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Is Wine Bullshit?
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,327 posts.
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The ﹤main﹥ element
Recently, main was formally added to the W3C HTML specification. Now that the dust has settled, it's about time we dive in to find out where and when it's appropriate to use main. Let's get started.
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RethinkDB 1.6 is out: regex matching, new array operations, random sampling
This release includes regex string matching, fourteen new array operations, support for random sampling, error handling improvements, support for authentication keys, and over 65 bug fixes, features, and enhancements.
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Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com
If you are 17 or under, a federal prosecutor could have charged you with computer hacking just for reading Seventeen magazine online—until today. It’s not because the law got any better. Earlier today, we wrote about news sites that alarmingly prohibit their youth audiences from accessing the news...
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First 3D Commercial Web Game Powered By asm.js
Play Monster Madness to see how it leverages asm.js, a supercharged subset of JavaScript and Web Port of Unreal Engine 3 for a slick, plugin-free multiplay
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BitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS
At Open Whisper Systems, we often get emails from people who’d like to donate money to the project. For an OSS project, particularly one that aspires to a collective sense of ownership, handling donations is not always entirely straightforward. The fundamental contradiction is that while donatio...
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Clojure for the Brave and True – Functional Programming
So far, you’ve focused on becoming famil iar with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You’ll begin integrating your experience into a new…
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Disappointing Unsealing Decision in Aaron Swartz Case
The public lost another battle in the U.S. v. Aaron Swartz case, this one over transparency. On May 13, 2013, the U.S. District Court judge handling the prosecution sided with the government, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR and refused to make public any information in the case...
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Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO
Looking towards the future of Firefox OS Today we are announcing changes to our executive leadership team as we build up our pivot to mobile and build upon
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Hacking Google's HVAC Systems
Arctic Wolf®, the leader in security operations, has acquired Cylance, a pioneer of AI-based endpoint security.
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Play Framework Security Advisory
Play Framework - The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala
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Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge
A few month back, Apple quietly slipped a very nice Objective-C to Javascript bridge into WebKit. Since the first commit...
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How we got to $1,000 in recurring revenue
Here are 3 tips on how to get your first $1,000 in recurring revenue: have a straightforward value proposition, sell before you build, and monetize.
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The American-Western European Values Gap
American values differ from those of Western Europeans in many important ways. Most notably, Americans are more individualistic and are less supportive of a strong safety net than are the publics of Spain, Britain, France and Germany. However, Americans are coming closer to Europeans in not seeing their culture as…
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Instacart: We're Sorry
Browse articles, updates, and insights from Instacart across all categories.
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Debian 7.3 is out
Debian 13.7 was released on September 12th, 2026 . Debian 13.0 was initially released on August 9th, 2025. The release included many major changes, described in our press release and the Release Notes .
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