Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,863 posts.
Bing.com is a cloud service that runs on thousands of servers spanning many datacenters across the globe. Bing servers handle thousands of users’ queries every second from consumers around the world doing searches through their browsers, from our partners using the Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs, and from the…
Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.
Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.
Top 1 million domains? More like the top 1 million lies
A calm guide to networking as an introvert—learn how posture, presence, and small signals can help you connect meaningfully without faking extroversion.
How to free space without dropping indexes or deleting data
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
Like clockwork, cynical calls to expand mass surveillance practices—by continuing the domestic telephone records collection and restricting access to strong encryption—came immediately following the Paris attacks. These calls came before the smoke had even cleared, much less before a serious...
Matplotlib is a valuable but misunderstood foundation of the python data science stack.
CPM MagnaCut is a new stainless knife steel designed to be better than anything that has been available before. Is it a success?
A community and blog for embedded software makers
Working at a daycare has shown me many things and given me much insight into how children behave, and more specifically, how they learn. The kids that I work with are so incredibly eager to learn,…
wingolog: article: firefox's low-latency webassembly compiler
Elixir v1.12 is out with improvements to scripting, tighter Erlang/OTP 24 integration, stepped ranges, and dozen of new functions across the standard library.
Today’s blog post is an overview of some common optimization techniques and neat tricks for doing “systems programming” – whatever that means today. We’ll walk through some methods to make your code run faster, be more efficient, and to squeeze just a little more juice from whatever you got.
Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of 0 A.D. Alpha 24: “Xšayāršā” (pronounced: Khsha-ya-ṛsha), …
Practicing minimalism with the lofty goal of total ephemeralization to build coherent, stable, and operable stacks.
The story of how I finally got revenge on The VNC Guy back in my college days.
For development teams, process can often be antithetical to speed. Ease of deployment and security tend to have an inverse relationship, with some resentment for the security team occasionally mixed in. You may have seen the following tweet: https://twitter.com/petecheslock/status/595617204273618944?lang=en We believe…
Detecting the Resonant Frequency of an Object with
This is an opinionated guide. After 12 years of reverse engineering professionally, I have developed strong beliefs on how to get good at RE.
I have my suspicions
