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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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Intel acquires Movidius
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MIT scientists find weird quantum effects over hundreds of miles
MIT scientists have discovered strange quantum effects hold, even over hundreds of miles. In longest test of quantum mechanics, researchers find neutrinos, traveling over 450 miles at close to speed of light, have no single identity.
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How privatization increases inequality
Inequality in the United States, which began its most recent rise in the late 1970s, continues to surge in the...
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Quoting command line arguments the wrong way (2011)
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A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
By Brendan Neutra and Aimee Barciauskas
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Reconfigured Tesla coil aligns, electrifies materials from a distance
Rice University researchers use a modified Tesla coil to assemble nanoparticles into a wire from a distance. Their process, “Teslaphoresis,” may be used for the self-assembly of nano- and macro-scale materials.
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Intel acquires Itseez, leading developer of OpenCV
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Using React Native: One Year Later
This is the story of how we assessed and refactored two video players into one, cut the player code each product maintained by up to 94%, and swapped to the new player without disruption to any users.
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Design Principles for Reducing Cognitive Load
Every time you visit a website, a process of learning is initiated in the brain. Whether it’s the navigation, layout, or that auto-rotating image slider on the homepage, your brain has to learn how to use the site while keeping track of the reason you came there in the first place. The mental effort required during…
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CoreOS and Redspread Join to Extend Kubernetes
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
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Why Do Famous People Get Paid $250k to Give a Speech?
The organizations willing to spend $20,000-$200,000 to hear a luminary speak include Wall Street banks, summer camp executives, and national associations of bakers.
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CockroachDB Skitters into Beta
We introduced Cockroach Labs last June with a simple yet ambitious mission: Make Data Easy. We are now thrilled to launch CockroachDB beta.
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China Shows How Surveillance Leads to Intimidation and Software Censorship
Xinjiang, home of the China's muslim Uighur minority, has long been the world's laboratory for Internet repression. Faced with widespread local unrest, and online debate, China has done everything it can to enforce its vision of the Net in the region, from imprisoning bloggers and online publishers...
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Enabling HTTP/2 for Dropbox web services: experiences and observations
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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V8 JavaScript Engine: V8 Release 5.4
V8 v5.4 comes with performance improvements and reduced memory consumption.
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The Crime of Speech
New EFF Report Maps Legal Threats to Free Expression in the Arab WorldFreedom of expression is a universal right, but the specific threats to it vary widely from country to country and region to region. As activists fighting for free speech worldwide, it is essential that we better understand the...
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Inuit Cartography: Wooden Coastline Maps That Fit in a Mitten
In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), the Inuit people are known for carving portable maps out of driftwood to be used while navigating coastal waters. These pieces, which are small enough to be carried…
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Win32 and .NET desktop apps can now be published in the Windows Store
At Build 2016 we announced the Desktop App Converter, enabling developers to bring their existing desktop apps and games over to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and then extend it with UWP functionality. With this, we’ve enabled the path to migrate an app or game to all Windows 10 devices over time – including…
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A Simple Makefile for Medium-Sized C/C++ Projects
A simple Makefile for C or C++ that automatically finds sources, determines include flags, and sets up header dependencies.