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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
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Expiring vs. permanent skills
Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.
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Grindr and OKCupid Sell Your Data, but Twitter’s MoPub Is the Real Problem
On January 15, a Norweigian Consumer Council (NCC) investigative report exposed the ways that Grindr, OKCupid, and eight other apps are collecting and sharing extremely sensitive personal data. Grindr in particular was sharing users’ age and location tied to a device ID that would allow trackers to...
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Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body
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Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
This is a key moment in our company’s history, as the whole world is dealing with significant uncertainty. Know that you are not alone. We are facing this situation together. Our goal is to stay focused on living our core values and actively connect with teammates, our community, and our customers.
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The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
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Why are CEOs failing software engineers?
Software engineering, the creative nature of the work
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What end-to-end encryption should look like
Check out our progress in end-to-end encryption calls in Jitsi. Give us your crypto knowledge feedback with the code and learn how to demo it here.
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FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
Available on the portable ID NOW platform, Abbott's molecular COVID-19 test delivers results in minutes in a variety of healthcare settings.
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Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker
TLDR: 30 member tech team formed over seven years built India's largest stock broker. Unconventional setup. The long pending tech blog is finally here. Some backstory and context.
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How to stay private when using Android
Android is one of Google’s most important tools for collecting data on users. This guide will help you improve your privacy on Android devices.
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The Dyson Battery Electric Vehicle
In his own words, James Dyson reveals the Dyson electric vehicle.
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The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
Today we are announcing that the Eclipse Foundation is transitioning itself to become a European-based organization, specifically a Belgian international nonprofit association. I wanted to take thi…
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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla’s mission. While we continue to make extensive use of both sandboxing and Rust in Firefox to address ...
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When Fonts Fall
A deep-dive into font fallback
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Has GitHub been down more since its acquisition by Microsoft?
Was GitHub down more after Microsoft acquired them? We analyzed their status page and found a 41% increase in disruptions.
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How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
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Bevy 0.3: game engine built in Rust
A little over a month after releasing Bevy 0.2, and thanks to 59 contributors, 122 pull requests, and our generous sponsors, I'm happy to announce the…
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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)
Build AI responsibly to benefit humanity
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The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history
Check out our file conversion API – convert 100s of formats with just a few lines of code. In a special series Zamzar take a look at some of the people who have helped shape technology and made it… Read More Jason Scott
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Rust and C++ Interoperability in Chrome
Chrome engineers are experimenting with Rust. For the foreseeable future, C++ is the reigning monarch in our codebase, and any use of Rust will need to fit in with C++ — not the other way around. This seems to present some C++/ Rust interoperability challenges which nobody else has faced.
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Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
Today, we’re launching Pitch to the world. Learn how we’re modernizing presentation software to help teams stay connected and do their best work.
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Standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch
We are standardizing OpenAI’s deep learning framework on PyTorch.
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YC W20 Online-Only Demo Day
Edit: YC W20 Demo Day is now on March 16. See here [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-w20-online-demo-day-now-on-march-16/] for more info. On March 23, YC will host our 30th Demo Day online. With the growing concern over COVID-19, we believe this is the right thing to do for the safety of all attendees, including our…
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A Brief Guide to OTP in Elixir
Learn about OTP, a set of tools and libraries that Elixir inherits from Erlang.
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Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
Firefox 75 is chock full of handy new dev tooling: instant evaluation in the web console, event breakpoints for WebSockets, and more. New web platform features include HTML lazy loading ...
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US Government Continues Encryption War
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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Swift Crypto
I’m thrilled to announce a new open-source project for the Swift ecosystem, Swift Crypto. Swift Crypto is a new Swift package that brings the fantastic APIs of Apple CryptoKit to the wider Swift community. This will allow Swift developers, regardless of the platform on which they deploy their applications, to access…