Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
Here's the summary of the hardware and the software that powers Healthchecks.io. Hardware Since 2017, Healthchecks.io runs on dedicated servers at Hetzner. The current lineup is: HAProxy servers: 4x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)Web servers: 3x AX41-NVMe servers (Ryzen 3600, 6 cores)PostgreSQL servers: 2x…
Ship cross-platform React apps in ½ the time with 2x performance.
(This is another of my speculative pieces and nothing to do with Star Wars. This one is for an older trilogy.) Old Tom Bombadil. Possibly the least liked character in The Lord of the Rings. A childish figure so disliked by fans of the book that few object to his absence from all adaptations of the…
Genomics needs more talented software engineers—here's why you should consider joining the field.
Introducing the Replit mobile app for Android and iOS. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Replit mobile app. With the mobile app, you can code anything, anywhere. Build more, type less. Use the app to write a Python bot, build and launch your personal website, or run any program you can imagine with…
Cloud infrastructure for teams that develop, train, and serve AI applications at scale.
.NET 6 is now included in Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy) and can be installed with just `apt install dotnet6`.
Blog post — USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks
This is not a post on a technical topic, but rather on a common pitfall for engineers – we like to point out something wrong the moment we see it. Understandably, we are very good at it. We are basically trained for it. When it comes to code reviews, or design reviews for complicated distributed system protocols, we…
An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus
$100,500 Apple Bug Bounty for hacking the webcam via a Safari Universal Cross-Site Scripting (UXSS) bug. CVE-2021-30861, CVE-2021-30975
We are excited to announce the launch of Windows Dev Kit 2023, which is built to help developers create Windows apps easily and efficiently for Arm. We u nveiled this device as “Project Volterra” at Build in May 2022. Learn more .
Litestream replicates SQLite databases in real-time to S3.
Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use
AUSTIN, Texas — An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics
I have not posted for a very long time. Writeups on this site often take dozens of hours. Time for something lower effort!
The DevTerm R-01 is a RISC-V based "slabtop" computer.
In-flight messaging I was on a Delta flight the other day, and I was thinking about how they offer free messaging from your smartphone. How do they limit the wifi? Maybe they have some basic filter that says “deny everything except the urls for these 3 messaging apps”, which makes sense conceptually. What if we don’t…
Sam Julien is the Director of Product at CopilotKit, building open-source infrastructure for AI agents and generative UI. He writes about product strategy, developer experience, and the practical microskills that help you grow as a builder and leader.
We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we
Why do the black keys on the piano each have two different names? If the posts on r/musictheory are any indication, this is a persistent point of confusion, especially when music theory teachers ge…
thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions
