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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,981 posts.
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Threes: The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game
It’s been a weird and awesome couple of months. Our expectations for our tiny game were well, fairly tiny. Basically, we hoped it’d do better than Puzzlejuice. It did. By a lot. It’s still hard to address the world’s response with something beyond a wide-eyed daze but essentially we couldn’t be more thrilled. Duh.
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Burying the URL
Chrome considers hiding the location field.
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Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI, Part 2
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
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Android: I don't need your permission
Permissions on Android are tricky to get right from a user perspective. Usually you only want to do something minor and innocuous (pre-fill a form with a contact's info) but the actual permission you have to request gives you much more power than necessary (access to ALL contact
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2048 Numberwang
Join the numbers and get Numberwang! Careful: this game is extremely addictive!
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Today I Briefed Congress on the NSA
This morning, I spent an hour in a closed room with six members of Congress: Rep. Lofgren, Rep. Sensenbrenner, Rep. Bobby Scott, Rep. Goodlatte, Rep. Mike Thompson, and Rep. Amash. No staffers, no public: just them. Lofgren had asked me to brief her and a few Representatives on the NSA. She said that the NSA wasn’t…
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Principles of Rich Web Applications
7 actionable principles for websites that want to make use of JavaScript to control their UI and deliver the best performance
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One of the Most Alarming Internet Proposals I've Seen
Previous: Warning: Network Solutions' Moronic Alert Email That Masquerades as a Phishing Attack
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Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
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Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)
I'm 99.99% sure that my writing this letter will have no effect, but my conscience tells me to write it anyway. Danziger's cartoon has pushed me out of my lethargy.
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At
I recently appeared with John Gruber on The Talk Show. During the episode, the following exchange took place: @gruber: “How do you pronounce the ‘at’ symbol?” @chockenberry: “At” @gruber: “Right” Another @thetalkshow gem. — Jim Lipsey (@Jim_Lipsey) March 24, 2014 When it comes to naming characters, the Unicode…
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Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug
This content is now available in the Pluralsight course "Understanding the Shellshock Bash Bug" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/shellshock-bash-bug]Remember Heartbleed [https://www.troyhunt.com/2014/04/everything-you-need-to-know-about.html]? If you believe the hype today, Shellshock is in that league and with
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Scribd and Quora considered harmful
There are two terrible web properties out there that everyone hates, Scribd and Quora. Please don’t use them. Instead of Scribd just host a PDF anywhere, or upload text to pastebin or make a nice blog on WordPress or Medium or something. And instead of Quora use Ask MetaFilter or StackExchange .
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Employee Equity
Startup employees often do not get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, but lawyers are usually averse to trying new things, and investors...
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0^0
Clever student: I know! $latex x^{0}$ = $latex x^{1-1}$ = $latex x^{1} x^{-1}$ = $latex \frac{x}{x}$ = $latex 1$. Now we just plug in x=0, and we see that zero to the zero is one! Cleverer …
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Why the Bootstrap 3 Grid Works (2013)
Expired Registration Recovery Policy
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How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
How James Somers reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes
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Net neutrality
When there is a structural reason consumers don’t have freedom of choice, and the free market can’t work, consumers need minimal protection from the government so that they don’t get abused. We...