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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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A Yubico FAQ about passkeys
Delve into Yubico's comprehensive guide about passkeys, a term encapsulating FIDO/WebAuthn credentials that offer a secure, passwordless experience.
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Vite 4.0
Vite 4 Release Announcement
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Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe
Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.
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All in with Nuitka
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
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Experiment: The costs of slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
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Introducing passkeys in Chrome
We announced in October that passkey support was available in Chrome Canary. Today, we are pleased to announce that passkey support is now ...
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Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig
It’s funny - I have shared this story a handful of times with friends of mine who are qualified, competent software engineers, and each time the response was confusion about why any of this would be necessary or even remotely helpful. WebAssembly ?!
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Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues?
Meter is currently tracking an issue that is affecting M1/M2 Macbooks and leading to slow internet connection, drops in Zoom calls, and entirely losing a Wi-Fi connection.
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Google Zanzibar Through Our Eyes
Understanding Google's Zanzibar paper the way the Authzed team does.
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Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure
This is a guest blog post by Michiel Borkent.
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The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language
Preparing for the next major release, where Dart only supports sound null safety
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Ideas that changed my life
You spend years trying to learn new stuff but then look back and realize that maybe like 10 big ideas…
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PHP 8.2
PHP 8.2 is a major update of the PHP language. Readonly classes, null, false, and true as stand-alone types, deprecated dynamic properties, performance improvements and more
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What comes up when you flush
Germophobes, brace yourselves. A team of CU Boulder engineers has revealed how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly ejected into the air
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Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
A comprehensive guide to MikroTik internals, including IPC, hand-rolled cryptography, and a novel post-authentication jailbreak
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Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms
In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate change, researchers at UMass Amherst recently announced that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 to 1,000 times greater than pre-agricultural erosion rates.
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100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.
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Tor Browser 12.0
Tor Browser 12.0 is now available. This new release updates Tor Browser to Firefox Extended Support Release 102.
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Bun 0.3
Massive reduction in memory usage, faster text encoding, improved Jest compatibility, file-system routing, automatic package installs, and a lot more
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Korg makes music with Raspberry Pi
Think of synth music, racks of keyboards, or massive DJ rigs, and Korg comes to mind. Raspberry Pi is at the heart of some of its new synthesizers.
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Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more
With this update, you can have a Telegram account without a SIM card and set up a global timer to automatically delete messages in all new chats. Topics in groups are now even more powerful – and available for groups with 100+ members.
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Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Helix 22.12
A post-modern modal text editor.