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How We Designed for Performance and Scale
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,678 posts.
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Please Donate to the Internet Archive
Dear Supporters of the Archive, In the last year, the number of people using the Internet Archive has increased to two million people every day, and our collections of free books, music, video, and web pages have also grown by twenty to twenty-five percent. This is great news, but we are doing it all
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Why we are suing the Administration
TikTok is the world's leading destination for short-form mobile videos. Our mission is to capture and present the world's creativity, knowledge, and moments that matter in everyday life. TikTok empowers everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones, and is committed to building a community by encouraging…
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The cost of forsaking C
The C programming language is not trendy. The most recent edition of the canonical C text (the excitingly named The C Programming Language)…
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Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it
Migrating from GitHub to GitLab and setting up your own GitLab instance
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Claude Code will soon run auto mode by default for Pro, Max, Ultra, and Team plans, enabling longer-running autonomous work, and catching more dangerous commands.
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Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (2018)
From Cloudflare’s headline-making takedown of the Daily Stormer last autumn to YouTube’s summer restrictions on LGBTQ content, there's been a surge in “voluntary” platform censorship. Companies—under pressure from lawmakers, shareholders, and the public alike—have ramped up restrictions on speech,...
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Why use Pascal?
Object Pascal is a modern, readable, fast, type-safe, cross-platform OOP programming language. It is also easy to pick up.
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Mozilla launches new brand identity
Seven months since setting out to refresh the Mozilla brand experience, we’ve reached the summit. Thousands of emails, hundreds of meetings, dozens of concepts, and three rounds of research later, ...
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Why Do Tourists Visit Ancient Ruins Everywhere Except the United States?
In 1250, the southeastern United States was home to a city larger than London whose people built 200 huge, earthen pyramids. So why do so few people know about it?
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Removing support for forwarded ports
Today we announce that we no longer support port forwarding. New port forwards will no longer be supported, and existing ports will be removed 2023-07-01.
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Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
Why Astro is perfect for content-driven sites: island architecture, zero JS by default, and blazing-fast performance.
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Security Update
Over the weekend, there was an attack on Stack Overflow. We have confirmed that some level of production access was gained on May 11. We discovered and investigated the extent of the access and are addressing all known vulnerabilities. We have not identified any breach of customer or user data. Our customers’ and…
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Windows game developer about porting to and using OS X
I've been a long-time player of Banished on Mac OSX via Crossover Office/Wine and Banished crashes so often I can no longer play it. I have an old Windows box but it can't handle the game's graphics; even with a newer graphics card.
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Gnome: Staring into the abyss
I suppose I can't just leave my last post standing there as-is. I'll start by listing a bunch of things I consider facts about the GNOME project. I don't want to talk about solutions here, I just want to list them, because I don't think they are common knowledge. People certainly don't seem to talk...
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Users You Don’t Want
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
Learn why rotating your SSH keys is essential for preventing credential theft. Discover best practices for SSH key rotation and how to protect your systems from potential breaches.
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Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name, ...
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Pac-Man recreated with a GAN trained on 50k game episodes
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems....
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Annoying A/B testing mistakes
Running experiments is equal parts powerful and terrifying. Powerful because you can validate changes that will transform your product for the better…
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Can Repelling Magnets Replace the Spring in a Pogo Stick?
Discover if magnets can replace springs in pogo sticks in our latest exploration of magnetic repulsion and mechanical innovation.
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Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.