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The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
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Germany offers up to €30k for 6 months of working on OSS
Ideen erproben - Offenheit schaffen!
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Gimp 2.9.4 Released
We have just released the second development version of GIMP in the 2.9.x series. GIMP 2.9.4 features revamped look and feel, major improvements in color management, as well as production-ready MyPaint Brush tool, symmetric painting, and split preview for GEGL-based filters.
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Let's Encrypt now fully supports IPv6
Let’s Encrypt is happy to announce full support for IPv6. As IPv4 address space is exhausted, more and more people are deploying services that are only reachable via IPv6. Adding full support for IPv6 allows us to serve more people and organizations, which is important if we’re going to encrypt the entire Web. IPv6 is…
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Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow
Posted by Fermin J. Serna, Staff Security Engineer and Kevin Stadmeyer, Technical Program Manager Have you ever been deep in the mines of ...
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NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know
The Sophos Blog
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A few HTML tips
A while ago I wrote an article with some CSS tips, now it’s time to give some polish to our HTML! In this article I’ll share some tips and advice ...
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Introducing the Firefox debugger.html
debugger.html is a modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla, built as a web application with React and Redux. This project was started early this year in an effort to replace the ...
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On Getting Older in Tech
After years of scoffing at talk of prejudice in the information technology field -- as a white male with good hair --, I'm starting to call prejudice against my being old(er). It’s true: age discrimination is a real thing.
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Update on Multi-Process Firefox
About four months ago, we launched multi-process Firefox to a small group of Firefox 48 users. Shortly after the carefully measured roll-out, we increased to approximately 50% of our user ...
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The Rails Doctrine
Read about Rails design pillars like convention over configuration, optimize for programmer happiness, value integrated systems, the menu is omakase, push up a bit tent, and more.
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Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.] TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large […]
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A Quantum Leap for the Web
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
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YC's Winter Reading List
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation [https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797] “It’s amazing how prolific Bell Labs was — the transistor, information theory, Unix, amongst other creations — but it’s fascinating to understand it as an organization…
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Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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When you change the world and no one notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history.
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Do not talk about pricing
I’ve been slightly obsessed with pricing since 2010. Before joining Magnetic, I was part of the team that changed the price of The Times…
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How to listen when you disagree
Urban Confessional: A Free Listening Movement have been Free Listening on street corners for almost a decade. How to Listen When You Disagree is a reflection on listening from the 2016 RNC, and it is more relevant today than ever before.
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Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
Today - thanks to our amazing community beta testers - we're shipping our biggest expansion to Stack Overflow since it first launched: Documentation .
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Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Throughout my career as an engineer, I’ve had a hand in numerous product launches that grew to millions of users. User adoption typically happens gradually over several months, with new features and architectural changes scheduled over relatively long periods of time. Never have I taken part in anything close to the…
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How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
Salted Password Hashing with Argon2, Scrypt, Bcrypt, and PBKDF2