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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Can Apple read your iMessages?
About a year ago I wrote a short post urging Apple to publish the technical details of iMessage encryption. I’d love tell you that Apple saw my influential crypto blogging and fell all over t…
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Introducing the Go Race Detector
How and why to use the Go race detector to improve your programs.
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SSL: Intercepted today, decrypted tomorrow
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.
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Is Wine Bullshit?
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads?
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The Ruby on Rails Tutorial for Rails 4.0 final
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
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Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star
A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets. A record-breaking three of these planets are super-Earths lying in the zone around the star where liquid water could exist, making them…
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From zero to cooperative threads in 33 lines of Haskell
A tiny implementation of coroutines
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Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh
Those dicks at Google are shutting off Reader at the end of the week, and the world is in a mad tizzy trying to find a feed reader that will continue to function. First a word on why it is stultifyingly stupid that this is even a problem in the first place: I want to read my feeds on three devices: a desktop computer…
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My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89
As a songwriter Pandora paid me $16.89* for 1,159,000 play of “Low” last quarter. Less than I make from a single T-shirt sale. Okay that’s a slight exaggeration. That’s …
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Ambition can be poison
In the right dose, ambition works wonders. It inspires you to achieve more, to stretch yourself beyond the comfort zone, and provides the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough. Rightfully so, ambition is universally revered. But ambition also has a dark, addictive side that’s …
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Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
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Python and the Real-time Web
I had interview for the Flask book recently and some questions were related to realtime functionality - how it works, how to integrate realtime portion with conventional WSGI applications, how to structure application code and so on.
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Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign
Can you believe it? Malibu homeowners intentionally obscure public beach access areas with fake signs and hidden access. This is not only ridiculously selfish, it is illegal. Enter this...
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Only the Lonely
There isn’t any point in denying that the outburst of sympathy and support that followed my confession to an attempt at self-slaughter last year (Richard Herring podcast) has touched me very deeply.
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Book discovery service: No Names. No Jackets
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OpenGL – OS X Mountain Lion vs. Mavericks
During Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote, the graphically-inclined may have noted "OpenGL 4" among OS X Mavericks' feature list. I was curious and decided to
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An Apology to my European IT Team
In 2008 when we were opening the US office for a European maker of membrane production equipment, we had all of the early IT choices someone has to make when first opening a business. How should we…
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