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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,323 posts.
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Study: Most Dog Breeds Highly Inbred
UC Davis study shows most dogs are highly inbred, which affects health.
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Material You – The next stage for Material Design
Announcing Material You: The latest release from Material Design. Learn about the next stage for Material Design.
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How to Review Code as a Junior Developer
Emma Catlin | Software Engineer
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Fedora Linux 34 is officially here
Fedora Linux 34 is released and ready for you to install or upgrade today.
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Unusual login activity was due to bug
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
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What's New in ClickHouse 21.12
What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12
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New algorithm flies drones faster than human racing pilots
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Our journey from a Python monolith to a managed platform
Dropbox, to our customers, needs to be a reliable and responsive service. As a company, we’ve had to scale constantly since our start, today serving more than 700M registered users in every time zone on the planet who generate at least 300,000 requests per second. Systems that worked great for a startup hadn’t scaled…
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A simple 11.2 GHz radio telescope (Hardware) (2020)
Abstract : In this post we describe the construction of a small amateur radio telescope operating at
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My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead
Magic Leap is pioneering see-through augmented reality through innovative waveguide development and manufacturing. Groundbreaking optics technologies.
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Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life: study
New research suggests that rocks in the Martian crust could produce the same kind of chemical energy that supports microbial life deep beneath Earth’s surface.
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Periodical cicada Brood X will emerge in 15 states in 2021
Magicicada periodical cicadas often emerge one or four years earlier or later than their main brood is expected to emerge. When they do, we call them precursors or stragglers (the most common name in scientific literature). This behavior is natural and expected, and how Magicicada have branched off into new broods…
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Paul Erdős (2000)
Erdős posed and solved problems in number theory and other areas and founded the field of discrete mathematics.
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Comparing Nginx performance in bare metal and virtual environments
We compare NGINX performance in bare-metal and virtualized (hypervisor) environments, finding a small but measurable performance cost for hypervisors. We also find that performance in Kubernetes environments is worse for network-bound but not CPU-bound operations.
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Remote workstations for discerning artists
By Michelle Brenner
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The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout
On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for 24 hours. This outage was the result of our attempt to enable DNSSEC — an extension intended to secure the DNS protocol, required for FedRAMP Moderate — but which ultimately led to a series of…
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USV Climate Fund
At USV we describe ourselves as a “thesis-driven venture capital firm.” For our core fund, we have been investing against Thesis 3.0 for some time. Over the last couple of years…
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Automatically Light Up a Sign When Your Webcam Is in Use
At the beginning of COVID lockdown and multiple people working from home it was obvious there was a need to let others know when I'm in a meeting or on a live webcam. So naturally it took me one year to finally do something about it. Now I'm here to share what I learned along the way.
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Poor parents receiving universal payments increase spending on kids
When given cash with no strings attached, low- and middle-income parents increased their spending on their children, according to a WSU study of Alaska Permanent Fund payments.
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Perfect pitch study: Why can’t we identify music notes as well as colors?
Neuroscientists explore how people with absolute pitch process sounds
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Americans' life ratings reach record high
An estimated 59.2% of U.S. adults rate their lives well enough to be categorized as "thriving" exceeding the previous record-high estimate of 57.3% from 2017.
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RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
Let’s look at some positive developments that will provide a path forward for Jekyll users.
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Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
To our shareowners:
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Artists, shrug off that imposter syndrome – the tech world needs you
Artists looking for a change already have one foot in another career.
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Conservation should be allowed to pay its own way on public lands
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) auction in February, 2016, for oil and gas drilling rights near Arches National Park was unremarkable. The high bidder, Tempest Exploration Co. LLC, paid $2,500 for the 1,120 acre lease by credit card and began paying annual rental fees. What soon did prove remarkable, though, was…