Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,910 posts.
We are beginning to upgrade people’s personal conversations on Messenger to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default. Meta is publishing two technical white papers on end-to-end encryption: Our …
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
I sent my CV for a role at Kagi Search, the description of the role can be found here:
Or yet another rant about YAML
Candid and colorful thoughts on enterprise readiness2021289 points343 commentsSoftware Engineering details
I provide a deeper-dive on the tech stack I like to use in 2021. It is simple, easy to work with, and allows you to grow out of it when the time comes. Updated for 2021!
A Bed Assembly Drama
GitHub is dominant in today’s software development industry. Most professional developers interact with software created, maintained, or controlled by GitHub daily.
This post lists the internet communication targets of the Microsoft Windows operating system, including its various services and UWP apps. This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.
A great amount of my writing on this site revolves around complaining about modern user interface design . Some people agree with me, some don't. Most probably don't care at all. That's fine. What I find interesting is that many (but not all!) people who disagree either present extremely specific non-argument nitpicks…
This is a story about McGill education students that cannot calculate an average, and the professor who admitted he didn't care. Fina...
Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators have identified a molecule that staves off hunger post-exercise.
I've taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I've redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?
What are the monthly costs of running a webapp on DigitOcean? I dig into the numbers here.
This week, I felt pretty depressed and lost my motivation and focus. After launching Space4 , I got some signups from HackerNews , but no one was really using the app. Including myself.
EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE
This page contains entries for the year 2025 . Other years are available in the Devlog archive page .
Oh man, this is good! You’re looking at the first DB-19 connector to be made in the 21st century:
During the last few days there has been an ongoing Twitter storm about 10× developers. And like all the ones before it (and all the future o...
After the wave of layoffs at Meta (previously known as Facebook) in November of 2022, I recall messages in the Facebook group for former employees discussing how to handle elements of the redundancy process, like if it was possible to max out retirement saving contributions, or spending gym benefits whilst
Germany: crypto held for more than a year will not get taxed. The Federal Ministry of Finance has published a document defining tax policies.
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Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m , a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon . As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a…
A Hackernews comment introduces a new character
Scientists at UChicago discover that trans-vaccenic acid (TVA), a fatty acid found in beef, lamb, and dairy products, improves the ability of immune cells to fight tumors.
The Dirty Work Theory: The lamentable work that many people avoid are great places to look for high impact, low hanging fruit.
