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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,419 posts.
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Turing Test Success
Our previous content management system has been retired, and the news and article content it held has been archived. You can now browse the archived content by year, month, or topic using the links below.
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Harry Eng – Master Bottle Filler
Harry was born in 1932 and died in 1996. He was a school teacher, educational consultant, inventor, and magician. A web search will tell you a little about his many talents but in summary:
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Stripe: Open Source Retreat Grantees
Learn how to build web and mobile applications to accept payments, send payouts, and manage your business online with Stripe.
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Introducing Pseudo IPv4
Today is June 6. For the last two years, the date has been celebrated as World IPv6 Day. CloudFlare has offered full IPv6 support as well as our IPv6-to-IPv4 gateway since 2012.
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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
Results in mice are first evidence of natural intervention triggering stem cell-dependent regeneration of organ or system ; p rotection from chemotherapy immunosuppression indicates effect could be conserved in humans.
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Performance comparison of Functional C++ 11, Java 8, JavaScript and Wolfram
In a recent post , Andreas declared his love for the programming language FORTRAN. He concluded his post with the question “Can a functional...
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The new X-Men movie explained in Git
I went to see X-Men: Days of Future Past last weekend. While having a heated discussion about the logic behind the time travel in the movie with fellow Rocketeer Lucas Galego, we realized that Git provides a great analogy for time travel. So here you have it, the new X-Men movie explained in Git. SPOILER ALERT If you…
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PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
Citus gives you all the greatness of Postgres plus the superpowers of distributed tables. By distributing your data and queries, your application gets high performance—at any scale. The Citus database is available as open source and as a managed service on Azure.
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Gittip, Year Two
Gittip Works! But not yet for Gittip
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Judge Releases Information about Police Use of Stingray Cell Phone Trackers
A Florida judge has sided with the ACLU to order release of information about police use of “stingrays,” which are invasive surveillance devices that send out powerful signals to trick cell phones into transmitting their locations and identifying information. The Tallahassee judge’s pro-transparency decision stands in…
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I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time
Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two of the most iconic supercomputers ever made.
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Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999
New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.
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Light Table 0.6.6
Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands: