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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,717 posts.
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Facebook announces new privacy and tagging model
Learn about Meta: our mission, principles, leadership, who owns the company, apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads) and products like Quest.
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Hiding your data in plain sight: USB hardware hiding
This article will describe the possibility of hiding data in any kind of USB hardware. Even though USB data carriers come in various sizes and forms, which already sometimes makes them hard to recognize, this approach could even make it worse. Any USB device could be a data carrier and thus from a forensics point of…
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Charlie Stross: Reasons to be Cheerful
Elsewhere on the interwebbytubes, an acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade (aside from the iPod).
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IOS Integration Testing by Square
The Corner is Square's technical blog covering software engineering, APIs, data, open source and more.
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Compiling Clojure to javascript pt 1
this is the first entry in an n-part series explaining the techniques and design principles of ClojureScript . translations: [ 日本語 ]
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in ...
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How to read Haskell like Python
Have you ever been in the situation where you need to quickly understand what a piece of code in some unfamiliar language does? If the language looks a lot like what you’re comfortable with, you can usually guess what large amounts of the code does; even if you may not be completely familiar how all the language…
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 Released
Sublime Text 2 Build 2139 is out! Some of the notable new features in this beta are:
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How StackOverflow Scales with SQL Server
Bad news: that page is gone. We try to keep our site as accurate and up-to-date as possible so that if you’re reading advice here, you can rely on it. That means from time to time, we decide that a page isn’t a great reference anymore, and the work to update it is beyond what […]
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Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling
Long story short, I went to Silicon Valley and found angel investors for my Browserling startup that I am doing together with James Halliday (SubStack). James Halliday, our lead investor and advisor David Weekly, and me. Here is how I did it. Last year in March, James offered me to do a startup. He had this idea of...
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Hiring Employee #1
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
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The implications of UEFI "Secure Boot" for Linux users
Last month Steven Sinofsky from Microsoft announced new requirements for manufacturers wanting to ship Windows 8 systems, including a feature called “Secure Boot”. Canonical, together with Red Hat, today publishes a white paper highlighting the implications of these requirements for users and manufacturers. The paper…
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37signals Basecamp Mobile HTML5 app for WebKit browsers
Today we launch Basecamp Classic Mobile for phones and devices with WebKit browsers. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Palm Pre 2, BlackBerry Torch, or any other device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, …
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Why you should take the money
SEOmoz founder and visionary Rand Fishkin is struggling with whether he should personally award himself millions of dollars from his company. Here's why I think he should.
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An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area
Dear Future Intern, Welcome! You just got an internship at this amazing start-up, so you're starting to look for housing and are getting pumped for your summer. Rightfully so - the Bay Area is awesome! I spent my last two summers out here as an intern, first at Facebook and (am currently at my last day) at 2bkco, an…
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Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP
Wouldn't it be great if you could call a Google Voice number directly via SIP? So that you could bypass the PSTN when calling a GV number and go directly over IP? With potentially all the advanced capabilities that could give? (wideband audio, video, etc.) It turns out that you now can !
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World Domination Using Arduinos and Websockets
Arduino Websocket Client Arduino Pusher Client Pusher – Real Time Push Notifications Follow Me On Twitter: @kevinrohling If you don’t have your very own Arduino yet you should get one. …