Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 344 posts.
Over the past few days, EFF and one of our staff technologists, the talented Micah Lee, have had an illuminating back and forth with Canonical Ltd over the use of the Ubuntu mark. While we don’t believe that Canonical has acted with malice or intent to censor, its silly invocation of trademark law...
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Free downloads for building and running .NET apps on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Runtimes, SDKs, and developer packs for .NET Framework, .NET, and ASP.NET.
Read about Rails design pillars like convention over configuration, optimize for programmer happiness, value integrated systems, the menu is omakase, push up a bit tent, and more.
WebKit's FTL JIT now uses a new backend on OS X — the Bare Bones Backend, or B3 for short, replaces LLVM as the low-level optimizer.
A hand conversion to HTML of the original MacWord (or Word for Mac?) document written in March 1989 and later redistributed unchanged apart from the date added in May 1990. Provided for historical interest only. The diagrams are a bit dotty, but available in versioins linked below. The text has not been changed, even…
How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?
Posted by Robby Stein, Associate Product Marketing Manager I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can g...
China has become largely self-sufficient in reactor design and construction, as well as other aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle. The strong impetus for nuclear power in China is increasingly due to air pollution from coal-fired plants.
This FAQ addresses questions for developers & companies interested in working on Business Source License (BSL) software or adopting BSL for their own business.
While discussing with fellow developers, I was asked the following question a few times: We spend most of our time as developers thinking, not editing code; so, why invest time into mastering a complicated code editor, and why lose some cognitive resources on thinking about text editing instead of about the real…
This post discusses an atypical GPL violation. Unlike most GPL violations Conservancy faces, in this case, a third-party entity holds a magic wand that can instantly resolve the situation. Oracle is the primary copyright holder of ZFS, and, despite nearly eight years (going back to the days of Sun's control of the…
Reducing energy usage has been a major focus for us over the past 10 years: we have built our own super-efficient servers at Google, invented more efficient ways to cool our data centres and invested heavily in green energy sources, with the goal of being powered 100 percent by renewable energy.
CloudFlare protects over 4 million Internet properties using our global network which spans 86 cities across 45 countries. Running this network give us a unique vantage point to track the evolving cost of bandwidth around the world.
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
We’re going to try something new—our first Request For Research. We’d like to fund a study on basic income—i.e., giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached. I’ve been intrigued by the idea for a while, and although there’s been a lot of discussion, there’s fairly little data about how it would…
Note: The timeline has been updated. Please see our October 2021 post for more details. We have always believed in making the open, inter...
Posted by John Rae-Grant, Product Manager Have you ever wondered why Gmail asks you before showing images in emails? We did this to protec...
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. A year ago, we announced a partnership with WhatsApp and committed to integrating the Signal Protocol into their product, moving towards full end-to-end encryption for all of their users by default. Over the past year, we...
Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.
Improve the start-up time of both small and large Java applications, with at most a limited impact on peak performance.
We recently replaced all spinlocks, OS-provided mutexes, and condition variables in WebKit with the new WTF::Lock and WTF::Condition — these new primitives have some cool properties.
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
Mathias Karlsson decided to check out the security of the LastPass browser extensions. Here's what he found.
Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google’s most-loved applications. In fact, more than 100 teams are currently using machine learning at Google today, from Street View, to Inbox Smart Reply, to voice search.
