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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,670 posts.
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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
Our e-reader lineup also features a reimagined Kindle Scribe and the fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever.
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Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
JPEG XL offers better compression than JPEG, built-in HDR support, lossless JPEG transcoding, and more.
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Moving from React to htmx
David Guillot at Contexte gave what we are calling 'The Mother of All htmx Demos' at DjangoCon 2022. This essay summarizes this real-world case study of replacing React with htmx in a SaaS product, demonstrating significant improvements in code size, performance, and development team efficiency through the adoption of…
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The Cognitive Dark Forest
The open web with AIs is turning into a dark forest.
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There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)
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EU Commission doesn't understand what's written in its own chat control bill
Ylva Johansson is the EU Commissioner in charge of the Chat Control Bill. In recent days she has taken part in several interviews in Swedish media and also spoken in front of EU parliament members.
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Ontario bans non-competes and creates right to disconnect from work
On November 30, 2021, the Ontario legislature passed Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021[1] an omnibus bill introduced by the Progressive Conservatives which amends a number of employment-related statutes. The amendments received Royal Assent on December 2, 2021; however, different parts of the Bill will come into…
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Luca App: CCC calls for a moratorium
Dubious business model, defective software, irregularities in the awarding of contracts: The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) demands an immediate end to states' alimentation of Smudo's million-dollar tax...
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GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.
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FAA approves unleaded fuel for piston fleet
The FAA delivered September 1 the long-sought approval of an unleaded fuel now cleared to power every spark-ignition engine on any airframe in the general aviation fleet.
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary f
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Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
Learn why Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't scale for high-throughput use cases and what architectural alternatives Recall.ai uses in production.
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, smartphone batteries will once again be replaceable in the EU. Learn all about the new regulation and what this means for users.
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GitLab Master Plan
GitLab announces $20M in Series B funding, and its Master Plan to build an integrated toolset for the modern developer!
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Pi-hole v6
We’ve integrated a new REST API and embedded web server directly into the pihole-FTL binary. This eliminates the need for lighttpd and PHP , reducing the installation footprint and boosting performance. The new API also offers server-side pagination for the query log, ensuring a faster and more responsive interface.
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JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.
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The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
A few months ago we saw a post on the r/programminghorror subreddit: A developer describes the struggle of identifying a syntax error resulting from an invisible Unicode character hidden in JavaScript source code. This post inspired an idea: What if a backdoor literally cannot be seen and thus evades detection even…
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Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....
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Extracting audio from visual information
Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
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How companies use fake sites, backdated articles to censor Google results (2017)
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Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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MLow: Meta's low bitrate audio codec
At Meta, we support real-time communication (RTC) for billions of people through our apps, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. We are working to make RTC accessible by providing a high-q…
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CodeStar – Quickly Develop, Build, and Deploy Applications on AWS
It wasn’t too long ago that I was on a development team working toward completing a software project by a release deadline and facing the challenges most software teams face today in developing applications. Challenges such as new project environment setup, team member collaboration, and the day-to-day task of keeping…