The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years, but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm? Are rankings purely based on votes or do invisible factors come into play? Do stories about the … Read more
I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making … Read more
Mark Raasveldt and Hannes Mühleisen 2026-08-17 | 15 min TL;DR: DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new … Read more
When I wrote this week about Anthropic’s announcement that all Claude models, worldwide, would soon begin “watermarking” everything they generate, including text, to comply with this EU regulation, we were left to speculate how this was going to work, because … Read more
cr.yp.to: 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8 Older (Access-J): 2026.07.04: Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ. #pqcrypto #bugs #vulnerabilities #hybrids Table of contents (Access-I for index page) 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8: Fairness. #pqcrypto … Read more
