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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,419 posts.
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Email will last forever
The Front Page, Front’s official blog, is the best source for customer service, support, experience, and sales tips. Read on.
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AWS EC2 Container Service
Earlier this year I wrote about container computing and enumerated some of the benefits that you get when you use it as the basis for a distributed application platform: consistency & fidelity, development efficiency, and operational efficiency. Because containers are lighter in weight and have less memory and…
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CoreOS Stable Release
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Dropbox is in your Office
The Dropbox with Microsoft Office 365 integration optimizes your workflow, simplifies collaboration, and increases productivity within apps. Try it now.
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Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
Posted by Vinay Shet, Product Manager, reCAPTCHA Have you ever wondered how Google Maps knows the exact location of your neighborhood cof...
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Announcing a specification for PHP
The PHP language has been around for over 20 years and is clearly one of the most popular programming languages in the world. PHP is definitely the lingua-franca of the internet for server-side web programming .
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Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
Servo, the next-generation browser engine being developed by Mozilla Research, has reached an important milestone by passing the Acid2 test. While Servo is not yet fully web compatible, passing Acid2 ...
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Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.
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Rust means never having to close a socket
One of the coolest features of Rust is how it automatically manages resources for you, while still guaranteeing both safety (no segfaults) and high performance. Because Rust is a different kind of programming language, it might be difficult to understand what I mean, so let me be perfectly clear: * In
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“A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”
Emory's Microsoft 365 software license is available to all Emory Employees (Faculty, Staff, Students and Healthcare) and is paid for by Emory. The license includes five (5) add-on subscription products that are available to Faculty, Staff and researchers for a nominal monthly fee.
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Things You Should Know About Tor
Updated: July 1st at 6:30PM to add information about traffic correlation attacks. We posted last week about the Tor Challenge and why everyone should use Tor. Since we started our Tor Challenge two weeks ago we have signed up over 1000 new Tor relays. But it appears that there are still some...
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Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus
The Mac App Store was released in January 2011 and it marked the beginning of a great new distribution channel. Even though it lacked some bells and whistles, the developer community was hopeful the problems would be addressed in due course. Unfortunately, it has been years and there's no evidence that the core issues…
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Dear Web Developers: EFF Needs Your Help
Donate a Few Hours to Help Us Create a Free Software Backend for Contacting Congress, Make the World a Better Place for Digital Rights UPDATE (4/16/14): We're lowering the threshold for getting prizes, take a look below. For years, EFF has been helping concerned technology users contact Congress....
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Firefox 33
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Post Mortem: A single whitespace character
Cloud printing for retail and food and beverage operations.
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ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption
Recently, Verizon was caught tampering with its customer's web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie. Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to light from other providers: email encryption downgrade attacks. In recent months, researchers have reported ISPs in the US and...
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LibreSSL: More Than 30 Days Later
LibreSSL was officially announced to the world just about exactly five months ago. Bob spoke at BSDCan about the first 30 days. For those who weren't there, I'll quickly rehash some of that material. Also, it's always best to start at the beginning, but then I'll try to focus on some new material and updates.
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How LEDs are Made
During the 2014 trip to China, our supplier YunSun was kind enough to pick us up in Shenzhen and give us a tour of their factory.
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An Update on Hacker News
I frequently get asked about the changes we’ve made and are making to Hacker News, so I wanted to share some updates. A lot of people feel strongly about HN. It’s an important part of the startup community and we want it to be both the best source of news and discussion about technology and startups and also welcoming…