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Pitching Your Startup
Tell your company’s story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic , and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1) , and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
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The Mystery of the Slow Downloads
A few months ago, a complaint started popping up from users downloading or updating our apps: “Geez, your downloads are really slow!”
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Measuring the many sizes of a Git repository
Is your Git repository bursting at the seams? git-sizer is a new open source tool that can tell you when your repo is getting too big. git-sizer computes various Git…
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Clang Is Now Used to Build Chrome for Windows
As of Chrome 64, Chrome for Windows is compiled with Clang. We now use Clang to build Chrome for all platforms it runs on: macOS, iOS, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Windows.
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Income Inequality (2016)
How is inequality measured, who produces key databases, and what does the data tell us?
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Elm, Elixir, and Phoenix: Reflecting on a Functional Full-Stack Project
DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
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MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)
The Apple Macintosh combined brilliant design in hardware and in software. The drawing program MacPaint, which was released with the computer in January of 1984, was an example of that brilliance both in what it did, and in how it was implemented.
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Lawmakers Want to Block Pornography at the Expense of Free Speech and Privacy
More than 15 state legislatures are considering the “Human Trafficking Prevention Act” (HTPA). But don’t let the name fool you: this bill would do nothing to address human trafficking. Instead, it would only threaten your free speech and privacy in a misguided attempt to block and tax online...
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SJ Games vs. the Secret Service (1990)
On March 1, 1990, the offices of Steve Jackson Games, in Austin, Texas, were raided by the U.S. Secret Service as part of a nationwide investigation of data piracy. The initial news stories simply reported that the Secret Service had raided a suspected ring of hackers. Gradually, the true story emerged.
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How 4000 Physicists Gave a Vegas Casino Its Worst Week (2015)
Learn about public engagement activities from the American Physical Society
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Google-Landmarks: A New Dataset and Challenge for Landmark Recognition
Posted by André Araujo and Tobias Weyand, Software Engineers, Google ResearchImage classification technology has shown remarkable improvement over ...
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A researcher’s tale of defeating traps, tricks, and complex virtual machines
Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. In our analysis, one activity group stood out: NEODYMIUM. This threat actor is remarkable for two reasons: FinFisher is such a complex piece of malware that, like other researchers, we had to devise special methods…
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Amazon's policies promote counterfeiting
When someone goes to the lengths of making counterfeits of your products, it's at least a sign you're doing something right. And it deserves a minute of flattery. But when Chinese counterfeiters tool up and make copies of your product, send that inventory to Amazon, then overtake the real product's buy box by auto-lo
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How we built Hamiltix.net for less than $1 a month on AWS
The details of running a complex ticket ranking site for under a dollar a month on AWS
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Nim language v0.18.0 released
The Nim team is happy to announce that the latest release of Nim, version 0.18.0, is now available. Nim is a systems programming language that focuses on performance, portability and expressiveness.
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What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You
This blog post is a personal account of sexism, harassment, and racism that I and some anonymous members of the computer architecture community have experienced. We are sharing these experiences in…
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Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Bandaid – Dropbox service proxy
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Learning by playing
Getting children (and adults) to tidy up after themselves can be a challenge, but we face an even greater challenge trying to get our AI agents to do the same. Success depends on the mastery of several core visuo-motor skills: approaching an object, grasping and lifting it, opening a box and putting things inside of…
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