System package managers and language package managers are solving different problems that happen to overlap in the middle.

How Many Chess Games are Possible? Here is a fun question: how many different games of chess are possible? Counting the number of possible chess games is quite hard, as the numbers are large and ch…

Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+ years. It feels really good when every problem I’m ever going to have has been solved already 1000 times and I can…

The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface.

The world has benefited from the Apple cofounder’s generosity of spirit for 50 years now—and it’s not just about the PC revolution his genius helped catalyze.

The new year has started and I was once again looking for a simple calendar to do some yearly planning. I've tried to find something for this use …

Online editor to create and manipulate SVG paths

ASML heeft een enorme groei voor de boeg. Een recordaantal aan nieuwe orders is binnengekomen. Maar de Veldhovense chipmachinefabrikant gaat ook reorganiseren, ten koste van 1700 banen.

A personal reflection on the decision to stop following daily news and its impact on my well-being.

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...

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WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses against malware threats. WhatsApp’s experience creating and distri…

A directory of games from Hacker News Show HN posts.

Free GNU+Linux base OS. Devuan is a fork of Debian without systemd. Devuan provides a safe upgrade path from Debian, to ensure the right to Init Freedom and avoid entanglement.

US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants.

The revelation comes as the US’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comes…

Arm’s 7-series cores started out as the company’s highest performance offerings.