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Looking for a new CEO
Big news! We’re looking for a new CEO for Stack Overflow. I’m stepping out of the day-to-day and up to the role of Chairman of the Board. Stack Overflow has been around for more than a decade. As I look back, it’s really amazing how far it has come. Only six months after we had launched Stack Overflow, my co-founder…
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YC Interviews in India
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding interviews for the Summer 2019 batch in Bangalore for founders based in India. This will take place from May 7 to 9. We’ve received an increasing number of applications from India and this will allow us to interview more Indian founders. So far, we’ve funded over 40…
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Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram.
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PayPal vs. Stripe for small businesses in 2019
fman is a dual-pane file manager for Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Appeal accepted: Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
(UPDATE: Mommy Saver Plus has been reinstated! This after I posted this on HN, tweeted at them, and sent a slightly-too-passive-aggressive ...
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EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?
In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics, technologists, and UN human rights experts, and approved the Copyright in the Digital Single Market...
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Why Are Creators Paying for TikTok’s Mistake?
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)....
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Google removed my ads-free app for “deceptive ads”
I got an email from Google saying they removed Mommy Saver Plus (the paid version of Mommy Saver) for "deceptive ads". This is strange be...
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Apple Arcade – Game subscription service
Apple today announced Apple Arcade, a game subscription service that will feature over 100 new and exclusive games from renowned creators.
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How we manage plans and features in our SaaS app
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our active monitoring SaaS app.
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Key Polish Political Party Comes Out Against Article 13
With only days to go before the final EU debate and vote on the new Copyright Directive (we're told the debate will be at 0900h CET on Tuesday, 26 March, and the vote will happen at 1200h CET), things could not be more urgent and fraught. That's why today's announcement by Poland's Platformy...
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Programming Language Rankings: January 2019
This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation. Try our code patterns to help build the future of open source. With the second quarter looming, it’s time for us to drop our first quarter bi-annual…
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Cambridge spin-out starts producing graphene at commercial scale
A recent University of Cambridge spin-out company, Paragraf, has started producing graphene – a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick – at up to eight inches (20cm) in diameter, large enough for commercial electronic devices.
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Four Wikipedias to ‘Black Out’ over EU Copyright Directive
Update, 25 March: The Italian, Galician, Asturian, and Catalan Wikipedias have blacked themselves out today to protest the EU Copyright Directive. Other language versions of Wikipedia have chosen to show site banners above their content. Wikipedia’s volunteer editing communities make decisions like this independently…
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Android users in Europe will be asked which browser and search engine they want
For nearly a decade, we’ve been in discussions with the European Commission about the way some of our products work. Throughout this process, we’ve always agreed on one …
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CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows
If you are a dairy farmer looking for ways to reduce your environmental impact, Hanskamp's CowToilet may be for you. This innovative system is designed to…
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.
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ArangoDB Receives $10M Series A Funding
The only enterprise AI data platform that cuts complexity, reduces costs, and gets you to production faster.
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PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution
Announcing a cloud storage solution where you are in control of all your data with client-side encryption and no data or vendor lock-in.
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Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances
With an ideal mix of compute, memory, and networking, General Purpose virtual machines are the default choice for reliable performance across most common applications. Whether you’re scaling dev/test environments or hosting production-grade applications, these instances deliver consistent performance and value for a…
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On “Open” Distros, Open Source, and Building a Company
At Elastic, our focus is on building great products, form communities around them, and make our users successful.
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Our Boss Will Call Your Boss
On February 17, seven Blackwater-like security contractors were arrested in Haiti while driving in unmarked vehicles and transporting illegal weaponry and tactical equipment. They claimed to be on a government mission. Four days later the US “rescued” them. None are expected to face charges. What happened?
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Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors
Founder and co-chair of Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Stan Meresman join Cloudflare board
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Some airlines and regulators ground 737 Max in wake of Ethiopian Airlines crash
Some airlines and national aviation authorities have grounded their Boeing 737 MAX fleet in the wake of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 (ET302).
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Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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OpenAI LP
We’ve created OpenAI LP, a new “capped-profit” company that allows us to rapidly increase our investments in compute and talent while including checks and balances to actualize our mission.