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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Writing Effective Welcome Emails
Learn some tips and tricks on writing welcome emails that actually get responses.
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Automated License Plate Readers Threaten Our Privacy
Co-Authored with Peter Bibring, Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Southern California Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using sophisticated cameras, called “automated license plate readers” or ALPR, to scan and record the license plates of millions of cars across the country. These...
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Why I am always on the lookout for a PayPal alternative
Yash Gadhiya's personal blog
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Firefox's Inspector Tool as 3D Modeler
Coolutils has built reliable file converters since 2003. Convert PDF, HTML, XLS, DOC, email and images. A solution for every conversion need.
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Hacking Google's HVAC Systems
Arctic Wolf®, the leader in security operations, has acquired Cylance, a pioneer of AI-based endpoint security.
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Jony Ive is Not a Graphic Designer
Jony Ive, at a talk I was fortunate to attend a few years ago (sorry, no linkable write-up exists): One of the things that’s interesting about design [is that] there’s a danger, particu…
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In defense of <canvas>
My friend and fellow Chicagoan Evan Miller wrote an excellent blog post over the weekend: Why I Develop For The Mac . It's full of great reasons why his software (which is also excellent, by the way) was written for the desktop, despite the fact that he's a web developer, even the creator of an Erlang web framework .
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How to Spread The Word About Your Code
You spent an entire weekend building a library, jQuery plugin, build tool, or other great piece of code you wanted to share far and wide, but after some tweets and ...
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Worthless security claims
I’ve been considering purchasing one of these t-shirts: This shirt would announce to everyone who crosses my path that I am, in fact, the world’s greatest lover. They would know this because I have a t-shirt that tells them so and it would give them enormous
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Jekyll 1.0 Released
Today, I'm proud to announce the release of Jekyll 1.0. There are a million goodies and fixes to enjoy, and we're (the still-active Jekyll …
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The N=1 Guide to Grad School: Advice for Aspiring PhDs
Last August, I finished my Ph.D. with the help of a bunch of amazing people. I submitted my thesis, and on a bus in Turkey during my post-graduation vacation, I put together a list of practices and mindsets that I sometimes stuck to while working on my Ph.D. Over the last few months, I added some details, and you'll…
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Response Time Limits: Article by Jakob Nielsen
How users react to delays in a user interface, whether website or application. The 3 main response time limits are determined by human perceptual abilities.
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Why I Develop For The Mac
UPDATE, 5/7/2013 : Some off-hand remarks in this article about HTML5 drawing speeds generated some controversy in the hackersphere. To read more, see Adrian Holovaty's post In Defense of <canvas> , and my response, Hackers and <canvas> .
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Design
I chose images from 1973 deliberately. It's easier to tell good design from bad when you're not looking at current fashions. (Try looking at the haircuts in an old high school yearbook.) Good design is timeless, and if you want something timeless you can't pander to the limitations of some hypothetical "average" user…
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Some harmless, old-fashioned fun with CSS
Several years ago, the CSS :visited pseudo-selector caused a bit of a ruckus: a malicious web page could display a large set of links to as...
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Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" released
[14 Dec 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.3 released [20 Oct 2013] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.8 released [12 Oct 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.2 released [28 Sep 2013] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Wheezy — a complete Linux solution for your school [09 Aug 2013] Debian invites you to its 20th birthday [15 Jun 2013] Updated Debian 7: 7.1…
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A determined 'hacker' decrypts RDS-TMC
RDS-TMC uses an encryption algorithm simple enough to be run using pen-and-paper hardware.
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Predicting Google Product Shutdowns
Analyzing predictors of Google abandoning products; predicting future shutdowns