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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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Introducing Chronos: A Replacement for Cron
Chronos: A Replacement for Cron By Florian Leibert, Harry Shoff, & Andy Kramolisch Chronos is our replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of Mesos …
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How Gmail’s Image Caching Affects Open Tracking
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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Americans Disapprove of Government Surveillance Programs
More Americans disapprove (53%) than approve (37%) of the government program that obtained telephone call logs and Internet communication records. Americans are split on whether leaker Edward Snowden did the right or wrong thing.
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The code culture problem
A personal blog about the craft of engineering, tech work, personal philosophy, and life.
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Drone ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Now Has A Name: ARGUS
The PBS series NOVA , “ Rise of the Drones ,” recently aired a segment detailing the capabilities of a powerful aerial surveillance system known as ARGUS-IS, which is basically a super-high, 1.8 gigapixel resolution camera that can be mounted on a drone. As demonstrated in this clip , the system is capable of…
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CloudFlare, PRISM, and Securing SSL Ciphers
Over the last week we've closely watched the disclosures about the alleged NSA PRISM program. At CloudFlare, we have never been approached to participate in PRISM or any other similar program.
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Trello for iPad is Here
We've taken the best of Trello and optimized it for that beautiful glass touchscreen you've got. It has all your favorite features as desktop. Download today.
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 Brings a Full Bag of Goodies to Android Developers
At JetBrains we're always listening to developers, and Android developers are no exception. Based on this tight feedback loop, we've made a long list of changes to our award-winning IDE which will hop
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Django Best Practices
Deep insights from our research and experience
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Firefox Developer Tools and Firebug
If you haven't tried the Firefox Developer Tools in the last 6 months, you owe it to yourself to take another look. Grab the latest Aurora browser, and start up ...
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Documents Shed Light on Border Laptop Searches
The case of David Miranda got a lot of attention around the world after UK authorities were accused of abusing an anti-terrorism law to evade the normal constitutional restrains on police power and question someone because of their political associations. Well, a very similar abuse of power appears to have happened…
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Work Can Wait
On top of making Basecamp, we write books about what we’ve learned running our own business. They’re filled with practical advice you won’t find anywhere else.
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Google +1's Correlation with Higher Search Rankings
This year's Search Ranking Factors Study showed a very strong correlation between Google +1s and higher rankings, and there's a compelling reason why. Google+ was built for SEO, and is far better optimized for search than other platforms.
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Retiring Chrome Frame
The main goal of the Chromium project has always been to help unlock the potential of the open web. We work closely with the industry to st...
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TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users
At Open Whisper Systems, we’re working to both advance the state of the art for secure communication and also reduce the friction required for ordinary people to make use of it. We want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication methods that are as easy and reliable to use as makin...
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A Court Order is an Insider Attack
Commentators on the Lavabit case, including the judge himself, have criticized Lavabit for designing its system in a way that resisted court-ordered access to user data. They ask: If court orders are legitimate, why should we allow engineers to design services that protect users against court-ordered access? The…
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Making EmberJS Easier
We frequently receive feedback from new developers about how frustrating it can be to get started with Ember. Yesterday, one of the most active comment threads on Hacker News was largely about that....
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Optimizing Nginx, Node.js and networking for heavy workloads
Used in conjunction, NginX and Node.JS are the perfect partnership for high-throughput web applications. They’re both built using event-driven design...