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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,667 posts.
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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its…
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Wikipedia is getting a new look
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…
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How Discord Handles Two and Half Million Concurrent Voice Users Using WebRTC
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Welcome Peter
Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. I’m delighted to announce Peter Thiel is joining YC as one of the (now 10!) part-time partners. In addition to founding PayPal and Palantir and being the first investor in Facebook, Peter has been involved with many of the most important technology companies…
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Our commitment to Windows quality
Hello Windows Insiders, I want to speak to you directly, as an engineer who has spent his career building technology that people depend on every day. Windows touches more people's lives than almost any technology on Earth. Every day, we hear from th
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Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
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 ...
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EU Commission is planning automatic CSAM scanning of private communications
This would be the worst surveillance apparatus outside of China, and completely disproportionate.
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Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
Today, we're previewing the fastest way to run Ollama on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.
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Podman v6.0.0
We’re thrilled to announce that Podman v6.0.0 is now available! This major release brings a host of significant improvements and new features designed to enhance your container management exp…
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Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
As of Firefox 68—releasing next week—camera and microphone will require an https connection to work. Access from insecure http will cease to work, matching how Chrome works. Camera and microhone are powerful features, and Firefox will now only expose them in secure contexts, a security and privacy improvement. Largely…
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Accounting For Developers, Part I
In this first part of a two-part series, we walk through basic accounting principles for anyone building products that move and track money.
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LiteFS
We are building a distributed file system for your SQLite databases. Kinda weird, huh?
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We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
Starting August 29th, new regulations have come into effect. Both DHL and UPS currently have no working solution, so on their advice, we are temporarily suspending all shipments to the USA effectiv…
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Inflammation now predicts heart disease more strongly than cholesterol
The American College of Cardiology now recommends everybody measure their hs-CRP.
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An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey
Posted by Ian Beer, Project ZeroNOTE: This specific issue was fixed before the launch of Privacy-...
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How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project
We create content that your buyers trust — original research, data journalism, earned coverage, and content built for credibility.
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Uv: Python packaging in Rust
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.
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“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras' riveting documentary about Edward Snowden's efforts to shed light on gross surveillance abuses by the United States government and its partners, just won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Tonight's Oscar win recognizes not only the incredible...
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Studio Ghibli releases 400 free-to-use images
今月から、スタジオジブリ作品の場面写真の提供を開始します。 今月からスタジオジブリ全作品の場面写真を順次提供することになりました。今月は、新しい作品を中心に 8作品、合計400枚提供します。 常識の範囲でご自由にお使いください。 思い出のマーニー50枚 かぐや姫の物語50枚 風立ちぬ50枚 コクリ
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Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
We should look at individuals—not national averages—as the unit of analysis, and ask: Are wages adequate for full-time workers?