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What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
Fossil fuels are the dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources, while nuclear and modern renewable energy sources are vastly safer and cleaner.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 429 posts.
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Why numbering should start at zero (1982)
To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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CO₂ emissions
How much CO₂ does the world emit? Which countries emit the most?
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SQLite as an Application File Format (2014)
An SQLite database file with a defined schema often makes an excellent application file format. Here are a dozen reasons why this is so:
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Vaccinations
Explore data on COVID-19 vaccinations across the world.
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How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File
An SQLite database is highly resistant to corruption. If an application crash, or an operating-system crash, or even a power failure occurs in the middle of a transaction, the partially written transaction should be automatically rolled back the next time the database file is accessed. The recovery process is fully…
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Breakdown of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions by sector
How much do electricity, transport, and land use contribute to different greenhouse gas emissions?
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Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are memory safety problems
The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems . Our next major project is to prevent such bugs at source.
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Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly
Starting September 30, 2020, you can configure Firefox for Android Nightly to install extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org.
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Excess mortality from March to December of 2020
Explore data on COVID-19 excess mortality across the world.
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You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce your diet's carbon footprint. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it comes from?
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Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
2020-05-26: MongoDB identified a bug in the transaction retry mechanism which they believe was responsible for the anomalies observed in this report; a patch is scheduled for 4.2.8.
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No Cookie for You
The developer community remains the heart of GitHub, and we’re committed to respecting the privacy of developers using our product.
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Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
In most places, power from new renewables is now cheaper than new fossil fuels.
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Plastic Pollution
How much plastic ends up in the ocean? Where does it come from?
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Full third-party cookie blocking and more
This blog post covers several enhancements to Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) in iOS and iPadOS 13.4 and Safari 13.1 on macOS to address our latest discoveries in the industry around tracking.
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COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.
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Jukebox
We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.
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Peppering (Password Storage)
Website with the collection of all the cheat sheets of the project.
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Novel Coronavirus situation reports
The Weekly Epidemiological Update provides an overview of the global, regional and country-level COVID-19 cases and deaths, highlighting key data and trends; as well as other pertinent epidemiological information concerning the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The File System Access API: simplifying access to local files | Capabilities
The File System Access API enables developers to build powerful web apps that interact with files on the user's local device, such as IDEs, photo and video editors, text editors, and more. After a user grants a web app access, this API allows them to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the…
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Zoom rolled their own encryption scheme, transmit keys through servers in China
This report examines the encryption that protects meetings in Zoom and finds that they have made their own encryption scheme and has significant weaknesses.
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Guide to Equity Compensation
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
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How Tailscale Works
Understand the entire Tailscale system, how it works, how we built it, and its benefits compared to legacy VPNs. Use this article as a guide to quickly build your own Tailscale replacement.
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Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
Report showing the number of people who are locked up in the United States and why
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Tracking Prevention in WebKit
WebKit has implemented tracking prevention technologies, spanning from 2003 with Safari 1.0 until today.
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Fact Sheet | Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Closer Look at Tax Breaks and Societal Costs (2019) | White Papers
See our latest white papers on fossil fuel subsidies and fossil fuel externalities .
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Mortality Risk of COVID-19
Explore data on the mortality risk of COVID-19 across the world.