Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…
Ian Tien shared the hacks that helped Mattermost to build its messaging solution while being a fully remote company since day one.
macOS Big Sur, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is now available to Mac users as a free software update.
Over 80 percent of 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a…
Update 5/6/24: A podcast recording of this same panel discussion has also been targeted multiple times on the Spotify platform. The Engelberg Center’s experiences with these are documented here .
Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…
The current insecure DNS system leaves billions of people around the world vulnerable because the data about where they go on the internet is unencrypted. We’ve set out to change ...
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroNOTE: This specific issue was fixed before the launch of Privacy-...
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We should look at individuals—not national averages—as the unit of analysis, and ask: Are wages adequate for full-time workers?
How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for Sci-Hub amongst French ECRs. He raises the question, will Sci-Hub prove the ultimate disruptor and bring down the…
Yesterday, the BBC ran a story with the factually untrue headline, “Cellebrite claimed to have cracked chat app’s encryption.” This is false. Not only can Cellebrite not break Signal encryption, but Cellebrite never even claimed to be able to. Since we weren’t actually given the opportunity to co...
Since senators introduced the EARN IT Act (S. 3398) in early March, EFF has called attention to the many ways in which the bill would be a disaster for Internet users’ free speech and security. We’ve explained how the EARN IT Act could be used to drastically undermine encryption. Although the bill...
A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, the first in a family of chips designed by Apple specifically for the Mac.
How do people across the world spend their time? How do daily activities differ across countries, and how do these differences matter for people’s lives? Explore data and research on time use.
With B2 Cloud Storage S3 Compatible APIs, we’re making the choice for something different a no-brainer.
Bootstrap 5's very first alpha has arrived! We've been working hard for several months to refine the work we started in v4, and while we're feeling great about…
Apple today unveiled its most advanced iPad Pro, adding an Ultra Wide camera and studio-quality mics, and a breakthrough LiDAR Scanner.
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...
This story describes the technical details of the problems that caused the Slack downtime on May 12th, 2020. To learn more about the process behind incident response for same outage, read Ryan Katkov’s post, “All Hands on Deck”. On May 12, 2020, Slack had our first significant outage in a long time. We published a…
We are excited to announce that the Rust/WinRT project finally has a permanent and public home on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/winrt-rs Rust/WinRT follows in the tradition established by C++/WinRT of building language projections for the Windows Runtime using standard languages and compilers, providing a…
Learn about Jitsi Meet features update including a new systems audio update and new translations features. Click here for more information.
To celebrate Airbnb’s IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb. What was special about the Airbnbs was how earnest they were. They did nothing half-way, and we could sense this even in the interview. Sometimes after we interviewed a startup we’d be…
Most companies mistakenly apply value replication principles to discovery
Setting up a new repository with all the right linters for the different types of code can be time consuming and tedious. So many tools and configurations to choose from…
Government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The journalists were hacked by four Pegasus operators, including one operator MONARCHY that we attribute to Saudi Arabia, and one operator SNEAKY KESTREL that we…
