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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 812 posts.
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What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers?
What If Drivers Were Hired Like Programmers? - Sunday, 22 May 2011 - Alex's blog
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Tech journalists who make no sense
I’m sure all fields have terrible reporting, but the shit that’s coming out of the tech world must be eligible for some sort of cake. Taste this slice of delicious nonsense that made the Forbes site today in Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: We’ve Moved Past The Cloud: Salesforce.com remai…
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Multiple programming languages vulnerable to DoS via hash algorithm collision
oCERT-2011-003 multiple implementations denial-of-service via hash algorithm collision
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Advanced sign-in security for your Google account
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Billing with Stripe
Short Ruby on Rails screencasts containing tips, tricks and tutorials. Great for both novice and experienced web developers.
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Why We Stick With PHP (and don't move to Ruby or Python)
I often get asked by potential employees and clients, why we do PHP and mostly PHP only. A valid question, of course and my first answer usually is (besides the “historical reasons” one), that nowadays all those server side (scripting) languages are mainly the glue layer between the front-end (the browser part) and…
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Understanding Linux CPU Load - when should you be worried?
Most people have an inkling of what the load averages mean: the three numbers represent averages over progressively longer periods of time (one, five, and fifteen-minute averages), and that lower numbers are better. Higher numbers represent a problem or an overloaded machine.
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LightningJS: safe, fast, and asynchronous third-party Javascript
Olark CTO Matt Pizzimenti explains why Javascript and LighteningJS are safe, fast and asynchronous options.
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An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...
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Remember The Milk can sync with your iPhone calendar
From the moment we tried Siri on our shiny new iPhone 4S, we knew we had to teach Siri to add tasks to Remember The Milk.
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Firefox 6 for web developers
Download Firefox 6 What's new in Firefox 6? The most notable addition to this new release are the <progress> element, touch events, Server-Sent Events as well as the return of ...
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Why we need an Open Wireless movement
If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless network in order to check your email from a car, a street corner, or a park, you may have noticed that they're getting harder to find. Stories like the one over the weekend about a bunch of police breaking down an innocent man's door because...
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Google rolls out algorithm change in the US
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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A Stupid Idea, 1 Year After Launching on HN
iDoneThis had the humblest of beginnings, and in a year’s time, we’ve gone from a stupid idea to having helped people get over 500,000 things done. It’s been an incredible year. On December 17, 2010, Rodrigo wrote me the following email. The title of the email was “stupid idea”. A daily “what did you achieve [...]
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Just fixed a 20-year-old bug…
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