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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 526 posts.
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Cloudflare Attack Post Mortem; Apparent Google Apps/Gmail Vulnerability
This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack was the result of a compromise of Google's account security procedures.
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Traveling Salesman: the most misunderstood problem
Whenever people start talking about NP-Complete problems, or even NP problems, one of the first examples they reach for is the classic Traveling Salesperson Problem. TSP makes sense because it int...
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Experimental Python 3 support in Django
Posted by Aymeric Augustin on Aug. 19, 2012
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Hacker School: Summer 2012 Applications Open + Etsy Scholarships
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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The Opposite of a Bloom Filter
A Bloom filter is a data structure that may report it contains an item that it does not (a false positive), but is guaranteed to report correctly if it contains the item (“no false negatives”). The opposite of a Bloom filter is a data structure that may report a false negative, but can never report a false positive…
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Sublime Text 2.0 Released
Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that Sublime Text 2 has graduated out of beta, with 2.0 now available for your text editing pleasure.
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Eight years today
The car in front of me kept hesitating. The driver couldn't seem to decide where to turn. Up ahead I could see that the light was green, but...
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You can do it alone
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
The Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud is a startup self-incubator. Six successful applicants will receive a modest amount of funding and as much publicity as I can provide for their sustainable and useful business idea.
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Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
Web Extension version of the Firefox Lightbeam add-on - mozilla/lightbeam-we
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EFF Wins Protection for Time Zone Database
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce that a copyright lawsuit threatening an important database of time zone information has been dismissed. The astrology software company that filed the lawsuit, Astrolabe, has also apologized and agreed to a 'covenant not...
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How Syria Turned Off the Internet
Today, 29 November 2012, between 1026 and 1028 (UTC), all traffic from Syria to the rest of the Internet stopped. At CloudFlare, we witnessed the drop off. We've spent the morning studying the situation to understand what happened.
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What I Learned From Increasing My Prices
Last month Bidsketch had the biggest increase in revenue it’s ever had. Before that, the biggest increase in revenue came when FreshBooks emailed a million people and mentioned Bidsketch as a new integration for sales proposals. I got so many new sales notifications that day, I thought someone had hacked my server. It…
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Building my Own Laptop
We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
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Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco
Update, 14 Feb 2014: A year and a half on from writing this, Tesco has indeed suffered a serious security incident almost certainly as a result of some of the risks originally detailed here. Read more about it in The Tesco hack – here’s how it (probably) happened [https://www.
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CoffeeScript: less typing, bad readability
I’ve used CoffeeScript for a few months now. Coming from Python, I felt that CoffeeScript was more concise than Javascript, so I decided to use it for a few small projects. Initially, it was a nice experience, but then I gradually realized that, while writing CoffeeScript code was very pleasant, reading it wasn’t so…