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Yeah. I think I get a little extra subconscious background-thread-processing boost when I do this.

I took a month-long sabbatical last Fall to learn a new skill (machine learning). I had a project goal to keep me focused on making progress and staying practical: making an ios ap…

Not exactly brain fog but I often find myself in extreme left-brained mode after a challenging day of coding. If I meet friends after work I am a horrible conversationalist for up …

I worked at a company that hired a developer who was slightly consumed by his regret at being an early employee and then getting out of Groupon pre-IPO. We'd be at a bar and the co…

(biased author of Mobiledoc-Kit here) The past year or so has really seen a resurgence of browser-based text editors. Off the top of my head I can think of 4 editors/editor-framewo…

I read Daniel Stenberg's (he is a maintainer of curl, I think?) "http2 explained" pdf the other day, and it's by far the best comprehensive explanation of http2 that I have seen. W…

The thing that made this click for me was realizing the "1" in the regex was not special. The regex is just looping through integers (starting with 2) and checking if the target nu…

To Be ( http://tobe.us ) is a new way to collage the Internet with images, music, and video. Our users create everything from personalized notes and mixtapes to private sketchbooks…

Hey HNers, I created a game / prediction net where people can tweet in final score predictions for the upcoming March Madness NCAA games. To play you have to post a tweet that incl…

This is very cool. There's so much that could be done to better organize and run meetings. It's great to see someone taking a stab at it. I wished there was more of a demo before s…

I made this. FF does weird things with non-text bookmarklets so I used the user agent to show a text-based link as the bookmarklet, only for FF users, but it seems it is still fini…

I love the idea of making it easier for people to find one another to collab on things. How will you keep out recruiters, though? Seems like they always end up on these things and …

(New York/remote) MegaPhone Labs ( http://bit.ly/mp_ruby ): a Manhattan-based startup that designs and develops interactive TV applications and games. Our apps let tens of thousand…

instapaper -- saving articles for when I truly have time to read them (as opposed to when I first see them -- while browsing HN during a mini work break) has been a huge timesaver …

KA plus One Laptop per Child would be an incredibly powerful combination for third-world schools. OLPC should make it the homepage on the XO.

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Surprised no one has mentioned 1password here yet. It generates passwords, has extensions for most browsers, and can sync between iPhone and your computer. I find it super handy, a…

Yes but what does that mean? One can create and "backdate" (touch -t) any file. So how does one prove that an email is real and not created and backdated today?