Stories by neilk

Ahimsa online: adapting an ancient practice to a networked society

When is decentralization a good idea?

Why Rust has a code of conduct

Ogv.js: decoding Theora video in JavaScript

Is Wikipedia really 90% wrong?

Are "acquired for $X" statements related to reality?

Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargo

Rust closed the second most number of issues on all of GitHub

Failure Modes

Algorithms are not enough: lessons bringing computer science to journalism

Timeline of Wikipedia in 2013

Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords

Co-location 101: Moving your servers to a data-center

Autonym, a font for the names of all the world's languages

TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages

What SF's come to: 900ft² apartment, 700ft² of which is outside

Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-device settings and JavaScript

Mobile Cloud Platform to bring rain to Burning Man

Valve's apparent flatness hides real power structure, says former employee

Ask HN: Good technology podcasts?

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