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www.belfercenter.org 5y ago

Improving Veterans’ Digital Experience Across Presidential Administrations

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github.com 6y ago

Epic Issues for GitHub

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blog.usejournal.com 6y ago

How to Value Startup Equity

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www.graphiti.dev 7y ago

Why Graphiti? (over GraphQL)

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github.com 8y ago

Parallel: Tools for parallelism in Crystal

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qz.com 9y ago

Why every tech worker needs a humanities education

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backchannel.com 10y ago

Inside the Obama tech surge as it hacks the Pentagon and VA

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www.cnbc.com 10y ago

Police are using eagles to take out rogue drones

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abcnews.go.com 10y ago

Hudson Bay buys Gilt

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thump.vice.com 11y ago

Aphex Twin Is Dropping Clues On the Deep Web About His New Album, Syro

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9to5mac.com 12y ago

Apple to replace Aperture and iPhoto with 'Photos' next year

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www.wired.com 12y ago

An Advocate for Women in the Valley Quits GitHub, Citing Harassment

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dinopoloclub.com 12y ago

Mini Metro: Make the trains run on time

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www.latimes.com 12y ago

Police officers found not guilty in (video taped) death of Kelly Thomas

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github.com 13y ago

Java hot reloading (free alternative to JRebel)

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www.microsoft.com 13y ago

Microsoft accessibility page not very accessible

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washingtonexaminer.com 13y ago

Ron Paul: Internet is the alternative to ‘government media complex’ [video]

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www.france24.com 13y ago

France orders probe after rat study links GM corn, cancer

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www.theworld.org 14y ago

The Big Chill: Scandinavia Hosts Tech Companies’ Data

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www.propellerheads.se 14y ago

Propellerhead announces 'app store' for Reason plugins

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www.kickstarter.com 14y ago

I love robots. I draw robots. A lot.

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www.kcrw.com 14y ago

Should We Blame Technology for High Unemployment?

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blogs.adobe.com 14y ago

Announcing Flash Player 11 and AIR 3

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spinejs.com 14y ago

Spine Mobile

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www.good.is 14y ago

Watch Your Mouth: Can You Patent a Sandwich?

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www.propellerheads.se 14y ago

Propellerhead Software lets you pay what you want for Reason upgrade

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www.niemanlab.org 14y ago

John Siracusa sells 3,000 copies of free review in 24hrs

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spectrum.ieee.org 15y ago

Japan's split power frequency leads to rolling blackouts

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Thank HN: Helped us stop a DDOS attack

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iwishicouldwrite.com 15y ago

Retirement on Rails

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I built a programming language using Claude Code 4 months ago

This is the second "I built a programming language" post in a day, and if I post the one I'm building, we can have a three-day streak :D They thought AI meant personal software, but it also means personal programming languages!

In all seriousness, this is great, and why not? As the post said, what once took months now takes weeks. You can experiment and see what works. For me, I started off building a web/API framework with certain correctness built in, and kept hitting the same wall: the guarantees I wanted (structured error handling, API contracts, making invalid states unrepresentable) really belonged at the language level, not bolted onto a framework. A few Claude Code sessions later, I had a spec, then a tree-sitter implementation, then a VM/JIT... something that, given my sandwich-generation-ness, I never would have done a few months ago.

How I keep myself alive using Golang 2 years ago

While not quite as batteries-included as Rails, Fiber made the most sense to my Ruby/Rack brain.

The Angel, Islington 2 years ago

I was looking for a Slimelight reference in the article, too. The world's longest-running Goth nightclub, it used to be BYOB, which made it a cheap night out. I still have my membership card.

Air Canada is responsible for chatbot's mistake: B.C. tribunal 2 years ago

Beyond the chatbot's error and the legal approach they took, this bad PR could have been avoided by any manager in the chain doing the right thing by overriding things and just giving him the bereavement fare (and then fixing the bot/updating the policy).

Shields Up 3 years ago

today's "conspiracy theory" is tomorrow's verified fact

Most popular conspiracy theories remain just that, if not provably false. Horrible events do not compute for most, and they reach for alternate answers.

Conspiracy theories offer easy answers by casting the world as simpler and more predictable than it is. Their popularity may pose a threat to societal well-being.

"threat to societal well-being" written a decade ago, they didn't know how right they were https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-believ...

What is the small web? (2020) 5 years ago

Small Web: <html>Party like it’s 1999</html>

Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young 7 years ago

I still read a lot about technology, but at the margin I probably get more value from reading histories of institutional disasters and near-disasters, and the biographies of people who helped avoid some of those disasters.

Anyone know of a reading list or a website that collects 'institutional disasters and near-disasters'? e.g. stuff like the recent Accenture/Hertz article, breaking then saving healthcare.gov etc.

Programming by poking: why MIT stopped teaching SICP 10 years ago

If you're learning Clojure there's a site/book that incorporates much of the original SICP text: http://www.sicpdistilled.com/

Visual Studio Code 1.0 10 years ago

features like ctrl+P which lets you to jump to functions rather than play with files, I didn't know any other editor which allowed this feature to be there

IntelliJ

The Object-Oriented Toaster (1997) 11 years ago

S'alright a pure functional toaster just spits out yer bread untoasted.

The Object-Oriented Toaster (1997) 11 years ago

Usually see this titled 'Electrical Engineering vs. Computer Science' http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gogo/humor/hum_toast.html http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/eecs-difference-explained

Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor 11 years ago

Microsoft ppls please release a windows phone emulator for OS X and Linux. You will make my year if I don't have to dual boot anymore :)

So Your Company Has Been Found Using Alex’s Photographs Without Permission 11 years ago

If this comment was made about music it would have been up-voted.

CD-Loving Japan Resists Move to Online Music 12 years ago

My rational to it is that I have enough clutter, in my house and on my hard drive, that I don't need to add to it with stacks of CDs or GBs of hard drive space. You and the Japanese should meditate on the nature of impermanence, everything in the physical world is rented so your music should be too ;)

CurrentC Has Been Hacked, Testers’ Email Addresses Stolen 12 years ago

CurrentC will not fail because of this, they will fail because they use QR codes. An old lady could probably write a check faster than most people can scan a QR code.

The Dangers of Eating Late at Night 12 years ago

For me it wasn't when or how much but what. At it's worst I was taking prescription medicine ate what I thought was healthy food (whole grain bread, oat cereal) and still had heartburn every night. I am not celiac but eliminating beer, whole grain wheat, and oats got rid of my acid reflux. Wheat, especially the modern variety, is not well tolerated by humans http://news.discovery.com/human/why-you-should-probably-stop.... If you can't give up bread eat Sourdough http://cookusinterruptus.com/blog/?p=4245

Show HN: Call emails, not phones 12 years ago

For me this is a magical combination of two unpopular modes of communication. There's a reason texting/chat is so popular, people don't like email and they don't like phone calls.

Google Design 12 years ago

Tongue firmly in cheek; but does this mean they're going to start applying design to their products? I could fill a book of examples just from Gmail (settings screen, inconsistant placement of reply button, no option to reverse converstation view).

World Cup data in JSON 12 years ago

Looks great now! :)

World Cup data in JSON 12 years ago

Somewhat off topic... Your blog looks great, but that's a questionable choice of header font on the service page, especially when used as all caps :)

Show HN: Music for Squirrels – new iOS app 12 years ago

I was expecting this to be around $4-9.99. Which I will gladly pay for a quality music app. You can definitely charge at least a dollar (which is basically free).

An Advocate for Women in the Valley Quits GitHub, Citing Harassment 12 years ago

Submitted this to see if it was already posted (to read the comments), surprised it wasn't submitted already.

Hack: a new programming language for HHVM 12 years ago

I too programmed for a long time in AS3/Haxe, and while I prefer variable:type as I think it's more readable, most static languages (java, C#) do it the other way.

Save more with Google Drive 12 years ago

If I'm going to switch from DropBox it'll be to Space Monkey, and the only reason I've yet to is that I work on music with a friend in the UK and it's not available there yet.

Consumer Reports Calls Tesla Model S The Best Car Of 2014 12 years ago

Not a Telsa but my Chevy Volt lease payment after rebates etc. is less than my cable bill; plus I get carpool stickers which down here in SoCal are priceless. My first American car after many Japanese and one German, and it's the most solid of the lot.

The Engineer Crunch 12 years ago

"For most startups in the bay area"... time to move or be open to remote developers.

List of languages that compile to JS 13 years ago

I was going to make snarky comment about writing JavaScript in JavaScript until I saw the language extensions section, very useful!

Introducing Open Salaries at Buffer 13 years ago

How long until the Buffer employees form a union? :)

Measles Cases Triple in U.S., Vaccine Refusal Here and Elsewhere to Blame 13 years ago

My wife and I have given our children all the vaccines we had as children and it was an enormous struggle to do so. Children now receive many more vaccines than we did, and many of them are delivered in combination; up to four or more at a time.

Autism aside there is a very real danger of a reaction when you combine so many vaccines. Others are completely unnecessary, like Hep B at birth.

If the governing bodies went back to a sane vaccine schedule I think some of the refusers would come back into the fold.

As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work 13 years ago

In my previous job this hit home quite hard, one day many of the people who helped us build the system that automated their jobs were laid off.

Then once the system was fully streamlined we developers were laid off as well.

In addition some of the end product was used in aerospace so there's a good chance it could be used for 'bad' (depending on your perspective) things.

Now I work in video games, not curing cancer, but in my search I was looking for a company that at least did no harm.