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How to Access the Internet (A Guide from 2025)
Welcome to the Internet! By following the simple rules below, you make sure your internet experience is smooth and risk free.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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YouTube wins case against Viacom
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Fluid Layout from Hicksdesign
Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, established 2002.
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Apple forces users to pay full price to redownload already bought ebooks
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Anatomy of a Noob - Why your Mom Suck at Computers
Essays by Thomas Petersen
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Criminal Overengineering
A vast proportion of software at work today is horribly over-engineered for its task. And I’m not talking about the interfaces, about having too many controls or options for the users. These …
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It's Your Data, It's Your Bot: It's Not A Crime
Can public websites decide who is and is not a criminal through their terms of service? A brief EFF filed yesterday argues no. The amicus brief is a follow-up to one we filed last month in Facebook v. Power Ventures. Facebook claims that Power breaks California criminal law by offering users a tool...
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HTML5 Rocks: A resource for open web developers
Because HTML5 and its related technologies cover so much ground, it can be a real challenge to get up to speed on them. That’s why today we'...
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Google Voice open for everyone (In the US)
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Why I Quit A Six Figure Job
I had the best job in the world. My immediate team of ten people were all world class, and everyday I was able to work on hard and interesting challenges with them. Hours were flexible—many of us worked seven to four (by choice!)—and there was virtually never any overtime. It wasn’t unheard of to have our end of week…
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We just released VLC 1.1.0
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework , that plays most multimedias files, medias and streaming protocols.
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Mensch -- A coding font
The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are…
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Officially our best-ever cease and desist
Explore GameStops vast selection of Gaming Collectibles! Shop Funko Pops, action figures, and limited-edition merchandise to enhance your collection like never before.
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Maybe Jason Calacanis isn't being totally honest about Mahalo?
Last Thursday, in response to Matt Cutts stating that he needed more than “arbitrary inurl searches” to sway him (which was in turn in response to a Hacker News submission about Mahalo and the plethora of keyword rich domains they were apparently building out) I wrote a post explaining in some detail how the latest…
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Letter to a Young PL Enthusiast
(I wish someone had written this letter to me years ago.—Ed.) Dear young programming language enthusiast! You are fascinated by programming ...
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Being Present: You have ten to twelve years to connect with your kids
I've recently come back to yoga after a five year hiatus. I didn't realize how much my body missed it. I stopped doing yoga because I couldn't handle the mental aspect of the practice. I struggle with being present mentally for 90 minutes. In fact, I find it impossible. Even as I've come back to […]
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Less.js will obsolete CSS
Hello there. I'm going to put together a better site when I get some time, but for now here are some links: my translation of Leonid Andreyev's Short Stories , which you can read online (also available in ebook and paperback editions). More of my translations here . Browse my articles in the archive .