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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,332 posts.
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Global music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by paid subscription streaming
22 nd March 2022 – The global recorded music market grew by 18.5% in 2021, driven by growth in paid subscription streaming, according to IFPI, the organisation that represents the recorded music industry worldwide. Figures released today in IFPI’s Global Music Report show total revenues for 2021 were US$25.9 billion.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users
The Backend Infrastructure team at Discord was hard at work improving the scalability and performance of our core real-time communications infrastructure.
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MDN Plus
Today, we are launching MDN Plus, our first step to providing a personalized and more powerful experience.
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Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
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Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
There is a new development that directly impacts the open source community, and it warrants a new commentary. Angry maintainers have started adding code to a small number of open source repositorie…
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It’s fine, Rewind: Revert a migration without losing data
Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.
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If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
SSH has some pretty gnarly issues when it comes to usability, operability, and security. The good news is this is all easy to fix. SSH is ubiquitous. It’s the de-facto solution for remote administration of *nix systems. SSH certificate authentication makes SSH easier to use, easier to operate, and more secure.
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Mozilla’s Vision for the Evolution of the Web
Mozilla's mission is to ensure that the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. We believe in an Internet that puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe, and independent.
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An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
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Spotify and Google Announce User Choice Billing
Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers. Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be presented with a choice to…
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How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022
An incredible amount has changed in Mesa and in the Vulkan ecosystems since we wrote the first Vulkan driver in Mesa for Intel hardware back in 2015. Here's a look at the latest Mesa utilities, helpers & best practices for writing Vulkan drivers.
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Render: a Zero DevOps Cloud Platform
Announcing the General Availability of Render Redis!
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Another Vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM
The discovery of an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69.
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Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon Corretto 18 is now generally available
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Statistical Analysis with Lisp-Stat
Version 1.0-beta
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DEV-0537 targeting organizations for data exfiltration and destruction
The activity we have observed has been attributed to a threat group that Microsoft tracks as DEV-0537, also known as LAPSUS$. DEV-0537 is known for using a pure extortion and destruction model without deploying ransomware payloads.
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Nushell 0.60 Released
A new type of shell.
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Minimum Viable Declarative GUI in C++
Techniques for defining a declarative GUI in C++
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Covid and the Heart: It Spares No One – Johns Hopkins
New evidence suggests anyone infected with COVID is at higher risk for heart issues—a risk that persists even in relatively healthy people long after the illness has passed.
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Clojure 1.11 is now available
Clojure 1.11 provides new syntax for keyword argument invocation, namespace aliasing without loading, a new clojure.math namespace, and many additional bug fixes and enhancements.
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KeePassXC 2.7.0
KeePassXC Password Manager
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LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
Martin Kotuliak, Simon Erni, Patrick Leu, Marc Röschlin, and Srdjan Čapkun, ETH Zurich
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Wasmer and Trademarks
Wasmer attempted to register the WebAssembly trademark. ## We shouldn't have done that. We're sorry. We won't do it again. _Update: post edited on Feb...
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OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider
31 GEO satellites and Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO constellation of +600 satellites deliver resilient, secure connectivity across land, sea and air.
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Automating cookie consent and GDPR violation detection
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires websites to inform users about personal data collection and request consent for cookies. Yet the majority of websites do not give users any choices, and others attempt to deceive them into accepting all cookies. We document the severity of this…