Best of 2013

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2013. 3,456 posts.

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ClojureScript 101

While none of the ideas in core.async are new, understanding how to solve problems with CSP is simply not as well documented as using plain callbacks or Promises . My previous posts have mostly explored fairly sophisticated uses of core.async , this post instead takes the form of a very basic tutorial on using…

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Securing Ubuntu

Table of Contents Initial Setup Setting up iptables and Fail2Ban Fail2Ban iptables rules Make shared memory read-only Setting up Bastille Linux Configuring Bastille sysctl hardening Setting up a chroot environment Securing nginx inside the chroot Extras Initial Setup Let’s login to our new machine and take some…

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LinkedIn

LinkedIn annoys me. It proliferates news aggregation features, and new apps, and all sorts of services. It recently bought an iPad news aggregator, you can use it as a publishing platform and it's spewing out money by selling CVs to recruiters. Reid Hoffman is a genius.  But consider som