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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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How ThatHigh solved the chicken and egg problem and grew to 1 million pageviews
We've joined forces with Insight.io to add semantic code search (built on Elasticsearch) to our roadmap.
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Azul launches pauseless gc jvm for unmodified linux
Experience Java like never before with Azul Prime. Turbocharge Java performance with a JVM that starts fast and stays fast, with less infrastructure.
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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree
Braintree’s Bryan Johnson will answer your questions in the comments section. In 2003, Bryan Johnson (right) was hired for a commission-only job selling credit card services to businesses. “I was broke,” says Johnson. “The job was brutal. Business owners were tired of the industry’s decep…
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Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab
Cambridge is booming with innovation, food, music, and history, highlighted in detail by the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s “Unpack my Cambridge” video series.
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Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again
This morning, EFF’s staff and concerned netizens across the country tuned into the live webcast of the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261). At least we tried to. Unfortunately, we were confronted with an incredibly poor webcast stream for much of the...
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Racket 5.1 Released
_posted by Eli Barzilay_ Racket version 5.1 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/The most significant change in version 5.1 is a rewrite of the GUI library. Unix/X users will see the biggest difference with this change, because DrRacket and all R...
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Ewww, You Use PHP?
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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What Location Tracking Looks Like
Your cell phone company knows everywhere you go, twenty-four hours a day, every day. How concrete is this fact for you? It's very concrete for Malte Spitz, a German politician and privacy advocate. He used German privacy law — which, like the law of many European countries, gives individuals a...
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MapReduce for the Masses: Zero to Hadoop in 5 minutes with Common Crawl
Common Crawl aims to change the big data game with our repository of over 40 terabytes of high-quality web crawl information into the Amazon cloud, the net total of 5 billion crawled pages.
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The Go Programming Language turns two
Happy 2nd birthday, Go!
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FreeBSD 8.2 released
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights:
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FBI chastened by court for lying about existence of surveillance records
An order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has revealed the FBI lied to the court about the existence of records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking the position that FOIA allows it to withhold information from the court whenever it thinks...
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Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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Making a Local Web Server Public with Localtunnel
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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After 24 centuries, Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the world to see
(Cross-posted on the Official Google Blog and the Google.org Blog ) It’s taken 24 centuries, the work of archaeologists, scholars and histo...
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How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries
Big media groups like the MPAA and the RIAA have historically targeted college campuses with “anti-piracy” measures, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — the blacklist bill they’re trying to push through Congress — is no exception. The bill’s supporters insist that it targets only “rogue”...