Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,188 posts.
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to…
I know a change is going to come If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing R…
Browsers handle unrecognized tags as a custom element, with no effect beyond what's specified in the CSS. This isn't just a weird quirk, it is standardized behavior If you include hyphens in the name, you can guarantee your tag won't appear in any future versions of HTML.
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go, which uses SQLite as its storage engine. Recently I introduced a high-performance write-path into rqlite and, to my great surprise, it exposed a bug in SQLite. The SQLite team quickly addressed the issue but let's take a look at the…
My offgrid, solar powered, zero-battery-use fridge has sucessfully made it through spring, summer, fall, and more than enough winter.
A few months ago, I completed a project to build an entire USB keyboard from scratch. This included electronic circuit design, PCB design, firmware coding, CAD design, assembly and usage. The final result is my daily driver work keyboard, which I affectionately call “KeeBee”:
In memory of the Palestinians killed in the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The Windows division no longer exists at Microsoft, marking the end to a four-year process of changing Microsoft’s culture.
The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail. Every now and then, however, a major …
I've used NixOS as the only OS on my laptop for around three years at this point. Installing it has felt sort of like a curse: on the one hand, it's so clearly the only operating system that actually gets how package management should be done. After using it, I can't go back to anything else. On the other hand, it's…
As I’ve posted before and many others have noted , there is a serious problem with lack of adequate replication in many fields of science. The current peer review process is a dreadful combination of being both very fallible and also a huge hurdle to communicating important science.
Designing humility and forgiveness into social media products
Many websites and applications these days are designed to trick you into doing things that their creators want. Here are some examples from timewellspent.io:
Learn how to pair lock your iPhone to break law enforcement forensics tools and protect your data.
One man's struggle with his mortality.
and just like that - poof! - we scammed you into thinking this shit was cool // S1E3
Describes a regular expressions technique to match a word or pattern except in certain contexts: excluding tags, ignoring contents, word blacklist.
Clang is an “LLVM native” C/C++/Objective-C compiler, which aims to deliver amazingly fast compiles […]
This is a blog post for my presentation at the conference POC2024. The slides are uploaded here.
by guest blogger Kieran McCarthy There are few, if any, legal domains where hypocrisy is as baked into the ecosystem as it is with web scraping. Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to...
AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden.
Why do AC cords need three prongs? If there is no positive or negative in AC systems, why do we have HOT and NEUTRAL? I attempt to shed light on some of these mysteries.
A journey through a trendy hell
