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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,707 posts.
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Ruby 2.4.0-preview1 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 2.4.0-preview1.
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When Does Work Actually Get Done?
Work gets done at 11AM on a Monday in October. At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive.
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How we made data aggregation on PostgreSQL better and faster
They’re so fast we can’t catch up! Check out our benchmarks with two datasets to learn how we used continuous aggregates to make queries up to 44,000x faster.
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Dear Google: Search Competition should be 1 Click Away so why 15+ on Android?
Google claims search competition is “only one click away.” So why does it take fifteen+ clicks to make DuckDuckGo Search or any other alternative the default on Android devices?
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The next generation of Materialize
Today, we’re excited to announce a product that we feel is transformational: a persistent, scalable, cloud-native Materialize.
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Cohere's First Model for Developers
Meet North Mini Code, Cohere's first open-source agentic coding model: a 30B MoE that codes strongly on minimal hardware.
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Fathom: a framework for understanding web pages
Meet Fathom, a mini-language for writing semantic extractors, that you can use client- or server-side to extract meaning from the content of a web page. Scoop up all those ideas ...
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Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs
Pruning agent context down to what the answer actually needs, while keeping 96% of recall
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Sony uses DMCA to silence speech that reveals its security flaws
Co-authored by Corynne McSherry and Marcia Hofmann For years, EFF has been warning that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be used to chill speech, particularly security research, because legitimate researchers will be afraid to publish their results lest...
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Disabling SSLv3 and RC4
Posted by Adam Langley, Security Engineer As the previously announced transition to SHA-256 certificates is nearing completion, we are p...
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A message from Lawrence Lessig [video]
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) is North America’s largest community-run open source conference.
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ARIN Public Incident Report – 4.10 Misissuance Error
Executive Summary On 2 December 2025, an IPv4 block 23.150.164.0/24, correctly allocated to the Original Customer, was inadvertently removed and reissued to the …
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Incident Report – DDoS Attack
On Monday, December 1st, 2014, we experienced a major volumetric DDoS attack aimed at a customer's domain. Here is our full report.
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Qt Creator 4.7.0 released
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)
Discover the capabilities of Annoy, an innovative algorithm revolutionizing approximate nearest neighbor searches for enhanced efficiency and precision.
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Congress Is Poised to Introduce a Bill to Fast Track TPP So It's Time to Act Now
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are stalling while the White House assures its trading partners that this secret trade agreement won't be amended when it comes back to Congress for ratification after the President signs the deal. That's why the Executive is scrambling to get its allies in...
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RansomEXX Trojan attacks Linux systems
We recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an ELF executable and intended to encrypt data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems.
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AlphaGo’s ultimate challenge: a five-game match against Lee Sedol
Game 5 - March 15, 2016After a loss in Game 4, and a move early on that looked like a mistake, but could have been a creative and effective new move, AlphaGo won Game 5 …
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FreeBSD 14.5-Release
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth release of the stable/14 branch.
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Documenting software architecture with arc42
arc42 is a template for architecture communication and documentation. It is a proven, practical and highly pragmatic approach and takes the pain out of documentation.
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MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs
MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced The Engine, a new kind of enterprise designed to support startup companies working on scientific and technological innovation with the potential for transformative societal impact.