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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,671 posts.
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Blender 2.79 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship
Audrey Tang prefers precise language. During an interview, Taiwan's minister without portfolio - Tang's name card simply says "digital minister" - makes a swift correction when we mention the term "fake news." The preferred term is "disinformation" because, Tang says, it has a legal definition in Taiwan: "That is to…
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Vector databases are the wrong abstraction
Today’s vector databases disconnect embeddings from their source data. We should treat embeddings more like database indexes—here’s how.
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Nx compromised: malware uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem
What is s1ngularity-repository? Nx is compromised and the malware steals wallets and API keys using Claude CLI or Gemini.
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Patreon Lays off 17% of Staff
A note from Jack about the recent layoff and what went into the decision.
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GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and Microsoft’s online advertising businesses.
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Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
The Google Cloud Console UI is a large JavaScript application. This article investigates how it could be sped up.
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Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that comes with being able to flip a switch and have light to see […]
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The Perils of an .xyz Domain
Create your virtual HQ in seconds with a free trial of Spot.
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AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage
[Update: Wladimir Palant has posted a response on the AdBlock Plus blog. Also, a Chrome developer using the handle “Klathmon” has posted numerous good comments in the Reddit discussion of this post , explaining why ad-blockers are inherently CPU- and memory-intensive, and why integrating ad-blocking into a browser…
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Kagi Assistant
Yes, the rumours are true! Kagi has been thoughtfully integrating AI into...
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Delivering Billions of Messages Exactly Once
The single requirement of all data pipelines is that they cannot lose data. Data can usually be delayed or re-ordered–but never dropped.
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Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study
For more than a century, people have considered Alzheimer's disease (AD) an irreversible illness. Consequently, research has focused on preventing or ...
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Keylogger in Hewlett-Packard Audio Driver
Security reviews of modern Windows Active Domain infrastructures are – from our point of view – quite sobering. Therefore, we often look left and right, when, for example, examining the hardening of protection mechanisms of a workstation. Here, we often find all sorts of dangerous and ill-conceived stuff. We want to…
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Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration
On 12 February, the CEA’s WEST machine was able to maintain a plasma for more than 22 minutes. In doing so, it smashed the previous record for plasma duration achieved with a tokamak. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more…
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US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Explore 125 baby names that shifted between boys and girls, from Leslie to Ashley. See how each one’s split between boys and girls changed from 1936 to 2025.
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Statement from Nvidia board of directors
The NVIDIA Board is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of ...
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What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?
“What the pandemic showed is we can take marketing down to zero and still have 95% of the same traffic as the year before. So we’re not going to forget
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Guide to Equity Compensation
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies...
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Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno
Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno. By default, Fresh web pages send zero JavaScript to the client.
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A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories
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When you change the world and no one notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history.