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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,717 posts.
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Projects: hijack (Hijacking the iPhone earphone jack)
Hijacking power and bandwidth from the mobile phone's audio interface. Creating a cubic-inch peripheral sensor ecosystem for the mobile phone.
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Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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Fabric Python with Cleaner API and Parallel Deployment
I'm Tav, a 28-year old from London. I enjoy working on large-scale social, economic and technological systems.
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SurveyMonkey Acquires Wufoo (YC W06)
We are delighted to announce that we have signed a definitive agreement to be [acquired by SurveyMonkey](http://www.surveymonkey.com/PressRelease04252011.aspx), the world’s leading […]
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And suddenly, you're hip
This Perl marketing thing you know.. I'm really thinking about it every day. I've always wondered how those mechanism of "being THE it-language" or "the tool the cool kids use these days" or "success" in terms of "spreading everywhere" really works.
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How to beat Apple
In the near term, companies making iPhone and iPad competitors are never going to beat Apple at their own game. Apple has supply chain advantages, a massive num
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What Happened to the Future?
We invest in smart people solving difficult problems, often difficult scientific or engineering problems. Here’s why. A. INTRODUCTION The Problem We have two primary and related interests: Finding ways to support technological development (technology is the fundamental driver of growth in the industrialized world)…
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Changes to my life as a result of just four weeks of daily meditation
This post was on the front page of Hacker News. Check out their thread for some interesting comments .
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A brief Sony password analysis
So the Sony saga continues. As if the whole thing about 77 million breached PlayStation Network accounts [http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/games/playstation-privacy-breach-77-million-customer-accounts-exposed-20110427-1dvhf.html] wasn’t bad enough, numerous other security breaches…
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Samurai: New Payment Gateway from FeeFighters
At FeeFighters, we’ve been helping business owners comparison shop credit card processors for years. One complaint kept resurfacing over and over for online merchants: what to do about the gateway? Learn a little bit about a samurai economics mindset.
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How to work with me - a no BS approach
In March 2005, a photocopy was handed to me in preparation for work with one of the top wigs. It enumerated the rules necessary to avoid con...
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Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub
.hubot stache me
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Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs
If you’ve spent any amount of time at a Unix command line you’ve probably already seen xargs . In case you haven’t, xargs is a command used to execute commands based on arguments from standard input.
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Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late
Someone has to break it to you, and that person is me. It’s over. You waited too long. You procrastinated or made excuses or otherwise didn’t think about it or care. You didn’t do…
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New string search algorithm
ULTRARUBY JEWELRY menghadirkan pilihan perhiasan berlian yang elegan untuk melengkapi gaya dan momen istimewa Anda.
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37signals: A/B testing part 3: Finalé
I was an A/B test skeptic. Maybe we don’t want to be second-guessed. Maybe we don’t want to cater to the lowest common denominator. Designers are taught—explicitly and implicitly—to follow certain visual rules and the final design will work great. The whole A/B testing concept probably …
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Bash Shortcuts For Maximum Productivity
The bash (Readline) shortcuts worth knowing for editing, recalling and controlling commands, plus the ! and ^ history tricks.
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