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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. 716 posts.
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Product Updates Based on Your Feedback
We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you’re also signed into Chrome with the same account. Y…
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Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties
Starting in version 59, Firefox Private Browsing will remove path data from Referrers sent to third parties. This will help prevent accidentally leaking data to third parties.
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Legends of the Ancient Web (2017)
This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 24, 2017, at the Front Trends conference in Warsaw.
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Neural scene representation and rendering
There is more than meets the eye when it comes to how we understand a visual scene: our brains draw on prior knowledge to reason and to make inferences that go far beyond the patterns of light that hit our retinas. For example, when entering a room for the first time, you instantly recognise the items it contains and…
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A summary of what quantitative trading firms do
This summary is an attempt to shed some light on modern quantitative trading since there is limited information available for people who are not already in the industry. Hopefully this is useful for students and candidates coming from outside the industry who are looking to understand what it’s like working for a…
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Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom
An inside look at the inner workings of a technology you may take for granted
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Oracle’s Java 11 trap
TL:DR; Java is still available at zero-cost , you just need to stop using Oracle JDK and start using an OpenJDK build, such as this one o...
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Learning Dexterity
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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What Data Does Facebook Collect When I’m Not Using Facebook, and Why?
Explaining more about the information we get from other websites and apps; how we use the data they send to us; and the controls you have.
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The Psychology of Money
Let me tell you the story of two investors, neither of whom knew each other, but whose paths crossed in…
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Lessons learned from creating a real-time collaborative rich-text editor
A guide to how we built the CKEditor 5 architecture for collaborative editing from the ground up, by extending Operational Transformation concepts.
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Keybase Exploding Messages
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Beginner's guide to longevity research
A beginner's guide to longevity research
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First-party isolation in Firefox: what breaks if you enable it?
Firefox’s FPI system keeps websites from tracking your movements across websites. This gives excellent privacy protections but at a cost of web compatibility.
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The Waiting Time Paradox, Or, Why Is My Bus Always Late?
If you, like me, frequently commute via public transit, you may be familiar with the following situation:
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Have I Been Pwned Is Now Partnering with 1Password
The penny first dropped for me just over 7 years ago to the day: The only secure password is the one you can't remember [https://www.troyhunt.com/only-secure-password-is-one-you-cant/]. In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.
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Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
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Deconstructing the Water Effect in Super Mario Sunshine
Note: The demos below require WebGL2 support . If you are running a browser without WebGL 2 support, user “petercooper” on Hacker News has helpfully recorded a video and GIFs and for me.