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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,098 posts.
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Mastering Linear Algebra in 10 Days: Astounding Experiments in Ultra-Learning
The MIT Challenge My friend Scott Young recently finished an astounding feat: he completed all 33 courses in MIT’s fabled computer science curriculum, from Linear ... Read more
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What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea
I'm a full stack web developer with a preference for Python. I also enjoy discussions on entrepreneurship and software marketing.
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I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit
Hartley writes about full stack software engineering and AI-driven software development.
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Things I've quit doing at my desk
We do all sorts of activities at our desks that affect our ability to produce our best work.
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Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
Warning: According to Facebook you are not allowed to read this post, so beware.
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How to contribute to an open source project: look for TODOs in code
Forgotten TODOs: ideas for contributing to open-source projects
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Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package
This article is now available in Vietnamese Bộ sạc iPhone của Apple . Disassembling Apple's diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals ...
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I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook
Anyone who reads this blog knows how much I hate patent laws . I think 99pct of the time they are anti-competitive, corruptive, impede creativity and innovation and can kill small businesses. I think the ratio of patent law doing a good job protecting company IP vs it being used purely to negatively impact competitors…
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WebGL: 80,000 particles
Disclaimer: this page only dispays 30,000 particles. You can check the 80,000 version here .
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A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2
In a previous post I discussed the mechanics of HFT. If you haven't read it, go read it now. Now I'll discuss it's social utility and cost. About the title Many people were misled by it, and this wasn't my intention. I was merely alluding to the book by Hardy …
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Mac Pro gets half-assed “update”
After two years, the Mac Pro was “updated” today, sort of: now we can choose slightly faster two-year-old CPUs at the top end, and the other two-year-old CPU options are cheaper now.
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The Little C Function From Hell
Does the standard say whether or not “char” is “unsigned char” or “signed char”? (I guess not from what you wrote above.)
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Ambient bus arrival monitor from hacked Linksys WRT54GL
London's Transport for London has a wonderful service called Countdown that can give live bus arrival times. For example, here's a page s...
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My favorite regex of all time
I thought I'd share my favorite regex of all time. [ -~] Any idea what this regexp matches? Scroll down for the answer. . . . . . . . . It matches all ASCII characters from the space to tilde. What are these characters? These are all printable characters! Take a look at this ASCII table. Printable characters start…