Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,799 posts.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.
Typing might be faster, but longhand stays with you better.
Today, we’re pleased to announce Cover Your Tracks, the newest edition and rebranding of our historic browser fingerprinting and tracker awareness tool Panopticlick. Cover Your Tracks picks up where Panopticlick left off. Panopticlick was about letting users know that browser fingerprinting was...
I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Show podcast episode #532 with Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most) and a specific story she told during the conversation really resonated with me and I have been thinking alot about it since I heard it…
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Why the air you breathe matters, and what to do about it.
As an entrepreneur, I have never felt such pain as I do while typing this. We have faced numerous challenges before but non compares to the arbitrary closing of our Payment account by Stripe for literally no reason.
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PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.
What we learned growing Winnie’s network of parents from a small private beta to a booming national community.
A detailed explanation of why I keep saying that advertising is a cancer on modern society.
For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps…
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies.
File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.
See what we learned running technical interviewing for over 3,000 software engineers.
On March 27 The following message was posted on the official GitHub blog: We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.coms history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These incl[...]
What is the complete path between visiting thepiratebay and sublimating an mp3 file from thin air? In this post, we'll implement enough of the BitTorrent protocol to download Debian. Look at the [Source code](https://github.com/veggiedefender/torrent-client/) or skip to the [last…
Everyone is talking about Jev - here it is in 25 lines of Python.
For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days. The most vital question everybody’s asking themselves is: What’s …
Free and open-source software underpins the digital world. Federal funding should prioritize its development and maintenance.
Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?
Reverse engineering Bluetooth LE LED light controllers, or How I Bricked My Christmas Lights If a device communicates via Bluetooth LE and has an app, it deserves to be integrated into my home automation system. I’ve spent a significant amount of time reverse engineering various budget-friendly LED light strips to...
Oh, you use Firefox? Name every extension.
The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.
A new book examines the massive health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees.
