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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 Stellar: a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money
Stellar is a decentralized protocol for sending and receiving money in any pair of currencies. This means users can, for ...
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The Invention of Sliced Bread
Sliced bread: the greatest thing since...sliced bread.
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Functional programming explained in Clojure with a terminal-based game
So far, you’ve focused on becoming famil iar with the tools that Clojure provides: immutable data structures, functions, abstractions, and so on. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to think about your programming tasks in a way that makes the best use of those tools. You’ll begin integrating your experience into a new…
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A List of JavaScript Tools and Libraries
Code Fellows Blog
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CNAME Flattening: RFC-Compliant CNAMEs at a Domain's Root
This post is about a new feature we've been quietly rolling out over the last few months. Last week we began enabling it for everyone by default.
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Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)
The programming language Pascal has become the dominant language of instruction in computer science education. It has also strongly influenced languages developed subsequently, in particular Ada.
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting (2012)
Varnish is a powerful, flexible HTTP accelerator that speeds up web applications by caching content and optimizing delivery.
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Apple releases diversity numbers
We create a culture of collaboration where different experiences and perspectives come together to make something magical and meaningful.
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Programming with Nothing (2011)
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
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A New, Optional Way to Share and Discover Music, TV and Movies
We’re making conversations quicker and easier.
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Participation Inequality: The 90-9-1 Rule for Social Features
In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
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Warrant Canary Frequently Asked Questions
What is a warrant canary? A warrant canary is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that a service provider has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received. Once a service provider does receive legal process, the speech prohibition goes into...
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FAQ on CEO Resignation
On April 3, 2014 Brendan Eich voluntarily stepped down as CEO of Mozilla. It has been well documented that Brendan’s past political donations led to boyc
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The 20 Most Expensive Keywords in Google Ads
While the minimum bid per keyword is 5 cents in Google Ads, the highest cost keywords are nowhere near that. Google can make up to $50 per click from the most expensive PPC keywords, and keyword advertising is a highly lucrative business. Learn all about the most expensive keywords for your industry.
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Sophos News - The Sophos Blog
The Sophos Blog
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PRESS RELEASE: 37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The…
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org-drill.el – flashcards and spaced repetition for org-mode
Org-Drill is an extension for Org mode . Org-Drill uses a spaced repetition algorithm to conduct interactive "drill sessions", using org files as sources of facts to be memorised. Each topic is treated as a "flash card". The material to be remembered is presented to the student in random order. The student rates his…
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New Search Strategy for Firefox: Promoting Choice & Innovation
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
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Verizon Injecting Perma-Cookies to Track Mobile Customers, Bypassing Privacy Controls
Verizon users might want to start looking for another provider. In an effort to better serve advertisers, Verizon Wireless has been silently modifying its users' web traffic on its network to inject a cookie-like tracker. This tracker, included in an HTTP header called X-UIDH, is sent to every...
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Y Combinator
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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How reliable are climate models?
<p>While there are uncertainties with climate models, they successfully reproduce the past and have made predictions that have been subsequently confirmed by observations.</p>