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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. 644 posts.
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Hacking Transcend WiFi SD Cards
UPDATE : This post has been featured in the Hacker News front page! Thanks! I have also updated this post with additional information (at t...
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Teenager Who Reads News Online? According to the DoJ, You May Be a Criminal
During his first term, President Barack Obama declared October 2009 to be “National Information Literacy Awareness Month,” emphasizing that, for students, learning to navigate the online world is as important a skill as reading, writing and arithmetic. It was a move that echoed his predecessor's...
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The Rent Seeking Economy
If you're the site owner, please check your site management tools to verify your domain settings.
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Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence…
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Hyperloop: riding sound’s density peak to exploit the drag equation?
Super short version: if you ride along with a low enough frequency soundwave at the speed of sound, you can trade reduced incoming particle velocity for increased incoming particle density; the dra…
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Haskell Lenses In Pictures
Aditya Bhargava's personal blog.
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Who wrote the 'Death Note' script?
Internal, external, stylometric evidence point to live-action leak of 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒 Hollywood script being real.
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How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist?
Recent revelations about PRISM, the NSA’s massive program of surveillance of civilian communications have caused quite a stir. And rightfully so, as it appears that the agency has been grante…
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Alcoholism in Antarctica
This is a post over two months in the making as it’s pulled together some hard times from Pole. I hope it helps someone. While I stand by what I’ve done and my justifications, I can’t say they give me great comfort. Today is Midwinter in Antarctica. It is one of the most important dates … Continue reading "Alcoholism…
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A surprising JavaScript memory leak found at Meteor
This week, my teammates at Meteor tracked down a surprising JavaScript memory leak . I searched the web for variations on javascript closure memory leak and came up with nothing relevant, so maybe this is a relatively unknown issue. (Most of what you find for that query talks about the bad garbage collection algorithm…
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Replacing Python
In the first post, I took a brief look at the programming languages ATS, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, Python and Rust to try to decide which would be the …
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Unshackle the Middle Class
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
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Product Strategy Means Saying No
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
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Farewell to Aaron Swartz
Yesterday Aaron Swartz, a close friend and collaborator of ours, committed suicide. This is a tragic end to a brief and extraordinary life. Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and...
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Node.js and the new web front-end
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Here come the encryption apps
It seems like these days I can’t eat breakfast without reading about some new encryption app that will (supposedly) revolutionize our communications — while making tyrannical regimes fa…
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Call me maybe: Redis redux
In a recent blog post , antirez detailed a new operation in Redis: WAIT . WAIT is proposed as an enhancement to Redis’ replication protocol to reduce the window of data loss in replicated Redis systems; clients can block awaiting acknowledgement of a write to a given number of nodes (or time out if the given threshold…
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Machine Learning Cheat Sheet (for scikit-learn)
As you hopefully have heard, we at scikit-learn are doing a user survey (which is still open by the way). One of the requests there was t...
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Wired Love: a novel from 1880 that could have been written last week
A weblog about politics, technology, and culture