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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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Staying the hell out of insert mode (vi)
Back in the day, the first thing I learnt about vi was how to get into insert mode. It was really quite essential, because without knowing how, you couldn’t actually type anything.
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“Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays" - nearly double the conversion rate.
The current system of cancer research has failed us. It's time we begin funding the "renegade" blue-chip scientists whose research shows real promise.
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Steve Yegge's predictions from 2004
Ten Predictions Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ Update, September 2015: I saw the HN thread about Dan Luu's review of this post, and felt people were a little too generous with the scoring. So I'll offer my own scores and justifications here. 1) XML databases will surpass relational databases in
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The Python GIL Visualized
In preparation for my upcoming PyCON'2010 talk on "Understanding the Python GIL", I've been working on a variety of new material--including some graphical visualization of the GIL behavior described in my earlier talk . I'm still experimenting, but check it out.
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Indian Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested
Updates:8/28Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Freed After Seven Days in Police Custody 8/26Alex Halderman: Indian E-Voting Researcher Remains in Police Custody 8/24Ed Felten: It’s Time for India to Face its E-Voting Problem 8/22Rop Gonggrijp: Hari is in jail :-( About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about…
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Apple's secret "wispr" request
When an Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod) connects to a WiFi network, the first thing it does is make a request to the URL http://www.ap...
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How To Pitch A Product
I’ve said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. If you do a lot of pitches, spend the six […]
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Write your passwords down
Here's my advice on password security based on the collected opinions of others: 1. Write them down and keep them in your wallet because you...
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19 days later, Apple still hasn't approved the Opera Mini app
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.