Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,400 posts.
As of today, there are only about 2 million websites that support HTTPS. That's a shamefully low number. Two things are about to happen that we at CloudFlare are hopeful will begin to change that and make everyone love locks (at least on the web!).
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When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got started back in early/mid-2012 was simple enough: Everything Be Native! This was a sensible recomm…
Upgrading on Ubuntu? If you’re upgrading from 1.12 or earlier, first set up the new RethinkDB PPA .
Hear from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her building. Because her experience is so vivid and sobering I have kept her identity anonymous.
Last year, I shared our story of applying, our application, and some advice on the YC application. Now that the Winter batch is in full swing and the application is open for the summer, I thought I...
Harvard stem cell researchers announced a giant leap forward in the quest to find a truly effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, a disease that affects an estimated 3 million Americans.
A blog about computer science, systems, technology, and sometimes vegan cooking.
You often see the question “What stack should I use to develop my application on?” posed but rarely do you get any insight in the actual process once someone decides to answer it specifically, so both as an analogy to rubber-ducking this and showing you what went on while I made my choice I’ve decided to document the…
This is a enthusiast blog post. I’m not even gonna speak about how concurrency comes easy with Go. Honestly, I’m not good enough to speak about it. I’ll just speak about how using Go in my everyday programming makes me happy.
[If you prefer, you may watch the video of my talk on this topic (here are the slides).] If you thought you were safe from functional programming in your cozy C++ niche, think again! First the lamb…
I invest in early-stage AI, ML, and data startups at FirstMark Capital, and I write about the space here
Chromebooks were designed to keep up with you on the go—they’re thin and light, have long battery lives, resume instantly, and are easy to u...
At Oktavilla we regularly start new projects. Over the years we have therefore come up with a few best practices to ensure that it is easy to take part in ou...
A new system would allow individuals to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.
[Note to the impatient: to try out my beamforming simulation, which produced the above image, visit my beamlab test page - ideally in a brow...
NOTE: Some code and conclusions expressed here are not idiomatic React. See the follow-up post for more details!
Apple announced OS X Yosemite today. Don't worry, Alfred is here to stay - and continues to grow beautifully.
We are used to having multiple books open at the same time when looking things up at home or writing an essay for class. Whether PDFs, e-books or old-fashioned paper volumes, switching between book…
At Hacker School , I've been building an alternate universe Python by overwriting builtin functions and statements with Harry Potter spells. This is a thing you can do at Hacker School!
The NSA TURBULENCE program was first revealed in 2007 by the Baltimore Sun for being over-budget and poorly-managed 1 2 . Many documents from the Snowden trove from the past two years reference parts of this program, but no coherent story or overview of how these programs operate together has been described. This is…
Today I would like to tell you about a powerful new AWS feature that bridges a pair of existing AWS services and makes another pair of existing features far more useful! Let’s start with a quick review. S3 & Versioned Objects I’m sure that you already know about Amazon S3. First launched in 2006, S3 […]
They are perhaps the most easily recognizable tiles in space shuttle history. For shuttle watchers, when you see them, you know exactly which shuttle you are looking at. Only space shuttles Columbia and Enterprise are more recognizable. The four other shuttles — Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — aside…
