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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,937 posts.
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Back to the Future with RSS
How to save the open web, & get (re)started with RSS
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Dijkstra’s algorithm and the Fibonacci heap
A couple of Sundays ago, I wrote an implementation of Dijkstra’s algorithm in Clojure. The core algorithm came to twenty-five lines. I banged out the code as...
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A new class of tiny, self-propelled robots that can zip through liquid at speed
CU Boulder engineers have designed a new class of "microrobots" several times smaller than the width of a human hair that may be able to treat human illnesses
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HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels
multi silicon ai is coming
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Element (Matrix) launches Chatterbox, end-to-end encrypted embedded chat
We’re outrageously pleased to launch Chatterbox, an end-to-end encrypted embedded chat built on Matrix!
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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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Yogababble
Malcolm Gladwell writes about a fascinating episode in history. Neville Chamberlain’s first plane ride was a trip to meet Adolf Hitler. The British Prime Minister was taken by Hitler’s charisma. He believed the German leader when he promised not to invade Czechoslovakia. After his triumphant return from Germany…
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Loss of nearly a full decade of information from early days of Chinese internet
In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer's reflections had vanished too.
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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
CSS Grid has been available in most major browsers since early 2017, and it makes web layout more powerful than ever before. But complex-looking new syntax (line-names! grid-areas! minmax! fit-content! ...
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“Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far”
Company culture is incredibly fragile. It's hard for founders/CEOs/execs to understand how little faith and trust people have in us when we stand up at a
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Inside the Massive Alleged AT&T Data Breach
I hate having to use that word - "alleged" - because it's so inconclusive and I know it will leave people with many unanswered questions. (Edit: 12 days after publishing this blog post, it looks like the "alleged" caveat can be dropped, see the addition at the end of the post
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Deep Learning Is Easy – Learn Something Harder
Caveat: This post is meant address people who are completely new to deep learning and are planning an entry into this field. The intention is to help them think critically about the complexity of the field, and to help them tell apart things that are trivial from things that are...
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The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe
Today we are announcing that the Eclipse Foundation is transitioning itself to become a European-based organization, specifically a Belgian international nonprofit association. I wanted to take thi…
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Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions
Complexity has to live somewhere; but it does not have to live everywhere.
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SeL4 is verified on RISC-V
Sounds great! But what does it mean? seL4 seL4 (pronounced ess-e-ell-four) is arguably the world’s most secure operating system (OS) kernel. The OS kernel is the lowest level of software runn…
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Behind GitHub’s new authentication token formats
We’re excited to share a deep dive into how our new authentication token formats are built and how these improvements are keeping your tokens more secure. As we continue to…
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Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B Quantizations – Dynamic v3.1 Update
Guide to running Qwen3.8 quants including Qwen3.8-27B on your local setup.
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Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem
A few years ago, Sean ‘xobs’ Cross and I built an open-source laptop, Novena, from the circuit boards up, and shared our designs with the world. I’m a strong proponent of open hardware, because sharing knowledge is sharing power. One thing we didn’t anticipate was how much the press wanted to frame our open hardware…
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Getting Ahead by Being Inefficient
Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.