Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
Celebrate the public domain with the Internet Archive in the following ways: Register for our Public Domain Day celebrations on January 22 - both virtual and in-person. Submit a short film to our Public Domain Film Remix contest. Explore the works that have entered the public domain in 2025, below. On January 1, 2025…
Posted by Joshua Bloch, Software EngineerI remember vividly Jon Bentley's first Algorithms lecture at CMU, where he asked all of us incoming Ph.D. ...
By Terts Diepraam We are working on an embedded scripting language for Rust. This language, called Roto, aims to be a simple yet fast and reliable scripting language for Rust applications. The need for Roto comes from Rotonda, our BGP engine written in Rust. Mature BGP applications usually feature some
The Nim Team is happy to announce version 2.2.6, the third patch release for our stable release, Nim 2.2.
A new Yale study reveals the brain's internal map doesn't just track one’s current location, it constantly "flickers" between the present space and remembered
How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations. Published the 31/01/2025 This post will focus on Android. We all know decentralized applications: emails, Mastodon (and the Fediverse), Nextcloud and other clouds, Git…
Learn how to use pgRouting as a lightweight graph database solution in Postgres.
The first project that I worked on for Apple after starting in August 1979 was writing low level software for the Silentype printer (see What Hath Woz Wrought ) , a cute, inexpensive thermal printer for the Apple II, that was based on technology licensed from a local company named Trendcom. In typical Apple fashion…
The TensorFlow blog contains regular news from the TensorFlow team and the community, with articles on Python, TensorFlow.js, TF Lite, TFX, and more.
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass…
See what Afina learned from an A/B pricing test comparing customer demand for U.S.-made and imported product options.
OCaml's type system catches state corruption at compile time. Type-safe SQL, automatic serialization, and immutability by default prevent entire categories of bugs.
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.
The News/Media Alliance has successfully secured the takedown of notorious paywall bypass website 12ft.io.
A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety of Denmark’s childhood vaccination program.
We’re introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for over 1,600 languages.
Classic game mods and resources
ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX arrives in October! Experience 8K HDR with mini LED, 4032-zone dimming, 1200 nits brightness, built-in colorimeter & Thunderbolt 4. Perfect for creators. Subscribe to ASUS Pressroom for the latest tech updates!
A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,
In this blog post, we’ll dive deep into why we chose to build DBOS durable workflow execution on the PostgreSQL DBMS.
A geometric framework for co-designing neural net optimizers with manifold constraints.
Today, we’re announcing Sec-Gemini v1, a new experimental AI model focused on advancing cybersecurity AI frontiers. As outlined a year ago, defenders face the daunting t…
Our open-source tools generate attribution graphs showing how language models reach decisions.
We document that, after remaining almost constant for almost 30 years, real labor productivity at U.S. restaurants surged over 15% during the COVID pandemic. This surge has persisted even as many conditions have returned to pre-pandemic levels. Using mobile phone data tracking visits and spending at more than 100,000…
The key question is: Can you detect AI agent traffic on your application today? We tested multiple AI agent toolkits across high-traffic consumer sites, and the results were clear—legacy detection techniques (CAPTCHAs, IP blocking, user-agent filtering) are largely ineffective. Here’s what we found.
Local LLMs prioritize privacy over security. Our research reveals a 95% backdoor injection success rate.
