1861
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,098 posts.
1862
1863
Let's Build an MP3 Decoder
Even though MP3 is probably the single most well known file format and codec on Earth, it’s not very well understood by most programmers – for many encoders/decoders is in the class of software “other people” write, like standard libraries or operating system kernels. This article will attempt to demystify the…
1864
1865
Automate Everything - the hacker way
<p>Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (...
1866
1867
Confiscating your ice cream cones
Hey, remember that awesome Hello City Planner video about how the Government is going to have to come and confiscate your ice cream cones? I thought the best thing about it was that it was actually created by the SF Planning Department, but I was wrong. It gets better: it turns out, it's a true story!! Before Ice…
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
How I Learned to Program
How I learned to program, and my advice for beginners: use Linux, want it badly, build small command line programs, write a lot, join IRC, have fun.
1874
1875
The Apple Voice
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
1876
1877
Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.
This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact). A couple people asked me why I felt that way. Rather than respond individually, I'll just list my reasons here — codeslinger.posterous.com
1878
1879
1880
1881
Introducing Times (for Python)
A tiny pet library for dealing with datetimes and timezones in Python.
1882
1883
1884
SSH tricks
This post is part of my “Unix fundamentals” series. Recent posts in this series include settling into Unix , standalone lexers with lex , and sculpting text with regex, grep, sed and awk .
1885
UK chemist on Elsevier's ban on textmining
This is the first post of probably several in my concern about textmining. You do NOT have to be a scientist to understand the point with total clarity. This topic is one of the most important I have written about this year. We are at a critical point where unless we take action our scholarly rights will be further…
1886
1887
The Hacker Way
I don't normally comment on the day's news, but I want to make an exception today to share something from Facebook's S-1 filing . Over the n...
1888
1889
1890
Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)