Best of 2015

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2015. 3,426 posts.

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How I Start: Nim

Nim is a young and exciting imperative programming language that is nearing its 1.0 release. My main motivation for using Nim is its performance / productivity ratio and the joy of programming in Nim. In this guide I’m going to show you how I start a Nim project.

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What RESTful actually means

If you do web development, you’ve probably heard of REST. But if you’re like me, you usually just pretend to know what it is, and nod politely when someone asks you if what you’re making is RESTful. I use HTTP, err, that means it’s RESTful right? Recently, I decided to take the plunge and actually find out what this…

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Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule

Let’s Encrypt has reached a point where we’re ready to announce our launch schedule. First certificate: Week of July 27, 2015 General availability: Week of September 14, 2015 We will issue the first end entity certificates under our root under tightly controlled circumstances. No cross-signature will be in place yet…

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Going “Write-Only”

Joey Hess inspires me. He lives in a cabin and programs Haskell on a drastically under-powered netbook. He harvests all his electricity from the sun with a homemade electrical system. Joey has designed his computing life to be highly distributed like the git version control he loves. His internet connection is…