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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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Auditing Rust Crypto: The First Hours
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
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Open-Sourcing ClusterFuzz
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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When AWS Autoscale Doesn’t
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless
When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user's data cap, that's zero rating. And the evidence is in that it conclusively makes broadband more expensive. A comprehensive multi-year study by the non-profit Epicenter.works, comparing the 30 member countries...
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The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs.
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Move Fast and Migrate Things: How We Automated Migrations in Postgres
At Benchling, we’re building a platform to help scientists do research. Hundreds of thousands of scientists across academia and enterprise…
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Clojure - Deps and CLI Guide
In all the above scenarios you might want to use other Clojure and Java libraries (dependencies or 'deps'). These may be libraries you are writing locally, projects in git (e.g. on GitHub) or, commonly, libraries available in the Maven ecosystem and hosted by central repositories like Maven Central or Clojars.
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The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
One of the hot topics of NAB, IBC, and Demuxed last year was “low latency” live video streaming. In this post we’ll examine the spectrum of different latencies that users experience, discuss the use ca...
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Netflix Posted Biggest-Ever Profit in 2018 and Paid $0 in Income Taxes
The popular video streaming service Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018—$845 million—on which it didn’t pay a dime in federal or state income taxes. In fact, the company reported a $22 million federal income tax rebate.
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Why Nasa Converted Its Lessons-Learned Database into a Knowledge Graph
Learning from mistakes—your own and those made by others—is a mark of effective organizations. Fostering a learning environment means seeing every...
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Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
"Secure Slack" offering brings the privacy and compliance benefits of open source to the real-time operations and collaboration needs of DevOps teams.
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With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release! What Are Hooks? Hooks let you use state and other React features without writing a class. You can also build your own Hooks to share reusable stateful logic between…
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Dutch radio amateurs image far side of the Moon using Chinese satellite data
This image shows the far side of the Moon, as well as our own planet Earth. It was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver on board the Chinese DSLWP-B / Longjiang-2 satellite (call sign BJ1SN), currently in orbit around the Moon, and transmitted back to Earth where it was received with the…
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Apple Names Deirdre O’Brien Senior Vice President of Retail and People
Apple today announced that Deirdre O’Brien is taking on new responsibilities for Apple’s retail and online stores in an expanded role.
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Swift 5 Exclusivity Enforcement
The Swift 5 release enables runtime checking of “Exclusive Access to Memory” by default in Release builds, further enhancing Swift’s capabilities as a safe language. In Swift 4, these runtime checks were only enabled in Debug builds. In this post, I’ll first explain what this change means for Swift developers before…
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Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe
Posted by Sagar Savla, Product Manager, Machine Perception The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 466 million people globally...
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Electron v5.0 Timeline
For the first time ever, Electron is excited to publicize our release schedule starting with v5.0.0. This is our first step in having a public, long-term timeline.
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Matrix at FOSDEM 2019
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Leap Spins out of YC
In 2017, Cadran Cowansage [https://twitter.com/cadran_c], a software engineer at YC, started building [https://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/] Leap, an online community for women in tech. This YC project led to thousands of women talking openly about their experiences and sharing career…
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio
Unsolicited volume can be a great source of distraction and frustration for users of the web. So we are making changes to how Firefox handles playing media with sound and ...
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Mozilla Raises Concerns Over Facebook’s Lack of Transparency
Today Denelle Dixon, Mozilla’s Chief Operating Officer, sent a letter to the European Commission surfacing concerns about the lack of publicly available
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Things that are more inequitable than road pricing
Don’t decry congestion pricing as inequitable until after you fix, or at least acknowledge, these ten other things that are even more inequitable about the way we pay for transportation.