Best of 2016

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2016. 4,414 posts.

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Having fun abusing the C language

I was looking through the book Expert C Programming again when I came upon their “light relief” section on The International Obfuscated C Code Competition . It’s a contest to write the most obscure code. That the language C has a competition where you write confusing code in it probably says something about the…

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Wired Documentary on Shenzhen

This shoot was a lot of fun, and it was a great pleasure working with Posy and Jim. I think their talent as producer and director really show through. They also did a great job editing my off-the-cuff narratives. The spot in the video where I’m pointing out Samsung parts isn’t matched to the b-roll of Apple parts, but…

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Terraform 0.7 released

We've released Terraform 0.7. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching infrastructure. Terraform continues to be HashiCorp's fastest growing project. Over the past year, we've released over 20 minor versions of Terraform expanding resource and provider coverage as well as…