Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,332 posts.
Intel and Tower Semiconductor on Feb. 15, 2022, announced a definitive agreement under which Intel will acquire Tower for $53 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $5.4 billion. (Credit: Intel Corporation and Tower Semiconductor)
With an eye toward performance, interoperability, or legacy concerns, low-level system software often must parse binary encoded data formats. Few tools are available for this task, especially since the formats involve a mixture of arithmetic and data dependence, beyond what can be handled by typical parser generators…
Princeton Engineering researchers have developed the first perovskite solar cell with a 30-year lifespan. The new device is the first of its kind to rival the performance of silicon-based solar cells. A pioneering new test method will help industry develop consumer-friendly products.
We are closer to releasing Godot 4.0. No matter the amount of time dedicated to testing and profiling — bugs and issues are inevitable. Still, we intend to follow 4.0 with bug fix releases to ensure a stable experience as soon as possible.
We created data2vec 2.0, a general self-supervised AI algorithm for speech, vision, and text that can train models 16x faster than the most popular existing algorithm for images while achieving the same accuracy.
This post introduces Arrow Flight SQL, a protocol for interacting with SQL databases over Arrow Flight. We have been working on this protocol over the last six months, and are looking for feedback, interested contributors, and early adopters.
The decline of global poverty is one of the most important achievements in history, but the end of poverty is still very far away.
The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war
Research highlights growing market in AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to bypass human bias to remove discrimination from hiring.
A comparison between async Rust's and lunatic's approach to massive concurrency.
A liquid-cooled NVIDIA A100 PCIe GPU is the first in a line of GPUs for mainstream servers responding to customer demand for high-performance, green data centers.
The newly released Podman 4.0 includes the new podman image scp command, a useful command to help you manage and transfer container images.
Learn how to build a Pong game in your terminal using Golang and the tcell package. This tutorial covers the basics of creating a game, including w...
Earlier today we announced that Cloudflare has agreed to acquire Area 1 Security
Back in 2018, now five years ago, we published a blog post describing our 400+ node Elasticsearch cluster. In that post we brought up an important topic: So far, we have elected to not upgrade the cluster. We would like to, but so far there have been more urgent tasks. How we actually perform the upgrade is undecided…
Tor has released 0.4.7.7, the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control. Congestion control will result in significant performance improvements in Tor, once Exit relays upgrade. Relay operators: please read!
It’s imperative that design engineers understand the full journey of the parts they design, from the drawing definition, through manufacturing, and inspection. One of the most common features in machine design is a hole. Whether it accepts a bolt or holds a precision bearing, it has to be the right size and in the…
TL;DR: How to make a tiny kernel race window really large even on kernels without CONFIG_PREEMPT...
Guest Post: Why does half the Internet use a TTL of 1 minute or less?
WebAssembly has gone through quite a transformation this last year, while the wasm language landscape is slowly shifting, the more notable change is in what people are using WebAssembly for. The use of wasm for serverless, containerisation and as a plug-in technology has leapt considerably, with WebAssembly System…
In this edition of our Haskell in Production series, we interview Fabian Thorand from Channable. Read the article to learn where Channable uses Haskell and why do they like it.
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Today, ESA’s Gaia mission releases its new treasure trove of data about our home galaxy. Astronomers describe strange ‘starquakes’, stellar DNA, asymmetric motions and other fascinating insights in this most detailed Milky Way survey to date.
Kubernetes is ubiquitous in container orchestration, and its popularity has yet to weaken. This does, however, not mean that evolution in the container orchestration space is at a stand-still.
News originally published on the Global Polio Eradication Initiative website. The Global Polio Laboratory Network (GPLN) has confirmed the isolation of type 2 vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV2) from environmental samples in London, United Kingdom (UK), which were detected as part of ongoing disease surveillance.
