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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,798 posts.
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We're going to need a lot of solar panels
The team at Terraform Industries is now 11 people working towards a near term future where atmospheric CO2, much of it centuries of unpriced industrial waste, becomes the preferred default source o…
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New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.
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Apple and Google partner on Covid-19 contact tracing technology
Apple and Google announce a joint effort to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, with user privacy central to the design.
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Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip
Machine learning provides the underlying oomph to many of Google’s most-loved applications. In fact, more than 100 teams are currently using machine learning at Google today, from Street View, to Inbox Smart Reply, to voice search.
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I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
In 2018, I created the SerenityOS project after completing a drug rehab program.
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Social engineering takeovers of open source projects
By Robin Bender Ginn, Executive Director, OpenJS Foundation; and Omkhar Arasaratnam, General Manager, Open Source Security Foundation
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RethinkDB versus PostgreSQL: my personal experience
News and updates about CoCalc
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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
All characters fit within a 5 pixel square, and are safe to draw on a 6x6 grid. The design is based off of lcamtuf's 5x6 font-inline.h, which is itself inspired by the ZX Spectrum's 8x8 font.
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Goodbye, data science
This is more of a personal post than something intended to be profound. If you are looking for a point, you will not find one here. Frankly I am not even sure who the target audience is for this (p…
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Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
We discoverd a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allows users to access files without getting detected or appearing in the audit log.
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Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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An incomplete list of skills senior engineers need, beyond coding
For varying levels of seniority, from senior, to staff, and beyond.
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A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects
My wife calls me at work, and we have the usual end-of-the-day chat. Then: "Oh, by the way, Guy wants you to take him to the hardware store, he wants to get some tape." "What kind of tape?" "He says he wants 'wood tape'." "Wood tape?" "Wood tape." "Uhhh, ok. When?" "Sometime this weekend. He is really looking forward…
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Monolith First (2015)
Going directly to a microservices architecture is risky, so consider building a monolithic system first. Split to microservices when, and if, you need it.
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Life is not short
The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time, which is infinitely more valuable.
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Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
If you enjoyed the old web of the 90s and 00s; if you love tinkering with your personal website; or if you just like quirky, fun things on the internet, you will love this.
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Writing toy software is a joy
Why you should write more toy programs
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Why is modern web development so complicated?
Modern frontend web development is a polarizing experience: many love it, others despise it. I am a huge fan of modern web development, though I would describe it as “magical” — a…
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Taking PHP Seriously
Slack uses PHP for most of its server-side application logic, which is an unusual choice these days. Why did we choose to build a new project in this language? Should you? Most programmers who have only casually used PHP know two things about it: that it is a bad language, which they would never use if…
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Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update
In a single update, a popular barcode scanner app that had been on Google Play for years turned into malware.
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Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
This blog post focusses on Chapter 4 about Implicit Priming in Kahneman's book "Thinking" Fast and Slow." A review of the book and other chapters can be found here: https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/30/a-meta-scientific-perspective-on-thinking-fast-and-slow/ Daniel Kahneman's response to this blog…
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Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard
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We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
Check the requirements, book the viewing, let yourself in, and submit your application, all without emails or phone tag.