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2025 5

  1. The Rise of the Operator
  2. RAG Enabled WordPress in Core Could Transform WordPress from CMS to AIMS
  3. The Nanny Scale
  4. Amidst the Noise and Haste, Google Has Successfully Pulled a SpaceX
  5. My 2025 AI Predictions

2024 3

  1. Colorado Mountain Wave in a Cessna 206 Turbo
  2. Briefing Something Mission Critical When Failure Is Not An Option
  3. And Back Again.

2017 2

  1. Wordfence Reviews – Find them on WordPress.org
  2. Why the term "cyber" is cool.

2016 1

  1. Working On-Site Considered Harmful

2015 6

  1. The Longer Term Effects of the Paris Tragedy
  2. 3DR Tech Data and Review
  3. Failure Is Not An Option
  4. Try Buying your Hardware
  5. Installing Ubuntu 14.10 on a Dell R630 with PERC H730 hardware RAID 10
  6. The FAA needs to get their hands dirty to enable UAV innovation

2014 5

  1. OS X 10.10 Yosemite WiFi Problems Analyzed with Wireshark
  2. Startups that Move the Needle
  3. 4th of July Post
  4. Liars and Geniuses – Thoughts on Live Jazz
  5. Where the term "Zero Day" comes from

2013 19

  1. The Qantas A380 Engine Failure: The story of an ops team pulling through a crisis
  2. Why you should fly United Airlines
  3. Linksys N600 Wifi Router doesn't do Gigabit with Apple Thunderbolt to Ethernet Adapter
  4. Financial Journalists are not Revolutionaries.
  5. SSH config for OS X users to keep connections from dropping on MiFi and other mobile hotspots
  6. Remembering Madiba
  7. Why Banks are Declaring War on Bitcoin
  8. Bitcoin transaction reversal and arbitration is built in. How it works.
  9. Instrument failure after takeoff and becoming an outside-in pilot.
  10. And so the next Bitcoin Crash Begins…
  11. How to Buy Bitcoin
  12. Why security back-doors for governments are a bad idea
  13. What Musk and Tesla are up against
  14. Personal Cybersecurity 101
  15. The Chinese Wall that Isn't
  16. Finding Cheap Fast Internet in South Africa
  17. A thought experiment on liberty and the survival of our species
  18. How Leaders Influence your Reality
  19. An unpleasant Herman Miller experience in South Africa

2012 23

  1. Shoutout to Bluehost
  2. How to avoid being unhappy and how to find happiness.
  3. How to (really) choose WordPress Hosting
  4. What the film "Taken" is really about
  5. A Viable Business Model for Facebook
  6. 11 Questions Every Startup's Money Guy Should Be Able to Answer in Her Sleep.
  7. Stop Being a Recruiter and Start Being an Entrepreneur
  8. The Basic Ketogenic Diet
  9. 12 Surprising things you probably don't know about weight loss
  10. Enough Pretending to Ban Assault Rifles. Just Do It.
  11. Time for a Linode downgrade
  12. Static Stretching injured my lower back
  13. The Rise of the Data Smuggler
  14. PHP array() is a little scary
  15. Hidden Data in The Spanish Economic Crisis
  16. Introducing Wordfence, the Ultimate WordPress security plugin.
  17. Life without privacy
  18. Blogger to customers: Your blog will now run on multiple domains so we can censor it
  19. Everyone has a plan until they get hit
  20. France Notes Day #1
  21. To borrow or not to borrow: Thoughts on US government debt
  22. Bull On.
  23. Guns, lots of guns

2011 101

  1. WordPress Security: Which is more secure? A VPS or a VHost?
  2. WordPress Security: Seven Ways I Could Hack Into Your WordPress Site
  3. The value of Time
  4. Unemployment is lower? Bull.
  5. The whining is reaching a crescendo
  6. The Net will not be bound or gagged
  7. Most vendors lie, but not all
  8. Does your Representative oppose Job Creation and Support a Warrantless Gag Order? Ask them.
  9. Can you build a Big Business on Apple's App Store?
  10. WordPress Security: Have you been hacked?
  11. Your Vision May be Clouded
  12. Be Right Back – with a solution to your problems
  13. Blogspot security hole lets others view unpublished blog entries
  14. A peek into our Space Intelligence Community
  15. Has your WordPress Blog been Hacked? Email me now!
  16. Rescued kitten Stix, 9 months after being found in the gutter with a broken pelvis
  17. WordPress Security: Hardening and Malware list removal
  18. Breaking: Google starts to block hacked WordPress blogs as attack widens
  19. WordPress Security: Please delete old themes and plugins
  20. DeployMint: A Staging and Deployment system for WordPress
  21. Two techniques to scan your WordPress installation and check if you're hacked.
  22. We are centrally planned and we are vulnerable
  23. The world is now paying the US government more to store their money.
  24. Why are people in London rioting? (video interview from the BBC)
  25. Advanced WordPress: How to get Real WordPress Commenter IP Addresses behind your Nginx Proxy
  26. Further update on TimThumb from Matt
  27. Now hold still honey while I rub this radioactive dirt on your face…
  28. Watch the last 2 hours of trading live if you can
  29. What physicists do for fun during a nuclear detonation
  30. TimThumb users and WordPress Theme users using TimThumb, please upgrade
  31. Poem: When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
  32. Timthumb improvements
  33. What does the S&P's AAA to AA+ downgrade for the United States mean?
  34. WordThumb is now TimThumb 2.0
  35. WordThumb now uses a secure public cache for compatibility
  36. WordThumb can now take screenshots of websites for you
  37. A secure rewrite of timthumb.php as WordThumb
  38. Which al-Assad Would you Like?
  39. Technical details and scripts of the WordPress Timthumb.php hack
  40. Zero Day Vulnerability in many WordPress Themes
  41. In case you're having a rough Monday….
  42. How sovereign debt becomes leverage – a lesson from history
  43. The avg age of an entrepreneur is 40 and only 11% to 16% are venture backed
  44. Tokyo markets open up 1%, guess they're not too worried
  45. Business lessons from Breaking Bad
  46. Hacker News negativity finally hurts the program it supports
  47. Political Marketing and the "Debt Ceiling"
  48. You know you're blog has arrived when…
  49. I've reversed comment order
  50. Irish Melodic Metal to kick your Friday's ass
  51. Who created the debt crisis the United States is in?
  52. Is the budget "crisis" an exercise in self promotion?
  53. Is Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Worth $45 a pound?
  54. It's all about the default (Google Search Traffic)
  55. The Today Show: Journey performs Don't Stop Believing this morning (Video)
  56. If you read hacker news I want you to do something for me…
  57. Orange Juice just got ruined for me
  58. The job of kings
  59. I'm selling a 6 month old viral business in a hot space.
  60. I'm calling it: Google+ is a flop.
  61. Why burger stands, gas stations and politicians tend to cluster
  62. Listen to this podcast on the budget process, you must
  63. Obama Campaign comes a calling
  64. The US City with the Fastest Internet is…
  65. What in the world…
  66. My new favorite "we're screwed" graph
  67. Every national curriculum should require web programming for graduation
  68. Why startups are attracting so much investment
  69. Disappeared from Hacker News … again. So I'm done.
  70. What will happen if we default on August 2nd?
  71. Which revision/source/version control software to use
  72. Which programming language should I learn?
  73. So… Greece just defaulted
  74. Trial, Error and the God Complex
  75. Mimes, Bakers and Bankers
  76. timthumb.php fix for blogs.dir directory on WordPressMU
  77. Awesome Cape Town Restaurant Reviews
  78. Great podcast on US Bankruptcy Law in the context of GM and Chrysler
  79. When is the worst time to submit a story to Hacker News?
  80. The Adverse Selection of Free
  81. Best Light Bulbs for all night coding
  82. Mom-in-law's Cobra for sale: 97 Cobra SVT Coupe, 15K miles
  83. Basic French Bread Making For Geeks
  84. Advanced WordPress: The Basic WordPress Speedup
  85. Can WordPress Developers survive without InnoDB? (with MyISAM vs InnoDB benchmarks)
  86. Running form
  87. MI6 to Rest of World: Cyber War is On. Anyone, Anywhere is Fair Game. Arm yourselves.
  88. Money Doesn't Talk
  89. BitCoin, Chastened
  90. HN is about to overtake Slashdot.
  91. What would a self-launching Space Shuttle look like?
  92. What I love about the HN community
  93. Insulin may be a steroid masquerading as a hormone.
  94. Where's the Disruption from the Change in Startup Economics?
  95. Domain name search tools
  96. It's OK to make an extra $2k per month if you're a programmer. Here's how.
  97. SEO: Don't use private registration
  98. SEO: Google may treat blogs differently
  99. What an Instant-Edu machine might do to Education
  100. Back blogging
  101. How to reliably limit the amount of bandwidth your room mate or bad office colleague uses

2010 14

  1. The relative non-risk of startups
  2. Are you building an R&D lab or a business
  3. Bandwidth providers: Please follow Google's lead in helping startups, the environment and yourselves
  4. The Coming Social Advertising Revolution
  5. PlatformFu for Hackers and Startups
  6. Perl: Kicking your language's ass since 1988
  7. A nuclear Google may be a very good thing
  8. Facebook.com overtakes Google.com as most visited USA domain.
  9. How to limit website visitor bandwidth by country
  10. Great piece of writing from Rolling Stone
  11. Does your startup pass The Sleep Test
  12. Basic cooking for bachelor alpha geeks
  13. If your bank doesn't like your startup's blog, they may freeze your funds
  14. How a job is created

2009 48

  1. Crowdsourcing a real-time solution to air terrorism
  2. How to handle 1000's of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS
  3. Fly Fishing on lake Samm
  4. A legend just died
  5. Spooky fun with ssh on OS X
  6. Why we breathe
  7. Revenue and Runway – Why every cent matters
  8. Possible leads in the shooting of officer Brenton
  9. How much traffic do the biggest typo domains get?
  10. Chrysler's new logo: A trademark lawsuit about to happen
  11. WTF is up with Dell?
  12. Reminding me why I need to travel more…
  13. Have me at Hello – Site Home Page Comparison
  14. Invictus – Poem
  15. Costs and Startups – Advice for your CFO
  16. Monetization or Cannibalization – The State of Social Gaming Marketing
  17. The best lesson in entrepreneurship you'll get this year
  18. Sunshine with clouds – Ubuntu's game changing release
  19. No-latency SSH sessions on a 5Ghz WiFi router with 250mw radio
  20. Socialized Medicine
  21. What the Web Sockets Protocol means for web startups
  22. SSL Network problem follow-up
  23. How to integrate PHP, Perl and other languages on Apache
  24. Efficiency
  25. Routers treat HTTPS and HTTP traffic differently
  26. China's influence in Africa
  27. The DOW 10K priced as opportunity cost
  28. Using and understanding the world-wide city database data
  29. SSL Timeouts and layer 3 infrastructure
  30. How to mirror someone elses web server with iptables
  31. Super fast & easy virtual server setup on Ubuntu (Jaunty)
  32. The profitable business of taking money from startups
  33. Bleet: Big VC's aren't always the best choice
  34. An immaginary conversation about immigration with Glenn Beck
  35. CO
  36. Great interview with Columbia's Bruce Greenwald on value investing
  37. ROTFLMFAO at 3am!
  38. MySQL GIS Extensions Quick Start
  39. NASA's little security oops
  40. Will Twitter's lax data ownership policy result in jail time?
  41. The real LCROSS mission
  42. Remove GoBoingo to fix MacBook WiFi pauses, stutters, hiccups, latency, delays
  43. Home remedy to de-skunk your dog, FAST!
  44. Advice to a new Seattle entrepreneur
  45. The Two Universes
  46. Great elder care resource launched today
  47. Smashed iPhone
  48. Why those Microsoft ads make Steve so happy

2008 63

  1. How to upgrade your server BIOS on Linux without a floppy drive
  2. Ever wondered how a pumpkin feels?
  3. 7 Reasons why it's a great time to be a Tech Entrepreneur!
  4. Mt Rainier
  5. Seattle's Coffee Gods (and goddesses)
  6. Skiing down Rainier
  7. Hiked up to Camp Muir on Rainier and skied down
  8. 7 Songs
  9. What a successful release looks like
  10. Further observations WRT the Chinese Earthquake in Colorado
  11. I think I felt the Chinese earthquake
  12. May Day Seattle March
  13. Apple Basic emulator in Javascript
  14. Thought for the day
  15. Angels
  16. My cat likes the taste of rabbit
  17. Something for Obama fans and for Clinton fans
  18. Putting food in our Fords…
  19. Puzzle
  20. Baidu hearts Obama
  21. Troubleshooting
  22. The problem with myspace…
  23. Facebook friends not real friends?
  24. Aground
  25. Linux is Obsolete!
  26. Guy's house cleaned out by ad on Craigslist
  27. Obamagirl's latest
  28. Anycasting anyone?
  29. Very high performance web servers
  30. The irrelevance of microsoft's search
  31. How to fix munin's netstat passive connections increasing constantly
  32. Sergio and Muse
  33. Why Free?
  34. I'm so dumb
  35. Why I'm so glad I didn't use Rails
  36. Great Movie and Lawrence
  37. Buffet
  38. Slow lighttpd on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Server with 200+ hits/sec?
  39. Things that piss me off about OS X
  40. Phish Phood and the Mystery of the Dissapearing Kitty
  41. Qotd
  42. Benjamin Zander and Shining Eyes
  43. Mergelab
  44. Bofh
  45. XTreme Football
  46. We Caucused Today in Sammamish, Washington
  47. Obama in Seattle, Lipitor and the Lake Washington Rowing Club
  48. Snowkiting and Powder in Utah
  49. Bald Eagles on Sammamish Pathway
  50. I'm Apple'd
  51. The Kennedy's and the Obamas
  52. The best coffee houses in Seattle
  53. Facebook widgets slow your site?
  54. Startup tip: Buy from Dell at end of quarter
  55. Oh Wesley!
  56. Fly tying
  57. Memo to Bear Hunters
  58. The Denver Fly Fishing Expo
  59. 3.5 hours chatting to customer service and the iPhone works
  60. A great speech
  61. An iPhone? Thanks but I'd rather get punched in the face.
  62. Live Caucus Map – courtesy Google
  63. I'm a fan

2007 108

  1. Avoiding cross site request forgery in your web apps
  2. The importance of not knowing what isn't possible
  3. The 6th most viewed video on MySpace?!
  4. Microsoft Buzzquotes
  5. Shhh! Two new Feedjit widgets quietly being tested
  6. California Fire Satellite Map
  7. Server Downtime == Police Baricades and Angry World Series Fans
  8. Wikipedia, Vulcans, Suss-Mahn and cerebral entropy
  9. More press…
  10. South Africa are the new Rugby world champs!!!!!!!!!!
  11. Is Google.com down for anyone else?
  12. South African Freedom of the Press
  13. Rugby World Cup tomorrow – South Africa vs England
  14. Panama Esmeralda
  15. Friday rocks!!
  16. The Nash Equilibrium & The Prisoners Dilemma
  17. Stille waters, diepe grond, onder draai die duiwel rond.
  18. South Africa in the Rugby World Cup Final!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  19. The scary history of Aspartame and the scary people behind it
  20. The story of the little bird
  21. I LOVE MONDAYS!!
  22. Locomotive Breath
  23. More Facebook debate.
  24. Why you might not want to have a "Facebook strategy"
  25. Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Inspiration for innovators
  26. How to stop a dog fight
  27. It's a beautiful day in socal!
  28. MacBooks auto-detect crossover/non-crossover ethernet modes
  29. Smart Image Resizing – Liquid Rescale
  30. Nissan vs Nissan – Trademark Lawsuit
  31. Desert trek
  32. Ahmadinejad
  33. I'm endangered!!
  34. The perils of high traffic
  35. Cool ad
  36. Dymaxion Map – we're all connected
  37. Quote of the day
  38. Time's awesome archives
  39. A Big Fish
  40. Muckleshoot Indian Tribe mass harvesting salmon out of Lake Sammamish
  41. Bring it!
  42. Feedjit on Techcrunch
  43. Otis Taylor – Blues God
  44. FEEDJIT New version released
  45. Calling all Faith No More fans…
  46. "Man vs Wild" vs Les Stroud's Survivorman
  47. Scaling from 0 to 40 hits per second in 3 days
  48. FEEDJIT notice to bloggers
  49. Get a real-time map widget showing where in the World your blog visitors are
  50. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
  51. How to create and launch a startup in 10.5 hours
  52. Live arrival/departure info for your blog
  53. WTF is wrong with hosted gmail?
  54. Perseids meteor shower photo
  55. Fly fishing the Dream Stream
  56. Drive
  57. X-Games Video: Jake Brown's unbelievable 40 foot fall
  58. A good book
  59. How hedge funds die
  60. Fly fishing South Fork of the Snoqualmie river
  61. Why linux rocks
  62. Configuring apache 2.2.4 + mod_perl 2.0 + php 5.2.3 + libapreq with a worker MPM
  63. An ode to the end of Facebook
  64. Quote of the day
  65. More great headlines that get traffic
  66. Facebook's getting out of hand
  67. How to easily cross-post your linkbait
  68. Yahoo takes 10 days to update an email address?
  69. How to record a remote podcast
  70. Startup Hacks: Marketing with no money – RescueTime Interview
  71. Configuring MySQL and Apache for a faster blog
  72. The Naked Truth Party
  73. TypePad down since 1:50pm PST
  74. Think you work hard? Think again.
  75. Rob Malda vs Alexa vs Slashdot vs Digg
  76. The Nike Software Engineering Process
  77. What the new Patent Reform Act means for small startups
  78. Google Analytics Stats
  79. The Web
  80. CTRL-C CTRL-V
  81. I'm laundering money
  82. Who else thinks VC's shouldn't fund early stage developers?
  83. A metaphor for passive income
  84. Shooting down good ideas
  85. The one thing governments never fail to get right…
  86. How to create a ZIP code distance lookup table with 1 line of SQL
  87. World-wide city database and other (free) geospatial data
  88. Brand Authority and the Milgram Experiment
  89. Hard Rock – music for MTB
  90. Marketing team brainstorms Facebook app launch (vid)
  91. How to make the perfect cup of coffee
  92. What it's like to be an entrepreneur
  93. The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting
  94. Facebook predicted to overtake MySpace
  95. Markus Frind James Hong video panel/interview
  96. Shackleton's ad
  97. Open Coffee at Louisa's
  98. Programming language choices for entrepreneurs
  99. Say
  100. Saving server costs with Javascript using distributed processing
  101. Almost a latte
  102. Competitive intelligence tools
  103. Business innovation for developers
  104. Negotiating your aquisition
  105. Extreme sports conflagration – and ground effect
  106. How to start a startup – for developers
  107. SEO, the long tail approach
  108. Lessons from three weeks of intensive I18N