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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 923 posts.
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Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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Starbucks, monetary superpower
I recently spent some time on Twitter discussing the monetary wonders of Starbucks. In this post I'll bring a bunch of tweets together i...
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Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon
August 18, 2019 @ 12:31 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Decipherment , Language and history , Language and literature , Language and politics
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My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein
I’m sure that most, if not all of you, have seen recent news stories about Jeffrey Epstein, and I owe it to you to address my prior affiliation with him.I met …
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Court Rules That “Patent Troll” Is Opinion, Not Defamation
Free speech in the patent world saw a big win on Friday, when the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that calling someone a “patent troll” doesn’t constitute defamation. The court’s opinion [PDF] is good news for critics of abusive patent litigation, and anyone who values robust public debate around...
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Apple Card launches today for all US customers
Apple Card, a new kind of credit card from Apple designed to help customers lead a healthier financial life, is available in the US starting today.
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The WeWork IPO
The WeWork IPO is defined by audaciousness and excess, all of which is driven by unlimited access to capital.
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Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation
Business Roundtable today announced the release of a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation signed by 181 CEOs who commit to lead their companies for the benefit of all stakeholders.
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Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team
Open letter from an Android developer to the Google Play team and the community of Android developers and users
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Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn
In the popular trend of unintentionally horrifying “uplifting” news, out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal retrospection, reveals the dire conditions of late capitalism so many Americans now live under, and makes you feel worse after…
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WeWTF
I’ve started nine firms and I’m, generously, 3-4-2 (win-lose-tie). In retrospect, and I think about this a lot, the only reliable forward-looking indicator of our firm’s success or failure was … timing. Specifically, the part of the economic cycle at founding. The firms we started in recessions had an easier time…
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Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender
”We finally got a 3D creation tool like paper and pencil.” The reason why Khara, Inc. started moving to Blender.
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“Bicycle of the Mind”
“When we invented the personal computer, we created a new kind of bicycle…a new man-machine partnership…a new generation of…
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Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment
Funding negative emissions technology through Stripe's environmental program.
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Google Warns Developers That All New Android Apps Require 3 Days for Approval
In conversation with Google Play Store developer support today, they confirmed to me that all new Android apps now require at least three days for approval.
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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.
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How to Pay Programmers Less (2016)
Programmers are expensive and difficult to control; here are a few tricks to keep them underpaid and happy, for a while.
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What It Takes to Hire 10 Employees in San Francisco
We started Kapwing (an online image and video editor [https://www.kapwing.com]) almost two years ago and grew the company from 2 co-founders to 12 full-time employees in the last 12 months. Our team is based full-time in San Francisco, where the unemployment rate is astonishingly low. I wanted
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Tumblr
The news hit yesterday that WordPress has purchased Tumblr from Verizon (which owns it by virtue of its acquisition of Yahoo! and AOL). USV seeded Tumblr along with our friends at Spark in the summer of 2007 and were actively involved in the development of the company until its sale to Yahoo! in 2013. I […]
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Tumblr the Day After
It is not surprising that the news about Automattic buying Tumblr has picked up a lot of coverage. I especially appreciated the notes of support from Tumblr founder David Karp, former CTO Marco Arm…