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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,466 posts.
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Memoirs of a Bullied Kid
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The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work
So, when I read that Assassin's Creed 2 for the PC would fight piracy by requiring a live internet connection all the time when you were pla...
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Clojure or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Parentheses
I'm a longtime Java, Ruby, and Python programmer. Yet Clojure is the first language I've used that...
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Day in the life of a Googler (Matt Welsh)
I was thinking recently about how different my workdays are now that I'm at Google, compared to the faculty job at Harvard. The biggest diff...
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Matt Cutts: $1,000 to the 2 best implementations of the recently-hacked Kinect
I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect. See the details below. Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self…
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Avatar: The Holocaust We Will Not See
Avatar half-tells a story we would all prefer to forget
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This Apple-HTC Patent Thing
There are two aspects surrounding Apple’s patent litigation against HTC that demand further consideration. First, the severe problems with the U.S. patent system as a whole, particularly regarding software patents. Second, the strategic implications of Apple’s decision to file suit.
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Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce
Microsoft has filed suit against Salesforce for infringing the following patent: Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display Aut…
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Gmail adds video chat for Linux
Posted by Tristan Schmelcher, Software Engineer If you’ve been wanting to use voice and video chat on Linux (our top video chat request), t...
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Things Economists Agree On
If we could get the American public to endorse all these propositions, I am sure their leaders would quickly follow, and public policy would be much improved. That is why economics education is so important.