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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.
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MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3
In the past year and a half, MongoDB has put a good deal of work into improved read safety, enabled by the adoption of their new replication protocol and the WiredTiger storage engine. Dirty reads were addressed in 3.2 by introducing a majority read concern , and stale reads were addressed with the introduction of the…
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Notepad++ v8 release
Download Notepad++ source code of current version and/or check sha-256 digests for binary packages on GitHub
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How I Start: Go (2014)
Go is a lovely little programming language designed by smart people you can trust and continuously improved by a large and growing open-source community .
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Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket
Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket for Mega-Constellation Deployment
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WooThemes joins Automattic
Today marks the beginning of the next exciting chapter in our journey as WooThemes: we are joining the Automattic family!
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Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
Refactoring can make your code way better - or way worse. Here's how to avoid messing up your codebase when you refactor code.
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Amazon EC2-Classic Is Retiring
Update (August 23, 2023) – The retirement announced in this blog post is now complete. There are no more EC2 instances running with EC2-Classic networking. Update (July 29, 2021) – Added link to the Support Automation Workflow document & clarified link to AWS MGN pricing. Also updated the list of recommended instance…
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Nanofiche: Small Storage, for Forever
Nanofiche is an archival technology, designed to preserve knowledge forever.
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ReactOS Updates
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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When to use generics
When to use generics when writing Go code, and when not to use them.
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We improved the performance of a userspace TCP stack in Go
Learn how we enhanced TCP performance in Coder to achieve 5X faster throughput by optimizing buffer sizes, implementing the HyStart algorithm, and minimizing packet loss, significantly improving remote development experiences.
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Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy
EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them. You can try it out today: Privacy Badger is EFF's answer to intrusive and objectionable...
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AI crawlers need to be more respectful
We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.
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What's New in Mercurial 3.0
HgLab is a powerful self-hosted Mercurial Server and Repository Management for Windows with Push and Pull server, Active Directory and LDAP integration, built-in Pushlog and other goodies
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Debian 9.4 released
[10 Nov 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.6 released [05 Aug 2018] DebConf18 closes in Hsinchu and DebConf19 dates announced [14 Jul 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.5 released [23 Jun 2018] Updated Debian 8: 8.11 released [01 Jun 2018] Debian 7 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [10 Mar 2018] Updated Debian 9: 9.4 released
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Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
Ask Claude to explain a concept or analyze your data, and it can respond with interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations — rendered inline as part of the conversation.
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Gmail security warnings for suspected state-sponsored attacks
Posted by Eric Grosse, VP Security Engineering We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attem...
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Is group chat making you sweat?
Is this you? Are you making other feel like this? Group chat is like being in an all-day meeting with random participants and no agenda. In 2006 we launched Campfire, the first modern SAAS group ch…
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Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
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Tor blocked in Turkey as government cracks down on VPN use
The Turkey Blocks internet censorship watchdog has identified and verified that restrictions on the Tor anonymity network and Tor Browser are now in effect throughout Turkey. Our study indicates that service providers have successfully complied with a government ...