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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. 646 posts.
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Impossible Escape?
Can you use math to escape from, what seems like, an impossible prison escape problem based on coins and a chessboard?
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Why is finance so complex? (2011)
Lisa Pollack at FT Alphaville mulls a question : “Why are we so good at creating complexity in finance?” The answer she comes up with is the “ Flynn Effect “, basically the idea that there is an uptrend in human intelligence. Finance, in this view, gets more complex over time because financiers get smart enough to…
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The sad state of SMTP encryption
This is a quick recap of why I’m sad about SMTP encryption. It explains how TLS certificate verification in SMTP is useless even if you force it.
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Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace
Stephen Wolfram shares what he learned in researching Ada Lovelace's life, writings about the Analytical Engine, and computation of Bernoulli numbers.
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Shoelace knots
List of different knots for shoelace tying speed, simplicity, security or style.
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Explaining the browser's event loop, tasks, and microtasks
When I told my colleague Matt Gaunt I was thinking of writing a piece on microtask queueing and execution within the browser's event loop, he said "I'll be honest with you Jake, I'm not going to read that". Well, I've written it anyway, so we're all going to sit here and enjoy it, ok?
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Homemade Memristor (2011)
Modified curve tracer is applying AC voltage. Horizontal axis represents voltage and the vertical axis represents current. In both cases, the curve always passes through zero voltage and current. This requirement must be met in order to be classified as a memristor.
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Where Rust really shines
Yesterday I was working on a small feature for the Rust compiler, and came across a situation which really showcased Rust’s awesomeness as a language …
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Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"
Search IETF mail list archives
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How I develop with Nix
Recently NixOS was posted to the Haskell reddit, and seems to have been received well. In the comments I mentioned that NixOS allows me to be a more productive Haskell developer, and I would like to discuss how I am using the features offered by NixOS. Before we get into those details, allow me to briefly summarise…
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How to achieve low latency with 10Gbps Ethernet
In a recent blog post we explained how to tweak a simple UDP application to maximize throughput. This time we are going to optimize our UDP application for latency. Fighting with latency is a great excuse to discuss modern features of multiqueue NICs.
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Asm.js Speedups Everywhere
asm.js is an easy-to-optimize subset of JavaScript. It runs in all browsers without plugins, and is a good target for porting C/C++ codebases such as game engines - which have ...
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Safe Native Code
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Epistemic learned helplessness (2013)
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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A vulnerability in WebLogic, WebSphere, JBoss, Jenkins, OpenNMS and others
By @breenmachine What? The most underrated, underhyped vulnerability of 2015 has recently come to my attention, and I’m about to bring it to yours. No one gave it a fancy name, there were no …
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How to Write with Style (1985)
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and…
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Hacker Who Sent Me Heroin Faces Charges in U.S
A Ukrainian hacker who once hatched a plot to have heroin sent to my Virginia home and then alert police when the drugs arrived had his first appearance in a U.S. court today, after being extradited to the United States to face multiple cybercrime charges.
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First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked.
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8088 PC Speaker MOD player: How it’s done
The last 100 seconds of 8088 MPH sound very different to the rest of the demo. The end tune is actually a 4-channel Amiga MOD file (which you can download here ) composed by coda . Playing back a MOD through PC speaker on such a slow machine has never been done before. Here is how we did it.
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Introducing JetBrains Toolbox
Final Update (September 18th): The licensing model had been updated. Read the update from our CEO Maxim Shafirov. Update 2 (September 8th): The licensing model announced previously including conditio
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Syntax across languages
Looking for operator or function names? Well have a look at the following and remember using existing one may ease the transition :)
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Reactive MVC and the Virtual DOM
Model-View-Intent is a unidirectional data flow architecture with Virtual DOM rendering for single-page web apps, similar to React and Flux but with plenty of surprising additions.
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Which topics get the upvote on Hacker News?
Hacker News is a popular social news website, mostly covering technology and startup topics. It relies on user submissions and moderation, where each submitted story can be upvoted and commented by users, which in term determines whether the story reaches the front page and how long it stays there.