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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 503 posts.
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2023: The Year of AI
Explore the significant AI advancements, impactful partnerships, and legal debates that defined 2023.
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests
Patents are supposed to be an incentive to invent. Too often, they end up being a way to try to claim “ownership” of what should be basic building blocks of human activity, culture, and knowledge. This is especially true of software patents, an area EFF has been speaking out about for more than 20...
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Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
Minimised clearances, active hoods, new materials, new drive technologies – surely modern cars have reached their pinnacle?
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In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users
In 2023 Organic Maps got its first million users. It would not be possible to scale without the help from our beloved community. A million thanks for your energ…
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Beeper – Moving Forward
Each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, Beeper’s credibility takes a hit. It’s unsustainable. As much as we want to fight for what we believ…
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Cisco to acquire Isovalent
Cisco acquires Isovalent, founded by creators of eBPF and the team behind Cilium and Tetragon, the leading cloud native solutions leveraging eBPF technology.
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Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles
Safety leads everything we do at Waymo. This year alone, Waymo has served over 700,000 ride-hailing trips with public riders and no human driver. We couldn’t have hit that milestone without putting safety front and center, and we are working hard to improve the measurement, transparency, and performance of our fleet.
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Update: We have published a new blog post describing an additional Zulip plan for self-hosting without commercial support. Zulip is a 100% open-source team chat application designed for efficient communication. Zulip is available as a cloud service or a self-hosted solution. Organizations that self-host …
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More product, fewer product managers
There has been a lot of discussion about how many Product Managers (PMs) are required in a product team. This conversation gained momentum after Airbnb restructured their product management organization, followed by articles about how startups are thriving without any PMs.
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Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
After more than 11 years, HashiCorp Co-Founder Mitchell Hashimoto pens a heartfelt goodbye letter to the company he helped create.
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What's Going on with Language Rankings?
As the inbound DMs and emails attest, at least a few of you out there having been waiting for RedMonk to drop our latest version of the programming language rankings. Our apologies about the delay: here’s our update on the process. Normally we run these rankings twice a year, with the goal of using publicly
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Google Imagen 2
Today, we’re sharing a significant upgrade to Google Cloud’s image-generation capabilities with Imagen 2 , our most advanced text-to-image technology, which is now generally available for Vertex AI customers on the allowlist (i.e., approved for access).
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Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year
On September 18 this year, we crossed 14K stars and stood at #1 on the list of open source project management tools on GitHub.
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VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
Get the latest Broadcom news, press releases, and updates. Broadcom software powers the world’s complex digital infrastructure.
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A new old kind of R&D lab
Answer.AI will figure out the fundamental research needed to tame AI, and the development path needed to make it useful in practice
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The Secret Behind Qualcomm's Margins? Patents
How Qualcomm mixes licensing and its product business to produce industry-beating profit margins, showcasing the importance of a patent licensing business
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Beeper Mini is back
Bug fixes and other improvements We’ve created an updated version of Beeper Mini that fixes an issue that caused messages not to be sent or received. You can get the update directly from beep…
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Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Mixtral of experts
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximise employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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A connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity
Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, well-being and satisfaction
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Double Standards
Once people had recovered from the shock of seeing both a power button and a real-time clock on a Raspberry Pi, one of the most commented-on features of the new platform was the small, vertical, 16-way FFC (Flat Flexible Cable) connector on the left-hand side of the board, which exposes a single-lane PCI Express…
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Wikifunctions
The new library of functions will answer questions and enhance knowledge. Everyone, everywhere can access and contribute to it now.
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An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation
Dear PSF, We, organisers in the pan-African Python community, would like to raise some concerns and frustrations that have been brought to a...
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DoorDash raises minimum pay to $29.93 per hour in NYC
Changes will allow us to better balance the impact of bad policies in NYC for everyone who uses our platform and continue providing the best possible experience.