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This tool was created two years ago (http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-performance-rocks-bew...). I guess the big news now is that it's been open sourced and made available for free.

Were there any updates on the rule set in use?

maybe instead of a captcha (not that hacker news has a captcha, but bare with me), submitters would be required to answer a Project Euler like problem. Obviously I'm not serious, but it can be an interesting way to moderate the submissions.

same here, see http://tinypic.com/r/2efkild/7 it also makes switching to this tab on firefox very slow, probably because you have a lot of javascript running there.

how do you avoid redundancy, meaning seeing the same news items on both HN and Twitter?

not at all. again, I'm the one behind augmented times, so I'm happy to find my at least one of my readers on HN. cheers!

Just out of curiosity, did you find that link by reading Games Alfresco or Augmented Times? It's a two weeks old news story, and I just mentioned it yesterday in one of my posts (and it always great to connect with my readers).

yes, but a talented individual would probably sell those vulnerabilities since they worth so much, rather then use them for some obscure, probably not money earning, goal.

I'm trying to evolve a bot for the current Google's AI challenge using genetic algorithms. The results so far: a mediocre bot that doesn't even win on all maps against the samples bots, and a laptop that is about to die every minute now from exhaustion.

though you never hear of a non-israeli startup based in Tel Aviv

I like it very much. I think it would be extremely useful if you would display statistics of previous runs carried on each test case so that: a. I will be able to see the aggregated performance on many machines (not just my own). b. I'll be able to see how a test case behaves on different setups (for example, it may yield different results on firefox and on mobile safari).

cheers! (if those stats are available somewhere, sorry, I must have missed them)

very cool!

Don't forget that bandwidth is only half (and most of time not the important half) of the story. Latency and packet losses usually have much stronger effect on website performance (see this classic paper http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/Latency.html or any of velocity 2010 videos).

There are a couple of free and commercial products that enable you to emulate latency, packet loss and bandwidth at the same time, just google that.

Wow, they really like .net in India

I just began working on a very similar idea :) anyway, how do you score the posts, using bayesian filtering?