Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 912 posts.
This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram’s self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago. The bug didn’t get any press, and no one seems to know about it, probably because it was only published in Russian.
For the past year, the [Sorbet](https://sorbet.org/) team has been working on an experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby, powered by Sorbet and LLVM. Today we're sharing the source code for it. It lives alongside the existing code for Sorbet on GitHub, mostly in the `compiler/` folder:
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep and Stephen Hines, Android Team Correctness of code in the Android platform is a top priority for the securit...
Internet links small groups, helping dissolve big groups; good, bad? But a bit sad.
Designs for a quieter, more energy efficient purifier, and data proving it really works.
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
Remember YouTube5? And a Dinosaur remembers. YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube...
There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument , the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.
Deep dive into Citus columnar storage for Postgres. Includes a quickstart, as well as performance measurements for data loading, compression ratios, and query response times. Also covers how columnar relates to Citus, integration with Postgres range partitioning, limitations, & ways to get started.
JavaScript in the browser runs many times faster than it did two decades ago. And that happened because the browser vendors spent that time working on intensive performance optimizations.
Sections of this post were co-authored by Cornelia Scheitz. Noah Leidinger created a German translation. Piotr Kwapin created a Polish translation. Last updated on February 7, 2021. Bert Hubert’s excellent and widely shared article about Reverse Engineering the source code of the Pfizer-BioNTech SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine is…
By now most infosec professionals are aware of various ways SMS text messaging can be hijacked. For example so-called “SIM Swap” attacks…
Explore the potential legal challenges GitHub Copilot faces regarding copyright infringement and license compliance of its code suggestions.
Learn about role-based access control, its use cases and benefits.
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Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that helps teams wait less and ship more, without losing out on feedback.
Instagram's research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues, teenage girls who said they struggled with those issues also said that Instagram made them better rather than worse.
Americans' trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately and fairly has edged down four points to 36% since last year, making it the second-lowest reading in Gallup's trend.
This interview underlies an abbreviated version to appear in the March 1998 issue of IEEE Computer .
I wrote two posts on the topic of WebKit font smoothing before, but unfortunately the situation has grown worse since then. In allowing the designer to pick their own font smoothing mode with the -webkit-font-smoothing CSS property, WebKit developers have opened up an opportunity for typographic abuse, namely, the…
I’ve been thinking about garbage collection in Rust for a long time, ever since I started working on Servo’s JS layer. I’ve designed a GC library, …
How Airbnb ships features faster across web, iOS, and Android using a server-driven UI system named Ghost Platform 👻.
Some people claim nuclear fuel is inexhaustible and circular, others say we'll run out soon. We do the math. Turns out, it's roughly as inexhaustible as sunlight.
Overview of different techniques to implement comments using a static site generator.
