The history of HackerNews (HN) search spans three generations. Starting in 2007 with Disqus founder Jason Yan followed by a series of other sites, Octopart/ThriftDB-powered HNSearch in 2011, and finally Algolia-powered search from 2014 to today.

When you use `IF NOT EXISTS` and re-run your index creation, the task can silently complete while leaving behind an invalid index.

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Nature India - Study shows potential for helping mimic architecture of the human brain

Four decades ago, university researchers figured out the key to computer privacy, sparking a battle with the National Security Agency that continues today.

Boeing is once again under fire for its quality control practices, which a new report finds may delay a NASA lunar landing.

SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.

Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing.

Fine-grained parallelism with sub-nanosecond overhead in Zig - judofyr/spice

Nine thoughts on Apple’s own expectations and spend, what the Vision Pro has and hasn’t achieved, fair and unfair evaluations, and more after six months

The bombshell allegations may violate the EPA's Clean Water Act.

Waymo plans to start testing its fully autonomous vehicles with no human safety driver on freeways in the San Francisco Bay Area this week. Its employees

Damn Vulnerable UEFI. Contribute to hacking-support/DVUEFI development by creating an account on GitHub.

A study published in the Journal of Hospitality of Marketing & Management finds that consumers are very much turned off by products that say they are “AI-powered”

npj Complexity - Antifragility in complex dynamical systems

As AI and cloud computing fuel acquisitions in the technology sector, these mergers and acquisitions are increasingly under review.