Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 347 posts.
What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms…
All energy production takes up land, but which sources use the most land, and which use it most efficiently?
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
Today, we are excited to release optimizations to Core ML for Stable Diffusion in macOS 13.1 and iOS 16.2, along with code to get started…
Tailscale’s free plan is free because we keep our scaling costs low relative to typical SaaS companies. I know, it sounds too good to be true. Let’s see some details.
We are building a distributed file system for your SQLite databases. Kinda weird, huh?
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was…
This latest installment in Safeguard Defenders’ Investigations series takes a deep dive into the Chinese police’s expanding global policing toolkit by examining a seemingly recent campaign to counter transnational telecom and online fraud (accordin
In collaboration with the Metal engineering team at Apple, we are excited to announce support for GPU-accelerated PyTorch training on Mac. Until now, PyTorch training on Mac only leveraged the...
Go tooling and design help mitigate supply chain attacks at various stages.
AI has moved at an incredible pace in the last few years. Scaling up Transformers has led to remarkable capabilities in language (e.g., GPT-3, PaLM, Chinchilla), code (e.g., Codex, AlphaCode), and image generation (e.g., DALL-E, Imagen).
From the Zed Blog: A detailed exploration of Zed's eventually-consistent text representation.
Rust is a programming language implemented as a set of open source projects. It combines the performance and resource efficiency of systems programming languages like C with the memory safety of languages like Java. Rust started in 2006 as a personal project of Graydon Hoare before becoming a research project at…
This incident remains the top priority for my engineering team and for our entire company.
Why constant-work patterns make systems more reliable, doing the same predictable work regardless of load to avoid surprising failure modes.
What can SmooshGate teach us about standards development and the Web Platform? This write-up gives an overview.
Apple’s ad business is growing fast. It tracks you in its apps and uses that data to sell ads despite its privacy claims.
Mark Zuckerberg shares some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.
A message from the Bitwarden CEO on accelerating value for Bitwarden users and customers.
It’s a new year, and I’ve decided it’s a good time to replace myself as the CEO of Signal. I have now been working on Signal for almost a decade. It has always been my goal for Signal to grow and sustain beyond my involvement, but four years ago that would still not have been possible. I was writ...
Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client. Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world. ReviewStack is a demonstration code review UI for Gi…
Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.
In this first part of a two-part series, we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building products that move and track money.
Apple today announced M2, beginning the next generation of Apple silicon designed specifically for the Mac.
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.
We have a long history of trying to bring Factorio to other platforms, including consoles and mobile phones (not including April Fools). We even worked with some external companies, but the projects never even got to the point where they would run technically, let alone the complicated part of making the game playable…
We made a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization platform. Feel free to play with it and report bugs: https://webvm.io
Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.
