Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,678 posts.
The UC Negotiating Team Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the…
In August, we announced a new initiative (known as Privacy Sandbox) to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on...
Solarpunk, Permaculture, Sociocracy
SIEVE is Simpler than LRU: an Efficient Turn-Key Eviction Algorithm for Web Caches
In this viral post, we explain a new paradigm of building simple clean apps: from prototyping to scaling up.
Historically, proprietary systems created the need for binary machine interfaces. This extended to the deepest layers of the system, where the PC BIOS was…
The Fedora Project proudly announces the release of Fedora 27, its latest leading-edge operating system. Download it free and experience it today.
Introducing CS Bench: we ask all top models to build a multiplayer Counter-Strike from scratch.
Last Thursday we released details on a bug in Cloudflare's parser impacting our customers. It was an extremely serious bug that caused data flowing through Cloudflare's network to be leaked onto the Internet.
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...
Lumafield’s Battery Quality Report exposes hidden risks in 18650 cells; 1 in 13 low-cost units have dangerous defects. See how CT helps enforce safety.
Prisma 2 Beta introduced type-safe database access with Prisma Client, updated docs, and a clearer path toward production readiness.
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) has been an important part of AWS since 2009, when it was launched as part of a three-pack that also included Auto Scaling and Amazon CloudWatch. Since that time we have added many features, and also introduced the Application Load Balancer. Designed to support application-level…
At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic — accessible and easy for anyone, anywhere. And while anyone can start a free blog here, not everyone can access upgrades (like g…
Stripe uses Sorbet to type check our 15 million lines of Ruby code, making engineers more productive. Here's why we love Sorbet.
Jen Simmons' seven-part mini-series on resilient CSS and how you can create great graphic design on the web, now, and not have to worry about all the old browsers.
Wondering how to make a Slackbot that drives revenue? Check out this step-by-step tutorial. It's a case study of how we built a profitable business on Slack with thousands of USD in revenue.
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States' excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will...
By Jay Judkowitz, Senior Product Manager and Mark Carter, Group Product Manager Next week at Google Cloud Next ‘18 , you’ll be hearing abo...
Distinguished engineer Martin Thomson explains how this problem occurred, the implications for people who might be affected, and how problems of this nature might be avoided in future. To get ...
Erlang was released as Open Source by Ericsson 8 December 1998. What made it all happen? Find out the story behind continuing to build products to make the world a better place with tools for fault tolerant and scalable systems available to the masses.
