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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 978 posts.
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Why I learned to "make things"
Two years ago this week, I started working at 37signals. I couldn’t make a web app to find my way out of a paper bag. When I started working here, my technical skills were in tools like Excel, R, and Matlab, and I could muddle my way through SQL queries. I had the basic technical skills tha…
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Can a person be identified by just the way they type?
Do a detailed analysis of your own typing style, just using Mathematica. Can a person be identified just by the way they type? See group data analysis.
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Deconstructing "K&R C"
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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The future of GNOME
Having just returned from GUADEC and now having the desktop as my job focus I been thinking about where we are going and what to do next. Benjamin managed to get quite a bit of press for his abysmally negative post, but I think his mis-stated the situation quite badly. As Dave Mason said during...
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Cloudflare Attack Post Mortem; Apparent Google Apps/Gmail Vulnerability
This morning a hacker was able to access a customer's account on CloudFlare and change that customer's DNS records. The attack was the result of a compromise of Google's account security procedures.
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Calling All Broadcasters
Do you have a Ustream channel? A justin.tv following? A webcam, and a dream? Do you want to help invent the next generation of live streaming? Cool. We’re looking for people like you. BitTorrent Live is a new peer-to-peer live streaming protocol. Built with users, from scratch, it’s designed to take the principles of…
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Why Reddit switched to Python (2005)
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch
ไลฟ์สไตล์ ธุรกิจ กีฬา ไอที บันเทิง แม่และเด็ก ความรู้รอบตัว รถยนต์ สัตว์เลี้ยง อสังหาริมทรัพย์ กิน-เที่ยว การเงินและการลงทุน สุขภาพ การศึกษา บ้านและสวน
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CWI cryptanalist discovers new cryptographic attack in Flame spy malware
Cryptanalyst Marc Stevens from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, known for breaking the https security in 2008 using a cryptanalytic attack on MD5, analyzed the recent Flame virus this week.
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Kids these days: the quality of new Wikipedia editors over time
As part of the 2011 Wikimedia Summer of Research, we uncovered a possible correlation between the decline in new active editors that began in 2007 and the rise of warnings issued to new users by bo…
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Improved User Profiles
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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The Case for a Git-Powered Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg, for those of you that are not already familiar with it, is one of the single-most important community projects of the century: an attempt at creating a digital library of free bo…
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Exploit Information Leaks in Random Numbers from Python, Ruby and PHP
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Uses For A Message Queue
Overview We've been working with, building, and evangelizing message queues for the last year, and it's no secret that we think they're awesome. We
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Whatever It Takes: Visualizations in E-mail with d3.js
Content comes in many shapes and sizes, and proving the value of the content that your business produces is a challenge that many marketers face today.
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How WebSockets work vs polling/long polling/streaming
How the web evolved from HTTP polling and Comet to WebSockets. Covers Ajax, long polling, Server-Sent Events, and why WebSockets became the standard for real-time communication.
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