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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,784 posts.
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What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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How I Built an Apartment Buzzer for Multiple Roommates
Full disclosure: a lot of people have talked about this idea, this is just my implementation of it for our apartment. You can check out Buzzeromatic.com i...
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How We Improved Our Conversion Rate by 72%
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Bouncing Beholder: JS1k winner explained
I gave a talk on this at the November Berlin JS user group. Slides here. Though they might be hard to follow without commentary.
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Apple fears the killer app
Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules. The new “rules” appear to be, “its OK to do what you want in your app if we say so. And we’ll…
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Paypal's logo designed to look like a recommendation?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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The Best Method to Master a Foreign Language, Guaranteed
Dear Korean, My name is The English Teacher. The English Teacher has a question for The Korean. The English Teacher read the Korean's rece...
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Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference
When the internal Google remote quality rater guidelines leaked online there was a core quote inside it that defined the essence of spam:
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Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?
Used to be you could argue that Flash, whatever its merits, delivered content to the entire audience you cared about. That’s no longer true, and Adobe’s Flash penetration is shrinking with each iPhone OS device Apple sells.
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Mahalo's new spam is worse than old
Last week, after Matt Cutts gave Jason Calacanis a warning about Mahalo.com’s spammier pages (and probably a few stern looks as well), Jason changed a few items. He had them rename their spambot from “searchclick” to “stub”, thinking a less obvious name would throw off anyone looking into the spam situation. Very…
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Bending over: How to sell to large companies
Selling to big companies can be lucrative, and small bootstrapped startups absolutely have the power to sell to the big boys. But it's a very different world than you're used to. Here's what you can expect and how to deal with it.
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