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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,840 posts.
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Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed
Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.
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A new learning experience on MDN
There's a new Learn Web Development section on MDN that merges the MDN Curriculum with the Learn section. Here's the background to these changes, what's new, and what you can expect to see in the future.
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How we got fine-tuning Mistral-7B to not suck
Announcing Helix v0.5 with improved text fine-tuning and OpenAI API support 🎉
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LLaVA-1.6: Improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge
LLaVA team presents LLaVA-1.6, with improved reasoning, OCR, and world knowledge. LLaVA-1.6 even exceeds Gemini Pro on several benchmarks.
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Apple Watch Series 10
Apple unveiled Apple Watch Series 10, featuring a refined design and bringing new capabilities to the world’s most popular watch.
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Desktop Windowing on Android Tablets
Desktop windowing on Android tablets enables users to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize windows for optimal multitasking.
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Toasty, an async ORM for Rust
Tokio is a runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. It provides async I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, and more.
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Stalwart mail server (self-hosted all-in-one mail server) now as an admin webui
We're thrilled to announce the release of Stalwart Mail Server version 0.7.0, a significant update that brings a wealth of features and improvements to enhance the performance and manageability of...
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Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls
Update 11/19/24: The Senate Judiciary Committee is still scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Please express your continued opposition through our action center, linked below. A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent...
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Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
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Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.
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Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)
Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.
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A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
Information on a security incident involving Dropbox Sign.
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Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
The demo shows that even though the behavior appears similar, TCP connections leak when using the io_uring driver but not with the epoll driver. I've also tested this across various io_uring runtimes, and it turns out to be a common issue across all of them.
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Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense
Discover how Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, implements the Fortress Method to balance event-driven and long-running engineering tasks, maximizing productivity in a small team.
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Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available
Tailscale SSH is now generally available, offering seamless SSH authentication and authorization with SSO, MFA, and ACLs. Enjoy robust security, zero trust remote access, and tools like session recording and VS Code integration.
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Introducing Our New Name
After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
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Google Public DNS's approach to fight against cache poisoning attacks
Tianhao Chi and Puneet Sood, Google Public DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a fundamental protocol used on the Internet to translate hum...
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What's Next for WebGPU
Learn about new AI and rendering features discussed at the latest GPU for the Web working group meeting.
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Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
What is the first rule of programming? Maybe something like “do not repeat yourself” or “if it works, don’t touch it”? Or, how about “do not write your own database!”… That’s a good one.
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Heroku Postgres is now based on AWS Aurora
We’re thrilled to launch our new Heroku Postgres Essential database plans. These plans have pgvector support, no row count limits, and come with a 32 GB...
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Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months
Finding viable alternatives to traditional petroleum-based plastics and microplastics has never been more important. New research from scientists at UC San Diego and Algenesis shows that their plant-based polymers biodegrade — even at the microplastic level — in under seven months.
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Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases
Posted by Ivan Lozano and Dominik Maier, Android Team Android's use of safe-by-design principles drives our adoption of memory-safe languag...
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Zed Decoded: Async Rust
From the Zed Blog: In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio explore how we use async Rust in the Zed code base to ensure perfect cooperation with macOS to always maintain responsiveness and high-performance.
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Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks
Guest Post: New off-path TCP hijacking attack in Wi-Fi networks that exploits vulnerabilities in the NAT mapping strategies of routers discovered.