Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,908 posts.
The orange site is currently discussing an article about Server-Sent Events, especially as compared with WebSockets (and the emerging WebTransport). Both the article and discussion are well-informed, but I think they miss out on one aspect that has fairly deep implications.
C is a simple language. You’re only allowed to have one function with each name. C++, on the other hand, gives you much more flexibility: You can have multiple functions …
What does matrix multiplication mean? Here's a few common intuitions: This is useful when first learning about vectors: vectors go in, new ones come out.…
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
We're pleased to announce the first stable release of PyPy3. PyPy3 targets Python 3 (3.2.5) compatibility. We would like to thank all of th...
Not that long ago I became aware of Justine Tunney's cosmopolitan libc project. It's a toolkit that allows you to compile C source code into a single binary...
Rust is a systems programming language with massive ambitions. It is designed for creating the most reliable software, from the tiniest embedded systems to multi-million line behemoths, and its users need to have confidence that it is fit for purpose.
On the awful temptation to keep researching indefinitely.
Well, it's been a year since I started the draft, so I guess it's about time to publish this! :)
"I’ve had enough reasonable file formats fired at me in my time to tell you that wasn’t one" - Sam Fisher
If you're exploring or publishing data, you should give this open source tool a go.
Troll Research Station maintains one of the southernmost airports in the world. See how the Norwegian Polar Institute operates an airport in Antarctica.
##The geek’s Achille’s Heel I recently decided practice my algorithms skills everyday by working through Skiena’s Algorithm Design Manual and doing some Interview Street problems. To make it somewhat more interesting I decided to do all the exercises and problems in Haskell.
You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Ryan Marcus, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.
Today we are announcing Diagram Maker, an open source graphical user interface library for IoT application developers. With Diagram Maker, IoT application developers can define their own user interface and user experience, or suppress it completely and build their own custom behavior using Diagram Maker APIs. In this…
Pixels and polygons and shaders, oh my!
Why you should understand (a little) about TCP
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Today, we're introducing Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix: a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context.
We here on the Mozilla Services team are happy to announce our first beta release (v0.2b1) of Heka, a tool for high performance data gathering, ...
How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station
TL;DR We (me and @isciurus ) chained several different bugs in Facebook, OAuth2 and Google Chrome to craft an interesting exploit. Mallory...
Ever wondered how Bash completion works? In this first article on the topic, we’ll look at how it works under the hood.
Thoughts about what worked in math circles After about 7 months of math circles with a group of 7- turning 8-year-old boys and girls, I decided to take a...
It’s not every day that you get to debug what may well be a packet of death. It was certainly the first time for me. What do I mean by “a packet of death”? A software bug where the network stack crashes in reaction to a single received network packet, taking down the whole operating system with it.
