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The business of wallets
How digital wallets work, and how payment costs drive a lot of product decisions inside and around them.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 776 posts.
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A recent security incident involving Dropbox Sign
Information on a security incident involving Dropbox Sign.
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The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
The EU has outperformed the US on per-capita output growth; in terms of output per hour worked, some EU countries are as productive as the US
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Dear Europe, please wake up
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
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Answering Legal Questions with LLMs
Blog post: Answering Legal Questions with LLMs
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Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands
Are GLP-1 drugs the first real threat to the hyper-processed food and alcohol industries?
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TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper ticket sales
Transport for London (TfL) has seen a drop in the sale of paper tickets after it made a small change to the ticket machines in London Underground stations.
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Microsoft at Work
I haven't written anything for a bit. I'm not apologizing, because y'all don't pay me enough to apologize, but I do feel a little bad. Part of it is just that I've been busy, with work and travel and events. Part of it is that I've embarked on a couple of writing projects only to have them just Not Work Out. It…
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VMware outsourcing their support
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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The Vision Pro is a flop
The product’s failure should further dispel the myth of tech inevitability
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In Response to Google
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search
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No Abstractions: our API design principle
This post explains one of the core design principle of Increase’s API, dubbed No Abstractions, which we’ve found useful as our product and company scale.
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Jeff Geerling: Corporate Open Source Is Dead
IBM is buying HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. That's four months after HashiCorp rugpulled their entire development community and ditched open source for the 'Business Source License.' As someone on Hacker News pointed out so eloquently: IBM is like a juicer that takes all the delicious flavor out of a fruit skywhopper…
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Most Tech Jobs Are Jokes and I Am Not Laughing
I've followed through on my commitment to interview in the tech industry without relying entirely on in-network referrals as I normally do (for a good reason - my network consists largely of the most competent people at mediocre companies!). It is dystopian out there. These are some anecdotes on my interviewing…
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IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion
IBM and HashiCorp Inc., a leading multi-cloud infrastructure automation company, announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire HashiCorp for $35 per share in cash, representing an enterprise value of $6.4 billion.
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Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
To help customers make more efficient use of their AI computing resources, NVIDIA today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Run:ai, a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration software provider. Customer AI deployments are becoming increasingly complex, with workloads…
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Other People’s Problems
It’s surprisingly easy to be generous and find solutions to our friend’s problems. Much easier than it is to do it for ourselves. Why? There are two useful reasons, I think. FIRST, beca…
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Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
What is Apple's strategy with CarPlay?
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The man who killed Google Search?
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. If you liked
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The Seattle Public Library is reducing maximum digital holds
Starting Tuesday, March 19, The Seattle Public Library is reducing the number of maximum holds allowed on e-books and e-audiobooks from 25 to 10. Please note that if you have more than 10 holds on …
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Meta Horizon OS
Today we’re taking the next step toward our vision for a more open computing platform for the metaverse. We’re opening up the operating system powering our Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, giving more choice to consumers and a larger ecosystem for developers to build for. We’re working with leading…
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Espressif Acquires Majority Stake in M5Stack
This strategic move marks a significant milestone for both companies in the Internet of Things (IoT) and embedded systems sectors, and aligns Espressif's and M5Stack’s common vision to democratize AIoT technology.
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Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models?
Meta's release of Llama 3.2 marks a turning point where open-source AI models match and even surpass proprietary models.
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VLC vs. the App Stores
Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users…
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Stop Doing Cloud
An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.
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Meta.ai Oh My
“Meet Your New Assistant” says the announcement , going on with “Built With Llama 3”. And oh my goodness has it ever got a lot of coverage. So I thought I might as well try it.
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I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting $1.2B Israel contract
"It was a complete overreaction on their part to not only fire everyone who was and wasn't involved, but then also threaten everyone else in the company who would dare think to stand up against this...it feels like a very fascist environment."
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How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
Nestlé’s leading baby-food brands, promoted in low- and middle-income countries as healthy and key to supporting young children’s development, contain high levels of added sugar. In Switzerland, where Nestlé is headquartered, such products are sold with no added sugar. These are the main findings of a new…