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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 978 posts.
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Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny
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Results of Mozilla's SOPA blackout
Yesterday, we blacked out the default start page in Firefox and redirected visitors to the Mozilla sites to a special action page. We also sent direct mess
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The first open company
Gittip is not just another web app or start-up, it’s a new kind of company. I’m calling it an “open company,” and here are its three defining principles:
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Sortfolio lives
After fielding over a dozen offers for Sortfolio, we finally came to an agreement this weekend with a couple of entrepreneurs who will be the new owners of Sortfolio. This is big news for our Sortfolio customers. Back in May we said we’d either be selling Sortfolio for $480,000 or retiring…
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Girls Need Math
The other day a programmer-friend sent an e-mail to me and three other women. It read:
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Message Oriented Programming
Designing around the messages, rather than the objects, brought my whole system into focus. If modules communicate by passing around self-contained textual data, or a simple structured format like JSON, they impose fewer assumptions on each other.
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SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry
Today is a good day. Whether you're employed at Moz, a fan of what we've built, a Seattle-startup supporter or even tangentially involved in the field of web marketing, there's reason to celebrate. After 5 years of organic growth (from our initial funding in 2007) and two tough, failed attempts at…
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Getting shares back from my co-founders
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Bank of America Telephone Access Security Hole
"I can assure you that they would not be able to do that with the Bank of America security." The words of the Bank of America supervisor echoed in our
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NSA Interception Infographic
Late Friday afternoon , the government asked the Supreme Court to dismiss our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a 2008 law gives the government unprecedented authority to monitor Americans ’ international emails and phone calls.
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The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund
maybe some funds will be used to get some serious thread support going (and don't tell me that threads work in Perl because I'll throw some tomatoes at you).
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Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain
Verifiable (shut down August 1, 2010) Stuart Roseman shut down Verifiable, a crowdsourced charting and data analysis site, to start SaneBox, a product that automatically identifies important email and separates them in a user’s inbox. Below, he explains how he knew when it was time to pull t…
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Mozilla and Xiph's new Daala video codec to compete with h.265
Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology. The effort is a collaboration between Mozilla Foundation, Xiph.Org Foundation and other contributors.
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