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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,688 posts.
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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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How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server
Learn how to make a Raspberry Pi VPN server using OpenVPN, PiVPN, Surfshark, and WireGuard! You can set up a VPN tunnel for access to your home network while away.
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Which table format do LLMs understand best?
We benchmarked 11 data formats, including markdown tables, JSON, CSV, YAML, XML, and more, to see which LLMs understand best. We found surprising accuracy and token cost trade-offs.
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5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs
See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.
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The ways we contain Claude across products
As agents grow more capable, so does their potential blast radius. Here's what we learned building containment for claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork.
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JsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov and his project jsDelivr. – Editor's note. As a developer you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy ...
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Tor Browser 10
Tor Browser 10.0 for Desktop is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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False memories, or why we’re so sure of things we’re wrong about
Felipe De Brigard is an assistant professor of philosophy at Duke, where he runs the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab. That may not sound like philosophy in the traditional sense; De Brigard’s work is at the intersection of philosophy and neuroscience, and is supported right now by a $500,000 grant from the Office…
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'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain
Too much stuff in the periphery of our vision can make it difficult to identify what we’re seeing. Yale researchers now know how that clutter affects the brain.
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Scientists find massive reserves of mercury in permafrost
Researchers have discovered permafrost in the northern hemisphere stores massive amounts of natural mercury, a finding with significant implications for human health and ecosystems worldwide.
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Startup Investor School: The Basics of Seed Investing
Last year, for the first time, we taught a MOOC (massively open online course) for startup founders called Startup School. This year, we’re adding a new course called Startup Investor School [https://investor.startupschool.org] which will teach the basics of seed (early) stage startup investing to anyone interested…
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Tin: full-text search for Postgres
TIN is a fast, full-featured, full-text search index for Postgres
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You only need the frontier model for one single edit
/prewalk hands the cheap model a trajectory, not a plan, retaining 92–97% of frontier pass rate at roughly half the cost on SWE-Bench Pro.
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AI’s Instagram Problem
AI has an Instagram problem. Just as Instagram’s parade of perfect physiques makes many people feel they don’t measure up, AI’s parade of exciting...
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Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
How we built a performant, scalable, ACID-compliant, JavaScript-native database on FoundationDB.
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The funny rules of SpamAssassin in 2023
This investigation was surprising to me so I thought it would be interesting to share my findings and I hope you'll like it.
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Homeland Security’s New Database to Include Faces, DNA, and Relationships
So why do we know so little about it?The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly building what will likely become the largest database of biometric and biographic data on citizens and foreigners in the United States. The agency’s new Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART)...
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IPv6 Support for AWS Extended to 15 Regions
We’ve been working to add IPv6 support to many different parts of AWS over the last couple of years, starting with Elastic Load Balancing, AWS IoT Core, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53, Amazon CloudFront, AWS WAF, and S3 Transfer Acceleration, all building up to last month’s announcement of IPv6 support for EC2…
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Rule 41 Proposes to Grant New Hacking Powers to the Government
The government hacking into phones and seizing computers remotely? It’s not the plot of a dystopian blockbuster summer movie. It’s a proposal from an obscure committee that proposes changes to court procedures—and if we do nothing, it will go into effect in December. The proposal comes from the...
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Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.
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ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project
We’re excited that support for getting and managing TLS certificates via the ACME protocol is coming to the Apache HTTP Server Project (httpd). ACME is the protocol used by Let’s Encrypt, and hopefully other Certificate Authorities in the future. We anticipate this feature will significantly aid the adoption of HTTPS…
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The Incredibly Stupid One
After being captured by enemy soldiers during the Vietnam War, U.S. Navy sailor Douglas Hegdahl’s cleverness and creativity allowed him to uncover valuable information about the prison camp.
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Gitea 1.17.0 is released – includes package registry support
We are proud to present the release of Gitea version 1.17.0, a relatively big release with a lot of new and exciting features and plenty breaking changes. We highly encourage users to update to this version after carefully reading about the breaking changes for some important bug