Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,970 posts.
The world’s richest 0.1 percent (8 million people) produces more carbon pollution than the world’s poorest 3.5 billion people combined, reveals new Oxfam analysis. Published ahead of the UN climate summit (COP31) in Türkiye, the report exposes how the world's super-rich are driving climate breakdown through their…
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
This is a story of a most unexpected journey — one that is just starting. If somebody had told me four years ago that I’d be writing this today, I would have stared at them in astonishment or laughed dismissedly. Yet here I am, writing about a late-found hobby that has somehow become a very important part of my life.
The most valueble code in my repo, is the code I didn't write.
Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
Let me tell you about a language. But if you wish to go play instead go here. It's going to get a little abstract below. There is a Canvas to Compose Upon The canvas is a square with the largest circle that has a radius of ρ. There are
Good engineers plan before they build. The workflow I grew up seeing: write an RFC describing the feature, split it into smaller issues, then build them, each issue often blocking the next. The structure of the work was locked in before a single line of code existed.
I made a circuit-board business card that opens my website and lights an LED with power harvested from the phone tapping it.
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
The words are a subset of the 10,000 most common words from Google's Trillion Word Corpus , with definitions sourced from Open English Wordnet .
The Nix language lacks a good type system . There are already several configuration languages that provide static and even gradual typing (see, e.g., Cue , Dhall , or Nickel ), but none offer the ability to easily annotate legacy Nix code with types.
Plasma 6.7 brings powerful new features to KDE’s classic desktop, and refines its user experience to new levels.
From January to July 2026, I have continued to work on my UK Class 800-inspired train simulator. There are a number of components in progress, but few newly completed: in lieu of posts about completed portions of the simulator, here’s a roundup of progress across the different hardware aspects of the project.
Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production.
Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.
Some musings on the novel "Rendezvous with Rama".
the gospel for those out of distribution
A single-producer single-consumer (SPSC) queue is a great example of how far constraints can take a design. In this post, you will learn how to implement a ring …
On efficient algorithms, the exponential time hypothesis, and losing the plot.
Every end-to-end encrypted messenger ships a fingerprint UI. Almost nobody opens it. A note on what's actually missing.
PRAGUE, 18 February 2026 – A landmark international study across five Central European countries has found hazardous chemicals in every single pair of headphones analysed, from premium models to cheap imports. Authors say the results reveal a systemic failure in consumer safety regulation acros...
UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, turned up some 12 billion signals of interest. A lengthy analysis found 100 worth another look.
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
There's an optical illusion known by names like the "lunar terminator paradox". This has much discussion and descriptions online, but none made sense in my head, so I wrote this program to figure out what was going on. The paradox:
Yes you! You need a webring
Part 1 of a series that takes an unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo/OnePlus/Realme devices, with a single strategy.
