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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,475 posts.
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The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023
After several years of development, complicated by the pandemic, disrupted supply chains, and war in Europe, we announced our new Original Prusa MK4 today. We began shipping the first units of the XL two weeks ago. There is an upcoming PrusaSlicer...
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TeleSign profiles half of the world’s mobile phone users
TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells it to various clients. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services
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Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)
In this article, you can find how setting the TZ environment variable can prevent thousands of system calls.
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Where do stolen bikes go?
Researchers tracked the whereabouts of stolen bicycles in Amsterdam, revealing patterns of activity after bikes are pilfered. The work was led by members of MIT’s Sensable City Lab.
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Targeted attack on our management with the Triangulation Trojan
So you’ve heard of blockchain. But how can you use it in your enterprise today? Vitaly Mzokov explores the benefits and security challenges.
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The golden era of being an open startup is gone
To me, the golden era of being an open startup is gone. Some founders and early adopters are shutting down their open pages and changing their transparency practices. I don’t think they are doing it just because things change and we need to cope.
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Study Suggests Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer's Disease
An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose, may hold clues to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers.
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Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly
# What is Onyx? **Onyx** is a new programming language featuring a modern, expressive syntax, strict type safety, blazingly-fast build times, and out-o...
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Ollama is now available as an official Docker image
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU acceleration on Linux.
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Guinea worm disease is close to being eradicated (2022)
In the late 1980s, there were near a million new cases of guinea worm disease recorded worldwide. In 2021, there were only 15. How was this achieved?
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Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips
Apple today announced a new MacBook Pro lineup featuring the all-new family of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max.
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PWAs in App Stores
Progressive Web Apps can be submitted to app stores like the Android Play Store or the Microsoft Store and more.
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What happens in the brain while daydreaming?
Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain
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The guide to software development with Guix
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
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A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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Positive news from 2023
Many bad things happened in 2023. You already know them. Many tragic events were so terrible we will never forget them and we shouldn’t. You can easily find them all over the news. But the good things that happened are much harder to encounter, and it is easy to get the impression nothing good happened at all. In…
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A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
Graph-based type-checking is a new F# compiler flag that allows the compiler to type-check files in a project in parallel whenever possible.
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JEP 450: Compact Object Headers
Reduce the size of object headers in the HotSpot JVM from between 96 and 128 bits down to 64 bits on 64-bit architectures. This will reduce heap size, improve deployment density, and increase data locality.
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The threat on your desk: Building an evil USB-C dock
BadUSB attacks have been a threat for years, but is the USB-C dock sitting on your desk the latest threat in disguise?
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Beyond automatic differentiation
Posted by Matthew Streeter, Software Engineer, Google Research Derivatives play a central role in optimization and machine learning. By locally app...
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MailCrab
MailCrab is an email test server for development, written entirely in Rust.
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Turn ideas into music with MusicLM
Starting today, you can sign up to try MusicLM, a new experimental AI tool that can turn your text descriptions into music.
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Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data
Today, almost everything about our lives is digitally recorded and stored somewhere. Each credit card purchase, personal medical diagnosis, and preference about music and books is recorded and then used to predict what we like and dislike, and—ultimately—who we are. This often happens without our...
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The Magic Nix Cache, a GitHub Action for speeding up your Nix workflows
Nix builds at speeds you never thought possible.
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Bill Watterson Commencement Speech (1990)
A speech Bill Watterson gave at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, to the 1990 graduating class.
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Global Encryption Day: Encryption's Critical Role in Safeguarding Human Rights
Today is the third annual Global Encryption Day, a day to highlight why encryption is critical for a safe, private internet.
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