Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,692 posts.
My first airline was started out of frustration. As a young record executive, I travelled the world flying by other airlines, but found the experience dreadful. So in 1984 I chartered one second-hand Boeing 747 and offered flights between London and New York. People thought we were mad and bound to fail quickly…
In April 1986, following an attack on American soldiers in a Berlin disco, President Reagan ordered the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's terrorist camps in Libya. My duty was to fly over Libya and take photos recording the damage our F-111's had inflicted. Qaddafi had established a 'line of death,' a territorial marking…
In this blog post, we will explain how strict memory overcommit protects your database from catastrophic OOM (out of memory) kills. We will also share how a one character kernel bug forced us to temporarily disable this setting. Finally, we will explain our heuristic for determining the right memory overcommit limit…
Today, EFF submitted comments to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) opposing the agency’s proposal for new regulations of cryptocurrency transactions. As we explain in our comments, financial records can be deeply personal and revealing, containing a...
Ceasing Print Editions for ACM Journals and Transactions
Y Combinator now has 5 major groups—YC Fellowship, YC Core, YC Continuity, YC Research, and Hacker News—and we’re putting one person in charge of each group. Paul Buchheit is taking over for me as managing partner of the core YC program. We’re going to continue doing YC Fellowship (!), and Kevin Hale is going to be…
Today, noyb.eu sent over 500 draft complaints to companies who use unlawful cookie banners - making it the largest wave of complaints since the GDPR came into force.
Today, Nextcloud 15 has been made available. As there is so much new and improved in this release, we have dedicated separate blogs to each main area of improvement. This blog covers a preview of the the brand new Nextcloud Social app, introducing social networking to Nextcloud. Download now! The Mastodon project is…
It has been far too long, friends. Nearly three months has gone by since we pushed out a new version of Bootstrap, but fret not, for that void comes to a most…
UBC scientists create device that uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water.
The New York Times website is changing, and the technology we use to run it is changing too.
After 5 years in DevOps, I moved into Solutions Engineering. Here’s what I was missing, what changed, and who this path might be for.
A new tool to empower everyone on the web with privacy-respecting online identity and consent-based data sharing
This is not a list of things you should not do; it's simply a collection of things we did not.
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In addition to the majority of code commits being focused on interoperability with Microsoft’s proprietary file formats, there is a wealth of new features targeted at users migrating from Office, to simplify the transition Berlin, February 2, 2022 – LibreOffice 7.3 Community, the new major release of the…
A comprehensive definition of the language, to empower a vibrant Protobuf ecosystem.
CloudFlare operates at a significant scale, handling more than a trillion requests through our network every month.
An international research team, including Jonathan C. Schisler, PhD, in the UNC School of Medicine, has found how SARS-CoV-2 causes widespread “energy outages” throughout major organs, and how these effects contribute to debilitating long COVID symptoms.
Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.
We’re changing which keys are supported in SSH and removing unencrypted Git protocol. If you’re an SSH user, read on for the details and timeline.
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This is a long-due update on porting Godot to the iPad. Shortly after my last blog post covering the development work on May 29th, Apple held its WWDC 2024 conference. I went into the conference with gusto, expecting to fully embrace all the iOS 18 APIs. I already knew
