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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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My foxhole radio
As a child I'd made a crystal radio set and had been meaning to make one again when I came across stories of foxhole or PoW radios made f...
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ImperialViolet
When a browser connects to an HTTPS site it receives signed certificates which allow it to verify that it's really connecting to the domain that it should be connecting to. In those certificates are pointers to services, run by the Certificate Authorities (CAs) that issued the certificate, that allow the browser to…
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Suffering-oriented programming
Someone asked me an interesting question the other day: "How did you justify taking such a hu...
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JavaScript’s internal character encoding: UCS-2 or UTF-16?
Does JavaScript use UCS-2 or UTF-16 encoding? Since I couldn’t find a definitive answer to this question anywhere, I decided to look into it. The answer depends on what you’re referring to: the JavaScript engine, or JavaScript at the language level.
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The cause for all your Mac OS X mouse annoyances
By that I mean a delay between receiving movement data from the mouse device and rendering the on-screen cursor. The lag of a Mac OS X cursor is at least twice bigger than Windows’ cursor and yes, a human eye can surely notice that.
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Unicode over 60 percent of the web
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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"Programmer" is an Overgeneralization
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." - Donald Knuth Earlier today, I came across a post during...
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UK government declines to pardon Alan Turing
There's been a petition to the government and an Early Day Motion asking for Alan Turing to be pardoned. This is something I oppose desp...
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Let's Build an MP3 Decoder
Even though MP3 is probably the single most well known file format and codec on Earth, it’s not very well understood by most programmers – for many encoders/decoders is in the class of software “other people” write, like standard libraries or operating system kernels. This article will attempt to demystify the…
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Automate Everything - the hacker way
<p>Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (...
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More damaging evidence on open plan offices
Hondatoto merupakan salah satu website terapresiasi penyandang 10 situs lotto terpercaya yang akan menjadi solusi terbaik mendapatkan cuan. Main togel toto dengan pasaran internasional secara online dengan menggunakan jasa agen togel resmi Honda toto yang memiliki metode pembayaran termudah.
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Confiscating your ice cream cones
Hey, remember that awesome Hello City Planner video about how the Government is going to have to come and confiscate your ice cream cones? I thought the best thing about it was that it was actually created by the SF Planning Department, but I was wrong. It gets better: it turns out, it's a true story!! Before Ice…
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