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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,076 posts.
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Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass
We started developing Toshl for Windows Phone because we liked the platform and saw the potential in it. It's a beautifully designed OS, even if the experience starts to wear a bit thin after a few weeks and a giant leap for Microsoft. Publishing apps for it though, has turned out to be a very…
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What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier
Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life. This post is an overview of why exercising makes us happier.
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What number is halfway between 1 and 9?
A new information-theoretical model of human sensory perception and memory sheds light on some peculiarities of the nervous system.
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Read the masters
Some time ago, I came across the Wikipedia article of Niels Henrik Abel , and something there burnt its way into my mind. Abel changed the face of mathematics, despite dying at 27. And here comes the thing – I give the mic to Wikipedia now:
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The Critical Security Flaws that Resulted in Last Friday's Hack
A core value CloudFlare is that security information should be shared between organizations to make the entire Internet safer. That is how CloudFlare's systems work: if one site is attacked, data about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the network so other sites can be safe.
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Using python and k-means to find dominant colors in images
I'm working on a little photography website for my Dad and thought it would be neat to extract color information from photographs. I tried a couple of different approaches before finding one that works pretty well. This approach uses k-means clustering to cluster the pixels in groups based on their color. The center…
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Understanding C by learning assembly
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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How I went from writing 2,000 words a day to 10,000 words a day
When I started writing The Spirit War (Eli novel #4), I had a bit of a problem. I had a brand new baby and my life (like every new mother'...
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Linus Torvalds winner of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize
Technology Academy Finland (TAF) awards the global one-million-euro Millennium Technology Prize and runs associated events and initiatives.
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Drupal's Golden Handcuffs
DRUPAL Bootstrap Upgrade: MIKE IT
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Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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How we gave colors names and it messed with our brains (part II)
Update: This post was an Editor’s pick by Cristy Gelling at Science Seeker, and was included in Bora Zivkovic’s top 10 science blog posts of the week. Lately, I’ve got colors on t…
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Hellbanned from Hacker News
Yesterday I submitted a post on Hacker News out of frustration at moderators pedantically changing post titles. After quickly rising to the number two spot on the front page with 482 points and 37 comments, the post was deleted by a moderator, presumably the operator of the site, Paul Graham.
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Ruby Patterns from GitHub's Codebase
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The /bin/true Command and Copyright
Lest you think that this is a fluke that was quickly corrected, here is the /bin/true program from AT&T's Sys/V libraries as of 1990:
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