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Is there some point to posting this Wikipedia entry? Is there new info or insight into the event? Do you think this is interesting? If so, why? Please, before posting links to Wiki…

You know, Burning Man used to have a drive-by shooting gallery. With guns, and cars, and is just as libertarian as this festival. The difference is, Burning Man encompasses much mo…

Steve Yegge. Classic.

Let me see: I came across a bug in adobe flash (I know, evil) on linux one day where it came down to a change in memcpy in glibc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477…

Never delete code. This is why you have git or svn, or whatever your tool of choice is. Never, ever delete code. You may think it's dumb, you may think it's crap, or useless or wha…

If it all works, it'll be pretty impressive

Interesting perspective from esr on the rationale behind the takeover of Andover in the comments

Fascinating insight into a bit of Jobs life that is mostly overlooked, except as a "He used to be a hippy" anecdote. Steve Silberman does a good job of teasing out the bits and ass…

Google now will occasionally alert me to heavy traffic on the way home. That's about it.

Why would you think calling to_a on an object would NOT turn that into an array?? That's what to_a does

I think they missed an opportunity. They should have changed "master" to "mistress"...

SF can suck you in, but there are loads of people in SF that have nothing to do with Tech at all. When I lived there my friends included a guy who worked on the Bay Bridge, a Hotel…

Why does this remind me of: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/The_Mansion_Family

deignan's comment says it best here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7760080 If I were Chinese, the license of the software I was using would be far, far down my list of "Free…

RMS, once again, missing the forest for the trees.

Buddhist Massacre: Look up the end of the Civil War in Sri Lanka, where the Buddhist government pushed hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees onto the Jaffna peninsula, and then b…

Wow, that just goes to show how ignorant Milton Friedman is...

Most inter-city roads in Sweden were 2-lane roads, where to overtake, you needed to swerve into oncoming traffic, 2+1 roads means that even if you're stuck behind an RV or truck, i…

Why do people put random stuff from Wikipedia on HN? What is the point?

Wow, between mojombo and his wife, the "Don't fuck up the culture" rant, and this woman, it seems like the world is teeming with clueless CEOs.

As also noted, pretty solid arguments can be made that the OpenBSD approach is the better approach. My point was that they're not mutually exclusive, and this is definitely a win-w…

Basically, through a combination of clever marketing and actual impact, Heartbleed hit the Open Source community HARD, and left most people in the Open Source Community asking two …

In Canada's case, 100%. I have seen one hospital bill, and that was $200 for a single room when my wife gave birth to my son. Which my supplementary insurance then paid. It is the …

This sentence: "No examples have surfaced of anyone actually exploiting the vulnerability" is incorrect. The Canada Revenue Agency revealed that 900 SINs (canadian equivalent of SS…

1. Always maintain a TODO list. I usually have it as part of the README for the project I'm working on, after that... Just open up the editor and start coding. Pick something off t…