3871
Guide to scaling engineering organizations
Lessons learned from scaling Stripe's engineering team
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,907 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
Any year
3872
Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
Over time, we hope to make Waymo One available to even more members of the public as we add vehicles and drive in more places.
3873
3874
3875
Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments from August to November. If you see something cool like this, email us at hn@ycombinator.com [mailto:hn@ycombinator.com] so we can add it to the next list. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listening to The Shipping…
3876
3877
3878
3879
The American middle class is stable in size, but losing ground financially to upper-income families
While the size of the U.S. middle class remained relatively stable between 2002 and 2016, financial gains for middle-income Americans were modest compared with those of higher-income households.
3880
Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales
Firstly I want to be clear that I have had some measure of success on Steam and I’ve enjoyed going to Steam Dev Days and other events and talking to their reps who seem to be genuinely interested supporting indie developers. So this blog post is not about me hating on Steam, rather it’s to discuss a recent issue that…
3881
Podcast Advertising: What We Learned
Don't spend a penny on podcast advertising until you've read this.
3882
The EU Copyright Directive: What Redditors in Europe Need to Know
Defending equal access to the free and open internet is core to Reddit’s ideals, and something that redditors have told us time and again they hold dear to
3883
Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project
I never thought about patents much. I just wanted to make stuff and share it with others. Then one day someone else patented my work.
3884
Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
Openly sharing your work brings more attention to it, which is good, right? The answer, for me though, is often “it’s complicated.” This is what happened when I went to visit a giant tech company, in hopes for collaboration, but later found that they tried to patent some of my research instead!
3885
CEBIT Hanover to be cancelled
Die HANNOVER MESSE ist die Weltleitmesse der produzierenden Industrie. Sie verbindet Produktionssicht und Produktsicht, Marktvergleich und Systemverständnis, technologische Innovation und industrielle Umsetzung. Auf der HANNOVER MESSE erleben Sie zukunftsweisende Technologien live: Von autonomen ...
3886
3887
3888
3889
Wooden bikes
WOODEN BIKES Do they break easily?Can they withstand rain?Can they be compared to regular bikes? – Questions similar to these are completely logical and expected since wooden bikes aren't too common. We have had the same questions and concerns ourselves and have tried our best to answer them. Not so long ago we even
3890
Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity
Companies Aim to Improve Information Exchange Across All Construction Project Teams SAN RAFAEL, CA, Nov 20, 2018 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid, a leading provider of construction productivity software, for $875 million net of cash. This acquisition will enable…
3891
3892
3893
Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years
When I joined Google full-time to run Cloud in December 2015, I told my family and friends that it would be for two years. Now, after an unbelievably stimulating and productive three years, it’s time to turn to the passions I’ve long had around mentoring and education.
3894
The Art and Science of Leading Projects
Explore free project management resources from TeamGantt, including practical guides, templates, tools, videos, podcasts, and construction resources.
3895
Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters
Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center of Excellence with more than 5,000 jobs.
3896
In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy
Late last month I announced that we are working on an AWS Region in South Africa. Today I would like to let you know that we are also building an AWS Region in Italy and plan to open it up in early 2020. Milan in 2020 The upcoming Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability […]
3897
3898
3899
Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
Switching fully to card and app payments would put access to our money in the hands of private organizations for the first time in history.
3900
Apple has removed us from the App Store
The RescueTime for iOS app has been temporarily removed from the App Store. This is obviously incredibly disappointing for us and all our users.