Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,678 posts.
Just two years ago (it seems like yesterday), I introduced you to Amazon Aurora in my post Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS. In that post I told you how the RDS team took a fresh, unconstrained look at the relational database model and explained how they built a…
We are excited to announce that Automated Certificate Management is generally available, at no additional charge, for all applications running on Hobby...
Although the main interface between applications and a Vitess database is through the MySQL protocol, Vitess is a large and complex distributed system, and all the communication between the different services in a Vitess cluster is performed through GRPC .
The story of how Porsche tried and failed miserably at its hostile takeover of Volkswagen.
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
Google Public Sector will provide 250,000 active-duty enlisted members of the U.S. Army with Google Workspace.
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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.
News and notes from the Google Drive team
Today we're happy to announce the availability of TypeScript 3.6! For those unfamiliar, TypeScript is a language that builds on JavaScript by adding
Canoeboot – Free, Libre BIOS/UEFI boot firmware
A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit.
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Announcing the Go font family, by Bigelow & Holmes.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with the extensive alpha and beta releases with all the bug reports, crash log submissions, and general feedback. It has all been a tremendous help in creating the…
Build fast, personalized web experiences with Netlify Edge Functions: a serverless runtime built for on Deno, and compatible with your favorite JavaScript frameworks.
Discover why Phoenix LiveView + Svelte is so fast and productive. Learn our production implementation tips and performance insights.
Robots.txt files were invented 20+ years ago to help advise “robots," mostly search engine web crawlers, which sections of a web site should be crawled and indexed for search. Many sites use their robots.txt files to improve their SEO (search engine optimization) by excluding duplicate content like print versions of…
A team of researchers have examined the source code published as part of the SwissPost e-voting system, provided by Scytl, and discovered a cryptographic trapdoor.
Billions of people around the world use Google’s products every day, and they count on those products to work reliably. Behind the scenes, Google’s services have increased dramatically in scale over the last 25 years — and failures have become rarer even as the scale has grown. Google’s SRE team has pioneered methods…
By Liwei Guo, Vivian Li, Julie Beckley, Venkatesh Selvaraj, and Jeff Watts
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer On Wednesday, July 2, we became aware of unauthorized digital certificates for several Google ...
In V8 v9.1 we’re improving V8 performance by 5–15% with Sparkplug: a new, non-optimizing JavaScript compiler.
