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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,904 posts.
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Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.
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What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
In the least surprising news of 2016, Yahoo is selling its core business to Verizon for a sad $5 billion. Everyone knew this was coming —…
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Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do
I have twin daughters that just turned three months old. I decided to write up the list that I wish I had before they were born. Just reasons why they cry, how to tell the cries apart, and what to …
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What's New in CPUs Since the 80s and How Does It Affect Programmers?
My mental model of CPUs is stuck in the 1980s: basically boxes that do arithmetic, logic, bit twiddling and shifting, and loading and storing things in memory. I'm vaguely aware of various newer developments like vector instructions (SIMD) and the idea that newer CPUs have support for virtualization (though I have no…
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Unfashionably secure: why we use isolated VMs
Why we use isolated VMs as a hard security boundary.
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AI for developers and Google Workspace
Introducing new generative AI capabilities in Google Cloud and Google Workspace, plus PaLM API and MakerSuite for developers.
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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat.
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23andMe raises $50M, cuts price to $99, sets goal of 1M genotyped customers
A statement upon 23andMe reaching its first one million customers.
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The Guy I Almost Was (1998)
An online graphic novel about a young man's coming of age in the California cyberculture of the early 1990s.
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Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
A continuously updating analysis of bot vs. human traffic, AI training, fetching, search indexing, browsing, robots.txt compliance, and AI chat referrals across 5,000+ websites.
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Phrase origin: Why do we "call" functions?
On StackExchange, someone asks why programmers talk about “calling” a function. Several possible allusions spring to mind: Calling a function is like calling on a friend — we go, we stay a while, we come back. Calling a function is like calling for a servant — a summoning to perform a task. Calling a function is like…
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One Windows Kernel
In this blog post, I will talk about the evolution of the core pieces of the Windows kernel that allows it to transparently scale across a low power NVidia...
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Anki-fy your life
Creating a subconscious problem-solving framework.
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Was MongoDB Ever the Right Choice?
I was reading a post recently about Red Hat removing MongoDB support from Satellite (and yes, some folks say it is because of the license changes). It made me think how often over the last few years I’ve seen post after angry post about how terrible MongoDB is and how no one should ever use. However, […]
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How to Get into VR
This is the second edition of Paths [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/category/paths/], a series outlining emerging technologies with clear steps on how to get started in each field. This series was designed with makers and aspiring entrepreneurs in mind. We talked to college students interested in engineering…
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All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong
At this critical time in the modern history of the human race, mathematical models have been pushed into the foreground. Epidemic forecasting informs policy and even individual decision-making. Sad…
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Feed the bots
A week ago , I set up a dynamically generated nonsense maze to catch LLM scrapers. Now, requests to it make up 99.9% of my server's traffic, but my total request volume did not increase. The bots didn't come to my site because of the trap.
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Firefox 26 is released
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
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Preventing Burnout: A Manager's Toolkit
GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij shares 12 steps that managers can take to help employees avoid burnout.
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Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
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FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester: "Your name was brought up."
“Your name was brought up.”
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Wasmer 3.0
Today we are very excited to launch Wasmer 3.0, following three months of work since our first alpha. So, what’s new in Wasmer? - `wasmer` is now able...
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Disclosing vulnerabilities to protect users
Posted by Neel Mehta and Billy Leonard, Threat Analysis Group On Friday, October 21st, we reported 0-day vulnerabilities — previously publi...
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I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)
It’s 15:10 pm on April 18, 2018. I’m in the Privacy International office, reading a news story on the use of facial recognition in Thailand. On April 20, at 21:10, I clicked on a CNN Money Exclusive on my phone.
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What3Words – The Algorithm
What3Words is a widely promoted system that is used for sharing a location using just three words. For example, ///wedge.drill.mess is located in Hyde Park.The globe is divided into 3m squares, eac…