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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,426 posts.
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JavaScript libraries to draw your own diagrams
Discover the power of JavaScript for your diagramming needs! Our comprehensive guide features over 20 top JavaScript libraries to create dynamic UML, ER, BPMN diagrams (or even your own types of models), and more, right in your browser.
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Georgia: Why so many counties?
When the Romans came to Great Britain, they built a bunch of forts called castra, which was Anglicized to chester. So, English cities whose names end in -chester, -caster and -cester were once Roma…
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Mono 4.0.0 Release Notes
Mono has historically chosen to use the highest possible precision for all floating point operations. This means that both 64-bit math and 32-bit math were done with the highest precision available.
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The lack of HTTPS at Amazon: identifying items purchased via information leakage
If you were to browse Amazon right now and someone was eavesdropping on your connection, they could tell exactly what you were looking at. They could even tell what you've bought.
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Sick time is logarithmic
Sick time among employees appears to follow a logarithmic distribution. You can use this to evaluate your policies and detect anomalies.
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Let’s Build a Web Server. Part 1
Out for a walk one day, a woman came across a construction site and saw three men working. She asked the first man, “What are you doing?” Annoyed by the question, the first man barked, “Can’t you see that I’m laying bricks?” Not satisfied with the answer, she …
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New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
The HN team members are some of the most thoughtful people about online communities I’ve ever met. So I’m always excited when they have a new idea to try. This idea is simple. We’re updating the guidelines to add: “Avoid gratuitous negativity.” Critical thinking is good; shallow cynicism, on the other hand, adds…
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Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car
EFF is fighting for vehicle owners’ rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles and to repair and modify their vehicles, or have a mechanic of their choice do the work. At the moment, the anti-circumvention prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably restricts vehicle...
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How We Use Make
Twilio Segment is a customer data platform (CDP) that collects, cleans, and activates customer data, sending events to hundreds of tools with one API.
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