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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,697 posts.
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Getting Past “Ampersand-Driven Development” in Rust
A little mental model for ownership and borrowing
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CIQ, Oracle, SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association for a Collaborative and Open Future
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People say they’ll pay more for “made in the USA” so we ran a test
See what Afina learned from an A/B pricing test comparing customer demand for U.S.-made and imported product options.
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How Vivaldi browser is different from Google Chrome
Just like Google Chrome, Vivaldi browser is built using the open-source Chromium code. So how different is Vivaldi from Chrome?
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So what’s wrong with 1975 programming? (2006)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Inefficient, but Smart
Comparing the process of furnishing two apartments—one in Ecuador, the other in the U.S.—was a reminder: order and efficiency aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
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It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
Drugs cause addiction*. It is a rhetoric deeply ingrained into the American psyche based on a series of rat experimentations that placed one rat alone in a cage with two water bottles--one containing cocaine or heroin, the other just water. The rat chose the cocaine- or heroin-laced water every time until it died. The…
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The GDPR blog post
It was about 6 months ago that I was involved in my first GDPR meeting. Other people in our company had obviously been talking about it…
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Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS
Update 2021-11-12: System76 is now using the LVFS to distribute firmware. We're working together to put much more firmware on the LVFS in the future. System76 is a hardware vendor that builds laptops with the Pop_OS! Linux distribution pre-loaded. System76 machines do get firmware updates, but do not use the fwupd and…
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From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.
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How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.
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We chose OCaml to write Stategraph
OCaml's type system catches state corruption at compile time. Type-safe SQL, automatic serialization, and immutability by default prevent entire categories of bugs.
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Claude Corps
Claude Corps is a national fellowship for early-career people passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
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ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down
The ElephantSQL team announces that ElephantSQL will discontinue its services.
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First Public Working Drafts: WebGPU and WebGPU Shading Language
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit
We’re asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the importance of the software interoperability that has allowed developers to write millions of applications for billions of …
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WordPress names their 3.1 release: Reinhardt
The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you …
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Laion-5B: A new era of open large-scale multi-modal datasets
We present a dataset of 5,85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs, 14x bigger than LAION-400M, previously the biggest openly accessible image-text dataset…
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2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience
The unique mineral composition of the 2,050-year-old Roman tomb of Caecilia Metella could point the way toward more resilient and sustainable modern concrete structures.
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Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com
If you are 17 or under, a federal prosecutor could have charged you with computer hacking just for reading Seventeen magazine online—until today. It’s not because the law got any better. Earlier today, we wrote about news sites that alarmingly prohibit their youth audiences from accessing the news...
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Small share of U.S. adults produce majority of tweets on national politics
The findings of this analysis paint a nuanced picture of just how prevalent political speech is among U.S. adults on Twitter.
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Firefox 2022’s top features
Before we close the year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and look back on what we accomplished in 2022. This year continued to be a roller coaster r
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Arm Open Source makes a seamless migration to GitLab
Start a GitLab free trial with 30 days on GitLab.com including Duo Enterprise or 30 days self-managed without Duo Enterprise. Empower your DevOps workflow!