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Death rates from energy production per TWh
Death rates are measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity.
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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Figma is powered by WebAssembly
Because our product is written in C++, which can easily be compiled into WebAssembly, Figma is a perfect demonstration of this new format’s power.
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Technology Preview for secure value recovery
At Signal, we want to make privacy simple. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your information is in your hands rather than ours. Technologies like Signal Protocol secure your messages so that they are never visible by anyone but you and the intended recipients. Technologies like p...
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It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway
Not every code injection bug is a security hole.
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How do CO2 emissions compare when we adjust for trade?
Which countries are net importers and exports of emissions? How much CO2 is ‘offshored’?
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An amusing story about a practical use of the null garbage collector
The computer itself ceases to exist.
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CO₂ and Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Human emissions of greenhouse gases are the primary driver of climate change. The world needs to decarbonize to reduce them.
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OpenAI LP
We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.
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How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works
A peek into the homegrown solution we built as the first design tool with live collaborative editing.
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Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)
It's time to find a better way to store your dotfiles. Learn why you should start using a bare Git repository instead.
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Land Use
How is humanity using the Earth’s land? And how can we decrease our land use so that more land is left for wildlife?
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
Let’s retire the ‘virtual DOM is fast’ myth once and for all
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Threading Macros Guide
Threading macros, also known as arrow macros, convert nested function calls into a linear flow of function calls, improving readability.
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Announcing WSL 2
WSL 2 is a new architecture that allows for dramatic file system performance and full system call compatibility in WSL using a Linux kernel.
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What Percentage of Americans Own Stock?
Since 2023, an average of 62% of Americans report owning stock, a rebound after more than a decade of lower readings.
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Victory! Ruling in hiQ v. Linkedin Protects Scraping of Public Data
In a long-awaited decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). This is an important clarification of the CFAA’s scope, which should provide...
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Oregon Engineer Wins Traffic-Light Timing Lawsuit
Arlington, Va.—On December 28, 2018, Magistrate Judge Stacie F. Beckerman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon entered a judgment largely ruling […]
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OpenAI releases larger GPT-2 model
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
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Google Search Operators: A Complete List (2018)
They're super powerful.
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A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroProject Zero’s mission is to make 0-day hard. We often work...
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How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
The solution we found helps us run Figma plugins in a safe way — i.e. not eval(UNTRUSTED_CODE).
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EDB Postgres AI
Experience zero data sprawl with EDB Postgres AI. Capable of handling 30B+ trades a day and managing 50 TB.
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Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care
Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks with host Russ Roberts about what it’s like to run a surgery center that posts prices on the internet and that does not take insurance. Along the way, he discusses the distortions in the market for health care and how a real market…
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The largest Git repo on the planet
It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]
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Global Smartphone Market Share: Quarterly
Counterpoint Research Insight