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dirktheman

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Self-taught coder, marketer, propagandist, drone racer, father of 3, decent cook and half-decent guitar player.

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  1. Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day (2013) (mentalfloss.com)
    39 points 43
  2. Ask HN: How do large companies handle access to critical databases?

    I’ve never worked in companies over, say 1000 people. Usually, there are one or two people who have full access to the database, hosting, Virtualization servers, etc. The lastest Marriott hack got me thinking: how do…

    13 points 8
  3. Zapier paths (zapier.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Phishing mail from Apple, URL and SSL cert seems legit

    I recently got an email from Apple (or so it seemded) with a purchase that I know I didn't make. The sender of the email should raise some concerns…

    1 points 0
  5. Vowel sounds of baboons show roots of human speech (latimes.com)
    1 points 0
  6. The Soviet era smarthouse (englishrussia.com)
    1 points 0
  7. Amazon introduces Lumberyard: a free 3D game engine (aws.amazon.com)
    4 points 1
  8. High Resolution aerial photos of Mars (uahirise.org)
    2 points 0
  9. Wire Recorder Project: Recovering old family recordings made on steel wire (gentweb.co.uk)
    98 points 28
  10. Google launches 'smarty pins' map trivia game (smartypins.withgoogle.com)
    11 points 0
  11. Google to buy Skybox Imaging for at least $1B (nextpowerup.com)
    1 points 0
  12. The Guardian guide to metadata (theguardian.com)
    3 points 0
  13. Armed Men Take Position at Two Airports in Crimea (nytimes.com)
    1 points 1
  14. Amazon announces new high I/O EC2 instances (aws.amazon.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Sheep Marketplace closes after theft of £3m in bitcoins (bbc.co.uk)
    55 points 47
  16. 15 Ambitious Plans to Colonize the Moon (mentalfloss.com)
    2 points 0
  17. I switched back from iPhone to Nokia Symbian (dirktheman.com)
    9 points 8
  18. Amazon introduces startup program (aws.amazon.com)
    2 points 0
  19. World Record: Wireless Data Transmission at 100 Gbit/s (kit.edu)
    54 points 14
  20. A how-to for dot-coms: Alex Ohanian explains (marketplace.org)
    1 points 0
  21. Amazon announces Elasticache for Redis (aws.typepad.com)
    1 points 0
  22. Meet DARPA's 6'2" disaster-response robot (whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Amazon AWS introduces resource levels for EC2 (aws.amazon.com)
    46 points 7
  24. Tianhe-2 is now the fastest supercomputer in the world (phys.org)
    1 points 0
  25. Ask HN: NSA and their Internet connection

    While I'm infuriated by the breach of privacy, the hacker in me can't help but being intrigued. 'Collecting' and storing these quantities of data requires a massive operation, and I'm left with a lot of questions. One…

    1 points 1