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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,327 posts.
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How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 …
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Devops Horror Stories
Keep users informed during incidents with Statuspage. Share real-time status updates, reduce support tickets, and build trust through transparency.
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F-1 Engine Recovery
Thanks to the conservation team at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, the Apollo F-1 artifacts are ready for display. A few weeks ago the first shipment of artifacts arrived at The Museum of Flight here in Seattle, and I joined museum president Doug King, adjunct curator for space history Geoff Nunn, and…
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The San Francisco Rent Explosion
An apartment in San Francisco costs how much?! Surely you jest, Priceonomics.
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Ambition can be poison
In the right dose, ambition works wonders. It inspires you to achieve more, to stretch yourself beyond the comfort zone, and provides the motivation to keep going when the going gets tough. Rightfully so, ambition is universally revered. But ambition also has a dark, addictive side that’s …
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PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks
I launched Pushbullet on January 20 of this year. Since then, over 15,000 people have signed up and have pushed over 25,000 things.
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Wikipedia Adopts MariaDB
This past Wednesday marked a milestone in the evolution of Wikimedia’s Database infrastructure: the completion of the migration of the English and German Wikipedias, as well as Wikidata, to M…
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Docker can now run within Docker
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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An HTTP reverse proxy for realtime
Pushpin makes it easy to create HTTP long-polling, HTTP streaming, and WebSocket services using any web stack as the backend. It’s compatible with any framew...
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Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go.
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Deconstructing K&R C (2010)
Learn C The Hard Way (LCTHW) is a practical book teaching real world useful C using the same proven Learn The Hard Way method. LCTHW teaches real robust C coding and defensive programming tactics on real hardware rather than abstract machines and pedantic theory. The book emphasizes breaking your code on purpose, and…
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