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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,662 posts.
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Servo’s new home
Servo has left the Mozilla nest.
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The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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PostgreSQL 10 Released
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 10, the latest version of the world's most advanced …
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My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website
Simple data pipeline powertools: sqlite, pandas, gnuplot and friends
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Meta plans to lay off 10k employees
Mark Zuckerberg announces steps to make Meta a better technology company and improve our financial performance.
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Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS
DAWO.community, working together on a digitally autonomous workplace for the Dutch government.
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Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working
The macOS 14 Sonoma betas and release candidate contain a bug that causes the firewall to not filter traffic correctly. As a result, our app does not work.
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GPT-5.4
Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.
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Gemini 4 Carbon
Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
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A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
Cambridge University Press is publishing a textbook I have co-edited with five colleagues, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy, by Findley et al. With contributions by 32 authors, this book provides a thorough analysis of an interdisciplinary subject lying at the intersection of…
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There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'
Today, The Guardian published a story falsely claiming that WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption contains a “backdoor.”
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Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
The Online Information Environment report discusses how to limit the harm of scientific misinformation online
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Claude 3 model family
The Claude 3 model family—Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus—sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks.
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Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website
I’m a 24-year-old female web developer and founder of Kapwing [https://www.kapwing.com], an early-stage software startup. When my co-founder, Eric, and I launched the website in October, we decided to add a chat messenger so that users could message us directly with feedback, feature requests, and bugs.
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Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era
Today, we’re announcing Gemini 2.0, our most capable AI model yet.
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School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
Psychologists at the University of York, who tested the impact that smartphones have on children’s behaviour for a new two-part documentary series for Channel 4, found that a ban in school impacted positively on sleep and mood.
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Tales of the M1 GPU
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This write-up …
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Voxtral Transcribe 2
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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VR
About a month and a half ago I tried the new Oculus and was completely blown away. Even though there were clear rough points – expensive computer, not wireless, limited apps – I was amazed. The next morning I had two thoughts: 1. Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy…
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LastPass autofill exploit
Mathias Karlsson decided to check out the security of the LastPass browser extensions. Here's what he found.
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Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU
How to run Stable Diffusion locally so you can hack on it
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A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab ...
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
There have been rumors for years that the NSA can decrypt a significant fraction of encrypted Internet traffic. In 2012, James Bamford published an article quoting anonymous former NSA officials stating that the agency had achieved a “computing breakthrough” that gave them “the ability to crack current public…