Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
If the police ever have physical access to an electronic device like a laptop, even for five minutes , they can install hardware keyloggers, create images of the storage media, or otherwise trivially compromise it at the hardware, firmware, or software level. One way to minimize this risk is to make devices…
Supabase is officially launching into General Availability.
The project is contributed by Yikang Shen , Zhen Guo , Tianle Cai and Zengyi Qin . For technical inquiries, please contact Yikang Shen. For media and collaboration inquiries, please contact Zengyi Qin.
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An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
On March 13, the Dencun hard fork activated, enabling one of the long-awaited features of Ethereum: proto-danksharding (aka EIP-4844 , aka blobs). Initially, the fork reduced the transaction fees of rollups by a factor of over 100, as blobs were nearly free. In the last day, we finally saw blobs spike up in volume and…
In 2022 I started building an application for creating Customs declarations. After evaluating some options and writing code in various programming languages ...
The research looked at data from more than 14,000 volunteers and shows the importance of activities that raise heart rate for blood pressure control– such as uphill walking or stair-climbing, into your day may help to lower blood pressure.
Money: how to get people to give it to you, how much to ask for, and how to be worth what you're asking. Some real talk about the challenges you’ll face as a newly independent worker.
Anyone who has implemented a simple HTTP 1.1 server can tell you that it is a really simple protocol. Basically, it's a text file that has some specific rules t…
This is my personal site, where I write about Ruby, programming, and any of my varied fascinations.
On the one hand they are easy to explain, they are just numbers that have no factors other than one and themselves, but on the other hand they contain endless complexity. They show up in numerous places, ranging from mathematical concepts and conjectures to interesting looking visualizations and cryptography…
How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA
( This is part of a series on the design of zest . See the list of posts here .)
I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks.
Pathfinding applied to the software solution domain
New database library for Rust
With FireChat, people were free to communicate and coordinate with each other without the message having to first filter through someone's data center. Why did the app shut down without notice?
The State Space Model taking on Transformers
Building frontier artificial intelligence to predict and reprogram the interactions between biochemical molecules.
Update (April 19): Yilei Chen announced the discovery of a bug in the algorithm, which he does not know how to fix. This was independently discovered by Hongxun Wu and Thomas Vidick. At present, th…
Some quick thoughts on moving from Twitter/X to BlueSky and how I'll try to use social media after being burned once by Twitter.
On being a faulty cog in a machine when the machine itself is faulty
If you overheard the phrase "1 in a million chance" in someone else's casual conversation, what might they be talking about?
