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I'm 18, and my co-founder is just turning 18 in a week. So we never really expected to get in. We are both completely broke, so we're going to launch a kickstarter campaign to see …

I think you may have the wrong imgur link there, buddy.

Well. Now I'm completely terrified. I've been working on a project for about 8 months, with about 3 months on-going after a decision to re-write and reign in focus, with YC as a ma…

I really hope this blog is only talking about Tor the community and not Tor the technology. I'm pretty sure it's impossible to ban people who are harassing others without storing s…

So, for those of is trying to start companies, how do you create an effective work-place environment? It's obvious from articles like this that you can't just dump a bunch of cash …

goto is perfectly acceptable in C code. The most common use case is for cleaning up after errors before returning, although they're also used to break out of nested loops cleanly. …

There is a limit on information to area in space. Eventually, bitcoin is going to be impractical to store even if you have a very large storage device at absolute maximum capacity.…

Deflationary currencies reward saving over spending. Aka, you can just sit on your money and it increases in value. That's really bad for an economy. My ideal cryptocurrency would …

Until somebody invents a quantum computer with a sufficiently large number of Qbits. Then they can completely destroy the blockchain. Alternatively, wait a few hundred years until …

C needs wider adaptation of Apple's "Blocks" extension and MAYBE extremely limited generics and it's perfect.

This is my first major open source project, so any comments or criticism are very welcome!

LibDispatch is actually FOSS, and it kind of works on Linux. Sadly, nobody seems to bother with supporting it in any way, shape, or form.

I'd consider that fusion of paradigms to be a huge strength of the language.

HN is getting a mobile-optimized site? Best news I've heard all day!

I don't really see how this is feminism. I do think that supporting women in tech is a noble goal, but "considering user needs in the design of a system" never struck me as a uniqu…

Objective-C is probably the saddest story of any programming language. Absolutely fantastic libraries, incredibly easy to write high-level abstractions over very low-level C code, …

This might be proprietary, but Apple's other major codec is open.[1] Hopefully this will be as well. [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless

Really great to see a company acknowledging that privacy is a major concern. It's also a great business decision, because privacy is one thing that Google will never be able to bea…

Am I the only person who finds the digit separator syntax ugly and a bit unnecessary? I love the rest of the changes, but that just doesn't sit right with me.

And, presumably, get cartoon-style dollar signs in their eyes seconds afterwards.

It's an image-search site. We have the core product (searches) about 99% finished. We're mostly trying to make the frontend as responsive and intuitive as we want it to be. I want …

Yeah. This was pretty disappointing for me. I'm in the process of starting a company with a friend, but neither of us are 18 yet, so the chances of us getting into an accelerator o…