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   Toki Pona: a human language with 120 words(theatlantic.com)

   122 points by tomkwok 11y ago|110 comments
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   VexFlow – HTML5/SVG Music Notation Rendering(vexflow.com)

   17 points by tomkwok 11y ago|1 comments
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   Box's HHVM Migration(code.facebook.com)

   82 points by tomkwok 11y ago|24 comments
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   The New York Times's pricing is too high(medium.com)

   4 points by tomkwok 11y ago|1 comments
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   by tomkwok 11y ago

   A real-world use case of currying in JavaScript: jqMath [1] from mathscribe.com, a lightweight alternative to jsMath (which is succeeded by MathJax). jqMath utilizes its own jsCurry library [2], and both are released under MIT license. [1]:
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   by tomkwok 11y ago

   Ask HN: Why is Flash so vulnerable? (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9901480
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   He Made a Secret Album in an Apple Store(thedailybeast.com)

   6 points by tomkwok 11y ago|1 comments
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   Btrfs Seems to Finally Have Failed Me on a Production System(phoronix.com)

   3 points by tomkwok 11y ago|0 comments
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   Pythagorean Theorem and its many proofs(cut-the-knot.org)

   60 points by tomkwok 11y ago|4 comments
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    Why Most Internet Writing Is Terrible (2006)(kalzumeus.com)

    3 points by tomkwok 11y ago|0 comments
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    by tomkwok 11y ago

    Glad I'm not the only one who notice this on howacarworks.com yesterday. This YouTube video [0] seems to be the source of the GIF, or at least the full version. Maybe the mods should change the link to it? [0]: https://www.y
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    by tomkwok 11y ago

    > I think he intended using the Kanji characters as Japanese characters, although they were originally derived from traditional Chinese (still used in Taiwan). And in Hong Kong where I live. I can't read Japanese, so the characters
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    by tomkwok 11y ago

    View page source. <script> $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/"); var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/"; $("#誤").hide();
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    by tomkwok 11y ago

    > Because trying to find those is literally impossible. Well, 'nearly' impossible. Google 'FLAC streaming service' and you'll find tidal.com. I don't know if there's any other. If you don't pay for
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    by tomkwok 11y ago

    So it's like a command line version of http://explainshell.com/ ... And it seems like your site / API backend is not open source. Do you plan to make an offline version?
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    Internet Population Map(geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk)

    1 points by tomkwok 11y ago|0 comments
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    by tomkwok 11y ago

    The previous OS version poll on HN is 4 years old. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726 --- And for me: Windows XP (200X-2009) Windows 7 (2009-2012) Ubuntu (2012) Manjaro (for a few days) Arch Linux
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    Poll HN: What is your primary desktop OS (and version / distro)?

    18 points by tomkwok 11y ago|14 comments
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    Arch Linux
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    Manjaro
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    Gentoo
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    Slackware
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    Mint
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    Ubuntu
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    Debian
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    openSUSE
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    Fedora
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    Mageia
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    CentOS
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    elementary OS