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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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Arduino 1.0 now available
Arduino 1.0 is now available. Read about the milestone release of the Arduino software and download it for your computer.
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EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ
There has been a rolling scandal about the Carrier IQ software installed by cell phone companies on 150 million phones, mostly within the United States. Subjects of outright disagreement have included the nature of the program, what information it actually collects, and under what circumstances....
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SpiderMonkey is on a diet
One thing I’ve learnt while working for Mozilla is that a web browser can be characterized as a JavaScript execution environment that happens to have some multimedia capabilities. In particular, if you look at Firefox’s about:memory page, the JS engine is very often the component responsible for consuming the most…
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Symfony 2.0 is now available
After 12 preview releases, 5 beta versions, and 6 release candidates, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of Symfony 2.0, final version.
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Launching Google Wallet on Sprint and working with Visa, AmEx and Discover
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How Google's build system works
This is the second in a four part series describing how we use the cloud to scale building and testing of software at Google. This series el...
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Windows 8 Developer Preview is Live
Set up a development environment that works for you, build native Windows apps, and create AI-powered and agentic experiences with Windows.
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Stack Exchange’s Architecture in Bullet Points
I thought as a break form the normal prose some of our readers might enjoy a short overview of the Stack Exchange Network (including Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User) from a technical view:
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Google's Indexing Javascript more than we thought
In a match made in marketing heaven, Distilled has become part of Brainlabs, the global, digital-first, media agency.
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iPhone 4S First Weekend Sales Top Four Million
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Merging In The GNU D Language Compiler To GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Google Surrenders in the Nymnwars
Proponents of pseudonymity scored a major victory today, when Google executive Vic Gundotra revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit that social networking service Google+ will begin supporting pseudonyms and other types of identity. The news comes after several months of what has been dubbed Nymwars, in...
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Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS certificates
On March 15th, an HTTPS/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) was tricked into issuing fraudulent certificates that posed a dire risk to Internet security. Based on currently available information, the incident got close to — but was not quite — an Internet-wide security meltdown. As this post will...
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555 Timer footstool
The succinct story of a modest little footstool– involving datasheets, cnc routing, laser engraving, plywood, glue, chips, all-thread, angle grinders, mountains of sawdust, dowel rods, spray paint, and a picture of a cat.