2011
Updating Google Photos’ storage policy to build for the future
In order to welcome even more of your memories and build Google Photos for the future, we are changing our unlimited High quality storage policy.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,277 posts.
2012
Stack Overflow gets series E funding for $85M
This is my third in a series of quarterly CEO blog posts. I'm excited to share some very positive updates.
2013
Google Pay reimagined: pay, save, manage expenses and more
The new Google Pay is a safe, simple, and helpful way to pay and manage your money, giving a clear picture of your spending and savings.
2014
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2016
Diversity-Related Training Meta-analysis
It seems that diversity training programs generally fail at their stated goals, and often produce unfortunate and unintended consequences.
2017
2018
Oculus: Hand Tracking Updates
Back in December we rolled out hand tracking as an early feature for consumers and provided a preview SDK to our developer community. On Tuesday, May 19 with Quest software update v17, we’re excited...
2019
Github: Token authentication requirements for Git operations
Beginning August 13th, 2021, we will no longer accept account passwords when authenticating Git operations on GitHub.com.
2020
Designing Up Banking
A deep-dive on the design journey of the Up app. A collaboration between product, design, engineering and our growing base of Upsiders.
2021
The most successful developers share more than they take
After interviewing several developers, a pattern started to become clear: great developers share a lot. This takes different forms for different people, but is very often a blog. But for many top developers, their sharing mindset came before their success, and was the direct cause of it, not the result of it.
2022
ReactOS 0.4.13
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
2023
Bulk loading into PostgreSQL: Options and comparison
You have a file, possibly a huge CSV, and you want to import its content into your database. There are lots of options to do this but how would you decide which one to use. More often than not the question is how much time would the bulk load would take. I found my self doing the same
2024
2025
Printing tiny, high-precision objects
Researchers at EPFL have developed a new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, including 3D bioprinting.
2026
Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month
Bookmark manager, task manager, notes, and files together in one elegant, customizable desktop.
2027
Analyzing the Limits of Connection Scalability in Postgres
Why it’s important to improve Postgres connection scalability, plus an analysis on the limits of connection scalability today.
2028
PyMC: Theano Is Dead, Long Live Theano
© 2020, The PyMC Development Team
2029
Mental health websites don't have to sell user data but most still do
The changes discussed in this article are based on a second analysis performed in late November, 3 months after the original study Your Mental Health is for Sale and following the exact same methodology.
2030
Human body temperature has decreased in United States, study finds
Stanford researchers have determined that average human body temperature in the United States has decreased since the 1800s.
2031
More people are searching for an inbox that protects their privacy
Google searches for privacy-focused Gmail alternatives have steadily increased since 2019. We examine the numbers and potential reasons why.
2032
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) "for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict"
2033
What happens when a ccTLD is retired? Exploring the potential risks of .io
Could the complex political history of Diego Garcia put the .io domain at risk? Tech firms should be aware of potential risk to their websites.
2034
2035
AI predicts effective depression treatment based on brainwave patterns
Tracking brainwave patterns and symptoms in patients with depression, researchers used artificial intelligence to predict best treatment options.
2036
Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters
We have made the difficult decision to shut down operations at ROSS Intelligence. As of Monday of this week, we have no longer been accepting new customers. As of January 31, 2021, the ROSS platform will no longer be available. Between now and then, our priority is to help our current customers transition to other…
2037
The Shifting State of Remote Work
Asynchronous Meetings, Voice Messaging, and Screen Sharing for Teams.
2038
Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
The Wikipedia founder explains how the online encyclopedia will maintain objectivity in polarizing times.
2039
FDA grants emergency authorization for first saliva-based coronavirus test
The new saliva collection method, which RUCDR developed in partnership with Spectrum Solutions and Accurate Diagnostic Labs, will allow for broader population screening than the current method of nose and throat swabs.
2040
ArangoDB 3.7 – a big step forward for multi-model
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.