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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,693 posts.
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Apache Kafka, Samza, and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
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Krita 4.1.3 Released
Krita is a professional FREE and open source painting program. It is made by artists that want to see affordable art tools for everyone.
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Next.js 9.5
Next.js 9.5 introduces Stable Incremental Static Regeneration, Custom Base Path, Redirects and Rewrites, Webpack 5 Beta, and more!
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LiveBeats: Building a social music app with Phoenix LiveView
Debut of LiveBeats social music app.
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Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Being a Solo Founder: Pros, Cons, Tips and Tricks (2017)
Founding a company is hard. You’ve got an infinite number of decisions to make while simultaneously trying to catch lightning in a bottle with creating something out of nothing. It’s even harder when you’re doing it alone. Being a solo founder, in many ways, stacks the deck against you. You’re left shouldering the…
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Excalidraw+
We introduce Excalidraw+, built on the open-source, enhancing the whiteboard app with several team features.
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Fair Use Is Not an Exception to Copyright, It’s Essential to Copyright
Over the past two years, as talk of copyright reform has escalated, we’ve also heard complaints about the supposed expansion of fair use, or "fair use creep.” That kind of talk woefully misunderstands how fair use works. Fair use provides breathing space in copyright law, making sure that control...
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Next.js 9.3 – Static Site Support, 32 KB Smaller Runtime
Next.js 9.3 introduces new static-site generation improvements, native support for SCSS, reduced bundle sizes, static 404 pages, and more!
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GitHub Actions: Organization secrets
You can now create organization secrets, reducing the need to duplicate secrets across repositories. Access policies let you control which repositories have access to the organization secret Updating a secret…
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Follow the goal creep
When I started racing cars, I thought it would be great if I could just settle in mid-pack in a respectable gentleman’s cup series. After all, racing to me was all about getting access to long stretches of flow, that sensation of being so completely engrossed in an activity that you lose trac…
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An open-source web platform for the new President of France
The web platform running the winning campaign of the next President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is made with Symfony and is open source.
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PostgreSQL 14 Internals
I’m excited to announce that the translation of the “ PostgreSQL 14 Internals ” book is finally complete thanks to the amazing work of Liudmila Mantrova. The final part of the book considers each of the index types in great detail. It explains and demonstrates how access methods, operator classes, and data types work…
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AARON: AI Art Generator from 1973
Harold Cohen (1928 – 2016) explored AI and art for nearly 50 years before we saw the rising popularity of these new machine learning tools. In those five decades, Cohen worked on a single program called Aaron that involved teaching a robot to create drawings. Aaron’s education took a similar pa
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Horizon: Facebook’s Open Source Applied Reinforcement Learning Platform
In this paper we present Horizon, Facebook’s open source applied reinforcement learning (RL) platform. Horizon is an end-to-end platform designed to solve industry applied RL...
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The long-lost Tarzan Atari game, preserved
After 40 years, the Atari 2600 masterpiece Tarzan has been unearthed.
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Parser Combinators in Elixir
Learn what parser combinators are, what they are made of, and how to make your own CSV parser using NimbleParsec, a parser combinator library written in Elixir.
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Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
The vinyl record is an analog medium. How can it be affected by the loudness war? So what’s the impact?
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Arguing from compassion (2021)
For example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?” Recently, the term has become a cudgel in the culture wars.
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Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
After spinning for under two years, a wind farm can offset the carbon emissions generated across its entire 30-year lifespan, when compared to thermal power plants. That’s according to a new peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand – which also shows within six months a turbine…
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