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A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place
Explaining Y Combinator
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,021 posts.
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The Anti-Ownership eBook Economy
Pulling back the curtain on the evolution of ebooks offers some clarity to how the shift to digital left ownership behind in the analog world.
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Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings
The difference between crafters and managers and how Shopify rages against meetings
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Claude 2
Claude 2 brings improved performance, a 100K token context window, and 2x better harmlessness, available via API and the claude.ai beta.
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Gandi.net updates pricing, increases rates by up to 1000%
According to an email sent to its customers in mid-June, Gandi.net, a major European domain name registration and web hosting company, is increasing prices across its entire suite of products.
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Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
Oracle underscores its commitment to helping keep Linux open and free for the global Linux community.
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Feature Flags: Theory vs. Reality
A contemplation of how feature management tools might evolve to better support how feature flags are used in practice
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Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company
Why VC funding can hurt startups: selling equity for cash, chasing traction over profitability, and why bootstrapping may be safer for founders.
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Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift
Digital advertising is a scam from top to bottom. In fact, it’s several scams stacked on top of each other, wearing a trenchcoat, and some of the foundations of fibs are so effective that oth…
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A FactoryFactoryFactory in Production (2017)
No one has ever written a FactoryFactoryFactory and deployed it to production, right? This article takes a look at some real Java mishaps.
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Tech debt metaphor maximalism
I really like the "tech debt" metaphor. A lot of people don't, but I think that's because they either don't extend the metaphor far enough,...
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The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews
Companies spend thousands of dollars to buy fake reviews and get bad ones removed.
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Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky
We’re excited to announce a new feature that allows users to seamlessly purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky.
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Customers don't want chat bots
I came across an intriguing comment recently by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and public face of ChatGPT. Altman has been in the news quite a bit during his global PR tour, including an appearance at a U.S. Senate hearing last Tuesday, during which he asked for Congressional regulation of AI.
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GPT-4 API General Availability
GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs are also generally available, and we are releasing a deprecation plan for older models of the Completions API, which will retire at the beginning of 2024.
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PlanetScale Scaler Pro
See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless.
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Fastmail 30 June outage post-mortem
A partial network outage occurred at Fastmail on June 30th, 2023. Most did not notice, but it was severe for the directly affected 3-5% of our customers.
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Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
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Starting design work in a spreadsheet
In the early phases of a project a spreadsheet can be a more useful design tool than Figma.
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Germany Achieves Record 57.7% Renewable Energy Share for First Half of 2023
Renewable power generation in the first half of 2023, with a share of 57.7 percent of the net electricity generation for public power supply, was significantly higher than in 2022.
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LXD is now under Canonical
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.
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What gets to the front page of Hacker News?
I categorized the top 30 on Hacker News for a month. You will believe what I found
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AI and the Automation of Work
ChatGPT and generative AI will change how we work, but how different is this to all the other waves of automation of the last 200 years? What does it mean for employment? Disruption? Coal consumption?
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Commuters prefer origin to destination transfers
It’s an empirical observation that rail riders who are faced with a transfer are much more likely to make the trip if it’s near their home than near their destination. Reinhard Clever&#…
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Google search's death by a thousand cuts
Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites.
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Chinese Tech Terms Explained in English
Learn about five Chinese tech terms: Huidu, Lunzi, Chendian, Dapan, and Maidian, frequently used in companies like Tencent and ByteDance.