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  1. Too much discussion of the XOR swap trick (heather.cafe)
    152 points 40
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  3. The TikTok Couch Guy. Here’s What It Was Like Being Investigated on the Internet (slate.com)
    1 points 1
  4. AWS Neptune: A New Vertex in the Graph World – But Where’s the Edge? (arangodb.com)
    35 points 9
  5. Sorting number strings numerically (arangodb.com)
    173 points 60
  6. Ask HN: How is Windows for developers nowadays?

    I don't want any of the new Macbooks, but every time I have tried to run Linux on a laptop I've had nothing but pain. Therefore I'm tempted to use Windows as my primary OS. I alternate between doing POSIX and Windows…

    13 points 19
  7. Answers on Stackoverflow can't be edited just because they are dangerous (meta.stackoverflow.com)
    4 points 2
  8. The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is Not an Attack on Men (iangent.blogspot.co.uk)
    2 points 0
  9. The Inside Story of SQL Slammer (threatpost.com)
    1 points 0
  10. Ask HN: Abandoning iOS applications

    I wrote a slightly successful iPhone game ( http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/combination/id300288142?mt=8 ). I don't really want to keep paying Apple every year, but I don't really want to take the game away from users…

    7 points 8
  11. Ask HN: Are there any mature HTML5/canvas libraries?

    I am planning to write a canvas-based drag and drop puzzle game. Looking around at the various libraries I could use, it looks like (from looking at bug reports) that every library I look at seems to have problems on…

    7 points 4
  12. Linus Torvalds: Programs exist for their users (lkml.org)
    261 points 135
  13. Ask HN: The state of non-mac laptops?

    I am considering a new laptop, to replace my ageing MacBook, and would like to move to Linux. Does anyone have any recommendations for quality developer machines? I am suprised in particular it seems hard to get a…

    8 points 19
  14. Ask HN: Can you write high quality mobile apps in HTML5 yet?

    I wrote a not-particularly successful, but well reviewed, iPhone game. I am considering writing a sequel, for iOS, Android and the web, and the obvious way to do this would be via HTML5. I have heard the odd horror…

    8 points 2
  15. Problems With Github (chris-jefferson.blogspot.com)
    3 points 11
  16. Ask HN: What is the current best in GUI Javascript libraries?

    I am currently developing a website of puzzle games, written in Javascript. Rather than use Canvas, we are currently aiming to use movable divs, drag and drop. What are the current best libraries for GUI Javascript…

    2 points 1
  17. Ask HN: Getting started in server programming

    Some background: I have written a reasonbly successful iPhone puzzle game, which I have converted into HTML 5. I would like to put it up on the net. This would require a simple server where users can log in, and their…

    5 points 4
  18. It took 69 single steps to get past a BOOST_FOREACH() statement. Madness. (twitter.com)

    As he often does, John Carmack gives a brief and powerful argument. While I still have a love for C++, just because library developers can do something with enough preprocessor and templates, doesn't mean they should.

    5 points 4