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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 to Test Drive Your Business Idea Before Quitting Your Job
This post on validating a new business idea (or business venture) was inspired by lean methodology books like Lean Startup, Running Lean, 4 Steps to the Epiphany, and Lean Analytics.
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A tale of an impossible bug: big.LITTLE and caching
When someone says multi-core, we unconsciously think SMP. That worked out well for us until recently when ARM announced big.LITTLE. ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture is the first mass produced AMP architecture and as we’ll see next, it raises the bar for how hard multi-core programing is.
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A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
In 1986, at the very first Burn, a crowd of complete strangers gathered around the Man once it was lit it on fire. Nobody had invited them. They didn’t know anything about the 10 Principles, or understand what The Man was...
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Let's Encrypt has issued its first million certificates
At 9:04am GMT today, the Let's Encrypt Certificate Authority issued its millionth certificate. This is an amazing success, coming only 3 months and 5 days since a beta version of the service became publicly available. We're very excited to be building a more secure and fully encrypted future for...
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Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects
“People use Tails to chat off-the-record, browse the web anonymously, and share sensitive documents. Many human rights defenders depend on Tails to do th
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Introducing Webpack Dashboard
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app
Google Allo can help you make plans, find information, and express yourself more easily in chat. And the more you use it, the more it improves over time.
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Yoga: A cross-platform layout engine
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So you want to expose Go on the Internet
Back when crypto/tls was slow and net/http young, the general wisdom was to always put Go servers behind a reverse proxy like NGINX. That’s not necessary anymore!
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Introducing Safari Technology Preview
Starting today, there’s a new, convenient way to see what features and improvements are coming to Safari and other applications that use WebKit.
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Epiphany-V: A 1024-core 64-bit RISC processor
I am happy to report that we have successfully taped out a 1024-core Epiphany-V RISC processor chip at 16nm. The chip has 4.5 Billion transistors, which is 36% more transistors than Apple’s latest 4 core A10 processor at roughly the same die size. Compared to leading HPC processors, the chip demonstrates an 80x…
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Stripe now supports ACH payments
Stripe Financial Connections is an open banking solution that lets users securely share financial data to streamline ACH payments and payouts, reduce fraud, and underwrite risk.
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Why Erlang Matters
Everything you need to integrate your application with 8x8 products, or embed 8x8 products into your own platform.
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Microsoft demos 'holoportation' 3D presence tech with HoloLens
Holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high-quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed, compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When combined with mixed reality displays such as HoloLens, this technology allows users to see, hear, and interact with remote…
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The 451 status code is now supported
Get started with one of our guides, or jump straight into the API documentation.
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Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
At //Build 2016, Microsoft announced the ability to run native Bash and GNU/Linux command-line tools directly on the new Windows Subsystem for Linux