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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,327 posts.
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You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov?
Harvard celebrates the 100th anniversary of a computational principle that was little noticed in its time, but that underlies all of modern science.
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UX Design for Startups
A must read for any startup or grown-up company that wishes to keep its startup spirit and conquer the world with stunning UX Design.
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Megafail
In case you’ve been living under a rock the past few days, Kim Dotcom (of Megaupload infamy) has launched his new cloud storage site, Mega. Mega has an impressive sales pitch, promising secure cloud storage where only the user has the key to decrypt his or her files, and the encryption and decryption happens securely…
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The Psychedelic Experience FAQ
A Frequently Asked Questions file about Psychedelic Experiences
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What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
People who worked with Steve Jobs (I'll call him Steve) usually don't talk about it. It's kind of an unwritten rule, partly because he was obsessive about his privacy.
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The Way Server-Side Analytics Should Be
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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Basecamp Personal
Since the beginning, Basecamp has been marketed as a collaboration tool for small businesses (or small groups inside larger businesses). However, over the years we’ve also heard from many thousands of people who use Basecamp outside of work. They’ve turned to Basecamp to help them ma…
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Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads
Used in conjunction, NginX and Node.JS are the perfect partnership for high-throughput web applications. They’re both built using event-driven design...
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The Prosecution of Aaron: A Response to Orin Kerr
Aaron Swartz committed suicide last week. He was 26, a genius and my friend. Not a really good friend, but someone I had worked with off and on for 11 years, liked a lot, had laughed with frequently, occasionally shaken my head over and deeply admired. When I first met him he looked like this.
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Stripe Checkout
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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Announcing the jQuery Plugin Registry
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Clustrix, a distributed SQL DB, launches on AWS
Keep your databases online with MariaDB Enterprise Platform. MaxScale, Galera Cluster and Raft clustering give you automatic failover, read scaling and zero data loss.
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I conceal my identity the same way Aaron was indicted for
According to his indictment , Aaron Swartz was charged with wirefraud for concealing/changing his "true identity". It sent chills down my ba...
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Building A Node.js Server That Won't Melt
This is episode 5, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla's Identity team. For this post, we bring the discussion back to scaling ...
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JQuery 1.9 has been released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library