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The App Store turns 10
When Apple introduced the App Store on July 10, 2008 with 500 apps, it ignited a cultural, social and economic phenomenon.
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With EFF’s help, language teacher responds to threat over ‘invalid’ patent
Foreign languages have been taught, and studied, for thousands of years. People who teach languages are the last folks that should be dealing with patent threat letters—but incredibly, that’s exactly what has happened to Mihalis Eleftheriou. Hodder and Stoughton, a large British publisher, has sent...
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A Bank for Student Hackers
It was February 2nd, 2018 at 2 PM when I got a call from Jake Reilly, the founder of Kapaa High School's Hack Club, our first chapter in…
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A legend reborn: Microsoft brings back the iconic Classic IntelliMouse
Microsoft IntelliMouse. Originally launched in 1996, it became instantly famous with gamers and highly regarded as a great gaming mouse. The IntelliMouse 3.0 had exceptional ergonomics due to its the asymmetric from, and sculpted buttons and finger rests, making it fit perfectly into your hand. It also used long life…
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How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?
A definitive new study dispels the myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.
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Facebook abandons Aquila, its internet drone
Today nearly 4 billion people globally do not have access to the Internet. It’s why Facebook, along with many other companies and governments, is investing heavily to address the three key ba…
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Applications for YC W19 Are Open
Applications for YC Winter 2019 are now open. Apply here [http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/]. Here are some helpful resources if you’re thinking about applying: * Why Apply? [https://www.ycombinator.com/why/] * YC Bio [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/]: A new way for us to fund early-stage life science companies…
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Zen Magnets: 6 Years of Battle End in Victory
“We will not settle for any sort of stop-sale of magnets that are perfectly safe when not misused… We vow to continue this [legal] battle until our very last drop of cash-flow blood”, promised in August 2014 , forecasting 95% chance of a glorious honorable death of insolvency on the legal battlefield.
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Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month
Wondering how to make a Slackbot that drives revenue? Check out this step-by-step tutorial. It's a case study of how we built a profitable business on Slack with thousands of USD in revenue.
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Aseprite - New source code license
Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool
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Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic
Take a look behind the scenes as the World of Warcraft Classic team give us an update on how they are recreating WoW history. In this Dev Watercooler, the team share core decisions, current thinking, and some of the technical challenges and solutions they’re working on.
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Behind the Scenes with the Dragon Ball Legends GCP Back End
By Samir Hammoudi, Gaming Technical Specialist, Google Cloud Dragon Ball Legends , a new mobile game from Bandai Namco Entertainment (BNE)...
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On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
Apple badly needs to update the Mac lineup both now, and more consistently in the future.
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Hallmark of an Economic Ponzi Scheme
The hallmark of an economic Ponzi scheme is that the operation of the economy relies on the constant creation of low-grade debt in order to finance consumption and income shortfalls among some members of the economy, using the massive surpluses earned by other members of the economy. The factors most responsible for…
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AT&T to Acquire Time Warner
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Hacker News Highlights: April and May 2018
Here are some of our favorite Hacker News comments from April and May. 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HN users across countries discuss…
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Microsoft Buys GitHub: The Linux Foundation's Reaction
‘In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will.’ Winston S. Churchill This week Microsoft announced that it is purchasing GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. I waited for a few days to write up my thoughts because this is something that deserves some thoughtful reflection. The…
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The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia
The pending update to the EU Copyright Directive is coming up for a committee vote on June 20 or 21 and a parliamentary vote either in early July or late September. While the directive fixes some longstanding problems with EU rules, it creates much, much larger ones: problems so big that they...
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AI at Google: our principles
We’re announcing seven principles to guide our work in AI.
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Raising a Very Unusual Round of Funding and Open-Sourcing Our Docs
The Short Version Our new company, SparkToro, LLC has just completed a $1.3mm angel financing. And, because we think our structure might be right for many
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GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.
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Why Development Teams Struggle to Deliver on Time, on Budget, or at All
Learn how to predict the timeline, budget, and resources more accurately in your software development project in 7 steps.