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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,900 posts.
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Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way
A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals.
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The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)
Why Pi-hole, the Raspberry Pi DNS sinkhole, is worth running at home to block trackers, ads, and analytics endpoints across every device on the network.
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Swift on Windows
The Swift project is introducing new downloadable Swift toolchain images for Windows! These images contain development components needed to build and run Swift code on Windows.
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Bitwarden Heist – How to break into password vaults without using passwords
Sometimes, making particular security design decisions can have unexpected consequences. For security-critical software, such as password managers, this can easily lead to catastrophic failure: In this blog post, we show how Bitwarden’s Windows Hello …
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Microsoft, Past and Future
Whatever course it takes, Microsoft’s future under Satya Nadella will not resemble its past.
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Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
Today, as we officially begin our journey as a Google company, that belief feels real in a much deeper way.
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Vercel, formerly Zeit, raises $21M Series A
Today, we have some very special news regarding the evolution of our company.
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Facebook Takes Out Newspaper Ads to Attack Apple's Strengthening iOS Privacy
Apple isn’t blocking the ability for Facebook to personalize ads, in any way. Apple is just providing *users* with control over their own privacy.
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Perfume reviews
Discussion of dabbling in samplers of ‘avant-garde’ perfumes and other perfumes; what I liked and did not like, and what 2 perfumes I ultimately bought for myself (Acqua di Sale and Kyoto Incense).
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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirks—most frequently encountered under Linux. In today's video, I tested the new WisdPi 10G Ethernet Expansion Card for Framework…
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That's not how email works
A confusing letter from HSBC informed me that I've not been receiving their emails, and I have to change the email address they use to contact me. Except I've been receiving all of their emails just fine! The problem, it turns out, is that surveillance capitalism is now so-widespread that the bank cannot conceive that…
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Accenture to acquire Ookla
Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Ookla, a global leader in network intelligence, competitive benchmarking and customer experience analytics.
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Existential Depression in Gifted Children
This article by James Webb discusses existential depression among gifted young people. He examines what it is, how it may manifest in a gifted child, and
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Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language
Arthur’s thoughts on coding, software engineering, and other interesting things.
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Getting my library cards onto my phone the hard way
Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these…
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It’s OK to make an extra $2k per month if you’re a programmer. Here’s how.
This quote, which went viral 2 months ago and that Steinbeck probably never said, has stuck with me:
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Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
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Python can run Mojo now
Chris Lattner mentioned that Python can actually call Mojo code now. I love this idea (!) as I'm definitely in the market for a simple compiled language that can offer Python some really fast functions.
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Python's New Package Landscape
Everything you need to know today about Python Packaging: PEPs 517/518, pyproject.toml, Pipenv, setuptools, and—of course—pip.
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Mullvad Browser
We have partnered with Mullvad VPN to develop the Mullvad Browser - a Tor Browser without Tor
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Stop Ruining It
Paul McGowan makes stereos. To paraphrase his insight: The musicality isn’t a feature you add to an amplifier. It’s what’s left when you stop ruining it. To expand: Customer delig…
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