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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 503 posts.
Introducing Closure Tools
Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail , Google Docs , and Google Maps . Like developers eve...
GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
After the Deadline: Acquired
Today I have big news to announce for After the Deadline. But first, I have to tell you a story. I left the Air Force in March 2008 to pursue my dream of launching a startup and to finish graduate…
Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not
So, in our last installment of the Y Combinator saga, we talked about applying. Since a handful of folks will be gearing up for their interviews shortly, it seems a fine time to move on to the next step in our journey.
Python language moratorium is accepted
This PEP proposes a temporary moratorium (suspension) of all changes to the Python language syntax, semantics, and built-ins for a period of at least two years from the release of Python 3.1. In particular, the moratorium would include Python 3.2 (to b...
Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
A 2x Faster Web
Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of...
Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins
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On Applying to Y Combinator
I’ve decided to do a mini-series of sorts on our Y Combinator experience. Â Originally I was going to fold everything into one ginormus post, but I think it better to break it up and focus on different aspects.
Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser
Keep up on what's happening at Opera by following our latest public announcements.
On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
The Dropbox iPhone App is Out
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
Steve Jobs speaks out about his health
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