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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,129 posts.
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A new Light Table experience
With our release of the 0.2.0 version of Light Table we laid the foundation we needed to continue moving forward. In this release we wanted to focus on making that foundation a joy to use by taking the time to really craft an experience. To that end, even though 0.3.0 is still an alpha, it will feel much better to…
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HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla
Today Shumway landed in the Firefox codebase. Shumway is a way to support playing Flash (SWF files) without the Adobe Flash Player. The Adobe Flash Player has been plagued with bugs so being to play Flash without the normal player is a big step forward for security. Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that…
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0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML
A new design for Acko.net, fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML at sixty frames per second.
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Don't trust me: I might be a spook
But the latest revelations scare me. It's one thing to find and exploit vulnerabilities in software; there's a lot of software out there which was written by developers with very little understanding of cryptography or software security, and it shows. If you care about security, we reasoned, stick to software written…
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Gzip + poetry = awesome
Day 16: gzip + poetry = awesome
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Booting to Rust
A couple nights ago I was looking over the UEFI spec, and I realized it shouldn't be too hard to write UEFI applications in Rust. It turns out, you can, and her…
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Using Silk Road
History, background, visiting, ordering, using, & analyzing the drug market Silk Road 1
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The NSA: An Inside View
In which I relate my experience as an NSA employee and impart my thoughts on the policies in place, my former coworkers, and the current cyber war.
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A founder-friendly term sheet
When I invest (outside of YC) I make offers with the following term sheet. I’ve tried to make the terms reflect what I wanted when I was a founder. A few people have asked me if I’d share it, so...
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Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again
With Scala you feel smart having just got something to work in a beautiful way but when you look around the room to tell your clojure colleague how clever you are, you notice he left 3 hours ago and there is a post-it saying use a Map. Daniel Worthington-Bodart
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Please Stop Attacking MIT's Network
Today, at around 2:30 PM EST, Scripts went down. For most MIT students, this means a few class websites are inaccessible, a few friends' b...
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Why Android SSL was downgraded from AES256-SHA to RC4-MD5 in late 2010
blog about networking, cameras, old gear, and xmpp
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The sound of the dialup, pictured
If you ever connected to the Internet before the 2000s, you probably remember how it sounded. But what do these sounds mean?
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21 Nested Callbacks
About 21 months ago, before I even knew what a callback was, I built my first webpage. In honor of its 21 nested callbacks, I think it's about time I finally take a second look at it.
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Update on Novena Open Laptop
Back in December, I posted that we’re building an open laptop . The post generated hundreds of comments, and I was surprised there was so much interest.
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A culture of beer and overtime
I quit my my last job after a little more than 2 months. Why? Did I jump into a position I was not excited about? ...
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Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
Alternate Title: How NOT to Do Social Media for Your Startup This morning, I happily tweeted about the service UserTesting.com, which I’ve been using to ge...
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Why Use Make
I love Make . You may think of Make as merely a tool for building large binaries or libraries (and it is, almost to a fault), but it’s much more than that. Makefiles are machine-readable documentation that make your workflow reproducible.
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