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| 61. | Why is nobody using SSL client certificates? (pilif.github.io) | |
| 241 points | 2013 | author pilif showed up | their comment | thread
“Since then my views have changed a bit: for one, the added security is debatable as the client cert is easily accessible to malware and thus could easily be stolen. The…” | ||
| 62. | Hacker News Web App for Mobile (hn.premii.com) | |
| 239 points | 2013 | author thekingshorses showed up | their comment | thread
“Never submitted to HN, because I wasn't sure if anyone will like it. After it reached to the FP, my vps server stop responding. So I moved it to S3. S3 doesn't gzip…” | ||
| 63. | Experiments to do with your baby (theatlantic.com) | |
| 239 points | 2013 | author jawns showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid"). I'm a big HN fan and would be happy to answer any questions!” | ||
| 64. | The Revel Web Framework for Go (robfig.github.io) | |
| 238 points | 2013 | author robfig showed up | their comment | thread
“to provide a bit of context. Initially, this was just a fun project to see if I could replicate the magical Play! 1.x experience in much-less-magical Go. (Spoiler alert:…” | ||
| 65. | The Great Language Game: How many languages can you distinguish between? (greatlanguagegame.com) | |
| 233 points | 2013 | author lars512 showed up | their comment | thread
“Here's a related blog post I did introducing the game: Feedback's much appreciated, and if you encounter any bugs, please report them via email to lars+glg@yencken.org…” | ||
| 66. | Containers, Not Virtual Machines, Are the Future Cloud (linuxjournal.com) | |
| 228 points | 2013 | author davidstrauss showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Mature containers have been around since the the days of mainframes. The recent (say, last decade) disparity has been lack of mature containers on the platform of…” | ||
| 67. | Our First Node.js App: Backbone on the Client and Server (nerds.airbnb.com) | |
| 224 points | 2013 | author frontendbeauty showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Jeremy, I think you're mistaking this for Keith Norman's SpainJS presentation (). He proposes the same approach, but I don't know if it ever got past a demo. Although it…” | ||
| 68. | Goodbye Google Analytics. Hello Piwik (dicasdolampada.wordpress.com) | |
| 219 points | 2013 | author tonylampada showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Seems like Hackernews traffic "DDOS'ed" the original blog. I made a clone of the post in my personal blog (hosted on wordpress).” | ||
| 69. | Things that suck in AngularJS (lhorie.blogspot.ca) | |
| 219 points | 2013 | author lhorie showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the feedback :) re: instantiating controllers - services definitely help, but you still have to design and expose APIs to manage the lifecycle of variables…” | ||
| 70. | What if successful startups are just lucky? (blog.ploki.info) | |
| 216 points | 2013 | author acemtp showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the comment. I agree with you, I don't know the Saleforce history but I'm quite sure that at the beginning of the company, they had lot of luck. I'm sure at…” | ||
| 71. | In 2005 Motorola Tried to Sue Me For Unlocking Phones (sina.is) | |
| 213 points | 2013 | author sinak showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The petition to the White House still needs 40k more signatures to get a response. If you haven't done so, please sign it:” | ||
| 72. | A Haskell kernel for IPython (github.com) | |
| 208 points | 2013 | author PieSquared showed up | their comment | thread
“didn't expect this to end up on Hacker News, given the niche interest :) Happy to answer any questions you guys have. (And if anyone has an interest in contributing,…” | ||
| 73. | How I Beat Depression (hackerhmb.tumblr.com) | |
| 207 points | 2013 | author scottcha showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the article and I asked myself this question before I wrote it. I posted some data here which came out of that research: but it didn't get much…” | ||
| 74. | Replace Dropbox with BitTorrent Sync and a Raspberry Pi (jack.minardi.org) | |
| 207 points | 2013 | author doctoboggan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've had plenty of excuses to use my Pi in the past, this is just the latest one. I think you are incorrect in characterizing this as "fragile dogshit", this solution is…” | ||
| 75. | Dropzone.js - JS library for drag-and-drop file uploads with image previews (dropzonejs.com) | |
| 206 points | 2013 | author enyo showed up | their comment | thread
“iOS has a bug (as already mentioned by other users) resizing images in canvas. There are workarounds, and I already started implementation (). Unfortunately…” | ||
| 76. | Open Source made me the man I am (cubiq.org) | |
| 205 points | 2013 | author cubiq showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually haven't posted it on HN and it was a pleasant surprise. I believe the best way to "promote" yourself is by being active in your community. Connect with other…” | ||
| 77. | Dataset: Databases for lazy people (dataset.readthedocs.org) | |
| 204 points | 2013 | author pudo showed up | their comment | thread
“As for 1.: CSV files are encoded as a stream, so they can be as large as needed. JSON is dumped as a whole from memory, I'd be keen to see if someone has written a…” | ||
| 78. | The Positive Programmer (rdegges.com) | |
| 202 points | 2013 | author rdegges showed up | their comment | thread
“I completely agree with you that those are real problems. I have a great wife (and sisters) who have experienced varying levels of sexism in the technical world as well,…” | ||
| 79. | Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures (adit.io) | |
| 200 points | 2013 | author egonschiele showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You're asking the right questions! There's a tutorial already that does this very well: My goal was just to provide a gentle introduction.” | ||
| 80. | Majority is not Enough: Bitcoin Mining is Vulnerable (arxiv.org) | |
| 200 points | 2013 | author emin-gun-sirer showed up | their comment | thread
“Those of you looking for a tl;dr can check out this blog post () on the attack and its implications.” | ||
| 81. | You should blog even if you have no readers (nathanmarz.com) | |
| 198 points | 2013 | author nathanmarz showed up | their comment | thread
“You may also want to check out a more recent post I wrote about blogging that focuses on those "side benefits":” | ||
| 82. | Song of GitHub (song-of-github.herokuapp.com) | |
| 197 points | 2013 | author ajacksified showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the wonderful comments! I also fixed the https issues. This was really taken to the next level thanks to a couple of pull requests from some really talented…” | ||
| 83. | The 1% fallacy (successfulsoftware.net) | |
| 196 points | 2013 | author hermitcrab showed up | their comment | thread
“As I remember it the pitch (for a .com company I worked for) was going ok until I said "...and if only we can get 1% of this market...". They flinched. I didn't really…” | ||
| 84. | Get that job at Facebook (2012) (facebook.com) | |
| 194 points | 2013 | author aristus showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Hi, author here -- the article focuses on "code prep" because that's something you can brush up in a short-ish period of time. You can't become a nicer or more…” | ||
| 85. | The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup (fpgacomputing.blogspot.com) | |
| 193 points | 2013 | author amirhirsch showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to point out that it's stereotypes for the sake of nomenclature.” | ||
| 86. | Tern – Intelligent JavaScript editing (ternjs.net) | |
| 191 points | 2013 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“It compares very favorably. The Orion approach, as I understand it (I only did some quick messing around with scripted, am not an expert) is very local, whereas Tern…” | ||
| 87. | 100% time (cemerick.com) | |
| 191 points | 2013 | author cemerick showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“While I appreciate the reads, I am even more glad for the amusement provided by various comments about how I'm confused about what "100% time" means (since, AFAIK, the…” | ||
| 88. | College was my biggest mistake (2012) (stevecorona.com) | |
| 189 points | 2013 | author stevencorona showed up | their comment | thread
“I get alot of hate for this post, so let me sum it up here: College was my biggest mistake. Not your biggest mistake. I'm not giving advice, just being honest about my…” | ||
| 89. | Wizard Modals for Bootstrap (github.com) | |
| 188 points | 2013 | author daenz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I've put a demo here temporarily. The docs page is still DDosed, but should be back shortly. EDIT>> docs are back” | ||
| 90. | USPS: ZIP Codes are “proprietary business information” (weblaws.org) | |
| 188 points | 2013 | author dogweather showed up | their comment | thread
“Yep, it's part of the country's infrastructure. This kind of restriction adds costs in a million little ways.” | ||
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