Best of 2013

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2013. 466 posts.

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Brilliant or insane code?

I came upon a very interesting and cryptic snippet of code somewhere nameless , and I can’t decide if it is brilliant or completely insane. It is a very obscure way of accomplishing the required task, but it’s around four times faster than the alternatives I’ve tried, so I have to admit that it’s not completely…