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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
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Google: Open Letter to Australians
g.co/Australia-Letter
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Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work
I've dealt with any number of technically brilliant people who produce outstanding work. The majority of them never bothered to write down their work and communicate it to others - report writing is too boring, uninteresting, and hard. And irrelevant. Or so they thought.
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X-COM
X-COM seemed to come out of nowhere. Its release was not preceded by an enormous marketing campaign with an enormous amount of hype. It had no video demo playing in the front window of Babbages, it wasn’t advertised twelve months in advance on glossy foldout magazine inserts, it had no flashing point-of-purchase…
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Good writing is a business advantage
Starting about ten years ago, I started hearing about agencies and agency people getting involved in what they were calling product design....
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I won’t buy ebooks anymore
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
Or, the JAM stack.
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Let's Encrypt's New Root and Intermediate Certificates
On Thursday, September 3rd, 2020, Let’s Encrypt issued six new certificates: one root, four intermediates, and one cross-sign. These new certificates are part of our larger plan to improve privacy on the web, by making ECDSA end-entity certificates widely available, and by making certificates smaller. Given that we…
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People expect technology to suck because it sucks
I get at least 27 tech annoyances on a single day
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Qt 6.0
Read about the latest Qt update — Qt 6.0. As Qt usage in embedded systems skyrocketed, it became time to improve the Qt platform.
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Finishing a side project
I've struggled with some side projects and had success with others. In this post, I'll focus on the actions and adjustments that have worked for me.
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IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for macOS and iOS
At IBM Research, we’re inventing what’s next in AI, quantum computing, and hybrid cloud to shape the world ahead.
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We deleted the production database by accident
This is pure disaster porn. It’s the story of how I drank some wine and then managed to delete the production database. Thankfully there was a backup.
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Looking back at how Signal works
In the midst of world-wide protests against racism and police brutality, a lot of people are becoming more immediately aware and concerned about the security of their data and online communication. We’ve gotten a lot of questions at Signal over the past week, so we wanted to briefly recap how it ...
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Zig's New Relationship with LLVM
While not yet at version 1.0, Zig is about to reach a new level of maturity and stability.
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How to Invest in Startups
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a...
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Is TDD Dead? (2014)
A series of conversations between Kent Beck, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Martin Fowler. We discuss Test-Driven Development (TDD) and its impact upon software design.
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The death of corporate research labs
In American innovation through the ages , Jamie Powell wrote: who hasn’t finished a non-fiction book and thought “Gee, that could have bee...
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Annoying website features I face as a blind person
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95th percentile isn't that hard to reach
Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things.
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DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot
There’s a story in today’s Washington Post “Cybersecurity 202” newsletter that confirms that the Department of Justice is capitalizing on the techlash in order to build up congressional support for the DOJ’s long-desired goal of legislation that will restrict your freedom to encrypt your data and
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70% of surveyed Americans say they can't do their job without internet
Over 65% of the world's population is regularly on the internet, with China and India having the most internet users.
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Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
Today, I’m excited to share some big news with you—Fedora Workstation will be available on Lenovo ThinkPad laptops! Yes, I know, many of us already run a Fedora operating system on a Lenovo system, but this is different. You’ll soon be able to get Fedora pre-installed by selecting it as you customize your purchase…