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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
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Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.
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Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019)
Wolfram's Director of Technical Communication & Strategy, Jon McLoone, shares his thoughts on why it would not have been possible to create the Wolfram technology stack using a free and open-source model.
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Factorio Future Plans
Hello, the 1.1 release is the final release of the vanilla game. It will be maintained, so bugfixes, simple modding interface additions, or minor tweaks can happen, but that's about it.
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PlanetScale is now generally available
PlanetScale is now GA.
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We Switched to Mattermost
Secure workloads with Identity-First Reachability. NetFoundry closes inbound ports and replaces VPNs for simpler, zero-trust networking.
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Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarre floating point bug
Many gaming communities over the years have reached out to thank emulator developers for their efforts. Emulators are an important part of many classic game communities and give players access to features like netplay multiplayer, modding, and savestates, while also opening up the doors to enhancements not possible on…
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Idris 2 version 0.3.0
A new version (0.3.0) of Idris 2 has been released. You can download the source (including generated Scheme and Racket files for bootstrapping) from the download page .
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Terraform 0.15 General Availability
Terraform 0.15 delivers a wide set of stable interfaces that practitioners, partners, and organizations can rely on.
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Google open-sources the Lyra audio codec
That’s why in February we introduced Lyra: a revolutionary new audio codec using machine learning to produce high-quality voice calls.
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Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
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TransferWise changes name to Wise
Today, we’re changing our name from TransferWise to Wise. Our customers now need us for more than money transfers. Sending, spending, and receiving money...
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Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
Unum builds the Search, Storage, and Networking engines powering the modern data stack. Deployed on 100M+ devices, our technology serves DBMS unicorns and frontier AI labs.
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Latest Mozilla VPN features
It’s been less than a year since we launched Mozilla VPN, our fast and easy-to-use Virtual Private Network service brought to you by a trusted name in on
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Look Up Unknown Phone Numbers Using Facebook Reset Password
This tutorial is meant to help find clues as to who is calling you when you're receiving calls from an unknown phone number (a number that is displayed on
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Update on campaign targeting security researchers
An update on a hacking campaign targeting security researchers.
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Raspberry Pi Build HAT – Controls Lego Technic motors and sensors
Priced at $25, the Raspberry Pi Build HAT brings Raspberry Pi computing to the LEGO components we love: control LEGO Technic motors and sensors from your Raspberry Pi.
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Using load shedding to avoid overload
How Amazon uses load shedding to stay available under overload, rejecting excess work early so the system keeps serving requests it can handle.
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Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness
One of my recent hobby projects was a blocks-based tool for doing basic data science , and I was very pleased when its test suite reached 100% line coverage. However, Inozemtseva2014 found that code coverage is a poor predictor of how effective a test suite is at detecting bugs once the size of the test suite is…
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Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
Up until now, GraalVM has offered two ways to run Java programs: using the Java HotSpot VM with the GraalVM JIT (just-in-time) compiler…
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Egyptian Circumnavigation of Africa ~600 BC
The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) was the world's first historian. In The Histories , he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great , Cambyses and Darius I the Great , culminating in king Xerxes ' expedition in 480 BCE against the…
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The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound
Researchers discover how accurately the human ear can detect time delay in sounds in different frequencies.
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Group Video Calls
Today's update lets you turn on your camera or share your screen during Voice Chats in groups – on all devices, including tablets and desktops. This brings voice chats to a whole new level, ready for online classes, business meetings and family gatherings.
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AlphaFold 2 is here: what’s behind the structure prediction miracle
Nature has now released that AlphaFold 2 paper , after eight long months of waiting. The main text reports more or less what we have known for nearly a year, with some added tidbits, although it is accompanied by a painstaking description of the architecture in the supplementary information . Perhaps more importantly…
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Scaling Kubernetes to 7,500 Nodes
We’ve scaled Kubernetes clusters to 7,500 nodes, producing a scalable infrastructure for large models like GPT-3, CLIP, and DALL·E, but also for rapid small-scale iterative research such as Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
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