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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,419 posts.
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Introducing Tweet-a-Program
Compose a tweet-length Wolfram Language program. Tweet it to @WolframTaP. Our Twitter bot will run it in the Wolfram Cloud and tweet back the result.
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Illinois General Assembly passes bill to ban citizens from recording police
The Illinois General Assembly just passed a bill that would prevent citizens from recording the police.
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EFF Dismayed by House's Gutted USA Freedom Act
EFF and Other Civil Liberties Organizations Call on Congress to Support Uncompromising Reform Since the introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act, a bill that has over 140 cosponsors, Congress has been clear about its intent: ending the mass collection of Americans' calling records. Many members of...
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New RFS: One Million Jobs
We want to fund companies that have the potential to create a million jobs. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between humans and computers—we are very good at some things computers are terrible at and vice versa—and some of these require huge amounts of human resources. This is both good…
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HipChat Will Grant Employers Access To 1-to-1 Chat History
Atlassian and Slack have forged a new strategic partnership.
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How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?
How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible? Seriously. TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work. * * * Imagine it is the time when Gtk+ 3.0 was released. You have a beautiful application with no bugs. For the sake of argument…
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Brand engagement is plummeting on Facebook
According to a new report from Simply Measured, the total engagement for the top 10 most-followed brands on Facebook has declined 40 percent year-over-year—even as brands have increased the amount of content they're posting by 20.1 percent.
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Songza is Joining Google
With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere else.
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A more modern Gmail app for Android
Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Today, the Gmail app for Android is getting updated with a more modern style, sleeker transitions...
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Apache Spark 1.0.0
Spark 1.0.0 is a major release marking the start of the 1.X line. This release brings both a variety of new features and strong API compatibility guarantees throughout the 1.X line. Spark 1.0 adds a new major component, Spark SQL , for loading and manipulating structured data in Spark. It includes major extensions to…
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Responsive Web Design with DevTools' Device Mode
We all develop websites on our desktop and laptop machines, so we tend to initially develop for the desktop experience. But that's increasin...
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GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is slow
GitHub Pages with a custom root domain is terribly slow. It will make 35% of your visitors go away.
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Generating code
How to use go generate.
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Flying with Machine Guns?
Dynamics of shooting machine guns downwards, and the actual forces, velocities and heights that could be achieved. Modeled with Wolfram SystemModeler.
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Something is amiss with the Interwebs: BGP is a flapping
Something is amiss with the Interwebs! BGP is a flapping. , Author: Adrien de Beaupre
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Debian 7.4 Released
[20 Oct 2014] The Debian Project mourns the loss of Peter Miller [18 Oct 2014] Updated Debian 7: 7.7 released [14 Oct 2014] Debian Project chooses LeaseWeb to provide global snapshot archive [08 Sep 2014] FSF and Debian join forces to help free software users find the hardware they need [31 Aug 2014] DebConf 14 closes…
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GCC 4.9.0 released
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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The Day We Fought Back: By The Numbers
96,000 calls, 555,000 emails, 245,000 signatures and more. Find out what happened this Tuesday.