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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,838 posts.
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KDE is adopting GitLab
GitLab announced that KDE is adopting GitLab for use by its developers to further enhance infrastructure accessibility and encourage contributions.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Rules for Intuitive UX
Obey the Law of Locality · ABD: Anything But Dropdowns · Pass the Squint Test · Teach by example
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What the Hell Is Going On? Effects of Information Abundance
David shares how the new age of information abundance is transforming commerce, education, and politics. Read here.
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It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a .gov domain versus a commercial one ending in .com or .org. But a recent experience suggests this trust may…
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Linux Desktop Setup
My software setup has been surprisingly constant over the last decade, after a few years of experimentation since I initially switched to Linux in 2006. It might be interesting to look back in another 10 years and see what changed. A quick overview of what’s running as I’m writing this post:
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The not so hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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I was seven words away from being spear-phished
Three weeks ago I received a very flattering email from the University of Cambridge, asking me to judge the Adam Smith Prize for Economics:
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Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information
I decided to make a quick summary of facts about Sci-Hub and myself, because in our times you cannot fully trust articles published in media, Wikipedia pages. Well, they do present facts about Sci-…
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Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Game Engine Black Books Update
I have kept myself busy with the Game Engine Black Books and I have plenty of news. Most importantly, they have been revised. The DOOM book is now in version 1.1 while the WOLF3D book is entering v2.1. And there is more.
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The “mail is hard” myth
TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us - It's ok that people have…
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Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage
Jeff Bezos's six-page memos are legendary in the startup world for good reason: clear writing and clear thinking go hand in hand.
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To be great, be good repeatably
A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.
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US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums
Only the Netherlands has a higher average compulsory payment wedge than the US.
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WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Following HTML, CSS and JavaScript, WebAssembly becomes the fourth language for the Web which allows code to run in the browser
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Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web
WebAssembly is an assembly language for a conceptual machine, not a physical one. This is why it can be run across a variety of different machine architectures. WebAssembly needs a ...
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Facebook Dating
Facebook Dating makes it easier to find love through what you like.
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The SpaceX Starship is a big deal
Part of my series on common misconceptions in space journalism. Now available in audio form. SpaceX has been working on some variant of the Big Falcon Rocket for almost a decade, with a publicly an…
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A Message about iOS Security
iOS security is unmatched because we take end-to-end responsibility for the security of our hardware and software.
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Firefox to Discontinue Sideloaded Extensions
To give users more control over their extensions, support for sideloaded extensions will be phased out starting with Firefox 73.
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Why brilliant people lose their touch
It hasn’t been a great couple of years for Neil Woodford — and it has been just as miserable for the people who have entrusted money to his investment funds. Mr Woodford was probably the most celeb…