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My 2048 variant - 511 Game: http://www.kongregate.com/games/random_strangers/511-game-bo...

>Product Hunt is a daily leaderboard of the best new products Compare that with a more lasting ranking of the best old and proven products: http://5000best.com/tools

Does your company have customers?

The only gold I see in that gold rush is from acqui-hire.

Rybka is better than top-20, so I did not claim that. I was a half-pro ~10 years ago. I won the championship of my country. I wrote an M.Sc. thesis on evaluation tuning. If I'd use…

I have not seen the Stockfish source, but my impression is that computer chess was going round in circles in the last 10 years, and it's still good old alpha-beta search with more …

I don't think that the present situation, when the top chess playing program is free and open-source, is good for innovation. I estimate that it would take me six months of work to…

Why did Google ask all those SEO companies to send e-mails to me? Why did Google give them a possibility to blackmail webmasters (disavow tool)? The Internet was not supposed to wo…

I "nofollow" the links. Also that is additional work and unnecessary burden for webmasters.

I have a website 5000best.com/tools with a ranking of web tools, and I received so far about 40-50 link removal requests. I rejected them all. First I answered to those people, lat…

I am considering creating tools for programmers. Assume that I am able to create a near-optimal solution for any technical problem - don't limit your imagination. For solving which…

If someone wants to cure his addiction, here is my variant of the game - 2048 with AI autoplay and taking back moves: http://www.kongregate.com/games/random_strangers/2048-analyz..…

76k micro-genres seems much. For my website http://5000best.com/movies/ I created 40 main genres using IMDb tags together with the 100 million ratings from the Netflix Prize data (…

I see that the link was hit by some kind of penalty before a moment, and dropped from the frontpage to the third page. Annoying.

Thank you for feedback. I wish the users will come back of course.

Also, people asked about the recommender system. I was 43rd in the Netflix Prize, and you can try out my other recommender systems at: http://5000best.com/movies/Personalized/ or h…

Someone asked how I implemented the video chat. It's a P2P technology called RTMFP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Media_Flow_Protocol ), built-in into Flash. My server do…

5000 Best Things ( http://5000best.com/ ) - feature-rich lists of best movies, books, websites, Youtube videos, web tools & services, Imgur pictures.

My website http://5000best.com/tools/ may be relevant. It lists mainly the most popular SaaS tools, but a few categories include widely used software components (non-free software …