3421
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,918 posts.
3422
How to Get into Y Combinator
Aptible's experience with Y Combinator and what it meant for the company's early direction on security and compliance infrastructure.
3423
3424
PlanetScale for Postgres
PlanetScale now supports Postgres
3425
Americans Disapprove of Government Surveillance Programs
More Americans disapprove (53%) than approve (37%) of the government program that obtained telephone call logs and Internet communication records. Americans are split on whether leaker Edward Snowden did the right or wrong thing.
3426
Google rolls out algorithm change in the US
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
3427
JEP 483: Ahead-of-Time Class Loading and Linking
Improve startup time by making the classes of an application instantly available, in a loaded and linked state, when the HotSpot Java Virtual Machine starts. Achieve this by monitoring the application during one run and storing the loaded and linked forms of all classes in a cache for use in subsequent runs. Lay a…
3428
3429
Looking Back on the Spanish War (1942)
As an independent charity, we rely on the generosity of donors, Friends and Patrons to maintain these free resources. I First of all the physical memories, the sound, the smells and the surfaces of things. It is curious that more vividly than anything that came afterwards in the Spanish war I remember the week of…
3430
D1: Improvements to performance and scalability
We've been heads down iterating on D1, and we've just shipped a major new version that's substantially faster, more reliable, and introduces Time Travel: the ability to restore a D1 database to any point in time.
3431
Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"
Search IETF mail list archives
3432
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
3433
Orchestrating AI code review at scale
Learn about how we built a CI-native AI code reviewer using OpenCode that helps our engineers ship better, safer code.
3434
Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
There is a significant difference between developing and promoting a protocol (such as XMPP) and a product (such as Signal). Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. This post details how and why Snikket aims to strike a balance between the two.
3435
YouTube starts to require a credit card or ID to verify the age in EU (2020)
We’ve taken important steps to make YouTube a safer place for families. We’re announcing a continuation of these efforts.
3436
3437
Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme
An interview with Felix Winkelmann about CHICKEN Scheme, the SPOCK Scheme-to-JavaScript compiler, and what motivates him to keep programming.
3438
Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
Today we’re launching Amazon Time Sync Service, a time synchronization service delivered over Network Time Protocol (NTP) which uses a fleet of redundant satellite-connected and atomic clocks in each region to deliver a highly accurate reference clock. This service is provided at no additional charge and is…
3439
How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet
In a recent blog post we explained how to tweak a simple UDP application to maximize throughput. This time we are going to optimize our UDP application for latency. Fighting with latency is a great excuse to discuss modern features of multiqueue NICs.
3440
Asm.js Speedups Everywhere
asm.js is an easy-to-optimize subset of JavaScript. It runs in all browsers without plugins, and is a good target for porting C/C++ codebases such as game engines - which have ...
3441
Detecting and countering misuse of AI
Anthropic's August 2025 threat intelligence report on AI cybercrime and other abuses.
3442
‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
3443
Good Bad ISPs
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship. | Good Bad ISPs
3444
Live Not by Lies (1974)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's immortal 1974 essay calling for civic courage.
3445
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler and LLVM
If you read the LLVM 2.7 release notes carefully you would have noticed that one of the new external users is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). As the author of the LLVM backend for GHC, I have been invited to write a post detailing the design of the backend and my experiences with using LLVM.
3446
3447
3448
3449
Visa and MasterCard Are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub
Pornhub is removing millions of user-uploaded videos. This action comes after a New York Times column accused the website of hosting sexual videos of underage and nonconsenting women. In response to the Times’ article, Visa and Mastercard cut ties with Pornhub, making it impossible for Pornhub to...
3450
The Resilience of Costco (2018)
For 40 years, Costco has succeeded with a simple formula: reinvest merchandising profits into lower prices and better products; be a disciplined operator; and treat customers and employees well. But with greater share of shopping moving online, it’s fair to wonder if the company's best da