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I set up an old iPad Air to show https://www.codemancer.com/ for the last two years. It's got a clock, weather, and appointments and is readable from across the room. I've also run…

I built git-browse: https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse After getting tired of constantly searching github and phabricator, I built a small tool that would open git repositories…

Pretty sure it was just for Halloween (a US holiday) and they've changed it back now. I guess they also changed it internationally too?

How is this different from a regular CDN like Akamai, Cloudflare, etc.?

I agree with your message, but that quote could be applied to any company ever. Case studies would be more useful.

"If the project is behind schedule, Gigster just assigns more developers to it or fires under-performing ones so it gets done on time." - Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.

Disclosure: I'm working on a video delivery network company called Dendrio (www.dendr.io). You're pretty spot on about AWS. Storage is super cheap, but data transfer can be really …

Brainfuck is just a set of symbols that map to the actions a Turing machine can make. I believe that the symbols themselves were chosen to make it difficult to read and write much …

I think this is a use case of signed commits. They would allow for verification of the commit's author's identity.

Invert the colors - white is paths, black is walls.

Fourier Transform equation is wrong. Integral from infinity to infinity? That doesn't make sense. It should be negative infinity.

Another red flag - Is it just me, or is the header image on the conference website an image of Las Vegas?

Amazon EC2 vs Google CE - Fight.

From the article they published in Advanced Materials, it seems the ink actually contains silver (the element) nanoparticles in a colloid. I'm surprised that the resistance is stil…

Making some overgeneralizations here, software written by scientists aren't going to be as good as software written by software engineers. Their usual purpose (and their training/b…

Maybe not on high alert continuously, but with satellites now, they must have seen this hurricane coming for days if not weeks.

Love how "well connected" HN commentators are.

As a person who isn't in this space, why do you say that? Is it because of increasing competition or something to do with Braintree/Paypal?

Anybody wondering how long it will take for Bitcoin to gain enough respectability for the FBI or Secret Service to get involved after hacks like this? If the same amount of money w…

isn't this a repost of another (debunked) article that was on HN a few days ago?

My guess is that Dell laptops have incorrectly vulcanized rubber. During vulcanization, sulfur compounds are added to rubber to make it more elastic. Cat urine also contains a high…

Sorry to be pedantic, but the US dollar is not backed by US government taxation. A dollar is still quite valuable outside the US because people and institutions attach a value to t…

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter