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves news.rice.edu \| points: 204 \| comments: 51

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Stop EU Chat Control stopchatcontrol.eu \| points: 196 \| comments: 130

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Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users blog.google \| points: 188 \| comments: 364

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C uses "&" for the address-operator because ’ampersand sounds like "address"’ softwareengineering.stackexchange.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 163

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A student asked how I keep us innovative – I don’t ntietz.com \| points: 178 \| comments: 82

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HTTP/2 zero-day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks blog.cloudflare.com \| points: 176 \| comments: 62

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Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business cnbc.com \| points: 166 \| comments: 86

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