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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 175 posts.
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Boost your productivity with Conkeror, Instapaper and a Kindle
A couple of days ago, Lau Jensen wrote that he was using conkeror to surf …
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How to sleep on a long haul flight
To the annoyance of people around me I have no trouble sleeping on long haul flights. And I don't take any fancy medication to do so. Havi...
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Boost your productivity with Hemingway’s hack
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Workflowy is to TODO as git is to svn
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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When to use Excel, when to use R?
Encyclia — acquisition, retention, and advocacy consultancy
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Bup 0.01: It backs things up
I just spent a few days of my Christmas vacation writing a new program, bup. bup is a program that backs things up. It's short for "backup...
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14 Megapixel, Six Monitor Ubuntu Karmic Setup
I recently took the opportunity to reboot several pieces of my technology stack. The coolest perhaps is my new 6-monitor machine running Ubuntu Karmic. It is nontrivial to be comfortable that everything (CPU, GPUs, monitors, OS) will play nice together so I’ll detail exactly what I did so that others can repeat it…
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Linus Torvalds' Greatest Invention
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Vim plugin makes Ruby blocks into text objects
Ever since learning about Vim’s text-objects I have wished that there was a way of selecting blocks in ruby code. Well, now there is. Today I am releasing a plugin that creates a custom text object for selecting ruby blocks . Merry Christmas!
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Web Inspector Vs. Firebug
If you ever tweet about being unhappy with the WebKit Web Inspector , someone from the WebKit team will inevitably take notice and ask you why. I might reply, “Because it’s not Firebug!” Firefox could almost have it all with Firebug, but Firefox’s main problem is that it’s not WebKit.
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A new kind of volume control
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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Bookmarklet: Reddit-like Collapsible Threads for Hacker News
I enjoy consuming and participating at Hacker News by Y Combinator resp. Paul Graham .
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Google Multiple Sign-in Now Available
Is this a trick by Google to catch cheaters using multiple accounts to get some extra storage space? :) Otherwise, why have such restrictions, if anyone may create as many accounts as needed?
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