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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 978 posts.
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The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT researchers find a way to increase the speed of one of the most important algorithms in the information sciences.
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Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts
Postmark started by solving the pain of sending emails for your web applications. We’re closing the loop by making easy to parse incoming emails.
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World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012, To Bring Permanent IPv6 Deployment
Today marks the start of a new era for IPv6. Building on the great success of last year’s World IPv6 Day, this year’s “World IPv6 Launch” will bring together major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world to permanently enable IPv6 for their…
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Google IP Vandalizing OpenStreetMap [Not a comprehensive post]
Two OpenStreetMap accounts have been vandalizing OSM in London, New York and elsewhere from Google’s IP address, the same address in India reported by Mocality.
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Trust is Fragile
Taylor’s post about our growth in 2011 included a bunch of numbers showing how the pistons inside the 37signals engine are pounding faster, but it all got swept away by what seemed like an innocent side-note: The 100 millionth file was called cat.jpg. Being as it is that the internet is co…
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PyPy: Transactional Memory (II)
Here is an update about the previous blog post about the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). In 5 months, the point of view changed quite a bit...
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How Copyright Industries Con Congress
I’ve yet to encounter a technically clueful person who believes the Stop Online Piracy Act will actually do anything to meaningfully reduce—let alone “stop”—online piracy, and so I haven’t bothered writing much about the absurd numbers the bill’s supporters routinely bandy about in hopes of persuading lawmakers that…
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Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
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FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights:
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Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI
Sublime Text 2 Beta 2165 is out now, with the biggest set of improvements yet. Some of the highlights are:
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Designing Great API Docs
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Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams
Small software teams are dramatically more cost efficient than large teams. Large teams don't even confer much calendar time advantage over small teams.
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Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Deconstructing "K&R C"
Learn C The Hard Way (LCTHW) is a practical book teaching real world useful C using the same proven Learn The Hard Way method. LCTHW teaches real robust C coding and defensive programming tactics on real hardware rather than abstract machines and pedantic theory. The book emphasizes breaking your code on purpose, and…
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Windows to Mac to Windows to Mac to... Linux? It doesn't matter.
Over the last 20 years, my primary computing environment has gone from Windows 3.1, to Mac OS 6/7/8/9, to Windows for about a decade, and then back to a Mac a couple of years ago. Recently, I switched to using a Linux desktop as my primary computer. I can’t say that there’s a dramatic r…
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Google: Search, plus Your World
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Frequently asked questions by the Press
Note: Many of these questions are now answered in much more depth in my book, Weaving the Web