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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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Wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
Half a century of allowing lightning fires to burn in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin has recreated a lost forest ecosystem that is far more resilient to the impacts of drought, wildfire and climate change
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Bring back hydrogen lifting gas
According to one estimate, there are around 25 blimps worldwide. What will it take to bring back these majestic beasts of the sky?
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Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?
Earth is on average ten times closer to Mercury than Jupiter, but missions to both planets can take a similar amount of time to reach their science orbits. Why is that?
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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
Looking to learn more about what makes TomTom tick? Read the latest articles and news about maps, location data and the world they power in the TomTom Newsroom.
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Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser
WebAssembly (Wasm) has many applications in the cloud-native world today – WASI, edge cloud computing, Proxy-Wasm, and cloud-native runtime for server
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30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā
Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of 0AD Alpha 25: “Yaunā,” the twenty-fifth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of …
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Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story
How are low-level vulnerabilities exploited and detected in the modern age? This expert guide walks you through the ins and outs of eBPF and Kernel security.
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Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
Is an addictive personality a thing? Is an addict’s brain permanently broken?
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Captcha Patent Is an All-American Nightmare
A newly formed patent troll is looking for big money from small business websites, just for using free, off-the-shelf login verification tools. Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending out its demand letters to websites that use Google’s reCAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing...
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Richard Stallman and the History of Free Software and Open Source (2016)
RAJABANDOT hadir sebagai platform Toto Macau yang mengusung konsep internasional dengan tampilan modern, akses praktis, serta pengalaman pengguna yang dirancang agar mudah digunakan.
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A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
Build a censorship-resistant inflation dashboard. If we pick your project, we'll fund it with $100k.
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HTTP/2-exclusive threats caused by implementation flaws and RFC imperfections
In this research paper James Kettle introduces multiple new classes of HTTP/2-exclusive attacks, demonstrated on popular websites and servers.
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Ethereum is a Dark Forest
It’s no secret that the Ethereum blockchain is a highly adversarial environment. If a smart contract can be exploited for profit, it eventually will be. But this unforgiving environment pales in comparison to the mempool. If the chain itself is a battleground, the mempool is something worse: a dark forest.
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Apple's plan to “think different” about encryption opens a backdoor to your life
Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent any time following the Crypto Wars, you know what this means: Apple is planning to build a backdoor into its data storage system and its messaging system.
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Firefox: Performance in Progress
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
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How PostgreSQL aggregation works and how it inspired our hyperfunctions’ design
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
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Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly
The United States trails far behind other high-income countries on measures of health care affordability, administrative efficiency, equity, and outcomes.
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Mozilla Common Voice Adds 16 New Languages and 4,600 New Hours of Speech
The Mozilla Common Voice initiative has released a new, expanded data set featuring 16 new languages — like Basaa and Kazakh — and 4,622 new hours of sp…
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The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
Researchers discover how accurately the human ear can detect time delay in sounds in different frequencies.
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Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong
Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He e
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Slitter: A slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
Slitter is Backtrace’s deliberately middle-of-the-road thread-caching slab allocator, with explicit allocation class tags (rather than derived from the object’s size class). It’s mostly written in Rust, and we use it in our C backend server. Slitter’s design is about as standard as it gets: we hope to dedicate the…
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Ray Tracing Gems II available as free download
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering.
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Good Design is Imperfect Design, Part 1: Honest Names
by Eric Evans Perfectionism is a pitfall. For those who, like me, love elegant design and see its utility, there is a slippery slope waiting when a satisfying design does not emerge in a reasonable time. It takes constant self-discipline to recognize this and accept, let go, ship and move on – or return in...