Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
AN EXTREMELY RARE “MEGALOGRAPHY” OF THE 1ST CENTURY BC, LIKE THE FAMOUS VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES Over 100 years since the discovery of the Villa of the Mysteries, a large … keep it going
PlanetScale now supports Postgres
Trump imposed a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, raising costs for employers and reshaping U.S. hiring. Learn what it means for you.
AI coding tools are dissolving the language barriers that once defined our careers. As someone who coded exclusively in Ruby for a decade, I’m now contributing to low-level system projects I couldn’t have touched before. Here’s how AI coding agents enabled my leap from Ruby to C, C++, and Rust.
Deno bundle is back, alongside the addition of bytes and text imports, stabilized built-in OpenTelemetry, a new --preload flag, simplified dependency management with deno update, and more.
Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other
We tested 19 LLMs on their ability to handle real-world software engineering tasks like compiling old code and cross-compiling. See how Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models stack up in our new benchmark – CompileBench.
Many products at Cloudflare aren’t possible without pushing the limits of network hardware and software to deliver improved performance, increased efficiency, or novel capabilities such as soft-unicast, our method for sharing IP subnets across data centers. Happily, most people do not need to know the intricacies of…
A new study reveals that air pollution, traditional herbal medicines and other environmental exposures are linked to genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of lung cancer in people with no or hardly any history of smoking.
How MCP authentication flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and more.
Secure the modern software stack with Koi. Gain visibility, context, and real-time protection over extensions, MCPs, and autonomous AI agent endpoints.
In this post, we explore strategies for effectively curating and managing their context.
Qt Creator 18 highlights development containers to ease kit configuration, a convenient Overview tab, and various UX improvements.
Today, OpenAI for Government is announcing a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.
Even if you can’t stop Flock’s use entirely, you can still help protect civil liberties in your community.
At WWDC 2018, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi asked, “Are you merging iOS and macOS?” This rhetorical question was presumably in response to widespread criticism. Federighi's rhetorical answer was, “No. Of course not.”
Saturday, Oct. 25 - 10 a.m. Pacific Time Alaska Airlines’ operations have returned to normal following a significant IT outage on Thursday, Oct. 23, that led to a systemwide ground stop for Alaska and Horizon Air-operated flights. As of Saturday morning, we have canceled nine flights related to the IT outage recovery…
We raised over $1 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.
How should a fuzzer balance exploration and minimization? Samus has the answer.
How do demosceners create complex computer animations in just a few kilobytes? One of our secret weapons is Shader Minifier, a tool that minifies GLSL code. Over the years, it has evolved to pack more data into tiny executables, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. In this blog post, we'll go through its…
EPFL researchers have developed a new way to design complex, curved three-dimensional shapes using flat materials such as paper, aluminum sheets or plastic, combining creative thinking with a new computational algorithm.
LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.
The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projec…
Today, we sold the 10,000th comma 3X, our first product breaking 5 digits in sales.
We have made the conscious choice not to continue paying for accreditation from the Better Business Bureau (BBB). We realize that this may raise questions among our customers, and we want to explain why we made this decision. For years, people have been told to look for BBB accredited businesses, and that it somehow re
Banner announcing OPA creators joining Apple
