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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,864 posts.
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Reason 3
Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.
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How to lose a fortune with one bad click
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him…
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Beginner's guide to longevity research
A beginner's guide to longevity research
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Travelling with 24” Monitors
During 2019 I was living in Paris and really wondering what I was doing there as my job doesn't require me to be physically in Paris, I was working with teams in India and San Francisco. I don't really need to be close to my friends or be in a …
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Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
Similarweb's blog is a go-to resource for digital professionals and marketing experts offering a wide range of business tips, industry insights, trends and more.
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Watching an acquirer ruin your company
What happens on the other side of the acquisition doesn't get much startup press
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Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
US President Obama had...
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1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
What one of my favorite history books about my favorite historical period—turn-of-the-century American—tells us about technology, anxiety, and human nature
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How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb
How to Find Hidden Cameras in your AirBNB, Author: Johannes Ullrich
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Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT
Do not buy a Microsoft Surface RT yet. I’m typing this with gritted teeth. My 24 hours with the half-baked Surface have been a frustrating challenge, a mix of love and hate. I want want want this…
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EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM in HTML5
San Francisco - Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a formal objection to the inclusion of digital rights management (DRM) in HTML5, arguing that a draft proposal from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) could stymie Web innovation and block access to content for people across the...
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My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network
I'd be interested in a decentralized social network with network-layer anonymity, grassroots content delivery, and customizable moderation.
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On the Nature of Time
Stephen Wolfram takes a computational view of time, defining it abstractly, and the implications from computational irreducibility.
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Code Health: Respectful Reviews == Useful Reviews
This is another post in our Code Health series. A version of this post originally appeared in Google bathrooms worldwide as a Google Testin...
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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …
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Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector
Project Hammer aims to drive more competition and reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector.
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I've been writing ring buffers wrong all these years
So there I was, implementing a one element ring buffer. Which, I'm sure you'll agree, is a perfectly reasonable data structure.
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Shazam turns 20
Shazam — one of the most beloved and popular music discovery platforms in the world — turns 20 today.
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Mass cellphone surveillance experiment in Spain
Spanish Statistics Institute will track all cellphones for eight days (2 min, link in Spanish, via) A few facts first: Carriers geotrack all users by default, using cell tower triangulation. They also store logs of your calls and sms, but that is
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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Introducing PackageManagement in Windows 10
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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can't stop, and why the 'privacy-preserving' system is a trojan horse for digital ID infrastructure.
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The complexity that lives in the GUI
The user interfaces are a weird thing. There are all sorts of libraries and frameworks that are supposed to help you on your journey of writing a GUI, but despite all the best practices and frameworks forcing you to eat your vegetables, the GUI always ends up being a ridiculous mess. After pondering some more about…
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New RFS – Breakthrough Technologies
We’d like for Y Combinator to fund more breakthrough technology companies—companies that solve an important problem, have a very long time horizon, and are based on an underlying technological or...