Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,909 posts.
Improved video compression is important for delivering digital video files more quickly and with higher quality, while using less bandwidth and storage. Everything from 4K movie streaming to smartp…
Or how to play YouTube videos on you SONOS, easy and for free.
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Michael Hall and I will be your guide in Rosieland today. I want to start you off with a story about good intentions with bad outcomes. Hopefully, everybody has seen the Disney Pixar movie Monster’s Inc. by now. In the movie, the monster society runs on energy produced by children’s screams. Even…
The unexpected journey of building a multi-petabyte scale search engine
Only the engineers who work on a large software system can meaningfully participate in the design process. That’s because you cannot do good software design…
Tinkerer, designer, and angel investor. Building software products and backing early-stage startups.
Wiz Research recently discovered a series of alarming vulnerabilities that highlight the supply chain risk of open source code, particularly for customers of cloud computing services.
Ever since the iPhone 5S was announced a couple of weeks ago , the world of tech journalism has been filled with massive quantities of misinformation . Unfortunately, good information takes time, and the world of tech journalism is more about speed than accuracy. Today, as suggested by a variety of readers, I'm going…
Recently the Surgeon General of the United States weighed in on the spread of disinformation on major platforms and its effects on people and society. He e
(Recently I found the following text in manuscript among old papers of mine. It must have been written in the middle of 1973, but I don't think that in the intervening three years it has lost anything of its significance. Hence I now incorporate it in the EWD-series.)
Nyxgeek here. It's 2026 and I've got two more Azure Entra ID sign-in log bypasses to share with you. Don't get too excited…these bypasses were recently fixed, but I think it's important that people know.
In this post I’ll describe how I wrote a short (200 line) Python script to automatically replace facial features on an image of a face, with the facial features from a second image of a face.
This morning I woke up to an official-looking email from YouTube in my inbox, addressed to an address that isn't mine.
A cozy little corner of the web.
Yes, you can make money writing books. But never do it for that.
A video-trained system from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab could help robots understand how objects interact with the world.
Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites in our dataset. Here's what we found and what it means.
The long way around to screen sharing.
Today we are introducing the second generation of Inkling models with the release of Inkling 2 Small.
This is by far, the most interesting release from Shadow Brokers as it does not only contain tools — but also materials describing the most…
Time is invisible so it's easy to spend without proper consideration to its value. Seneca offers a warning on how we squander our time only to regret it.
Won’t be big Thirty years ago today, Linus Torvalds announced his free operating system to the world. As with many of the world’s greatest, Linux had humble beginnings as a very small pet project. The GNU was working on an ambitious free, public domain operating system but the project had been delayed, and enthusiasts…
Internet Archive Staff Bruce Li introduces his The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting thus: Thi...
When I find myself stuck between differing choices I have to make, I’ll refer to this quote. I’ll ask myself “why is the decision difficult to make?”
