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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,672 posts.
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We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
Starting in 2020, we at Pushbullet began receiving more and more Play Store policy violation notifications from Google. At first the violation notifications seemed plausible, if a bit abrasive. At this point though, I’m pretty sure we’re being picked on by an AI. We’ll see what you think after you hear our story.
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Don't make customers hunt for the Sign In button on your website
Treat your paying customers as well as you treat potential customers.
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We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code
How a specification surfaced a defect in the Apollo flight code.
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Servo's progress in 2024
Summary of Servo’s progress in 2024: some numbers, main highlights and plans for the future.
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Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIt’s a well understood fact that platform security is ...
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Phi-4: Microsoft's Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning
Today we are introducing Phi-4, our 14B parameter state-of-the-art small language model (SLM) that excels at complex reasoning in areas such as math, in...
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TeamViewer stores user passwords in registry, encrypted with hard-coded key
Oh man where to even begin with this one. This was a crazy ride and I learned a ton along the way.
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Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy
There are millions of SQL users around the world. Who are these people, what is SQL, and what are they all using it for? Start learning S...
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Jeff Dean’s Lecture for YC AI [video]
Jeff Dean is a Google Senior Fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. He spoke to the YC AI [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/yc-ai/] group this summer. Here are his slides:
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EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases
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New iPad Air, powered by M4
Apple announced the new iPad Air featuring M4 and more memory, giving users a big jump in performance and making it more versatile than ever.
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ChatGPT Health
ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience that securely connects your health data and apps, with privacy protections and a physician-informed design.
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Green vs. Brown Programming Languages
In this article, the author explores the concept of "brown" and "green" programming languages based on the Stack Overflow Devel...
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QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM
GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DEMO DISCORD Note: This is the pronunciation of QwQ: /kwju:/ , similar to the word “quill”. What does it mean to think, to question, to understand? These are the deep waters that QwQ (Qwen with Questions) wades into. Like an eternal student of wisdom, it approaches every problem - be it…
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Web Framework Benchmarks
Round 1 of the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Project!
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Chromium's Impact on Root DNS Traffic
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
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Slow Software
What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
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Moving from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha
We recently migrated the CAPTCHA provider we use from Google's reCAPTCHA to a service provided by the independent hCaptcha. Here's a walk through of the rationale in more detail.
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Intel Foundry Services and Arm announce collaboration on SoC design
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
Visit the post for more.
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Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) experienced the largest leak of internal documents in its history on Thursday September 11, 2025. Over 500 GB of source code, work logs, and internal communication records were leaked, revealing details of the GFW's research, development, and operations.