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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,170 posts.
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Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
Not so much work remains to be done to turn /e/ into a desktop operating system. Using an /e/ smartphone as a desktop PC with an external screen, keyboard and mouse is already possible with good usability. Using an /e/ smartphone as a laptop is also possible with scrcpy although some minor improvements are still…
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ProtonCalendar beta
The Proton Calendar uses an innovative encryption model to deliver the high level of security Proton users expect.
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The StingRay Is Why the 4th Amendment Was Written (2017)
The drafters of the Constitution recognized that restricting the government from violating privacy is essential for a free society. That's why the Fourth Amendment exists. The StingRay clearly violates these standards.
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Why are my Go executable files so large?
Golang executable files get too large for reasons that are not relevant to server software with long-running processes, like CockroachDB, and its incurred space cost is particularly inconvenient for large, feature-rich programs.
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Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit
Arduino boards have been employed in all sorts of robotics and IoT applications, although working with air as a power source is less than straightforward.
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Steel Bank Common Lisp 2.0
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below.
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Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study
Contrary to common belief, blue light may not be as disruptive to our sleep patterns as originally thought - according to University of Manchester scientists. According to the team, using dim, cooler, lights in the evening and bright warmer lights in the day may be more beneficial to our health. Twilight is both…
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Alcohol Consumption
Who consumes the most alcohol? How has consumption changed over time? And what are the health impacts?
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Blind software development at 450 words per minute (2017)
Insights | Vincit
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A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
I work at the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, where we use very big data to find cures for childhood cancers. To move data around the internet at very high speeds, we are forced to use a proprietary software suite called Aspera. If somebody could make a Free Software alternative, the future of the internet would be way…
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Ruby Lazy Enumerators
Ruby provides support for lazy loading enumerators, allowing efficient processing of large or infinite sequences.
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Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials
MIT researchers have developed an automated machine-learning model that uses probability techniques to significantly outperform human Wall Street analysts in predicting quarterly business sales.
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To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We’re sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019…
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Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Dive into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
It's time to shed light on the technical methods and business practices behind third-party tracking. For journalists, policy makers, and concerned consumers, this paper will demystify the fundamentals of third-party tracking, explain the scope of the problem, and suggest ways for users and legislation to fight back…
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Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
How UX design is impacting the way we binge watch television.
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The Ethical Failures Behind the Boeing Disasters
Two Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes crashed shortly after takeoff, on October 28, 2018 near Jakarta, Indonesia and March 10, 2019, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The disasters cost the lives of 346 passengers and crew. Black box data recovered from the two planes indicate that bad engineering practices and surprisingly simple…
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NPM lockfiles can be a security blindspot for injecting malicious modules in PRs
In this post, we show you how easy it is to introduce back doors that are easily missed by project owners… leaving your code insecure.
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Announcing the New PubMed
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is replacing the current version of the PubMed database with a newly re-designed version. The new version is now live and can be found at You can still acces…
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The Pineapple Fund donated $55M in nonprofit Bitcoin grants
On December 14, 2017 a post was made on Reddit that would forever change the landscape of charitable giving with cryptocurrency.
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Hepatitis C kills more Americans than all other infectious diseases combined
Hepatitis C has become so widespread that experts are calling on doctors to screen all adults 18 to 79, even those with no known risk factors or symptoms.
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Ruby 2.7
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.7.0.
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The investigation into ToTok
triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side