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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 120 posts.
Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree
Braintree’s Bryan Johnson will answer your questions in the comments section. In 2003, Bryan Johnson (right) was hired for a commission-only job selling credit card services to businesses. “I was broke,” says Johnson. “The job was brutal. Business owners were tired of the industry’s decep…
Angry Nerds
Atlassian unites every team with Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo AI agents; one connected platform for planning, tracking, and delivering work.
German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware
The largest European hacker club, "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), has reverse engineered and analyzed a "lawful interception" malware program used by German police forces. It has been found in the...
Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
Google to default to SSL version for logged in users
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Global Interpreter Lock, or how to kill it
People that listened to my (Armin Rigo) lightning talk at EuroPython know that suddenly, we have a plan to remove the Global Interpreter Loc...
Google rolls out algorithm change in the US
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera
 UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
The 'intellectual property' oxymoron
“ If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the…
How Google's build system works
This is the second in a four part series describing how we use the cloud to scale building and testing of software at Google. This series el...
Do not upgrade to PHP 5.3.7 due to a bug in crypt()
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Free Wordpress themes coming with a price
There are so many free WordPress themes out there it can put your head in a spin. This post is the one-stop resource for info about free WordPress Themes
Google adds verbatim search mode for your exact search terms
Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you’ve typed to find the best resu...