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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 370 posts.
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Static TypeScript: A Static Compiler for the TypeScript Language
Static TypeScript is designed to be useful in practice (especially in education), while being amenable to static compilation targeting small devices.
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Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation
Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.
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Fast and flexible observability with canonical log lines
Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.
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New Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception
The practice of HTTPS interception continues to be commonplace on the Internet. This blog post discusses types of monster-in-the-middle devices and software, and how to detect them.
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Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Brothers collaborate to store and retrieve the 1978 'Superman' movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster.
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Clojure’s Approach to Identity and State (2008)
Many people come to Clojure from an imperative language and find themselves out of their element when faced with Clojure’s approach to doing things, while others are coming from a more functional background and assume that once they leave Clojure’s functional subset, they will be faced with the same story re: state as…
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Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Racket-On-Chez Status: January 2019
posted by Matthew Flatt For background information about Racket on Chez Scheme (a.k.a. Racket CS), see the original announcement, last January's report, and the report at Scheme Workshop 2018. Racket on Chez Scheme is done in a useful sense. All...
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Solving the Rubik’s cube with a robot hand
We’ve trained a pair of neural networks to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a human-like robot hand. The neural networks are trained entirely in simulation, using the same reinforcement learning code as OpenAI Five paired with a new technique called Automatic Domain Randomization (ADR). The system can handle situations it…
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Visual Studio online available for public preview
GitHub Codespaces gets you up and coding faster with fully configured, secure cloud development environments native to GitHub.
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Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects
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Rust in Production (2018)
How Mozilla’s new language dramatically improved our server-side performance
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.1
Note: Read about past updates to this technology in other blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.
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We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won
We don’t plan to settle, and if brought into such litigation again in the future, we think we have a pretty good blueprint for how to respond.
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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development. A
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Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas
As part of its commitment to US economic growth, Apple today confirmed that its newly redesigned Mac Pro will be manufactured in Austin, Texas.
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Adblocking: How about Nah?
For more than a decade, consumer rights groups (including EFF) worked with technologists and companies to try to standardize Do Not Track, a flag that browsers could send to online companies signaling that their users did not want their browsing activity tracked. Despite long hours and backing from...
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Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click
We've passed a milestone in Google's evolution from search engine to walled-garden. In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Reinventing Firefox for Android
With Firefox Preview, we’re combining the best of what our lightweight Focus application and our current mobile browsers have to offer to create a best in class mobile experience. The new application is powered by Firefox's own mobile browser engine -- GeckoView -- the same high-performance, feature enabling motor…
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Keybase is not softer than TOFU
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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An update on last week's customer shutdown incident
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.
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Building Fast Interpreters in Rust
In the previous post we described the Firewall Rules architecture and how the different components are integrated together. We created a configurable Rust library for writing and executing Wireshark®-like filters in different parts of our stack written in Go, Lua, C, C++ and JavaScript Workers.
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New pathfinding algorithm
New pathfinding algorithm Oxyd Last week we mentioned the change to make biters not collide with each other, but that wasn’t the only biter-related update we released this past week. Somewhat coincidentally, this week’s updates have included something I’d been working on for a few weeks before – an upgrade to the…
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Qualcomm and Apple agree to drop all litigation
The companies have reached a global patent license agreement and a chipset supply agreement.