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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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ViziCities Dev Diary #1: Visualising Cities in 3D using WebGL
Just over a month ago I announced ViziCities , the latest project from Pete Smart and myself . We're not quite ready to release it yet but make sure you sign up for the beta to be the first to use it. In the meantime, let me fill you in on what we've been up to this past month.
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Computer Science in Vietnam
During my recent trip to Vietnam I took the opportunity to visit some schools and see how computer science was taught there. Officially, foreigners require permission from the department of education to enter schools. But it's much simpler (and the results are more representative) to simply show up unannounced. A…
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The madness of the bailout in Cyprus
Last night the finance ministers of the eurozone decided on a bailout package for Cyprus. The small country with around 1 million inhabitants has an overstretched banking sector that is in dire straits. The primary reason for this is that the Cypriotic banks hold a lot of Greek sovereign debt – debt that took a…
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GCC 4.8 release
GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. For more details on the rationale and specific changes, please refer to the C++ conversion page.
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More than 500,000 Google Reader users have joined Feedly in the past 48 hours
Feedly product updates, case studies, and resources to help you use AI to collect, analyze, and share intelligence. Start your free trial.
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Leaving Twitter
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter. I left to start my own company. What I'll be working on is v...
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Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
Chronos: A Replacement for Cron By Florian Leibert, Harry Shoff, & Andy Kramolisch Chronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos …
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Dropbox Acquires Mailbox
Securely sharing content is faster than ever. Learn about secure link sharing in Dropbox and how to send links to files with our link sharing app.
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The RSS Apocalypse
Aldo Coresi explains: “The truth is this: Google destroyed the RSS feed reader ecosystem with a subsidized product, stifling its competitors and killing innovation. It then neglected Google Reader itself for years, after it had effectively become the only player. Today it does further damage by buggering up the…
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Why DRM is such a fucking stupid idea
Digital comics publisher JManga is collapsing . Two weeks from now you will no longer be able to "purchase" anything from them. Two months from now, anything that was "purchased" from them will cease to exist. If you spent hundreds of pounds in their store then, well, that's bad luck for you. This…
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Achilles Heel of OAuth or Why Facebook Adds #_=_
This is a short addition to the previous rants on OAuth problems. We've got Nir Goldshlager working on our side (he simply loves bounties...
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The Ultimate Guide to Dropshipping
See 20 real ecommerce website design examples from Shopify brands, plus the elements, tips, and steps to design a store that builds trust and sells.
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I analyzed the chords to 1300 songs for patterns. Part 3 – Interactive Discovery
Last year, we discussed the first results of a long term effort to study the patterns found in the chords of popular songs. The reception that we got was incredibly positive, and we received a ton of great feedback. The two most common questions we’ve gotten from people have been: Our answer: Hooktheory Trends How...
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Baby steps toward replacing Google Reader
With Google Reader’s impending shutdown, lots of new feed-sync services and self-hostable projects will be popping up.
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