Best of 2012

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2012. 2,098 posts.

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This Girl Snuck Into a Russian Military Rocket Factory

Значение ISO нелегальных фотографий находится в прямой зависимости от серьезности последствий задержания. Открытое акционерное общество «НПО Энергомаш имени академика В.П.Глушко» является ведущим предприятием в мире по разработке мощных жидкостных ракетных двигателей для космических…

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Humble Beginnings

t's easy to forget the humble beginnings that great companies start from, and it's tempting to gloss over the fact that companies, now on the global stage, were once small projects with ugly designs and hacky implementations. Rarely do people set out with grand visions to create a

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A Tour of Amazon's DynamoDB

Amazon’s recent release of DynamoDB, a database whose name is inspired by Dynamo, the key-value database the distributed datastore they’ve been running in production for a good five to six years now. I think it’s great they’ve finally done it, though from my obverservations, there’s little resemblance of what the…