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Ahh good memories. I wrote Pente for PalmOS back in 2004 or 2005, complete with a computer opponent using a minimax tree with alpha/beta pruning. Unfortunately I never finished or …

This does seem to be the latest trend - passswordless authentication or "magic links."

There are browser extensions which do this: - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter... - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...

Also big fan of vagrant global-status. I have it aliased to vgs in my terminal. Also very helpful for those using Vagrant on OSX is Vagrant Manager [0] which gives you menu-bar int…

I enjoyed this, and was impressed that it was written by a high school senior.

Some food for thought: "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?"[1] which has been discussed on HN previously, lists "Appraisers and Assessors of Rea…

Knowledge of process, not just market. Which, don't get me wrong should also be easy to automate.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-worm

Really interesting idea of running separate instances and synchronizing them. I wonder if this could be done in legacy games to support VR - an instance for each eye - and each ins…

Half of my Amazon packages are now delivered by an Amazon van or by some guy's personal vehicle with an Amazon magnet on it. I believe they're a mix of the Flex[1] program the auth…

My career began here in the mid 80s: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iGgAAOSwnHZYmiO0/s-l1600.jpg

"More than any single person, Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for inventing the internet." Learn something every day.

I read Chomsky's Understanding Power on Aaron's recommendation [1]. I found it equally transformative. [1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany

Myself and someone I just met were suggested as friends to each other after we met. Neither looked up the other. Neither created any contacts in our phone. Only possibility is our …

I am I missing something or is this challenge to produce a system which determines if the headline agrees with a body of text? Many so called "fake news" sites would pass this test…

wiggle is the new blink

What, "d-d-d-d-d-duh," "duhhhh-duhhhhh-duhhhh," and "BREHHHHK BREHHHHK BREHHHHK" didn't do it for you?

It's kind of just a repost of the BBC article http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37211051 which itself is thin but at least has photos.

Also big and clear enough to be seen on screen.

I had a strange experience where my cable company's mobile app, which streams most channels, was missing audio on a few channels. After escalating the issue to an engineer, he fina…

For Gmail you can do similar scripting with Google Apps Script. This isn't exactly the same, but it's a similar example. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-app…

"...they all came to the realization that what made this place a success was not the collision-avoidance algorithms or the bouncer daemons or any of that other stuff. It was Juanit…

I have a hard time navigating it, and it's USA only, but there's http://www.data.gov/

> immutable

This helped make reading this a little easier. Copy and paste to your URL bar. You may have to retype the javascript: as it appears to get stripped for security. javascript:$('.ent…