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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 975 posts.
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Dear Y Combinator, we bet you we can solve a problem of yours in 72 hours.
Seedlauncher is a smart entity in the VentureOS network — built to create real value in its vertical, connected to specialized agents and a shared economy.
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Tacocopter Basics
The Tacocopters are coming. Sure, the original pitch was a clever troll aimed at credulous and impatient fast-food junkies. But the numbers don’t lie – a typical taco weighs less than a pound, and aircraft that can autonomously fly a few dozen ounces of payload to your doorstep are already available for around a…
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Paulo Coelho advertises on Pirate Bay front page
The Pirate Bay starts today a new and interesting system to promote arts Do you have a band? Are you an aspiring movie producer? A comedian? A cartoon artist? They will replace the front page logo with a link to your work. As soon as I learned about it, I decided to participate. Several of…
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Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
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You're solving the wrong problem
Problem-solving is an important part of everyday life, from organizing your video library to deciding whether to buy a car. Small problems (like trying to
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Duck Duck Go Passed 1mm Searches Per Day
I'm a bit late with this news about our portfolio company Duck Duck Go but I am super excited about it so I'm posting it anyway. I'll let a tweet tell the story: We received over 1,000,000 direct searches yesterday for the first time ever!duckduckgo.com/traffic.html — duckduckgo (@duckduckgo) February 14, 2012 One…
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IBM unveils z-series with 5.5 GHz CPU and hardware transactional memory.
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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Commercial freedom
It’s easy to take for granted just how good we have it as software makers selling on the internet. This is truly a unique period in human history with unprecedented commercial freedom. It bears celebration and recognition. Let me count the ways I love thee, unregulated internet: Access t…
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Tarsnap outage post-mortem
When the Tarsnap EC2 instance came back online about an hour later, I found that the abrupt loss of power had resulted in filesystem corruption. As I explained in a blog post in December 2008, Tarsnap stores all user data in Amazon S3, but keeps metadata cached in EC2 . While I could not see any evidence that the…
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How I created and launched a website from the Internet café in Zimbabwe
After my last interview with a big mining firm,I got fed up.I had gone to many interviews with big companies , and the result was always the same.With unemployment at a staggering 80% , one can ima…
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Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass
We started developing Toshl for Windows Phone because we liked the platform and saw the potential in it. It's a beautifully designed OS, even if the experience starts to wear a bit thin after a few weeks and a giant leap for Microsoft. Publishing apps for it though, has turned out to be a very…
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What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier
Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life. This post is an overview of why exercising makes us happier.
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The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
A core value CloudFlare is that security information should be shared between organizations to make the entire Internet safer. That is how CloudFlare's systems work: if one site is attacked, data about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the network so other sites can be safe.
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Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
Technology Academy Finland (TAF) awards the global one-million-euro Millennium Technology Prize and runs associated events and initiatives.
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Drupal's Golden Handcuffs
DRUPAL Bootstrap Upgrade: MIKE IT
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99 Problems But Money Ain't One
When the Series A check clears, most startups send out a bragging press release, the equivalent of flashing your grill. The VC backing is supposed to mean that the company has experienced hands in its corner. That it’s financially solid. A shoe-in for a puff profile piece in a magazine. Eligible fo…
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Kickstarter, Trademarks and Lies
Update: We had to disable comments because the discussion was turning into a flame war. Just a few clarifications: Arduino is not suing anybody. We never