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Gmail Launches Add-ons
New Gmail Add-ons to help you speed up your workflows at work.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 822 posts.
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Tor at the Heart: Firefox
During the month of December, we're highlighting other organizations and projects that rely on...
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Why Infrastructure Is So Expensive
If we can align the incentives of the players involved, we can build infrastructure that is actually necessary and while doing it quicker and at lower prices than we do now.
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Secret colours of the Commodore 64
In 1991 I was fourteen years old. It would be fair to say I was obsessed with computers. I proudly owned a brown ‘breadbox’ Commodore 64 with an exotic upgrade - an Oceanic 5.25” disk drive:
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Build Yourself a Redux
Learn how to build a working Redux implementation from scratch. Our implementation won't cover every nuance, but we'll remove most of the mystery.
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Writing a Bootloader
This post describes how to write a simple Hello world bootloader
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P vs. NP
For those who just want the survey itself, not the backstory, it’s here. (Note: Partly because of the feedback I’ve gotten on this blog, it’s now expanded to 121 pages!) Upda…
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An analysis of the Nomx secure communications device
With slick marketing, catchy taglines and some pretty bold claims about their security, nomx claim to have cracked email security. Let's see if they have.
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What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
The Apple Watch desperately needs standalone podcast playback, especially with the LTE-equipped Series 3, which was designed specifically for exercising without an iPhone.
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Minimal PDF
Most PDF files do not look readable in a text editor. Compression, encryption, and embedded images are largely to blame. After removing these three components, one can more easily see that PDF is a human-readable document description language.
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Reason 3
Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
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Learning to operate Kubernetes reliably
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices
Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project ZeroIn this blog post we’ll complete our goal of achieving...
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How to Get into Natural Language Processing
We’re excited to introduce a new series we’re calling Paths [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/category/paths/]. Each post will outline an emerging technology and give you clear steps on how to get started in that field. This series was designed with makers and aspiring entrepreneurs in mind. We talked to college…
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Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective
Introduction / Warning Link to heading Any traditional introductory statistics course will teach students the definitions of modes, medians and means. But, because introductory courses can’t assume that students have much mathematical maturity, the close relationship between these three summary statistics can’t be…
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The Marketing Behind MongoDB
Countless NoSQL databases competed to be the database of choice. MongoDB's marketing strategy helped it become the winner.
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How I learned to program
Tavish Armstrong has a great document where he describes how and when he learned the programming skills he has . I like this idea because I've found that the paths that people take to get into programming are much more varied than stereotypes give credit for, and I think it's useful to see that there are many possible…
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JSC loves ES6
Update: The previous version of this post showed performance data from ARES-6 version 1.0.
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How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it
Channable is a tool for marketeers and webshop owners that connects shops to market places, affiliate platforms, and comparison websites. We download product data through a feed or API connection, clean it up using our configurable rules engine, and we send the transformed data to any platform.
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Towards a JavaScript Binary AST
In this blog post, I would like to introduce the JavaScript Binary AST, an ongoing project that we hope will help make webpages load faster, along with a number of other benefits. A little background Over the years, JavaScript has grown from one of the slowest scripting languages available to a high-performance…
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Cloudflare Stream – Combines video encoding, global delivery, and player
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010. It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.