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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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Light Table Playground Levels Up
I’m happy to announce the release of v0.0.7 of the Light Table Playground . This version is a serious upgrade to the Instarepl that brings the ability to manually evaluate things and work in your own projects.
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Trello is now half million strong
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Bringing Craigslist Back
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
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Software Inventory by Joel Spolsky
Imagine, for a moment, that you came upon a bread factory for the first time. At first it just looks like a jumble of incomprehensible machinery with a few people buzzing around. As your eyes adjus…
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Confession of a Haskell Hacker
I have a confession to make. I recently released two Haskell packages, lens-family-core and lens-family based on my previous blog post and Edward Kmett’s blog post . However, I never tested this code before releasing it. By “never tested”, I mean that I am pretty sure that I never once executed any of this code. I did…
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Three NSA Whistleblowers Back EFF's Lawsuit Over Government Spying Program
San Francisco - Three whistleblowers – all former employees of the National Security Agency (NSA) – have come forward to give evidence in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) lawsuit against the government's illegal mass surveillance program, Jewel v. NSA. In a motion filed today, the three...
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The Caves of Clojure
Lately I've had an urge to start playing a few games again, namely Nethack and Dwarf Fortress (the latter being triggered by this book ). Aside from being incredibly fun, they also made me want to play around with writing a roguelike game of my own.
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Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer
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jQuery Joyride Plugin
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The True Story of the Amazon Door-Desk
Several years ago, I said I would no longer publicly comment about my time in 1996–1997 as Amazon.com's catalog manager. Why? Because my knowledge and memory were so out of date, and I did not keep a journal during that period. It would be silly for me
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Introducing BitTorrent Torque
Over a decade ago we introduced BitTorrent technology and BitTorrent clients, and the Internet was profoundly changed. This week we are aiming to revolutionize the web once again by integrating the power of BitTorrent with the most familiar experience on a computer: the browser. Today, we are proud to announce the…
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Illegal Engineering
ILLEGAL ENGINEERING An illustrated lecture about the history of Safes and Safe breaking. The lecture is based round a large wooden safe with a video camera inside, projecting the inside of the door mechanism on a screen. This is currently my favourite lecture to perform. There's something very satisfying about the…
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Apple’s fix for corrupt binaries
Apple quietly fixed the apps affected by corrupt App Store binaries in an interesting way.
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Preparing Yourself for Modern JavaScript Development
There is a lot going on in the JavaScript world these days, both in and out of the browser. Talk about script loaders, client side MVC frameworks, minifiers, AMD, Common.js, Coffeescript, can quickly get your head spinning. And for those people who are completely immersed in that world, it can be easy to forget that…
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ESR: Cisco provides a lesson
In my last blog post, I made a public stink about language in a so-called Declaration of Internet Freedom , which turned out to be some libertarians attempting to expand and develop the ideas in this Declaration of Internet Freedom . Mostly they did pretty well, except for one sentence they got completely wrong: “Open…
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The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
David Pogue tests the Google Nexus Q home entertainment device and finds himself bewildered.
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Mousetrap: Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
Mousetrap is a simple keyboard shortcut/event library written in Javascript.