The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that the world has made immense progress in important aspects.
How common are armed conflict and peace between and within countries? How is this changing over time? Explore research and data on war and peace.
This post takes a short break from ASDL to expand on one of my Hacker News comments.
Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.
Explore the science behind the headlines with our leading experts.
_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.8 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket sports a new logo, courtesy of Matthew Butterick. MacBook Pro laptops with touch bars are supported. Support for FreeBSD on PowerPC. ...
The Vista Group blog shares our industry-leading knowledge about cinema along with product and technology updates, case studies, and news.
Java 9 preparations Java 9 is coming and brings Project Jigsaw to the table — the Java platform module system. One of the constraints it imposes is that no two modules can declare public API in the s
Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team has discovered a local root exploit in systemd v228 . A local user on a system running systemd v228 can escalate to root privileges. That's bad.
What is the NHS budget and how is it funded? Find out in our nutshell.
REDMOND, Wash. – Jan. 24, 2017 – Microsoft Corp. has named Kevin Scott to a newly created role of chief technology officer (CTO) for the company. This is an expansion of Scott’s new role at LinkedIn as senior vice president of Infrastructure. As Microsoft’s CTO, Scott will drive strategic, cross-company initiatives to…
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Discussing a recent academic finding on Java and Scala, from industry's perspective.
Today’s release of Firefox includes various features for developers and users that enable a richer and safer experience on the web. WebGL 2 enables a new
[Jan 26, 7:25am]: Google has responded to this article and the plans for throttling: Unfortunately, our current implementation throttles...
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In 2012, I decided to try to learn MIT's 4-year undergraduate computer science curriculum in 12 months, without taking any classes. I was successful in passing the final exams for 33 classes and completing the required programming projects. You can view my TEDx Talk regarding the challenge, see links to all the free…
Many new technologies have unexpected impacts on the physical or social world in which we live.
San Francisco - When you buy a printer cartridge, is it yours? Or can the company control what you do with it, even after you pay your bill and take it home? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the U.S. Supreme Court today to protect consumers’ property rights in a court case centering...
The DirectX HLSL (High Level Shading Language) compiler is now available as an open source project built on the Clang/LLVM framework. Microsoft drives the
You might have used Google’s new AMP project without even knowing. It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it
Google Voice is getting a fresh design and new features, across Android, iOS and the web.
