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Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
A huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,889 posts.
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OpenAI
I have some exciting news (for me, anyway). Starting next week, I’ll be going on leave from UT Austin for one year, to work at OpenAI. They’re the creators of the astonishing GPT-3 and …
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How Many Tracks Do Train Stations Need?
A brief discussion on Reddit about my post criticizing Penn Station expansion plans led me to write a very long comment, which I’d like to hoist to a full post explaining how big an urban tra…
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Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?
Get answers to all of your questions regarding Brex
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Calling for Antitrust Reform
Mozilla supports the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA). The time for change is now. It’s time for governments to address the reality
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The Cult Inside Google
I worked for Google for about three and a half years as a video producer. I was fired because I raised alarm about a doomsday cult that…
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ReadySet Core: next-generation SQL caching, freely available
Today we’re announcing ReadySet Core, a freely available version of ReadySet that you can run anywhere from your own laptop to any cloud provider, on as many nodes as you need.
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I'm making drugs for cats
For all the new readers who’ve joined since my post about effective altruism and elections, welcome!
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2022 Cloud Report
The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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What we learned in studying the most effective founders
The Google for Startups Effective Founders Project dives deep into the leadership strategies of the most successful startups around the world.
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How Palo Alto Networks Replaced Kafka with ScyllaDB for Stream Processing
Learn how Palo Alto Networks rearchitected their real time data systems using ScyllaDB’s monstrously fast and scalable NoSQL database.
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Interview with Marc Andreessen on learning to love the humanities, and RSS
The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.
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Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire
With the recent market downturn, a lot of candidates and Krakenites have been asking, “What does this mean!?” Our response: “First time?” What it means is it’s once again time to build. It’s time to remember why we’re doing this: The Mission of bringing financial freedom and inclusion to the billions of people…
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Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support
Update: The retired, out-of-support Internet Explorer 11 desktop application has been permanently disabled through a Microsoft Edge update on certain vers
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Heroku April 2022 Incident Review
We have concluded our investigation of incident 2413 and want to provide our customers with a summary of our findings and actions.
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Apple and MLS to present all MLS matches for 10 years, beginning in 2023
Apple and Major League Soccer announced that the Apple TV app will be the exclusive destination to watch every live MLS match beginning in 2023.
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If it isn't going to work, just shut it down
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
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“Downthem” DDoS-for-hire boss gets 2 years in prison
A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites.
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Human attention has become a commodity
Fake news. Misinformation. Mental health crises. Election meddling. Extremism. Partisanship. Eating Disorders. Body Dysmorphia. Vulnerability porn.
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Developer's Guide to SaaS Compliance
This article reviews what kinds of compliance certifications and regulations exist, what they mean for developers, and how to begin the certification process.
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We will never have enough software developers (2020)
Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers despite efforts to grow the number of computer science graduates and software engineers.
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How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
Trustpilot promises to be “free and open” — in reality, they are the exact opposite, holding companies at ransom, and outright violating…
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Finally, no bid on mortgage-backed securities
From my friend Kevin Oakley, I see this news on Twitter:
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A new day for Insteon
We are a small group of passionate Insteon users that have successfully acquired Insteon. Like many of you, our homes are powered by Insteon’s amazing dual-mesh technology and highly configurable products. Most of you discovered that the Insteon Hubs began coming back online. Our first priority was getting the hubs on