Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
We like the moon The moon is very useful, everyone Everybody like the moon Because it light up the sky at night and it lovely and it makes the tides go and we like it But not as much as cheese We really like cheese
My diatribe about adding support for ParadeDB to Ecto
Last year I thought that we had reached some sort of peak in terms of how far one can go in building useless things by converting a 42U rack into a
In the race to secure cloud applications, AWS Nitro Enclaves have emerged as a powerful tool for isolating sensitive workloads. But with great power comes great responsibility-and potential security pitfalls. As pioneers in confidential computing security, we at Trail of Bits have scrutinized the attack surface of AWS…
This is the second part of a series of interactive articles on the x86-64 architecture. This part will focus on the first assembly instructions, visualizing the way data moves in memory when they are executed.
Learn what you always wish you knew about Google's algorithms.
OOP is certainly not my favorite paradigm, but I think mainstream statically-typed OOP does a few things right that are very important for programming with many people, over long periods of time.
Economist. Policy Entrepreneur. Geek. Co-recipient of the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. University Professor at NYU. Focused on urbanization; cooperation at scale of millions and billions; science; technology; economic development; long-term growth; code as language.
Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
The destructive nature of urban renewal left the U.S. too scared to build anything at scale ever again.
The Django ORM, how it compares to raw SQL and gotchas that you should be aware of when using it
[This article is the companion to my presentation for CodeBEAM America 2024, Elixir is the One-Person Stack for Building a Software Startup. You can download the slides as a PDF or view them in Google Slides .]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCJmAyUr1j4 This is the video recording of my talk with this title, done at February 4, 2024 10:00 in the K1.105 room at FOSDEM 2024. The room can hold some 800 people but there were a few hundred seats still unoccupied. Several people I met up with later have insisted that 10 am on a ……
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
This article was supposed to be published all at once on July 30'th. But because of the staggered launch delay into August 8 and 15, some sections of this article were redacted until August 14th.
This article is going to show you how to convert your (existing) wired doorbell (also works for battery-powered chimes) into a smart, WiFi-enabled, doorbell. The essential components needed sets you back about $2, yes, that is correct, just two bucks. No soldering is required and you don’t
One weird hobby of mine is reasonable properties of cryptographic schemes that nobody promised they do or don’t have. Whether that’s invisible salamanders or binding through shared secr…
A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
Diagram of the OpenAPI Specification tooling ecosystem, focusing on how tasks relate to the specification
A look at some of the current thinking around chunking data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.
Dragonfly is a vision-language architecture with multi-resolution zoom for fine-grained image understanding, including a medical model beating Med-Gemini.
DuckDB extensions can now be published as DuckDB Community Extensions. The repository makes it easier for users to install extensions using the INSTALL extension_name FROM community syntax. Extension developers avoid the burdens of compilation and distribution.
Wonder Dynamics (Autodesk company), launches Wonder Animation, groundbreaking video-to-3D scene technology that accelerates animated film production by turning any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene.
The amazingly scary xz sshd backdoor, Author: Bojan Zdrnja
Did the Biggest Loser contestants really damage their metabolism or was something else going on?
Women Who Code started as a community group in 2011 by a small team of engineers in San Francisco who were seeking connection and support for navigating the tech industry. The movement grew…
Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester have identified mechanisms in the brain’s hippocampal network that are rescued by ketones. These findings build on previous research showing that ketones can alleviate neurological and cognitive affects.
TAI times are identified by year, month, day, hour, minute, and second. There are exactly 86400 TAI seconds in every TAI day. TAI days are labelled by the Gregorian calendar.
