1981
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end
Global population grew rapidly over the past century, but this period of fast growth is coming to an end.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,170 posts.
1982
Open-plan office is the worst. Why can't we kill it?
The open-plan office fad took off as a dream for a more collaborative and egalitarian workplace. Tear down those walls! Ditch the soul-crushing...
1983
1984
The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
Why we decided to combine version control with CI, and the rise of the single application.
1985
1986
The Big DNS Privacy Debate at FOSDEM
This weekend at the excellent FOSDEM gathering there were no less than three presentations on DNS over HTTPs.
1987
Five Corrections to The New York Times
I am writing to request 5 corrections to the article on ancient DNA that appeared in this week’s The New York Times Magazine.
1988
“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)
Did you ever imagine that an “Ice Cream” could shake the entire General Motors? In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received a very funny complaint from one of its customers. It was so weird & bizarre that it took the entire General Motors by storm. However, on reading the entire Case, this definitely
1989
1990
Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google
Google has become synonymous with the internet, offering services from search engines to email, cloud storage, and more.
1991
WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks
We wrote a cryptography library entirely in PHP to make your WordPress site secure against supply-chain attacks.
1992
Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise (2018)
Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology by an order of magnitude. While we have some strong opinions and good ideas (we think) on how to build such a product (indeed, we've already started!), what was less obvious was: How do we fund
1993
1994
Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
The Start of Our Company Hard Lessons Learned Some Solid Advice What's Next for Us? My brother, Justin, was an engineer at Google, and I was a data
1995
Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
MIT researchers have created a fiber-based, lightweight, fast-acting artificial muscle that could be useful for robotics and for prosthetics.
1996
The Emergent Features of JuliaLang: Part II – Traits
Introduction
1997
New Diagnostic Architecture Overview
Diagnostics play a very important role in a programming language experience. It’s vital for developer productivity that the compiler can produce proper guidance in any situation, especially incomplete or invalid code.
1998
Gitea 1.10.0 Released
It's time for another major release We are proud to present Gitea 1.10.0 to the world. In this release, we've merged 322 pull requests https://github.com/go gitea/gitea/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:pr+milestone:1.10.0+is:merged . The list includes 97 features and enhancements, and m
1999
Deep Learning to Federated Learning in 10 Lines of PyTorch and PySyft
Update as of November 18, 2021: The version of PySyft mentioned in this post has been deprecated. Any implementations using this older version of PySyft are…
2000
Stealing Downloads from Slack Users
Stealing Downloads from Slack Users I’m going to go over an interesting feature abuse that could have been used to steal and even manipulate downloads from Slack users using the Slack desktop app …
2001
A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit
An overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.
2002
How common was it for parents to lose a child?
The death of a young child has always been the most devastating tragedy mothers and fathers could experience. How common was it?
2003
Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer
“The world’s been divided into people who can make software, and the people who use software all day, and basically we think that that paradigm is not a good one. It feels kind of broken,” says Lane Shackleton, Head of Product at Coda, where they are building a new kind of document that blurs the line between users…
2004
Substack
Reading — and especially writing — was once a privilege of the elite. In the medieval ages, the ability to create and distribute books was in the hands of very few: It would take weeks and even months for a scribe in a monastery to copy books, and only members of the church or nobility...
2005
The investigation into ToTok
triaging a massively popular iOS application, with a dark side
2006
2007
Announcing Yugabyte DB 2.0 GA: High-Performance Distributed SQL
YugabyteDB 2.0 released. Read to learn about production-ready YSQL, performance benchmarks, Jepsen results, and Beta feature previews
2008
2009
What Hokusai’s Great Wave tells us about museums, copyright, online collections
Katsushika Hokusai died 170 years ago
2010
Jepsen: YugaByte DB 1.3.1
2019-09-05: YugaByte’s blog post states YugaByte DB “passes Jepsen tests”. We feel obligated to state that YugaByte DB’s Jepsen test suite does not pass, though it may in the future. Race conditions in YugaByte DB’s schema system can cause correctness errors. For example, inserting rows into a freshly-created table…