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A Message to Our Customers

Apple Newsroom20165,771 points1,022 commentscited by 25Tech Industry & Business details

OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman

OpenAI Blog20235,710 points2,530 commentscited by 10Tech Industry & Business details

Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.

Steve Jobs has passed away.

Apple Newsroom20114,338 points386 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Mechanical Watch

Bartosz Ciechanowski20224,298 points704 commentscited by 59Science & Space details

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.

Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

Susan Fowler20174,107 points1,013 commentscited by 37Tech Industry & Business details

As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in

Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

Intuitive Explanations20214,022 points1,511 commentscited by 17Open Source details

I received an official response from Replit and my open-source project will be back up soon; please see the bottom of the blog post for an update. The rest of the content here will remain as a historical artifact.

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re

Bye, Amazon

Tim Bray20203,816 points1,097 commentscited by 5Career & Management details

May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.

Google Search Is Dying

DKB20223,636 points1,561 commentscited by 6Society, Policy & Culture details

(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit)

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Mitchell Hashimoto20263,521 points1,051 commentscited by 3Software Engineering details

Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd love to see the data), but I can't imagine more than a week per year.