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Why GitHub won
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
20% more powerful perovskite solar panels enter commercial use
05 Sept 2024 — Oxford PV, a global leader in next-generation solar, has started the commercialisation of their record-breaking tandem solar technology with the first shipment to a U.S.-based customer.
2M users but no money in the bank
2M users. No money in the bank. Erik's leaving. Exercism Teams. A new coding fundamentals platforms. There's a lot of news...
Why Don't Tech Companies Pay Their Engineers to Stay?
Why don’t tech companies pay engineers more to stay? The top companies for engineers are transparent and they pay attention to an engineer's salary. Ethena
Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance
Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors offer outstanding AI performance, compatibility and power efficiency at scale to leading laptop manufacturers.
Elasticsearch is open source, again
Elastic announces the return of open source licensing for Elasticsearch and Kibana, adding AGPL as an option alongside existing licenses. This change reinforces our long-standing commitment to open so...
Update on Llama adoption
Llama models are approaching 350 million downloads to date, and they were downloaded more than 20 million times in the last month alone, making Llama the leading open source model family.
New Anti-Toxicity Features on Bluesky
Trust and Safety (T&S) affects everything — from community policy and spam detection, all the way to the order that replies show up on a post. At Bluesky, the product team works hand-in-hand with T&S to design features that balance safety, ease of use, and fun.
The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim
The future of Coursera's only credible alternative for universities rests in the hands of 2U's creditors.
The End of Finale
Updates 07/23/2026 @ 5:00PM ET: The Finale to Dorico crossgrade is no longer available from the Finale eStore. Please head […]
We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
Cinder is part of a growing list of US-based tech companies that encounter engineering applicants who are actually suspected North Korean nationals. Here's what we're doing about it.
Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles
We're building a $3M missile for $300k.
MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract
This is part of a series of profiles detailing the experiences of institutions that have unbundled or canceled big deal journal contracts. The aim of the series is to provide insights, lessons learned, and inspiration to libraries that might consider a similar move.
EFF Presses Federal Circuit to Make Patent Case Filings Public
Federal court records belong to everyone. But one federal court in Texas lets patent litigants treat courts like their own private tribunals, effectively shutting out the public.When EFF tried to intervene and push for greater access to a patent dispute earlier this year, the U.S. District Court...
CockroachDB license change
What you need to know about the changes that happened to CockroachDB Enterprise this past November.
Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?
With my interest in personal finance, the headline Robert Kiyosaki, ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Author, Says, ‘I Am a Billionaire in Debt’ — And Calls Dave Ramsey An Idiot For Encou…
Grok-2 Beta Release
We announce our new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini models.
Why we picked AGPL
ParadeDB has been licensed under AGPL from day one. Here's our thought process and case study on why we picked AGPL.
Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.
Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth
Introducing the autonomy, product, and operations teams.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
On sale now at $5: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new microcontroller board. It's built on RP2350, our new high-performance, secure microcontroller.
Mistral Agents
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way
Bad experiments are worse than none at all
YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
You may have heard about instability issues with Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The issue has been gaining more attention as time goes on. I am posting to share what we've experienced here at Puget Systems, and what we're doing about it.
The future of kdb+?
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.