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Refactoring Guru

Ask HN: What are your favorite books for object-oriented design?

How to Handle Monetary Values in JavaScript

Ask HN: How are you handling offline-first data?

Experiences building a newsfeed out of Twitter streams

Confirmation Bias

Show HN: The HN RSS feed, but with inverted links

How to crash an email server with a single email

Picking the low hanging passwords

JavaScript for extending low-latency in-memory key-value stores

Bernoulli’s trials can tell you how many job applications to send

Learn Redis the hard way (in production)

What3words

BitTorrent's DHT

BitTorrent's Mainline DHT

Playing Capitals with OpenCV and Python

How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security [1999]

Immutability, MVCC, and garbage collection (2013)

The Case of the “Page Can't Be Displayed” Intermittent Selenium Test

The 10,000 Year Clock

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