25651
Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
Retool raises $50M led by Sequoia
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,933 posts.
25652
25653
25654
The Mozilla Developer Network has a New Face
Last summer the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) underwent a massive platform change, moving from a hosted third-party solution to our own custom Django application code-named Kuma. That move laid the ...
25655
This code smells of desperation
A few weeks ago I had the questionable pleasure of diving into the math exception handler of WIN87EM.DLL, the Windows 3.1 math emulator and FPU support library. Actually WIN87EM.DLL appears to have been first shipped with Windows 3.0, and the version in Windows 3.1 is more or less identical. The version shipped with…
25656
I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me)
Hi, I'm Kenneth. I’m a Swiss transplant in San Francisco. I’m an angel investor, and an engineer at AngelList & CSC. Previously, I was co-founder of FreshPay and the architect behind Chartboost. When I'm not working, you can find me either photographing some remote corner of the world, or hacking away on an…
25657
25658
Exploiting IndexedDB API information leaks in Safari 15
Discover how a software bug in Safari 15's IndexedDB API can track your online activity and reveal your identity.
25659
Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox
We’re pleased to announce that we have negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement with Google. This new agreement extends our lon
25660
25661
Secret Military Telephone Buttons
It's the first of the new year, which means we ought to do something momentous to mark the occasion, like a short piece about telephones. Why so much on telephones lately? I think I'm just a little burned out on software at the moment and I need a vacation before I'm excited to write about failed Microsoft ventures…
25662
Apple releases new Covid-19 app and website based on CDC guidance
Apple today released a new screening tool and resources to help people stay informed and protect their health during the spread of COVID-19.
25663
The StarCraft path-finding hack
StarCraft pathfinding looked impossible to fix until one ugly hack changed everything. Here's the trick that shipped.
25664
25665
Building friend catchers
As a 13 year old, my dad’s advice on internet presence was: “Everything you post will be used against you in the future. So you should never associate your name with anything on the internet”. As a rebellious teenager my view was the opposite: “Everything you post on the internet will get lost. You should associate…
25666
Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
25667
Migrating 1200 databases from MySQL to Postgres
Once Upon a Time there was a company called Base7Booking that by the beginning of 2016 it was supporting around 1200 databases on MySQL 5...
25668
I Sold The Magazine, Too
The Magazine ’s development workload was much more front-loaded than I expected. These days, 99% of the work is done by the authors, illustrators, and especially the Executive Editor, Glenn Fleishman .
25669
Triptych Proposals
These relatively small changes make HTML significantly more expressive, enabling far more web applications to be built with pure hypertext.
25670
25671
Parse, Don't Validate and Type-Driven Design in Rust
Applying the type-driven mindset to rust via the "Parse, don't Validate" pattern
25672
25673
The Public Domain Starts Growing Again Next Year
We're taking part in Copyright Week, a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what's at stake, and what we need to do to make...
25674
How My Images Are Dithered
Hello there! This is my personal website and it is allergic to SEO.
25675
The Determinate Nix Installer
A fresh new alternative to the official Nix installation scripts.
25676
Behind the 6-digit code: Building HOTP and TOTP from scratch
Personal website of Doğaç Eldenk.
25677
Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard
I spent years building one of the most popular LED strip visualizers on GitHub. It's the kind of project that's easy to get started but diabolically hard to master.
25678
How machines learned precision
How do you make an accurate machine without one to copy? Explore flat surfaces, screw-cutting lathes, and millionth-of-an-inch measurements through interactive 3D figures.
25679
Microsoft BASIC for 6502 – Original Source Code (1978)
This is the original 1978 source code of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 with all original comments, documentation and easter eggs: M6502.MAC (1978-07-27, 6955 lines, 161,685 bytes) This is currently the oldest publicly available piece of source written by Bill Gates.
25680
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023