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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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GET /browser.exe
Jon Howell dreams of a new Internet. In this new Internet, cross-browser compatibility checking is a distant memory and new features can be unilaterally be added to browsers without having to convince the world to upgrade first. The idea which makes this Internet possible is so crazy, it just might work.
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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Facebook the Devourer
I can't find a way to write this article without it sounding like a rant, so why fight it? The views and opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer.
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Income inequality, as seen from space
Last week, I wrote about how urban trees—or the lack thereof—can reveal income inequality. After writing that article, I was curious, could I actually see
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3D printer community revolting against Makerbot's new closed-source printer
When I woke up, my RSS reader showed some "occupy thingiverse" things posted on Thingiverse. I'm still trying to figure out all that happen...
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What you know matters more than what you do
Insight into Impact I recently had an interesting conversation with some colleagues. We were talking about a young researcher in our field who happens to ... Read more
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Bill Thurston has died
Bill Thurston, who made fundamental contributions to our understanding of low-dimensional manifolds and related structures, died on Tuesday, aged 65. Perhaps Thurston’s best known achievement…
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2012 MacBook Pro Powers on By Itself on Rough Roads
While driving around in the wilds on the bumpy roads of the White Mountains , my MacBook Pro with Retina display keeps waking up. When I pull it out of the leather bag I keep it in, I find that the battery is partly drained, and it is hot.
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Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy
In 2010ish, we tried to roll out a feature ( Treasury ) using MongoDB. It was an interesting experience. I learned quite a bit in the process. I wrote about what I was thinking at the time here . But for the most part it was an abject failure and Ryan Young wound up porting the entire thing to the MySQL shards which…
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