We generally assume that the world is becoming a better place every year. But when it comes to individual freedoms, the opposite is true. Most studies show humanity is now less free than several years ago.

20 years ago we had decentralized Internet and a…

A denoscription of the 13 most common GraphQL vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.

Executives of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies LLC could pay as much as $7 billion to U.S. tax authorities after agreeing to settle a dispute over whether they improperly reduced their tax liability from trading profits, according to a letter reviewed…

A U.S. national labor agency is investigating two charges against tech giant Apple Inc filed by employees, records on its website show, amid a wave of worker activism at a company known for its secretive culture.

An open letter from independent app developers to the wider GNOME community

In our opinion, the goal of Hacker News (HN) is to find the highest quality submissions (according to its community) and show them on the front-page. While the current ranking algorithm seems to meet this requirement at first glance, we identified two inherent…

I love linters. A linter is a program that looks for problems in code without running it. There is something gratifying about running a linter on a codebase and seeing a big list of warnings and errors. Sometimes it can even be fun to fix them!

A hard look at the motivations for — and inevitable realities of — the Cult of Agile daily stand-up. This toxic workplace ritual is designed to demoralise engineers and perpetuate micromanagement. Stop doing them.

The 2,000-line poem by Scottish physician John Armstrong was written during a time of pandemic, war and increasing public disinformation. What can readers learn from it today?

Use the github.dev web-based editor from your repository or pull request to create and commit changes.

Until recently, a small Wikipedia edition said Dianne Feinstein was San Francisco's mayor. This project could help avoid that sort of out of date info.

RISC-V gets interest from a major player