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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 882 posts.
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Apple's amusingly round reuse figures
If you take a look at Apple's Environment page you might well be impressed by the amount of reuse Apple is getting by taking back devices....
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How Hacker News ranking algorithm works
In this post I’ll try to explain how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works and how you can reuse it in your own applications. It’s a very…
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San Francisco Home Prices Fell for the First Time in Four Years in March
National inventory continues to decline by 3.2%, clamping down on March home sales. Read on for more housing market news.
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Why Thieves Steal Soap
Stealing soap is almost as good as stealing cash.
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Sketch 3.7 released
Sketch 3.7 is an important update for Sketch. It introduces an all new version of Symbols and we can’t wait to hear what you think of them.
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Cruise
There is a long and sordid history of people coming out of the woodwork with bogus claims when huge amounts of money are on the line. This has just happened to Cruise, which is run by my friend...
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Arq 5: Massively faster backup and restore for Mac and Windows
Today we released Arq 5, and we’re really excited about it! We implemented a bunch of the most-requested features, and we worked hard on improving the performance. Big Price Change With Arq 5 we’re switching from per-computer licenses to per-user licenses! Buy one license and use it on all your Macs and PCs! Way…
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What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
In this notebook we'll compare the median annual income of software engineers to the average annual income (GDP per Capita) in 50 countries.
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Performance Culture
Joe Duffy's Blog | Adventures in the high-tech underbelly
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Frog and Toad are Cofounders
The Characters you loved as a child, all grown up and working in San Francisco
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Exploding offers are bullshit
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers.
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The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
(Also see my follow-up post on getting organized, and sign up to my tiny letter to get contacted about fixing housing affordability in SF). San Francisco’s housing system is broken. The only way...
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Losing Money
I remember back in the mid 90s, I used to say with some pride that I had not lost money on any of my VC investments. Then one day, someone told me “then you are not taking enough risk.” I ended that streak of not losing money on VC investments in the late 90s in […]
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Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 Released
Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14316 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. At Build 2016 last week, we shared new experiences and new opportunities we’re creating for developers with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update which we will be releasing for free to all Windows 10 customers…
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Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices—customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of...