Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 426 posts.
Two days ago, Ashe Dryden published an article I’ve been desperately wishing someone would write for months: The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the OSS Community . It’s a detailed, well-researched take-down of the seemingly quite popular myth that open-source contributions are a useful way to screen candidates for…
There are a lot of people complaining about lousy software patents these days. I say, stop complaining, and start killing them. It took me about fifteen minutes to stop a crappy Microsoft patent fr…
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Aug 16, 2013. 6 min read. Update (6-9-2013) This code is now also available as the “jump” plugin in oh-my-zsh. Update (18-8-2013): Thanks to the many useful suggestions in the discussion on Hacker News, I have added (1) quotes to the code, (2) a section about tab completion, and (3) a…
Since this January, David Anderson and I have been working on making Firefox use multiple processes. Tom Schuster (evilpie on IRC) joined us as an intern this summer, and Felipe Gomes, Mark Hammond…
Doug Engelbart died today. His work has always been very difficult for writers to interpret and explain.
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I recently became interested in identifying the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. I started from the Bitcoin whitepaper [0] published in late 2008, and proceeded to run reverse tex…
This guide aims to introduce newcomers and experienced programmers alike to the beauty of functional programming, starting with the simplest building blocks of software. You’ll need a computer, basic proficiency in the command line, a text editor, and an internet connection. By the end of this series, you’ll have a…
You may be concerned that the NSA is reading your e-mail. Is there really anything you can do about it though? After all, you don’t really want to move off of GMail / Google Apps. And no plac…
There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent.
This story appears in my collection Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present , 2007
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Applied Cryptography taught two generations of developers what they know about crypto, and it is a dreadful instruction manual. The book to replace it with, and what you still have to learn after.
There's been some discussion about forward secret TLS recently, spurred, I think, by this piece from Declan McCullagh on CNET.
This post is a work in progress.Inspired by a recent purchase of the Red Book, which providesa curated list of important papers around database systems, I’ve decidedto begin assembling a list of im...
토토사이트가 새로이 출시되고 있습니다. 신규 인기 플랫폼에서는 페이팔, 넷텔러, 신용카드, 한화 계좌 이체, 암호화폐 등의 결제 수단을 이용할 수 있습니다. 또한, 라이브 스트리밍, 베팅 빌더, 배당률 부스트 등의 혁신적인 기능을 제공하여 더욱 편리한 스포츠 베팅을 할 수 있습니다.
This page was created by Aaron Swartz in 2003 detailing what, at the time, he would like to be performed in event of his decease. Aaron passed away in January 2013. This page was not updated between those dates, so it has now been updated to assist the general public.
I'm currently on a cruise ship somewhere in the Mediterranean sea, en route from Barcelona to Casablanca. Most people here are either retirees enjoying the easy life or younger fol...
Since I started working with Snowden’s documents, I have been using a number of tools to try to stay secure from the NSA. The advice I shared included using Tor, preferring certain cryptography over others, and using public-domain encryption wherever possible. I also recommended using an air gap, which physically…
In a book called Three Felonies A Day, Boston civil rights lawyer Harvey Silverglate says that everyone in the US commits felonies everyday and if the governmen
I've taken 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and I've redone them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. I call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?
Two years ago this summer I read a book that changed the entire way I see the world. I had been researching various topics — law, politics, the media — and become more and more convinced that something was seriously wrong. Politicians, I was shocked to discover, weren’t actually doing what the people wanted. And the…
