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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,717 posts.
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Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
Apple and Amazon are approaching the tablet territory from opposing sides.
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Flash: 99% Bad
Flash reduces usability by: making bad design more likely, breaking the Web's fundamental interaction style, and consuming resources better spent enhancing a site's core value.
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The $150k Solution
An article was published yesterday in one of Austin's local papers about Austin's tech talent shortage . I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends' companies who are hiring and I think it's pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out…
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Startup America -- Dead on Arrival
For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturer…
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It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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Go Rocks - How Can We Avoid Something This Bad In The Future?
Welcome to my blog, which was once a mailing list of the same name and is still generated by mail. Please reply via the "comment" links.
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NoSQL is What?
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess…
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How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin
Fair Coins are the currency of Userland. A Fair Coin flips fifty-fifty with mathematical exactness. In the real world most coins are pretty fair, but you never know whether there might be a small bias to one side or another. This presents Lauren Ipsum , a girl who's lost in Userland, with a problem. No one wants her…
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Linux Mint signs a partnership with DuckDuckGo
The search engine features some revolutionary ideas and is now the default search engine in Linux Mint 12.
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A monospace that looks like a proportional
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.
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Be nice. It's a fscking gift
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
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H.R.1981, the end of online privacy as we know it.
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability
The sustainability pages are essentially done, although I plan to improve them and respond to inadequacies people find. Having done my best to show that material progress is sustainable, I can justifiably turn my attention to the future and present ideas about what progress people will want and what can be achieved…
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers
In a recent comment someone shared the fate of Patrick Jordan , owner of justanotheripadblog.com.
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You're Using JSON, Why not MessagePack?
JSON is a fantastic format, anywhere people in your organization want to reach for XML, it’s always a good thing to ask the question “Why not JSON?”. The question I’d like you to ask the next time you’re reaching for your JSON hammer, is “Why not MessagePack?”.