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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,098 posts.
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Visitor Tracking Without Cookies (or How To Abuse HTTP 301s)
A technique for abusing HTTP 301 redirects and random numbers to uniquely track users; even those who have cookies disabled in their web browsers.
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Traveling Salesman: the most misunderstood problem
Whenever people start talking about NP-Complete problems, or even NP problems, one of the first examples they reach for is the classic Traveling Salesperson Problem. TSP makes sense because it int...
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Toshiba laptop service manuals and the sorry state of copyright law
As you would be no doubt already aware, I run a section of my blog here devoted to the free sharing of laptop service manuals. This is a side project I have run for the last three years, gathering as many repair manuals as I could find on the internet and rehosting them on my website for anybody to download and use.
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The Nature of Lisp
An article about Lisp programming language.
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Writing A Lisp Interpreter In Haskell
An article describing the experience of writing a Lisp interpreter in Haskell.
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Evil, or why Douglas Crockford is harmful to Free Software
Yesterday I received a new serious bug report against Mono in Debian. For those not in the know, “serious” severity is release critical, and can trigger removal of a package from the di…
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That'll Never Work
I got invited to speak at the last Hacker News London meet up and gave a talk called That'll Never Work! about crazy ideas and what to do ...
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I am a terrible programmer
I recently got this from the co-founder of Artsicle, a startup I interned for over the summer after my freshman year: From: Scott Carleton Subject: just re
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More HTML5 APIs
This blog post explores many HTML5 APIs, including Fullscreen API, Page Visibility API, getUserMedia API, Battery API, and Link Prefetching!
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GNOME (et al): Rotting In Threes
Since SpaceFM is entering the GTK3 realm (SpaceFM can now be built on anything from GTK 2.18 “I won’t give up my lenny!” thru GTK 3.6.x), I’m starting to hear more feedback …
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No Studying After 5pm: Using Parkinson’s Law to Kick Procrastination’s Ass
Sean Gransee is a full-stack software engineer from Chicago offering consulting services. He's also building some apps on the side.
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The birthday paradox in action: calculating the probability of a hash collision
You may feel like you've seen this before. If you have, skip to the end where I talk about a formula, and discuss the relevance to parameters in computer hashing algorithms. In particular, I'm going to talk about how large hash spaces should be to avoid collisions with a given level of probability. If there are just…
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The perfect email
As you might imagine, I get many random inbound emails. Last I checked, I was getting about 500 emails a day, and about 50 of them a day are from people I don’t know. They often ask for advice, or just want me to look at their startup for investment. This is fine, I try … Continue Reading >
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Meet the new Light Table
We have to start with a picture. Or hey, just go download it and see for yourself.
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How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading
How I made $500k from high frequency trading using machine learning to optimize a trading algorithm for Russell 2000 and DAX futures, trading independently without working for a quant firm.
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"I think you will all appreciate this person's commenting style"
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