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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
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How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost It All
In 1980, two brothers from Texas controlled two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. This is the story of how one of history's biggest bets went bust.
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New 8-megapixel camera board on sale at $25
One of your favourite add-ons, now available with higher resolution, image quality, colour fidelity and low-light performance, for the same price of $25.
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How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition
This time we do the work for you.
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Debian 8.4 released
[03 Oct 2016] Several donations boost reliability of Debian's core infrastructure [27 Sep 2016] The Debian Project mourns the loss of Kristoffer H. Rose [17 Sep 2016] Updated Debian 8: 8.6 released [09 Jul 2016] DebConf16 closes in Cape Town and DebConf17 dates announced [02 Jul 2016] Debian Edu / Skolelinux Jessie …
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New debugging method found undetected security flaws in popular web apps
By exploiting some peculiarities of the popular Web programming framework Ruby on Rails, MIT researchers have developed a system that can quickly comb through tens of thousands of lines of application code to find security flaws.
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Tor Browser User Manual
The community team is excited to announce the new Tor Browser User Manual! The manual is...
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Open sourcing Embedding Projector: a tool for visualizing high dimensional data
Posted by Daniel Smilkov and the Big Picture group Recent advances in Machine Learning (ML) have shown impressive results, with applications rangin...
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Jobs Involving Routine Tasks Aren't Growing
Automation and offshoring are playing significant roles in the types of jobs that are growing or stagnating.
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Is PaaS dead?
Is PaaS dead? Trends, pivots and troubles in PHP cloud hosting in 2015, seen from inside one of the companies competing in it.
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Support for better symlink handling in Windows 10
Overview Symlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems, including Linux and Windows. The Windows’ NTFS file system has supported symlinks since Windows Vista. However, it hasn’t…
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.NET Core Tooling in Visual Studio “15”
This post was co-authored by David Carmona, a Principal Program Manager Lead in .NET Team and Joe Morris, a Senior Program Manager in .NET Team. Couple of weeks back, we dedicated a blog post introducing .NET Standard 2.0, which will significantly extend your ability to share code by unifying .NET APIs across all…
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PadMapper (YC S10) is Joining Zumper
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
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Apple Remote Code Execution with Image Files
Vulnerabilities discovered by Tyler Bohan of Cisco Talos. Many of the wide variety of file formats are designed for specialized uses within specific industries. Apple offers APIs as interfaces to provide a definitive way to access image data for multiple image formats on the Apple OS X platform. Talos is
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American Big Brother: A Century of Political Surveillance and Repression
In his 2004 book Perilous Times , Geoffrey R. Stone observes that with respect to free speech rights in wartime, “Time and again, Americans have suppressed dissent, imprisoned and deported dissenters, and then—later—regretted their actions.” In reality, as the timeline below demonstrates, it is not simply American’s…
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White House Source Code Policy a Big Win for Open Government
The U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is considering a new policy for sharing source code for software created by or for government projects. There’s a lot to love about the proposed policy: it would make it easier for people to find and reuse government software, and...
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Visualizing parallel requests in Elixir
Codemancers is an AI-first engineering and product studio. We design, build, and ship intelligent products — combining deep software craftsmanship with modern AI to solve real-world problems at scale.
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Women Who Code (YC S16) helps female engineers level up in their careers
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results, Slowing Growth in iPhone Sales
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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It’s not the methods that are Agile, it’s the people
Thoughts on web and mobile development, product design, and project management. Straight from the 10Clouds team. Learn more...