Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,798 posts.
Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability” than Postgres, and for that reason alone, Postgres isn’t…
Awk is a tiny programming language and a command line tool. It's particularly appropriate for log parsing on servers, mostly because Awk will operate on files, usually structured in lines of human-readable text.
CSS is strangely considered both one of the easiest and one of the hardest languages to learn as a web developer. It’s certainly easy…
One of the most important color tricks I’ve ever learned was to avoid using the color black in my work. Mrs. Zamula, my childhood art teacher, first warned me about black when I was in middle school. And I heard the same again multiple times at RISD. It sounds weird at first, but it’s good advice.
Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.
GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.
I collect music by buying physical CDs, digitizing them with Exact Audio Copy , and scanning the artwork. This is sometimes challenging if the CD was self-published in a limited run in a foreign country ten years ago. It is very challenging if the CDs have an innate defect that renders some tracks unreadable.
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
We’re excited to announce that the Bluesky network is federating and opening up in a way that allows you to host your own data.
I always thought I was too dumb to understand math. During my school years, it was evident to me that for some kids math was easy, and for others like myself: painfully difficult.
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
Track Claude Code's daily performance on SWE-Bench-Pro as we collect an Opus 5.5/high baseline.
What if I told you that Forbes Marketplace, the affiliate company operating on Forbes.com ALSO had agreements with CNN and USA Today? And that Forbes Marketplace was stuffing those sites full of affiliate content just like it is with Forbes? And what if Forbes Marketplace went to extreme efforts to hide everything?…
A list of new(ish) command line tools
What is now known as the Slug Algorithm for rendering fonts directly from Bézier curves on the GPU was developed in the Fall of 2016, so this year marks a full decade since its inception. I published a paper in JCGT about the technique in the middle of 2017, and my company sold the first license for version 1.0 of the…
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
WebAssembly or Wasm is a new runtime and compilation target for the web, now available behind a flag in Chrome Canary!
Use this guide to setup Tailscale SSH. Learn how it transforms SSH connectivity by using your Tailscale identity for authentication. Enjoy simplified setup, added security with WireGuard®, and customizable access with ACLs. Ideal for managing secure connections across your tailnet.
Go 1.27 adds generic methods, encoding/json/v2 package, uuid package, faster memory allocation, goroutine leak profiles, and more.
“We have enormous computing power in the US government, but we need to be able to bring it to bear without the phone killing itself.” – FBI Director James Comey, March 1 , 2016.
So, I'm walking through a park when I see this thing lying on the ground: It's a disposable vape that someone has discarded because it's emp...
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Code that nobody understands is tech debt
In a December 2015 talk at JSConf US, we announced that we would be open-sourcing the key components of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge. Today, we are excited to share with you that we’ve just made the sources for ChakraCore available under the MIT License at the ChakraCore GitHub repository…
