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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 568 posts.
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Why we skip Photoshop
When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup. Here are a few reasons why we skip photoshop: You can’t click a Photoshop mockup. This is probably the number one reason we skip static mockups. They aren’t real. Pap…
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Bayes' Theorem explained by Yudkowsky
Bayes’ Theorem for the curious and bewildered; an excruciatingly gentle introduction.
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Google Protocol Buffers - Open Sourced
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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Programmer Insecurity
pickin', grinnin', and pushin' bits
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Official Google Blog: Sorting 1PB with MapReduce
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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How We Made Our Face Recognizer 25x Faster
This is a war story from my real day job. I work at a start-up company in Pittsburgh that does face detection, tracking, and recognition software. This particular problem involved optimization of the face recognizer.
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JQuery 1.2.6: Events 100% faster
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models (+amazing vid)
NEWS 100 concept models created by sketching with ILoveSketch for 4.5 days at Emerging Technology, SIGGRAPH 2009 (New Orleans, LA, USA, August 3-7) Paper and demo presentation of EverybodyLovesSketch at UIST 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 4-7)
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Early Retirement is a False Idol
The classic argument for enduring 80 to 100 hour work weeks for years on end — sacrificing relationships, hobbies, and anything else that doesn’t progress the mission — is that at the end of the rainbow lies early retirement. The reward for risking it all on a crazy startup idea. …
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Standing versus Sitting
Almost two months ago, I decided that I wanted to try working standing up, rather than sitting down. When sitting in my comfortable, reclining office chair, my posture was terrible, my attention span was narrowing rapidly, and I was constantly battling fatigue. After looking around online a bit, it…
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YC: 7 Weeks In
When Chris Sacca talks, people listen.
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Advice to the Bright and Young
One perspective on school, achievement, meaning, and life. An article on one bright young man, Moshe, recently appeared on Hacker News. For a long time I’ve been meaning to write about the su…
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Why Python Programmers Should Learn Python
A Word Aligned article posted 2007-07-01, tagged Python, Java, Puzzles.