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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,706 posts.
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Is management pressuring you to deliver unfinished code? (2020)
Case study of flawed conception due to requirements synthesis (slide 1 of 2)
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World of Warcraft: one simple line of code can cost you dearly
A few days ago, a new type of gold/item scam made the rounds. Usually scamming in MMORPGs is done using social engineering techniques, e.g. an attacker sells a fake item code for alleged in-game items like mounts to a potential victim for in-game currency. But this most recent kind of attack does not only involve…
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MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017
The MathJax CDN hosted at cdn.mathjax.org will be shutting down on April 30, 2017. Current and future releases available on other CDN providers.
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E17 (Enlightenment) enters alpha after 12 years
Enlightenment is a Window Manager, Compositor and Minimal Desktop for Linux (the primary platform), BSD and any other compatible UNIX system. Source code releases are on our download page. Visit our contribute page for our latest source code repositories.
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Node.js v9.2.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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State of Private Markets: Q1 2023
Q1 2023 was the slowest quarter for both capital raised and deal count since 2017.
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Pangram Image 1.0
Introducing Pangram Image 1.0, our AI image and video detector.
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Writing web-based interactive fiction with Ink
As used to author Heaven's Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery!: produce interactive scripts by writing in pure-text with ink markup.
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Writing embedded firmware using Rust
AnyLeaf Articles: Writing embedded firmware using Rust
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Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today
Ginkgo Bioworks [https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ginkgo-bioworks] is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding…
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Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies
Once upon a time, a journalist never gave up a confidential source. When someone comes forward, anonymously, to inform the public, it's better to risk time incarcerated than give them up. This ethical responsibility was also a practical and professional necessity. If you promise anonymity, you're obliged to deliver…
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Ruby Next: A Transpiler for Ruby
Introducing Ruby Next, a transpiler for Ruby.
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Baseline: a unified view of stable web features
MDN leads the way in implementing WebDX community group's efforts, delivering a clear and simple baseline for the web platform to developers.
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Clues to Covid-19 coronavirus’s vulnerability emerge from antibody against SARS
An antibody recovered from a survivor of the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s has revealed a potential vulnerability of the coronavirus at the root of COVID-19.
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Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Sinch to acquire Mailgun
Pathwire, along with its portfolio of brands including Mailgun, has entered an agreement to be acquired by Sinch, a global leader in cloud communications. Learn more.
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Run NanoClaw in Docker Sandboxes
Every agent gets its own isolated container inside a micro VM. No dedicated hardware needed. No complex setup.
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Monzo’s Response to Cloudbleed
Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.
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Two brothers invented an alphabet for their native language, Fulfulde
Meet two brothers working to preserve the Fulani language and the culture embedded within it.
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Kubernetes 1.9: Apps Workloads GA and Expanded Ecosystem
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.9, our fourth and final release this year. Today’s release continues the evolution of an increasingly rich feature set, more robust stability, and even greater community contributions. As the fourth release of the year, it gives us an opportunity to look back at…
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Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.” Meanwhile, YC alumni I talk to tell me that their angel investors regularly ask them, “When are you going to raise a Series A?”. I’d like to make the point that success isn’t the same as raising a round of financing. Quite the…
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Type of Barcodes and Their Usage
An essential overview on the most-used barcode types. 1D- and 2D-barcodes for retail, logistics, ticketing and more. ➜ Learn more now.
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Spaces: Scalable Object Storage on DigitalOcean
Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.