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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,531 posts.
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SendGrid employee’s account was compromised and used to access internal systems
Explore the latest company news, product updates, technical tutorials, and best practices from Twilio, the industry-leading customer engagement platform.
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Poisonous MD5 – Wolves Among the Sheep
Because we can!
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InfluxDB Clustering Design – Neither CP or AP
A few weeks ago I hinted at some big changes coming in the InfluxDB clustering design. These changes came about because of the testing weve done over the last 3 months with the clustering design that was going to be shipped in 0.9.0.
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SEO penalties of moving our blog to a subdomain
500+ domain extensions, 100+ plugins, and the best support team on the planet. We've been changing the domain industry since 2008, and we're only getting started.
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Introduction to WebKit Content Blockers
Describing content blocking rules in a structured format ahead-of-time, rather than running extension-provided code.
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Snappy Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi 2
“Can I use Snappy Ubuntu Core on the Raspberry Pi?” is one of the most frequently asked questions we heard since launching Ubuntu Core for smart devices. Thanks to a very successful collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, we are pleased to announce that Snappy Ubuntu…
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The Discovery of Statistical Regression
We explore the hotly contested history of the crowning jewel of statistics.
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What Happens When You Enter the Witness Protection Program?
The history of the Witness Protection Program is full of Hollywood-worthy intrigue. It also challenges our assumptions about crime and identity.
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How to Ship a Beluga Whale via UPS
As a UPS cargo load master, Bland Matthews has been tasked with shipping everything from Terracotta Army soldiers to beluga whales.
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May Bayes Theorem Be with You
The frequentist paradigm enjoys the most widespread acceptance forstatistical analysis. Frequentist concepts such as confidence intervalsand p-values dominat...
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HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. Compared to the previous major release, this version introduces thousands of new rules, translations of the interface into sixteen new languages, and support for "Block All HTTP Requests" in Chrome. If you already use...
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Inside Ember.js FastBoot: Faking the DOM in Node
As we announced in the inaugural blog post in our Inside FastBoot series, we have begun working on giving Ember.js developers the ability to run their apps in Node.js. Once complete,...
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Tiny Docker Operating Systems
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Tuning Ruby's Global Method Cache
I was recently profiling a production Shopify application server using perf and noticed a fair amount of time being spent in a particular function, st_lookup, which is used by Ruby’s MRI implementation for hash table lookups: Hash tables are used all over MRI, and not just for the Hash object; global variables…
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EFF Files Brief in Case to Hold IBM Responsible for Facilitating Apartheid
EFF defends rights in the digital world. But what about when the digital world enables violations of human rights? We think that’s important, too. That’s why we filed an amicus brief in In Re: South African Apartheid, a case that seeks to hold IBM's headquarters in New York responsible for...
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Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens
No need for color correction—Harvard physicists’ flat optics, using nanotechnology, gets it right the first time
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Bitbucket: 2014 in review
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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Node v4.1.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.