Stories by cpeterso

Improving the Firefox update experience

Interview with Richard Garriott: Life’s a Game and Then You Die on Mars

California businesses seek state's new 'benefit corporation' status

Can the United States Build Tomorrow's Breakthroughs?

Paul Krugman's "The Theory of Interstellar Trade" (1978) [pdf]

Proceedings from "Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation" (2011)

Ready Your Watch: The Leap Second Is Coming

UN telecommunications agency will decide whether to abolish the leap second

ACM Queue: Revisiting Network I/O APIs: The netmap Framework

Baffles and Bastions: The Universal Features of Fortifications

A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon

Facebook open-sources HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP

SpellTower shows power of creating games in genres you hate

Founder Electronics purchases typography created by street beggar

The secret history of the about:jwz url

Google Autocomplete Now Excludes The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, 4Shared and More

IPhone accelerometer can be used to eavesdrop on keystrokes

Visa problems? 'Seasteading' your startup may be the answer

Libabc: Best practices for library writers from Lennart Poettering

Ask HN: Dress code? Do you dress up for work?