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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,076 posts.
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How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
When we started working on Basecamp Next last year, we had much internal debate about whether we should evolve the existing code base or rewrite it. I’ll dive more into that debate further in a later post, but one of the key arguments for a rewrite was that we wanted a dramatic leap forward i…
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Introducing Outlook.com - Modern Email for the Next Billion Mailboxes
Learn what's new with Microsoft Copilot and how it empowers people and organizations for AI-powered work.
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The greatest Google Mail feature you may not be using
There's a wonderfully powerful and subtle technique in Google Mail that can be used to enhance every reply you make to a mail: if you selec...
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SSH tricks
This post is part of my “Unix fundamentals” series. Recent posts in this series include settling into Unix , standalone lexers with lex , and sculpting text with regex, grep, sed and awk .
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Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
Last week I was speaking on what would have otherwise been a terrific panel. It was Frank Artale from Ignition, Tom Duterme from Groupon M&A, Andy Sack from Lighter Capital & Founder’s Co-op, and me talking about funding & exiting. The only thing that spoiled it was yet another guy in the tech scene putting forth yet…
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How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%
Given the title of this article, the first thing that should pop into your mind is probably - "well, use a compression algorithm - right?". ...
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New $250 Chromebook
As a kid growing up in India, I was fascinated with computers and the endless possibilities they presented. I had to wait until college to f...
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The weakest link by far is Apple
Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web…
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Mountain Lion: John Gruber's personal briefing
It seems important to Apple that the Mac not be perceived as an afterthought compared to the iPad, and, perhaps more importantly, that Apple not be perceived as itself considering or treating the Mac as an afterthought.
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Dear Open Source Project Leader: Quit Being A Jerk
I do my best to support the people that use my open source projects. I don’t always do things right, I don’t always respond in a timely manner. Sometimes I just have to walk away from an issue or request and let it die from lack of attention. But I do my best, and I take the time to provide meaningful answers whenever…
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What I Hate About Git
Git is the source code version control system that is rapidly becoming the standard for open source projects. It has a powerful distributed model which allows advanced users to do tricky things wit…
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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community
Day4 är ett svenskt produktionsbolag specialiserade inom motion graphics och film för webb, spelfilm, TV, företagsfilm med mera.
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Bootstrap 2.1 released
After a smaller 2.0.4 release, we've got another huge update that resolves tons of bugs, improves the flexibility and durability of our code, and introduces a…
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A standing desk for $22
I’ve been interested in standing desks for a while. I keep reading things like: he who sits the most dies the soonest. All the options online are expensive. Until now. Ryan Witt and I combined our brains to see if we could come up with a better solution: Introducing
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Bootstrap Maintainers Leave Twitter
Working at Twitter the last two and a half years has been incredible. Both Jacob and I have worked with a lot of amazing people on some pretty amazing…
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One Year After Quitting My Job
Last year I did a year in review post, so by doing it again this year I am turning it into a tradition. This is more for me (to see my own progress) than it is for you, but I hope you can learn something as well. If you want to read last years you […]
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The most dangerous code in the world
Abstract: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the de facto standard for secure Internet communications. Security of SSL connections against an active network attacker depends on correctly validating public-key certificates presented when the connection is established. We demonstrate that SSL certificate validation is…