Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
Improving software memory safety is a key security objective for engineering teams across the industry. Here we begin a journey into the XNU kernel at the core of iOS and explore the intricate work our engineering teams have done to harden the memory allocator and make our software much more difficult to exploit.
What was once a pre-market morning newsletter became an afternoon newsletter, 12 seconds at a time
Professional niches have – time immemorial – built their own special dialects and languages, sometimes using this as an…
As you were browsing something about your browser made us think you were a bot. There are a few reasons this might happen:
How we built an engineering culture based on trust that allows us to move incredibly fast without requiring code reviews.
Rare is the person who could expertly comment – in a single interview! – on the rise of NFTs and their origins in the virtual worlds of gaming, the logic of the emerging regime of techno-feudalism, and the folly of El Salvador’s Bitcoin-heavy negotiating tactics with the IMF. Luckily, we have found this person in […]
I am lucky in that I have a few side projects which have grown up to become full fledged companies. One of them builds little tools to detect different types of financial crime.
The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive…
And doctors today are miserable
For context, we will first play Richard Stallman's 2014 TEDx talk called "Free Software, Free Society." The TEDx talk is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - No Derivative Works 3.0 license. Afterwards, Richard Stallman will discuss what he believes will be good ways to improve Emacs. The EmacsConf talk…
Instead, it uses Fossil as a version control system. Some thoughts.
Shopify is investing on Ruby on Rails at scale by funding high-profile academics to focus their work towards Ruby and the needs of the Ruby community.
Our work aims to break down language barriers across the world for everyone to understand and communicate with anyone—no matter what language they speak.
This blog post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: hazel grove, Devon. Land ownership in Britain is highly concentrated and unequal: just 1% of the population own half the land in England, while in Scotlan…
First Light Fusion (First Light), the University of Oxford fusion spin-out, today confirms it has achieved fusion. The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has independently validated the result.
DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of Batch scripts .
The recent (2022) compromise of Lastpass included email addresses, home addresses, names, and encrypted customer vaults. In this post I will demonstrate how attackers may leverage tools like Hashcat to crack an encrypted vault with a weak password.
Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic , and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable was deployed in 1858 for telegraph messages between Europe and North America. A message…
Experimenting with ultrasonic data transmission in JavaScript as a payment method.
Personal website of Samuel Burer, Tippie Rollins Professor of Business Analytics, University of Iowa.
A new protein-based antiviral nasal spray is being advanced to Phase I human clinical trials to treat COVID-19. It works by blocking the spike protein's ability to infect cells.
A strong runner up was this quote, which captures the essence of what we should be trying to do when creating new languages:
The Microvium JavaScript engine for microcontrollers takes less than 16 kB of ROM and 64 bytes of RAM per VM while idle, making it possibly the smallest JavaScript engine to date with more language features than engines 4x its size
