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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,910 posts.
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The Content Marketing Handbook
A 30,000+ word blog post about how to write about information and make it spread. And something new from us: The Priceonomics Data Studio.
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How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market
To celebrate the v2.0 of my successful and innovative app Word Wizard , and the fact that I’ve made $ 200k on the App Store, I’ve decided t...
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FCC Proposes to Fine Wireless Carriers $200M for Selling Customer Location Data
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among…
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New Firefox Command Line helps you develop faster
Firefox 16, now on the Beta channel, has a fantastic feature that was mentioned briefly in the Aurora 16 blog post and first introduced in a separate post by Joe ...
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One year later
A year ago today was my last day working a tech job.
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Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud
You probably have heard about alleged vote fraud in the Russian legislative election 2011. You might even have seen videos about cases of vo...
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Miniature 3456 LED Cube
For some reason, I’m intrigued by LEDs. Indeed, they can be found in pretty much all of my projects. I was recently inspired by one of Greg Davill’s projects, a miniature LED cube boasting a total of 3456 LEDs . After pondering about it for a while, I decided I’d attempt building one myself. This post describes the…
19962
Announcing Building Git
In 2017, I wrote a series of articles about diff and merge algorithms, and promised that one day they would form part of a book about the Git version control system. In 2018 I didn’t write anything at all on this blog, and that’s because I was writing that book.
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Wddbfs – Mount a SQLite database as a filesystem
Often when I’m prototyping a project, I hesitate to use a sqlite database despite their many adavantages . It seems much easier to just dump a bunch of files in a directory and to rely on the universal support for the filesystem API to read/delete/update records. Part of this is avoiding the overhead of figuring out a…
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Managing Remote Teams
Hey folks, I haven’t been blogging for quite some time, so everything is a bit rusty for me, but i thought this article might be u...
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An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener
A new system developed at MIT CSAIL helps users design three-sided fasteners called “Y-zippers,” then 3D prints them. The devices can be attached or embedded to camping equipment, medical gear, robots, and art installations, seamlessly switching each item between soft and rigid.
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Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
This tutorial is intended for intermediate C developers who want to get some coding practice and, in the process, gain valuable insights into low-level programming and how (some) Virtual Machines operate under the hood. The reader should already be comfortable with bitwise operations, hexadecimal notation, pointers…
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The hunt for a cluster-killer Erlang bug (2021)
A 20 minute Kafka outage brought down our entire Erlang cluster for hours. How could this happen? Follow this fascinating investigation!
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Augmented reality with Python and OpenCV
You may (or may not) have heard of or seen the augmented reality Invizimals video game or the Topps 3D baseball cards. The main idea is to render in the screen of a tablet, PC or smartphone a 3D mo…
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The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence.
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Past Time to Tell the Public:It Will Probably Go Pandemic, We Should Prepare Now
by Jody Lanard and Peter M. Sandman NOTE FROM IAN: The expert risk communication team of Lanard and Sandman has given me permission to post their very well-considered reply to my question of them just
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Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"
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Pretending OOP Never Happened
OOP, for all its excesses, was a big step forward in software engineering. The way to move past OOP is to replace it with another discipline, not anarchy.
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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system
Results in mice are first evidence of natural intervention triggering stem cell-dependent regeneration of organ or system ; p rotection from chemotherapy immunosuppression indicates effect could be conserved in humans.
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Women, Tech Conferences and the Bullshit Surrounding It
Is the lack of women on tech conference panels a real problem? The media might think so, but we beg to differ. Read some alternative thoughts on the matter.
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How I Use Kagi
My block list and some fun search lenses. Don't @ me that damn article about the guy whinging about Kagi.
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Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it
The top 1 percent of Americans now earn 21 percent of total national income. Why? Jonathan Rothwell debunks three myths often used to explain away their success.