alxndr

POSTS

• DIY mechanical keyboard switch lets you set its actuation point

  by alxndr on 2/10/2022, 1:01 AM with 0 comments

• Google Voice will soon stop forwarding text messages to other phone numbers

  by alxndr on 6/15/2021, 5:56 PM with 0 comments

• Debugging CSS

  by alxndr on 5/21/2016, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• The illusion of understanding

  by alxndr on 5/13/2016, 12:53 AM with 0 comments

• Inside the USB Thief self-protection mechanism

  by alxndr on 3/30/2016, 7:52 PM with 0 comments

• An Invitation to the Free-Software Community for Real Dialog

  by alxndr on 3/14/2016, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Penney's game

  by alxndr on 1/22/2016, 3:54 PM with 1 comments

• Snark attack: Cornell students teach software to detect sarcasm

  by alxndr on 1/20/2016, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• FCC rule threatens Oakland mesh network, Wi-Fi projects

  by alxndr on 10/9/2015, 12:33 AM with 0 comments

• Racket Package Server Security Vulnerabilities

  by alxndr on 9/22/2015, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• What if we had more finished libraries?

  by alxndr on 8/21/2015, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• Capacitive touch banana piano in Clojure / Overtone

  by alxndr on 7/17/2015, 10:15 PM with 0 comments

• This is what the LHC sounds like

  by alxndr on 5/29/2015, 6:03 AM with 6 comments

• Sponsoring Captioning at JSConf 2015

  by alxndr on 5/28/2015, 12:35 AM with 0 comments

• Context Makes Our Devices

  by alxndr on 4/24/2015, 7:30 PM with 0 comments

• Jansen's linkage

  by alxndr on 3/25/2015, 5:48 PM with 0 comments

• New ICANN Name Collision for .YouTube TLD?

  by alxndr on 2/25/2015, 4:36 PM with comments

• On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension

  by alxndr on 2/19/2015, 4:41 PM with 1 comments

• An iPad Remote Presence Device

  by alxndr on 2/17/2015, 11:21 PM with 0 comments

• “constructor” package page causes a 500 error

  by alxndr on 1/21/2015, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Fight Over Yahoo’s Use of Flickr Photos

  by alxndr on 11/29/2014, 5:36 PM with 40 comments

• A Fairer World Cup Draw

  by alxndr on 6/5/2014, 2:34 AM with 0 comments

• David Byrne: "Google is Evil"

  by alxndr on 5/15/2014, 8:52 PM with 1 comments

• Burying the URL

  by alxndr on 5/1/2014, 2:34 AM with 368 comments

• The World's Best Behaved Cyclists are in Copenhagen

  by alxndr on 4/16/2014, 8:37 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: 2048 that keeps going

  by alxndr on 3/13/2014, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Tim Bray: The Web is 25

  by alxndr on 3/12/2014, 7:23 AM with 0 comments

• Security breach found in tip4commit

  by alxndr on 3/8/2014, 6:17 PM with 0 comments

• 'Obnoxious' RSA protests by DEF CON organizations, Code Pink draw ire

  by alxndr on 2/27/2014, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Random User Generator

  by alxndr on 2/20/2014, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• Dropbox's hiring practices explain its disappointing​ lack of female employees

  by alxndr on 2/14/2014, 11:29 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: web tool to organize sprint retro meetings?

  by alxndr on 2/5/2014, 7:00 PM with 0 comments

• Gmail's iOS App May Have Accidentally Deleted Your Emails

  by alxndr on 1/30/2014, 8:01 PM with comments

• A dynamically generated list of US gov't open source projects hosted on GitHub

  by alxndr on 1/17/2014, 6:19 AM with 0 comments

• The Dark Side of Our Love Affair With the Modern News Cycle & Why I Broke It Off

  by alxndr on 1/17/2014, 3:02 AM with 0 comments

• Does This Ruling Mean The End of the Internet? Maybe.

  by alxndr on 1/16/2014, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• The foolish war against song-lyrics websites

  by alxndr on 1/3/2014, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• Pa. police pull people over for random DNA tests for feds

  by alxndr on 12/18/2013, 9:52 PM with comments

• Handling 500+ lines of Gruntfile.js

  by alxndr on 12/2/2013, 6:45 PM with comments

• Photorealistic renderer in JS

  by alxndr on 11/19/2013, 8:56 PM with 1 comments

• Fourier Toy

  by alxndr on 11/6/2013, 9:10 PM with 70 comments

• Vim Text Objects: The Definitive Guide

  by alxndr on 10/27/2013, 8:57 PM with 0 comments

• Government.github.com

  by alxndr on 10/15/2013, 6:29 PM with comments

• Salmonella outbreak may be linked to tainted chicken

  by alxndr on 10/8/2013, 5:29 AM with 0 comments

• Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial

  by alxndr on 10/2/2013, 11:47 PM with 73 comments

• Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 2887505

  by alxndr on 9/18/2013, 3:27 PM with 0 comments

• MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on

  by alxndr on 9/11/2013, 9:47 PM with -1 comments

• MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on (2012)

  by alxndr on 9/11/2013, 9:45 PM with 168 comments

• Mopidy - serve music from multiple sources

  by alxndr on 9/10/2013, 9:32 PM with 0 comments

• Named Unix pipes

  by alxndr on 9/6/2013, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Germany: Bitcoin is "private money" & Bitcoin mining is "private money creation"

  by alxndr on 8/19/2013, 7:20 AM with -1 comments

• All are Affected, but Few of Us are Represented at Upcoming Copyright Hearings

  by alxndr on 7/24/2013, 10:36 PM with 0 comments

• Nginx-boilerplate

  by alxndr on 7/18/2013, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• "9% of people in this study admitted to using their mobile device during sex"

  by alxndr on 7/18/2013, 1:44 AM with 0 comments

• Introduction to Railties

  by alxndr on 7/14/2013, 12:58 AM with 0 comments

• Obama's climate change plan infographic

  by alxndr on 6/25/2013, 8:30 PM with 0 comments

• Bundles: new torrent filetype that requires interaction to unlock content

  by alxndr on 6/20/2013, 2:04 AM with 0 comments

• Better Single-Table Inheritance

  by alxndr on 5/16/2013, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon Coins

  by alxndr on 5/13/2013, 4:29 PM with 0 comments

• by alxndr on 5/13/2013, 4:23 PM with comments

• Vim regexes are awesome

  by alxndr on 4/26/2013, 8:32 PM with 0 comments

• Using git subtree to share code between Rails applications

  by alxndr on 3/29/2013, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• Firefox finally introduces a PDF viewer

  by alxndr on 2/20/2013, 12:23 AM with 0 comments

• CSV.load can create objects like YAML parser

  by alxndr on 2/5/2013, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• Critical SSH Backdoor in multiple Barracuda Networks Products

  by alxndr on 1/24/2013, 6:13 PM with 51 comments

• The time has come to ditch YAML for configuring Ruby

  by alxndr on 1/18/2013, 5:46 PM with 2 comments