Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,089 posts.
Observations made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time revealed the effects predicted by Einstein’s general relativity on the motion of a star passing through the extreme gravitational field near the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way. This long-sought result represents the…
An ethical crisis in the digital forensics industry came to a head last week with the release of new details on Microsoft’s undocumented “Activities” API. A previously unknown trove of access and activity logs held by Microsoft allows investigators to track Office 365 mailbox activity in minute detail. Following a…
Defending equal access to the free and open internet is core to Reddit’s ideals, and something that redditors have told us time and again they hold dear to
Thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
Excited to share: 2 million sessions served! Here are best practices for running headless browsers (like Puppeteer) in production
From Pub-Sub messaging to Foreign Data Wrappers - five extraordinary features that made Postgres our backend of choice for Arcentry
A Unikernel for Extreme-Scale Computing
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
Here's an in-depth recap of debugging a GitLab issue that culminated in a patch for the Linux kernel.
Portsmouth CTC part of Cycling UK organises cycle rides and events including easy rides, short rides, flat rides, long rides, and hilly rides.
Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project ZeroThis blogpost describes a way to exploit a Linux kernel b...
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
I've been quiet for a while, mostly because I've been working on a new USB-C board. Actually, the board didn't take the most time; that would be the firmware development. (Never underestimate firmware). The result is a cool piece of gear, a powerful development platform, and a stronger firmware libr
AdGuard is the best way to get rid of annoying ads and online tracking and protect your computer from malware. Make your web surfing fast, safe and ad-free
Developers love Google App Engine ’s zero-config deployments, zero server management and auto-scaling capabilities. At Google Cloud, our goal is to help you be more productive by supporting more popular programming languages. Starting today, you can now deploy your Node.js 8 applications to App Engine standard…
Ever since the case of the San Bernadino shooter pitted Apple against the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone, opinions...
There is room to debate what makes an invention patentable, but one thing should be uncontroversial: patentable inventions should actually be new. That’s what EFF and the R Street Institute told the Supreme Court this week in an amicus brief urging it to grant certiorari and reverse the Federal...
An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern l…
After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 support, and many other…
Having created my first app using Flutter, I weigh up the technology’s pros and cons against React Native
