Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,689 posts.
Note: These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards . They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in…
Mozilla is continuing to fight for net neutrality — in the courts, alongside Americans, on Twitter and, today, by joining the Red Alert protest. The Red
Updated (4/2017): See .NET Framework Releases for newer releases. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the .NET Framework 4.6.2! Many of the changes are based on your feedback, including those submitted on UserVoice and Connect. Thanks for your continued help and engagement! The release is packed with…
Do you drive a car in the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area? According to the L.A. Police Department and L.A. Sheriff’s Department, your car is part of a vast criminal investigation. The agencies took a novel approach in the briefs they filed in EFF and the ACLU of Southern California’s...
A new Pitt study shows that the gut microbiome of mice influences their preferred diet. The results, researchers say, could apply to humans, too.
Nitrokey explains why NextBox runs Debian instead of Ubuntu Core. An in-depth look at the technical and philosophical reasons behind the OS choice for the NextBox platform.
Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
This post investigates how we got from Wi-Fi Direct to AWDL to Wi-Fi Aware, what makes Wi-Fi Aware technically superior, and why this shift unlocks true cross-platform peer-to-peer connectivity for developers.
Scientific Word: Now Free for All Versions We are excited to announce that all versions of Scientific Word , from 4.1 through 6.1, are now available for free!
Tove Jansson illustrated books of other appreciated authors during her career. One of them was J. R. R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
I like to watch long-term technology and business trends and watch as they shape the products and services that I get to use and to write about. As I was preparing to write today’s post, three such trends came to mind: Moore’s Law – Coined in 1965, Moore’s Law postulates that the number of transistors […]
YAML sucks! This blog post explains why existing tools hardly ease this pain, and what we at Grafana Labs did about it.
We have identified three independently exploitable vulnerabilities in Go's encoding/xml. Read more about their impact to Mattermost users.
Category 6 cables -- and to a lesser extent, Category 6a cables -- are widely available from a variety of vendors, including variety stores, office supply stores, consumer electronics stores, and online shops. While a great many people are content to run wireless networks in their homes, the fact is that if you need…
We’re launching Glass Enterprise Edition 2 to help businesses work better, smarter and faster.
The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including…
Posted by the notorious Tavis Ormandy.We’ve talked before about how we use Google scale to ...
Red Hat introduces the open sourcing of Project Quay, the upstream project representing the code that powers Red Hat Quay and Quay.io.
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
This is the extended form of a comment that got some interest on Hackernews. After a grace period of one year, Parse is now offline. This…
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
The Scala 2.12 compiler has been completely overhauled to make use of the new VM features available in Java 8:
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup. | Reading time: 15 min read
