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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,414 posts.
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Feature Toggles
Feature Flags can be categorized into several buckets; manage each appropriately. Smart implementation can help constrain complexity.
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Microsoft will donate $1B in cloud services to nonprofits and universities
As Satya Nadella announced today, we’re committed to putting the Microsoft Cloud to work for the public good. That’s why Microsoft Philanthropies, with support from Microsoft Research and Microsoft Business Development, will donate $1 billion in Microsoft cloud services to nonprofits and university researchers over…
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Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab
Easily learn programming and computational thinking with the Wolfram Programming Lab environment. Jump in and explore or learn systematically.
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Clojure 1.8
We are pleased to announce the release of Clojure 1.8. Some of the new features for 1.8 are: More string functions in clojure.string (portable to ClojureScri...
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EFF Pries More Information on Zero Days from the Government
Until just last week, the U.S. government kept up the charade that its use of a stockpile of security vulnerabilities for hacking was a closely held secret.[fn]For what it's worth, the government denies having a “Raiders of the Lost Ark style” stockpile of zero days.[/fn] In fact, in response to...
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The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads
There are still some rough edges here, and also a fair amount of content to be added. But if we waited until everything was polished before publishing, it would probably never happen. So feel free to make comments, suggestions, or contribute new content. As always, pull requests are the most desirable.
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How Elon Musk Stole My Car
A personal story detailing a Tesla purchase gone wrong, deposit dispute, and lessons learned from dealing with Tesla’s direct sales model.
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The Rails Doctrine
Read about Rails design pillars like convention over configuration, optimize for programmer happiness, value integrated systems, the menu is omakase, push up a bit tent, and more.
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2^74207281-1 is Prime
GIMPS has discovered a new Mersenne prime number: 2^74207281-1 is prime! Discovered: 2016 Jan 07
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Analysis and Exploitation of a Linux Kernel Vulnerability
FortiMail Workspace Security secures user-facing apps from advanced threats that target Email, Browsers, Collaboration Tools and Cloud Storage Apps.
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Why Is Your Team Falling Behind? Ask ‘The Penny Game’
Use the Penny Game to explore the difference between capacity and output, and why backlogs invariably grow, no matter how hard you work.
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A free shipping mystery
If you've ever purchased a physical good on the internet, you know that shipping is a big deal. And all online shop owners know that providing competitive shipping is a key part of their success. It is indeed one of Amazon's greatest strengths and they are famous for offering free shipping to their Amazon Prime…
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“Subject: Urgent Warning”
Back in December I got a desperate email from this person. A woman who said her Instagram had been hacked and since she found my contact info in the app she mailed me and asked for help. I of course replied and said that I have nothing to do with her being hacked but I … Continue reading “Subject: Urgent Warning” →
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Video games are essential for inventing artificial intelligence
The most important thing for humanity to do right now is to invent true artificial intelligence (AI): machines or software that can think an...
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Org-Mode for Writing: Structure and Focus
Org-mode is a structured editor that combines the best features of a powerful outliner and a powerful editor in one package. I’ve been fooling with org-mode a lot lately, digging into capabil…
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C++11 threads, affinity and hyperthreading
For decades, the C and C++ standards treated multi-threading and concurrency as something existing outside the standard sphere - in that "target-dependent" world of shades which the "abstract machine" targeted by the standards doesn't cover. The immediate, cold-blooded replies of "C++ doesn't know what a thread is" in…
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How to Leverage Technical Debt
“There ain’t no good debt, only different types. A cunning hacker is one who leverages some debt, in some circumstances, to create good…
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Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir
Codemancers is an AI-first engineering and product studio. We design, build, and ship intelligent products — combining deep software craftsmanship with modern AI to solve real-world problems at scale.
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Multiple cameras and motion detection on the Raspberry Pi
Learn how to access *multiple cameras* (including USB webcams and the Raspberry Pi camera module) using your Raspberry Pi, Python, and OpenCV.
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Top Books on Amazon Based on Links in Hacker News Comments
This visualization shows the top 30 books ranked by total number of links to Amazon in Hacker News comments from Oct 2006 to Oct 2015.