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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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From sand to processor, or how a CPU is made
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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How I Learned to Program
How I learned to program, and my advice for beginners: use Linux, want it badly, build small command line programs, write a lot, join IRC, have fun.
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The Apple Voice
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Node.js isn't a silver bullet, but it's still a bullet.
This morning, on a conference mailing list, I made some disparaging remarks about Node.js (the title of this post, in fact). A couple people asked me why I felt that way. Rather than respond individually, I'll just list my reasons here — codeslinger.posterous.com
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Introducing Times (for Python)
A tiny pet library for dealing with datetimes and timezones in Python.
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SSH tricks
This post is part of my “Unix fundamentals” series. Recent posts in this series include settling into Unix , standalone lexers with lex , and sculpting text with regex, grep, sed and awk .
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UK chemist on Elsevier's ban on textmining
This is the first post of probably several in my concern about textmining. You do NOT have to be a scientist to understand the point with total clarity. This topic is one of the most important I have written about this year. We are at a critical point where unless we take action our scholarly rights will be further…
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The Hacker Way
I don't normally comment on the day's news, but I want to make an exception today to share something from Facebook's S-1 filing . Over the n...
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The First Six Steps of Getting Your Startup Noticed
Let’s play a little make believe. Let’s say you just started a job at a startup company that is in stealth mode. Your job is to promote the company and get it noticed online, and today is the day to […]
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Beautiful Buttons for Twitter Bootstrappers
This is an extension to the Twitter Bootstrap framework. It makes creating pretty buttons easy. (Send improvements to @charliepark .)
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Plan 9: The way the future was
We know what Unix's future used to look like. It was designed by the research group at Bell Labs that built Unix and called ‘Plan 9 from Bell Labs’. [ 154 ] Plan 9 was an attempt to do Unix over again, better.
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The Most Incompetent TSA Story Yet?
The storyline: TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger’s bags. Screener determines that they’re not a threat. Screener confiscates them anyway, because of their “material and appearance.” Because they’re not actually a threat, screener leaves them at the checkpoint. Everyone forgets about them. Six hours later, the…
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Why Lua?
Disclaimer: this article is intended for those familiar with programming languages ( Lua in particular).