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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,784 posts.
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A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
Interested in Redis? You might be interested in the Redis Handbook I’m currently working on.
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Stop Words as Social Signals (a result that goes against IR common knowledge)
Your daily dose of insights across life's diverse topics
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Maze Generation: Eller's Algorithm
Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more!
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The Most Useful Objective-C Code I’ve Ever Written
Actually, it’s the most useful code I’ve extended ; credit for the core idea goes to Dave Dribin with his Handy NSString Conversion Macro .
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It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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An Open Letter to JavaScript Leaders Regarding Semicolons
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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Nobody Understands Probability
The goal of this post is to give an overview of Bayesian statistics as well as to correct errors about probability that even mathematically sophisticated people commonly make. Hopefully by the end …
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HN long term change
HN visitors are generally worried that HN is changing, and most of the worries center (obviously) around whether or not it is changing for the worse.
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The Surprising Psychology of Impressiveness
Steve and David Let’s try a simple experiment. Imagine that you’re an admissions officer at a competitive college, and you’re evaluating the following two applicants: ... Read more
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IE’s big leap forward; CSS3 selectors fully supported
In the past few days I’ve been revising the CSS compatibility table with information about the latest crop of browsers. There’s no doubt about it: this is IE9’s show. It just supports nearly everything. No hassle, no buts.
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When to use Excel, when to use R?
Encyclia — acquisition, retention, and advocacy consultancy
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Veracity: The next step in DVCS
One week from today, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention , SourceGear will be making a big announcement. Today I'm giving you an early preview. We've been building something new. :-)
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How Authors Really Make Money: The Rebirth of Seth Godin
What do the economics of publishing look like… really? (Photo: thinkpanama) (Special thanks to my agent, Steve Hanselman, and my anonymous sources within the world’s biggest publishing houses) Print is dead! This has become a popular headline, and a great way to get quoted, as Nicholas Negroponte has shown. Iconic…
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The Instapaper Default.png dilemma
iOS apps display a prerendered, static image when they launch called Default.png . Developers can set it to anything they like. This is Instapaper ’s:
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Contributing to Open Source projects
Prior to joining Google I always joked that Google was the black hole that swallowed up open source programmers. I'd see awesome, productive hackers join Google and then hear little to nothing from them afterwards. When I joined I decided I'd solve this mystery and post about it but it's been over…
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Jim Hugunin leaves Microsoft and IronPython
Today marks the end of a crazy six year journey for me at Microsoft. I clearly remember my brutal first 8 months at this company as I worked with lawyers, marketing folks and execs to figure out if and how we could release IronPython as an open source project from Microsoft. The final approval for that release came…