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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 637 posts.
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Jordan Mechner
Jordan Mechner is an author, graphic novelist, screenwriter and video game designer, best known as the creator of Prince of Persia. Follow his latest projects here.
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bliki: Bounded Context
Don't try to build a single, unified model for a large domain. Instead DDD advises us to divide such a domain into many bounded contexts with explicit relationships between them.
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The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy
One of the most widely misused terms on the Net is "ad hominem". It is most often introduced into a discussion by certain delicate types, delicate of personality and mind, whenever their opponents resort to a bit of sarcasm . As soon as the suspicion of an insult appears, they summon the angels of ad hominem to smite…
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Comparing Floating Point Numbers, 2012 Edition
This post is a more carefully thought out and peer reviewed version of a floating-point comparison article I wrote many years ago. This one gives solid advice and some surprising observations about…
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The 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google Ads
While the minimum bid per keyword is 5 cents in Google Ads, the highest cost keywords are nowhere near that. Google can make up to $50 per click from the most expensive PPC keywords, and keyword advertising is a highly lucrative business. Learn all about the most expensive keywords for your industry.
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Code: It’s Trivial
Remember that Stack Overflow thing we’ve been working on? Some commenters on a recent Hacker News article questioned the pricing of Stack Exchange – essentially, a hosted Stack Overflow: Seems really pricey for a relatively simple software like this. Someone write an open source alternative? it looks like something…
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org-drill.el – flashcards and spaced repetition for org-mode
Org-Drill is an extension for Org mode . Org-Drill uses a spaced repetition algorithm to conduct interactive "drill sessions", using org files as sources of facts to be memorised. Each topic is treated as a "flash card". The material to be remembered is presented to the student in random order. The student rates his…
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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Publisher Transformation with Users at the Center
*Feb. 13 update: I posted more details about Directory Tiles here.* We believe that if you put the user front and center, you can make ...
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Open-sourcing Haxl, a library for Haskell
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Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable
Today during an otherwise terrible lecture on ADHD I realized something important we get sort of backwards. There’s this stereotype that the Left believes that human characteristics are socia…
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In Favor of Niceness, Community, and Civilization
[Content warning: Discussion of social justice, discussion of violence, spoilers for Jacqueline Carey books.] [Edit 10/25: This post was inspired by a debate with a friend of a friend on Facebook w…
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Churchill's "Democracy is the Worst Form of Government..."
Churchill didn't invent the famous remark, concluding that democracy worked best despite its faults; but he certainly made it famous.
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Mystery signal from a helicopter
I heard a mysterious sound in a Youtube video and started to investigate.
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Fraudulent trading activity at Mt. Gox
Somewhere in December 2013, a number of traders including myself began noticing suspicious bot behavior on Mt. Gox. Basically, a random number between 10 and 20 bitcoin would be bought every 5-10 m…
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Java for Everything
I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This was clearly a way to avoid actually naming a language for fear of picking one I didn’t like.
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Downloading Software Safely Is Nearly Impossible
Let’s say you have a brand-new Windows laptop and you’re just oh, so happy. You’re pretty sure the NSA did not interdict it during shipment , and thus that it comes only with the flaky goatware Microsoft, Lenovo, and any number of Lenovo’s business partners intended for it to have. Now all you need is an SSH client so…
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First Atomic Clock Wristwatch
Do not be misled. The many "atomic time" wristwatches you see on the market today are merely cheap quartz wristwatches with a built-in radio receiver. The watch sets itself from 60 kHz VLF radio time signals transmitted by NIST from station WWVB near the US atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. At least once a day…
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IntelliJ IDEA 14 Released
Discover IntelliJ IDEA 2026.3 with JetBrains Air, Java and Kotlin for Cursor and VS Code, the Hibernate debugger, Git worktrees, cross-database queries, DuckDB, any LSP server, a libghostty terminal, and Java 28.
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Tor security advisory: “relay early” traffic confirmation attack
This advisory was posted on the tor-announce mailing list. SUMMARY: On July 4 2014 we found a...
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HFT in My Backyard
INTRO As soon as the summer sun returns to Belgium, there is a natural human migration from Francophone Wallonia to the west coast sea in the Flemish part of the country. Here, à la mer du Nord, pe…
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The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking
How much overhead should we expect from enabling integer overflow checks? Using a compiler flag or built-in intrinsics, we should be able to do the check with a conditional branch that branches based on the overflow flag that add and sub set. Code that looks like
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Keyless SSL: The Nitty Gritty Technical Details
We announced Keyless SSL yesterday to an overwhelmingly positive response. We read through the comments on this blog, Reddit, Hacker News, and people seem interested in knowing more and getting deeper into the technical details.
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