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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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Firefox 92
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Mastering Web Scraping in Python: Crawling from Scratch
Get started with web scraping in Python following this step-by-step tutorial! Learn how to scrape a site with Requests and Beautiful Soup libraries.
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Lambda School lays off 65 employees
Get the latest news about Bloom Institute of Technology, where you can launch your new tech career from anywhere in just 6-9 months.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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How Iran Uses Bitcoin Mining to Evade Sanctions and “Export” Oil
The US imposes an almost total economic embargo on Iran, including a ban on all Iranian imports and sanctions on Iranian financial institutions.
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Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging
Scientists have identified a key factor in mental aging and shown that it might be prevented or reversed by fixing a glitch in the immune system's front-line soldiers.
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Van Buren is a victory against overbroad interpretations of the CFAA
The Supreme Court’s Van Buren decision today overturned a dangerous precedent and clarified the notoriously ambiguous meaning of “exceeding authorized access” in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the federal computer crime law that’s been misused to prosecute beneficial and important online...
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Grafana OnCall: an easy-to-use on-call management tool
The new on-call management tool is available in beta preview for Grafana Cloud users with both free and paid plans.
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Browser Fuzzing at Mozilla
Mozilla has been fuzzing Firefox for a while. It has proven to be one of the most efficient ways to identify quality and security issues.
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Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
CIRA Joins Firefox’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Program In a few weeks, Firefox will start the by-default rollout of DNS over HTTPS (or DoH for short) to
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Funding GIMP developers for sustainable development
GIMP is developed by its community - support the humans behind
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Open source is coming to financial services
Open source will catalyze the financial services industry’s biggest evolution to date. This evolution will shift the power in this $25 trillion industry from business executives to developers, not just in fintech companies, but in centuries-old incumbents, as well. Until very recently, financial services were…
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Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution
Cornell researchers have topped their own record for atomic resolution with an electron microscope pixel array detector that incorporates sophisticated 3D reconstruction algorithms.
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I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
Charity Majors challenges managers to better understand the life of on-call engineers and how to share that on-call ownership among the team.
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Preparing Rustls for Wider Adoption
It’s time for the Internet to move on to more secure software, and that’s why our Memory Safety Initiative is coordinating work to make further improvements to the Rustls TLS library.
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
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Social virtual spaces with Elixir at Mozilla
A case study of how Elixir is being used at Mozilla.
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EFF's reply to cease-&-desist letter – “Virtual Coachella” parody video
eff_ltr_to_rico_mgmt_re_krazam_llc.pdf
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Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags
Remember YouTube5? And a Dinosaur remembers. YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube...
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EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts
Like most people in the United States and around the world, EFF is shocked and disgusted by Wednesday’s violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. We support all those who are working to defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and we are grateful for the service of policymakers, staffers, and other...
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Claude Shannon: The Mathematical Theory of Cryptography
The foundation of modern cryptography.
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Adam Smith and Inequality (2014)
The assumption that Adam Smith accepted inequality as the necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy is wrong, writes Deborah Boucoyannis. In reality, Smith’s system precluded steep inequalities not out of a normative concern with equality but by virtue of the design that aimed to maximise the wealth of…
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Drinking strong coffee before exercising increases fat-burning, new study finds
Scientists from the University of Granada also found that, if the exercise is performed in the afternoon, the effects of the caffeine are more marked than in the morning Scientists from the Department of Physiology of the University of Granada (UGR) have shown that caffeine (about 3 mg/kg, the equivalent of a strong…