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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,664 posts.
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Mistral raises €3B
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
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System76 on Age Verification Laws
Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.
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Wikipedia blocked in Turkey
The Turkey Blocks monitoring network has verified restrictions affecting the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia in Turkey. A block affecting all language editions of the website detected at 8:00AM local time Saturday 29 April. ...
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Our new Multi-Account Containers extension for Firefox means you can finally wrangle multiple email/social accounts. Maybe you’ve got two Gmail or Instag
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YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
We’re hosting Startup School again this year. Startup School is a free, 10-week, online course. It’s designed for any startup founder who would like to get help through the earliest, most difficult challenges of starting a company. The course will begin on August 27, 2018 and applications are now open at…
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Calling All Hackers: Help Us Build an Open Wireless Router
EFF is releasing an experimental hacker alpha release of wireless router software specifically designed to support secure, shareable Open Wireless networks. We will be officially launching the Open Wireless Router today at the HOPE X (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in New York City, aiming to...
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Working on databases from prison
How Preston Thorpe went from a prison cell and a college program to a full-time database engineering role at Turso, working on the SQLite rewrite in Rust.
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Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
Indirect prompt injection through support-ticket data lets an MCP-enabled assistant cross trust boundaries and query private tables with Supabase’s privileged service role.
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Blender 3.0
21 years after Blender 2.0, version 3.0 brings unprecedented performance on a robust yet light package.
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Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone, empowering merchants in the US to accept contactless payments.
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The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency and astronomical cost. Interactions with language models…
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Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
In recent months, we have received numerous reports from users across West Asia and North Africa (WANA) expressing alarm over a little-known but deeply intrusive bloatware application—AppCloud—pre-installed on Samsung’s A and M series smartphones. Without users’ knowledge or consent, this bloatware collects sensitive…
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Hans Rosling has died
We are extremely sad to announce that Professor Hans Rosling died this morning. Hans suffered from a pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed one year ago. He passed away early Tuesday morning, February 7, 2017, surrounded by his family in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying
Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.
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The Business of SaaS
Why is SaaS taking over the world? Learn about the SaaS business model, why SaaS businesses work, and how to grow them.
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Our audit of Homebrew
This is a joint post with the Homebrew maintainers; read their announcement here! Last summer, we performed an audit of Homebrew. Our audit’s scope included Homebrew/brew itself (home of the brew CLI), and three adjacent repositories responsible for various security-relevant aspects of Homebrew’s operation…
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HTTPWTF
HTTP is fundamental to modern development, from frontend to backend to mobile. But like any widespread mature standard, it's got some funky skeletons in the...
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Common color mistakes and how to avoid them
Choosing good colors for your charts is hard. This article tries to make it easier.
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Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a popular method of conflict resolution that privileges unbiased evidence and specificity.
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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. We'll tell you exactly what that means.
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Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL
It's a common architecture to have PostgreSQL and Redis serve as the backbone of your app, but PostgreSQL may be capable of everything you use Redis for.
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Tailwind CSS v3.0
Tailwind CSS v3.0 is here — bringing incredible performance gains, huge workflow improvements, and a seriously ridiculous number of new features.
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Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 is an upgrade over Opus 4 in agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
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Free Postgres databases for small projects
Announcing free Postgres storage on Fly.io.
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Y Combinator has filed an official comment with the FCC
[http://instagram.com/p/qPXemCGEse/?modal=true] Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street, SW Washington D.C. 20554 July 14, 2014 Re: Open Internet Remand, GN Docket 14-28 Dear Chairman Wheeler and Commissioners Clyburn, Rosenworcel, Pai, and O’Rielly: Y Combinator is Silicon Valley’s premier early stage…
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Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
Tasavallan presidentin kanslia Valtioneuvoston kanslia Tiedote 30/2022 12.5.2022 Kevään ajan on käyty tärkeää keskustelua Suomen mahdollisesta Nato-jäsenyydestä. Aikaa on tarvittu kotimaiselle kannanmuodostukselle sekä eduskunnassa että koko yhteiskunnassa. Aikaa on tarvittu...
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Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
Age verification turns the open internet into a permission system and pushes control away from families, schools, and users.
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Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
I am often asked what I mean when I say that developers spend most of their time figuring the system out. Let’s unpack the statement.