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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,905 posts.
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Steve Jobs
And now the frenzy begins. Running this story in reverse it's suddenly clear why Apple didn't introduce the iPhone 5 this week. It would have been lost in the news of Jobs's death, killing the marketing value he would have loved. I'm sure the phone will appear in a week or two with that appearance
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Apple and the Kindle
The Amazon Kindle is full of all sorts of amazing, delightful touches — the sort of thing you’d expect from an Apple product. For example, when you first take your Kindle out of its (gorgeous!) box, it boots right up knowing your name and logged into your account. This is actually out-Apple-ing Apple: it’s possible…
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Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I'm starting to resent Apps like I resented CD-ROMs. I started playing this ...
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Hackers Can Kill Diabetics w/ Insulin Pumps? Facts vs. Fear Mongering
UPDATE: Jay Radcliffe, the researcher discussed in this post, has emailed me, a ...
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The strange story of etherpad
I don't actually know this story - certainly no more of it than anyone who has read a few web pages. But luckily, I'm pretty good at making...
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(Android) Developer Income Report #9
My March 2011 developer income report is here. As you will see there are no much changes but the eBook sales (one more time thank you to all of you for your great feedback!). As promised to those w…
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How Spotify Works
Synthpop and sci-fi
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The Rands Test
It's hard to pick a single best work by Joel Spolsky, but if I was forced to, I'd pick The Joel Test. It's his own, highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate th
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"The worst algorithm in the world?"
You know the Fibonacci numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, … Each number is the sum of the previous two. Let’s say the zeroth Fibonacci number is zero, so: $latex \begin{array}{r@{\…
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A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
On 8 June, a Scottish banker named Alexander Fordyce shorted the collapsing Company's shares in the London markets. But a momentary bounce-back in the stock…
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The Anti-Mac User Interface
We reverse all of the core design principles behind the Macintosh human interface guidelines to arrive at the characteristics of the Internet desktop.
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ShoeFitr: The company Amazon must buy immediately
by Paul Hontz
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Books For Learning to Design, The Hard Way
I present some books I enjoyed, which is the path I’m taking to get better at design and user experience.
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The co-op business model: share whatever you've got
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.