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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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A security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution
The Git community has disclosed an industry-wide security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a
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Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented
In 1959, Volvo invented the 3 point seat belt we use today. Then they gave the design away for all other car manufacturers to use for free.
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Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
This page contains entries for the year 2026 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
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How University Students Use Claude
AI systems are no longer just specialized research tools: they’re everyday academic companions. As AIs integrate more deeply into educational environments, we need to consider important questions about learning, assessment, and skill development. Until now, most discussions have relied on surveys and controlled…
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LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger’s codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler app
We are excited to begin rolling out the new version of Messenger on iOS. To make the Messenger iOS app faster, smaller, and simpler, we rebuilt the architecture and rewrote the entire codebase, whi…
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Zed AI
From the Zed Blog: Powerful AI-assisted coding powered by Anthropic's Claude, now available.
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Test drive of a petrol car
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Anki as Learning Superpower: Computer Science Edition
Discover how Anki can enhance your memory and productivity in computer science and maths. Learn techniques from G-Research's expert insights.
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PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from Python's standard library
This PEP proposed a list of standard library modules to be removed from the standard library. The modules are mostly historic data formats (e.g. Commodore and SUN file formats), APIs and operating systems that have been superseded a long time ago (e.g. ...
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Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B
NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox.
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A new class of materials that can passively harvest water from air
Researchers from Penn Engineering have discovered nanostructured materials that can passively harvest water from the air without energy input, enabling water-harvesting systems for arid regions.
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Raspberry Pi touch display
The official Raspberry Pi 7 inch touchscreen display is available to buy, with an 800×480 RGB screen, 24-bit colour and 10-point capacitive touch.
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How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
Raising Minecraft world capacity by spreading players across multiple synchronized server processes
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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GitLab is open core, GitHub is closed source (2016)
We think of ourselves as an open source company. But today paxcoder on Hacker News rightly remarked that calling it an open core company is more accurate.
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Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075
Datomic is a general-purpose database intended for systems of record. In many ways, Datomic is unusual. At any instant in time, the state of the database is represented by a set of [entity, attribute, value] ( EAV ) triples, known as datoms . Each datom declares that some entity (like a person) has a particular…
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MCP is dead?
TL;DR: MCP eats context, has low reliability, and overlaps with existing CLI/API.
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A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
At Mozilla, we closely track threats to users' privacy and security. This is why we've added tracking protection to Firefox and created the Facebook container extension. In today's cartoon intro, ...
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YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.
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A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela
There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.
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Announcing Microsoft DirectX Raytracing
If you just want to see what DirectX Raytracing can do for gaming, check out the videos from Epic, Futuremark and EA, SEED. To learn about the magic