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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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Schadenfreude
"Magic the Gathering: Online Exchange" has magically gathered all your online bitcoins and exchanged them for ... something or other. More here . For once, do read the comments —it's hysterically funny, in a sad way, to watch the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Gox.com Domain Name Acquired by Mt. Gox Parent Company
It appears that Tibanne Co. Ltd. the company that operates the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange has acquired the Gox.com domain name from Andy Booth.
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Analytics at GitHub
In the interest of getting back into writing, I want to break the seal with a simple “what have I been up to and thinking about lately” style post.…
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Starting to Demo the Wolfram Language [video]
Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language, with overview and demonstrations, in a video showing the power of this symbolic programming language.
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Facebook Open Sources flint, a C++ linter written in D
Visit the post for more.
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Surveillance Evangelist Arrested in California
FBI agents arrested a Mexican tycoon named Jose Susumo Azano Matsura at his Coronado, Calif. home on Wednesday as part of a political bribery investigation based on captured emails, seized banking records, and covertly recorded conversations. The unfolding scandal is soaked in irony: Azano is a...
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Announcing the new Roslyn-powered .NET Framework Reference Source
In 2007 ScottGu's team announced they were releasing the .NET Framework source ...
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The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
Today’s release of TextSecure is the final step in the transition from a private SMS app to a private asynchronous IM app that does not depend on SMS/MMS. Using the lessons we’ve learned from the SMS environment over the past four years, we’ve developed an open protocol for asynchronous chat that...
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A Statistical Analysis of All Hacker News Submissions
After downloading all 1,265,114 Hacker News submissions from the official Hacker News API, I gathered a few interesting statistics which show the true impact of Hacker News.
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IBM to Acquire Cloudant
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency'
About a week ago, Randall Munroe published Frequency , the 1331st entry in his xkcd webcomic series. Unlike most xkcd comics, it's animated — actually, 5-by-10 grid of animated GIFs. Each describes a scenario (e.g., "one birth," or "someone locks their keys in their care") and blinks at the scenario's purported…
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Ruby 2.1.1 is released and Ruby turns 21
Today, Feb. 24th, is the 21st anniversary of Ruby,so we happily announce a new patch release of Ruby 2.1, Ruby 2.1.1.
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Mt. Gox Resigns Bitcoin Foundation Board Seat
Stay informed with the latest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency news. Breaking updates, market analysis, and industry developments from trusted sources.
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Doctored.js – A new kind of editor
Doctored.js uses contentEditable, CSS pseudo-elements, and web workers running XMLLint compiled to JavaScript
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One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen
Previous: Warning: Network Solutions' Moronic Alert Email That Masquerades as a Phishing Attack
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Cryptocontracts Will Turn Contract Law Into a Programming Language
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post with 10 things that amazed me about bitcoin (here). I just can’t stop thinking about the idea that I brought up in the final point of that post, specific…
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Bitcoin mining the hard way: the algorithms, protocols, and bytes
This article explains Bitcoin mining in details, right down to the hex data and network traffic. If you've ever wondered what really happe...
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On the Timing of iOS’s SSL Vulnerability and Apple’s ‘Addition’ to NSA’s PRISM
Putting on my tinfoil hat.
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Apple's SSL/TLS bug
Yesterday, Apple pushed a rather spooky security update for iOS that suggested that something was horribly wrong with SSL/TLS in iOS but gave no details. Since the answer is at the top of the Hacker News thread, I guess the cat's out of the bag already and we're into the misinformation-quashing stage now.
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The 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google Ads
While the minimum bid per keyword is 5 cents in Google Ads, the highest cost keywords are nowhere near that. Google can make up to $50 per click from the most expensive PPC keywords, and keyword advertising is a highly lucrative business. Learn all about the most expensive keywords for your industry.
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Microsoft killed my Pappy
I was talking to a young ( The ones I find the most interesting are the ...
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How Google missed the boat
Their biggest mistake was their attitude about the rest of us.