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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,939 posts.
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Offline-Friendly Forms
Forms on the web don't usually play nice with bad connections. If you try to submit a form while offline, you'll most likely just lose your input. Here's how we might fix that.
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Reverse engineering a counterfeit 7805 voltage regulator
Update: It turns out my 7805 isn't counterfeit. eclectro did an in-depth search ( details on reddit ) and found an old 7805 datasheet fro...
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Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb (2021)
On Saturday, September 18 1993, Sierra's Macintosh games stopped working. Franchises froze as King's Quests, Space Quests, and even the Leisurely Suited Larries locked up. Practically every Mac SCI game had broken overnight. Sierra developed a patch within nine days, released it on their BBS, and announced it in their…
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Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch
Groove is now Helply!
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RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs
RedPajama-Data-v2 is a 30 trillion token open dataset from 84 CommonCrawl dumps across five languages, with over 40 precomputed quality annotations.
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Psychic Paper: iOS Sandbox Escape
Siguza’s Blog
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Build a link blog like Simon Willison
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
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Caffe2: Open Source Cross-Platform Machine Learning Tools
Training and deploying AI models is often associated with massive data centers or super computers, with good reason. The ability to continually process, create, and improve models from all kinds of information: images, video, text, and voice, at massive scale, is no small computing feat. Deploying these models on…
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Evading JavaScript anti-debugging techniques
Debuggers serve as invaluable tools that empower developers to halt code execution and thoroughly analyze its behavior at any given moment. By utilizing debuggers, developers can efficiently identify and resolve issues within their code, making it an indispensable part of their toolkit.
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EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
EFF, along with the national ACLU, the ACLU affiliates in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit urging the court to require a warrant for...
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Color Spaces
Interactive article explaining color spaces and how they're used to express color.
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30 minutes a day
The simple act of reserving a tiny part of your day. Perhaps just 30 minutes. Of pure, uninterrupted focus. On the idea you want to make become reality. Will ensure at least some extent of progress. I guarantee you.
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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About
Hi all! I'm starting a new article series here. This one is going to be about Unix utilities that you should know about. The articles will discuss one Unix program at a time. I'll try to write a good introduction to the tool and give as many examples as I can think of. The first post in this series is going to be…
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Ncdu 2: Less hungry and more Ziggy
Ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a terminal-based disk usage analyzer for Linux and other POSIX-y systems, (formerly) written in C and available in the package repositories of most distributions.
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Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA
This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other $57 billion come from? From source…
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IBM scientists demonstrate 10x faster large-scale machine learning using GPUs
The IBM Research blog is the home for stories told by the researchers, scientists, and engineers inventing What’s Next in science and technology.
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Perlis Languages
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. – Alan Perlis
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Reproducibility Initiative gets $1.3M grant to validate 50 cancer studies
Explore the Science Exchange Blog for expert insights on R&D outsourcing, supplier orchestration, and life sciences operations. Discover best practices for managing scientific suppliers, streamlining procurement, and accelerating research with a trusted global marketplace.
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Defunctionalize the Continuation
Video and transcript of Jimmy Koppel's Compose 2019 talk on defunctionalization, the best refactoring you've never heard of.
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Look Ma, No Bubbles: Designing a Low-Latency Megakernel for Llama-1B
Benjamin Spector* , Jordan Juravsky* , Stuart Sul , Owen Dugan , Dylan Lim , Dan Fu , Simran Arora , Chris Ré
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Pysa: An open source tool to detect and prevent security issues in Python code
Today, we are sharing details about Pysa, an open source static analysis tool we’ve built to detect and prevent security and privacy issues in Python code. Last year, we shared how we built Zoncola…
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Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game
Like last year with Underrun , I participated in this year's js13kGames – a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Voidcall , a Real-time Strategy game.