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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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MuseNet
We’ve created MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles. MuseNet was not explicitly programmed with our understanding of music, but instead discovered patterns of harmony, rhythm, and style…
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
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Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
Run Postgres in your local web browser with guided tutorials to help you grow your Postgres skills.
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ChatGPT Pro
Broadening usage of frontier AI
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Sublime Text 2.0 Released
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that Sublime Text 2 has graduated out of beta, with 2.0 now available for your text editing pleasure.
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Bitcoin: the Stripe perspective
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Save Netflix
Netflix is in terrible danger. In fact, these might be its last days. Oh, not today's Netflix. The Netflix you're using today is fine. It made it—got to do something daring and edgy, prove out its model, and become part of the establishment. But the next Netflix—the company so cool it makes...
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Making the Tokio scheduler 10x faster
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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Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
We announced the Bytecode Alliance nearly a year ago, and since then it has been… quite a year 😬
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Thunderbird 102
Our huge annual release, Thunderbird 102, brings highly-requested features, visual refinements + quality-of-life upgrades to our 20M+ users.
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CockroachDB 1.0
Launching CockroachDB 1.0, a production-ready release with distributed SQL and multi-active availability in two tiers: CockroachDB Core and CockroachDB Self-hosted.
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Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
Physics is the most fundamental of sciences. It provides a foundation for ideas critical to other scientific fields and the underpinnings for modern technologies.
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jQuery 4
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Google Spreadsheets and Python
We show code for an easy way to read and update a Google spreadsheet in Python using the gspread package and the Google Drive API.
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Kagi and Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard. Delivering accurate and reliable search results requires processing vast amounts of data, understanding complex queries, and constantly evolving to meet user expectations. In an era where AI-generated content is becoming...
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.
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Is Tor still safe to use?
This blog post is a response to an investigative news report about a large-scale law-enforcement attack that managed to de-anonymize a user of an old version of the long-retired app Ricochet. This blog post aims to provide insight into what we know so far. Nothing that the Tor Project has learned about this incident…
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Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances
Almost a hundred years ago, John Maynard Keynes suggested that the industrial revolution would effectively end work for humans within a couple of generatio
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Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools
In the context of concerns around young people’s interactions with digital technologies, the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is consulting on additional measures to prepare young people for ...
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EFF in Court to Argue NSA Collection from Internet Backbone Is Unconstitutional
Oakland - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will argue on Friday before a federal court that the National Security Agency (NSA) is violating the Fourth Amendment by copying and searching data that it collects by tapping into the Internet backbone. The hearing on a motion for partial summary...
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Firefox tab groups are here
What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –
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Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...
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What is HDR, anyway?
It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.