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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
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Beyond 10,000 Lines: Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
Lessons Learned from a Large Phoenix Project
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Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (2014)
Noninvasive laser therapy could radically shift dental treatment and lead to a host of broader clinical applications in regenerative medicine
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What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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jQuery 3.0 Release Candidate
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Amazon Lightsail 1GB Is No Match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO
Amazon Lightsail 1GB is no match for $10 VPS from Linode, DO, Vultr...
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Automatically closing FIN_WAIT_2 is a violation of the TCP specification
I was asked to debug another weird issue on our network. Apparently every now and then a connection going through CloudFlare would time out with 522 HTTP error.
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A Taste of JavaScript's New Parallel Primitives
Author's note: Since this post was written, the API of postMessage has changed slightly. When sending a SharedArrayBuffer with postMessage, the buffer should no longer be in the transfer list ...
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Special projects
Impactful scientific work requires working on the right problems—problems which are not just interesting, but whose solutions matter.
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Reducing Adobe Flash Usage in Firefox
Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content. But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers. ...
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The Fining of Black America
We analyzed the cities most likely to generate substantial revenues from fines. The best indicator that a government will levy excessive fines? If a large proportion of the city's citizens are Black.
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.NET Framework – What's New in C# 7.0
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Fundraising Advice for YC Companies
We’ve modified our fundraising strategy advice to YC founders. In the interest of everyone having the same information, here is the email I sent to the current batch this morning. Founders, As Y Combinator’s prominence has grown in recent years, we’ve seen a flood of new investors who are very focused on investing in…
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Rogue One – An Engineering Ethics Story
Written by Zachary G. Pirtle. Originally published anonymously. Reflects my views alone. This post went viral when published in 2016, with comments by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing , Marginal Revolution, and others. I’ve published other research on science fiction and policy that I discuss on my a
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The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler
The technology industry is still young, but its history is already rich with myths and legends.
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Ruby has been fast enough for 13 years
When I started programming Ruby, it was on an Apple iBook G4/800. That beautiful 12” powerhouse of a 800 MHz PowerPC with a rocking 256MB of RAM. A lovely computer that was not only fast enough to …
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Announcing Wolfram Programming Lab
Easily learn programming and computational thinking with the Wolfram Programming Lab environment. Jump in and explore or learn systematically.
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Windows file system compression had to be dumbed down
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions
The portfolio of AWS storage products has grown increasingly rich and diverse over time. Amazon S3 started out with a single storage class and has grown to include storage classes for regular, infrequently accessed, and archived objects. Similarly, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) began with a single volume…
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YouTube Community goes beyond video
Your bond with your viewers is deep. You've grown up together, laughed together, and done incredible things together, from shifting attitudes about gay rights to volunteering millions of dollars toward important charitable causes. Today, we’re introducing a beta version of a new product to help strengthen the bond…
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Image Compression with Neural Networks
Posted by Nick Johnston and David Minnen, Software EngineersData compression is used nearly everywhere on the internet - the videos you watch onlin...
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Practical advice for analysis of large, complex data sets
By PATRICK RILEY For a number of years, I led the data science team for Google Search logs. We were often asked to make sense of confusin...