1951
Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health
New study first to establish causal link between use of the platform and reported worsening in anxiety and depression among college students
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,670 posts.
1952
Postgres Full-Text Search: A search engine in a database
With Postgres, you don't need to immediately look farther than your own database management system for a full-text search solution. If you haven't yet given Postgres' built-in full-text search a try, read on for a simple intro.
1953
No boundaries for Facebook data: third-party trackers abuse Facebook Login
by Steven Englehardt [0], Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan So far in the No boundaries series, we’ve uncovered how web trackers exfiltrate identifying information from web pages, browser password managers, and form inputs. Today we report yet another type of surreptitious data collection by third-party scripts that we…
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A CTO should be technical
Why engineering leaders also need to be great engineers.
1957
Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse
Instead of checking the open source code, Google makes assumptions about our use of contacts in the Voys App, with dire consequences.
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4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
Lapsus$ posted Mercor on its leak site. Voice biometrics plus ID documents in one bundle is a deepfake-ready kit. Here is what to do.
1960
A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost
We tested Jev and GPT-6 Luna as judges for identity resolution. A hybrid of Jev and Claude Opus matched frontier accuracy at over 4x lower cost.
1961
Guetzli: A New Open-Source JPEG Encoder
Posted by Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, Software Engineers, Google Research Europe(Cross-posted on the Google Open Source Blog)At Google, we c...
1962
Terraform
Terraform is a platform for building, changing, and managing infrastructure in a safe, repeatable way.
1963
Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years
Our survey finds significant, double-digit declines in Americans’ participation in key social activities from 1995 to 2026.
1964
We need a federation of forges
Git is decentralized, but what of the rest?
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Xfinity Is Man-in-the-Middle Attacking My Internet
Xfinity injected 581 lines of JavaScript into unencrypted traffic as a data-cap warning, creating MITM risks, accessibility failures, and slower loads.
1968
Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
1969
Mistral Large
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
1970
Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
1971
Rental camera gear destroyed by the 2017 eclipse
We recently had quite a spectacle in the United States, with a Solar Eclipse reaching totality throughout a large portion of the United States. Being that this was the first solar eclipse passing…
1972
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Fixing for loops in Go 1.22
Go 1.21 shipped a preview of a change in Go 1.22 to make for loops less error-prone.
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What Is Nix?
This article is going to be a crash course in what Nix is, how to think about it, and why it's such a valuable and paradigm-shifting piece of technology.
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Matrix 1.0 and the Matrix.org Foundation
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
1977
AWS Ground Station – Ingest and Process Data from Orbiting Satellites
Did you know that there are currently thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth? I certainly did not, and would have guessed a few hundred at most. Today, high school and college students design, fabricate, and launch nano-, pico-, and even femto-satellites such as CubeSats, PocketQubes, and SunCubes. On the…
1978
Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Guide to getting your first 10 customers
1979
Moments in Chromecast's history
Take a look back at Chromecast’s history over the past 11 years — and learn about the future of streaming TV with Google.
1980
Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon.