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How to communicate why your startup is worth joining
How to show why your startup is worth joining: facts about founders, team, culture and progress, with examples from Canny, Fibery and PostHog.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,332 posts.
1022
A New Future for GnuPG
It has been quite some time since my last status report on GnuPG. I have been quite busy working on the project but unfortunately rarely active on the usual channels. So, here is a new report telling what we did over the last two or three years. Please read at least the last section.
1023
Attacking Firecracker: AWS' MicroVM Monitor Written in Rust
Why are more security teams adopting Firecracker? How secure is it, and how suitable is it for your organization? This guide dives into this trending innovation.
1024
New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design
At Reddit, one thing we think about every day is how we can make it easier for people to find and engage in communities, content, and conversations. Over t
1025
Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis
Investigating the effects of bike lanes in Minneapolis.
1026
Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
MIT philosopher Kieran Setiya’s new book is a contemplative look at solving a midlife crisis.
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Rust: State of GUI, December 2022
Lets start by categorising entries from Are we GUI yet, ignoring those which appear abandoned or not very functional.
1028
Protons are probably smaller than long thought
Our office chair, the air we breathe, the stars in the night sky: they are all made of atoms, which in turn are composed of electrons, protons and neutrons. Electrons are negatively charged; according to current knowledge, they have no expansion, but are point-like. The positively charged protons are different …
1029
We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed
Actually no, the results will probably not surprise you.
1030
How we put IPFS in Brave (2021)
This integration marks a major milestone for IPFS, and lays the groundwork for further experiments into improving the experience of interacting with the network via web browsers.
1031
Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows
The story as I experienced it.
1032
To Ruby from Python
Python is another very nice general purpose programming language. Goingfrom Python to Ruby, you’ll find that there’s a little bit more syntaxto learn than wi...
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Notes on Nationalism (1945)
"By ‘nationalism’ I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions or tens of millions of people can be confidently labelled 'good' or 'bad'."
1034
Extend your runway, cheap money is over
Every tool your company uses, synced into one encrypted data lake — built for Claude and Codex.
1035
The implementation of the UK Covid-19 dashboard
Why and how the UK Coronavirus Dashboard team built their analytics service on top of PostgreSQL & Citus on Azure.
1036
PlanetScale Boost
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
1037
An Experience with Modafinil
An Experience with Modafinil. 'Caffeine's Smarter Sibling' by Medifinil
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How a razor blade can be damaged as it cuts human hair (2020)
A new study by MIT engineers shows how shaving can damage blades. Human hair, 50 times softer than steel, can chip away a razor’s edge, the engineers found.
1039
6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked
Read the onX report on corner locked land to learn how much land is involved, the concerns of affected property owners, and what can be done to solve this issue.
1040
Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
A new study finds clear empirical evidence that Wikipedia influences judges’ application of the law. The study was led by Neil Thompson of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
1041
Column order in PostgreSQL does matter
Column order can determine how quickly your data is processed in PostgreSQL. Find out how to troubleshoot performance problems in wide tables
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Want to start hacking?
We asked one of our top 10 hacker contributors, Johan Carlsson, to share his novel approach to bug bounty hunting.
1044
Overgrowth: Open-Source Announcement
Open Source We have worked on Overgrowth for 14 years. It is our longest running, ongoing project, and a massive reason why we have…
1045
Firefox Private Browsing mode upgrade
October is one of our favorite months of the year with autumn and Cybersecurity Awareness Month. We’re supporting Cybersecurity Awareness with Private Br
1046
Probiotics can support the effect of antidepressants
Intestinal flora plays an important role in health – including mental health. Researchers from the University of Basel and the University Psychiatric Clinics Basel (UPK) have shown that probiotics can support the effect of antidepressants and help to alleviate depression.
1047
Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs
Professor of Geology Shuhab Khan and his team analyzed thousands of water and oil wells in the Houston metro area and uncovered significant rates of subsidence in Houston's fast-growing suburbs that has not been reported before.
1048
Toxic Positivity
Can positivity be toxic? We’ll investigate the concept of toxic positivity. From this, we'll learn how we can communicate authentically.
1049
Java record pattern matching in JDK 19
Enhance the Java programming language with record patterns to deconstruct record values. Record patterns and type patterns can be nested to enable a powerful, declarative, and composable form of data navigation and processing. This is a preview language feature .
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IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up
IRCv3 Development Community