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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,218 posts.
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What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)
For most Americans, the only image they have of passenger rail systems, and subways in particular, are Amtrak, the New York Metro, the San Francisco BART, and maybe some of that sorry crap in Chicago.
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To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots
You may have read at NYMag that I’ve been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical…
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You Don't Need JQuery
Free yourself from the chains of jQuery by embracing and understanding the modern Web API and discovering various directed libraries to help you fill in the gaps.
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The most official water costs $120k a gallon
We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O…
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Clojure: All grown up
I'm a Product Manager at Google. I use data and UX to drive great products. And it turns out—the toughest problems are won in translation.
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What to do if you’re stopped by the police
When I was 5, I saw the Karate Kid. I saw that bad guys could beat me up, and I had no recourse if I didn't know karate. I promptly signed up for martial arts classes.
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My favorite Rust function
Jaseem Abid's blogs and musings
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On Asm.js
Just a shiny demo or the future of browser computing?
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Private and Public Mastodon
Here’s how to get into a lot of trouble: Suppose you (like me) love the intellectual wealth found in free-form text on the Internet. And (like me) are a reasonably competent programmer. And (like me) have derived value and pleasure searching Twitter. And (like me) you look at this nifty new Fediverse thing and see…
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The bash book to rule them all
I ♥ to /bin/bash and last week I came around the one bash book to rule them all.
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John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018)
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Artists must be allowed to make bad work
Art critic David Sylvester on the perils of working too much in the public eye.
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Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently: IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit skywhopper…
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The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Abstract: Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political and moral positioning of cryptography. They lead one to…
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A Self-Made Man Looks At How He Made It
To begin, my mother and father are responsible for me existing at all, so I suppose the first round of “How I made it to where I am” begins there. I was born at Travis Air Force Base in…
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Moving from relational data to events
Knock knock? Who’s there? It’s me, Oskar, the end is near, did you know that? Ah, you know it but don’t know how to proceed? Let’s talk about the end of the CRUD world…
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If my kids excel, will they move away?
I grew up on a farm outside of a rural town about an hour southeast of Columbus, Ohio. Like many small towns in America, my town knows “brain drain” – all of my friends from high school who went to college (~30% of my class) now live elsewhere, although most are pretty close by (e.g., several live in the suburbs of…
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Elixir vs. Erlang: a question of momentum
I fiddled around with Erlang the first time a number of years ago, and have come back to it off and on ever since. I’m currently using it professionally, and enjoying the experience a lot. …
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My favorite database shirts
Andy reviews his favorite NoSQL and NewSQL database shirts.
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I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
A Flask cookie on developers.google.com was signed with a secret it carried inside itself. Pulling that secret out turned a forged session into code execution across Google's developer sites.
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The Sun seen through the Earth in “neutrino light” (2007)
Physics blog quantum computation