Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.
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By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.
Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.
Human DX optimizes for discoverability. Agent DX optimizes for predictability. What I learned building a CLI for agents first.
VE Commercial Vehicles’ My Eicher platform had a critical vulnerability that let you take over anyone’s account and gain control over their vehicle fleets.
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…
A Ligo research note on redundancy in natural protein fold space and what kind of data still carries signal.
M5Stack today launches PaperMono, a compact ESP32-S3-based E-Ink development terminal designed for low-power information display, interaction, and connected IoT projects. PaperMono is now available through the M5Stack Store. Product Value Featuring a 3.97-inch 4-level grayscale E-Ink display, touch input, integrated…
A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.
Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build, D11E4 from June 1996, in an improved DingusPPC.
Our sans-IO WireGuard implementation in Rust, optimized for ease of use, security and performance through a parallel-friendly and idiomatic API.
We investigated a bug where CUBIC's congestion window became pinned at its minimum floor, causing a performance to plummet. The fix involved correctly measuring idle periods to distinguish RTT wait times from actual application idleness.
An in-depth exploration of maintenance, and a powerful argument for its civilizational importance.
How bbtree, a drop-in replacement for std's BTreeMap, cuts cache misses, instructions and cache coherence traffic, and how it is kept correct.
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced macOS 26 Tahoe. One of the new features in macOS Tahoe is a new disk image format: ASIF. Designed for use with virtual machines (its documentation lives under the Virtualization framework), ASIF takes a lot of inspiration from existing virtual disk formats. Practically, that means it’s…
In the last post, I got the game’s clouds to look passable. But after looking at it during playtesting, I still wasn’t satisfied with the way the overall picture of how sea, sky and clouds came together. With some small tweaks, things started to look a lot better.
Lately I've been spending time learning Scheme and using it to implement the concepts I'm learning in my physics classes as time permits. One of the most exciting things I've been doing with this is getting my Scheme to compile to the Web thanks to Hoot. One of the biggest challenges has been the fact that Hoot is…
Hi, and welcome to the latest ZLUDA update! Since I skipped the last update, this special issue covers all the developments made in ZLUDA since the start of the year. We now have two new major workloads: PhysX ( PhysX pre-alpha ) and Blender ( Textures support ). Much of this overlaps with Much improved Windows…
Yesterday I was looking at YC jobs to see if there were any interesting small startups hiring in my area (while I otherwise love my current fully-remote job,...
[This is a guest post by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] TL;DR: Keep calm and carry on studying math. I wo…
I had a dream last night I went to work at Amazon. Joining the Bezos neofeudal empire. This post is directed at anyone with talent who works at a tech company ushering in this future.
Compared to their parents, Millennial fathers have roughly tripled the amount of time they spend with kids. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.
They are draining the economic potential of our cities. We need to make them financially unsustainable.
Recently this post from @Merocle caught my eye: I'm fixing my iFixit soldering station. I haven't used it for a long time and the battery has gone overdischarge. I hope it will come back to life. Unfortunately, there are no replacements available for sale at the moment. Devices with built-in rechargeable batteries…
Ok, the title is a tongue-in-cheek, but there's very little thought put into files in most languages. It always feels a bit out of place... except in C. In fact, what you get is usually a worse version of C.
Somehow a film made 56 years ago named Colossus The Forbin Project predicted the world of today
The advance in fabric technology comes alongside a new benchmark for atmospheric water harvesting.
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