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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 882 posts.
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Why YC
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Sneaky Change to the TPP Drastically Extends Criminal Penalties
When the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was first released in November last year, it included provisions dictating the kinds of penalties that should be available in cases of copyright infringement. Amongst those provisions, the following footnote allowed countries some flexibility in...
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The Elastic Stack: Future of ELK Platform
Ship context-driven AI applications on Elastic's unified data platform, optimized for accurate and efficient retrieval at petabyte scale. Get started in minutes.
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The War on Cash
Corbett Reporteers will be no stranger to the war on cash. I’ve made videos discussing it, conducted interviews about it, written articles examining it and dissected it on the radio .
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Patent Owners Can Prevent You from Owning Anything
A “notice” slapped on the outside of a package saying “single use only” continues to ensure a manufacturer selling you the product can sue for patent infringement should someone dare reuse its goods. This is what the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on Friday, reaffirming its previous...
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Hillary and Bernie’s Quiet Email Battle
SendGrid's trusted email API and marketing campaigns platform is now available through Twilio.com.
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Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News?
As I was walking around Osaka with Sacha , we started talking about Hacker News and how there seem to be a lot of popular stories about Japan.
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Wikimedia removes the Diary of Anne Frank due to copyright law
Today, in an unfortunate example of the overreach of the United States’ current copyright law, the Wikimedia Foundation removed the Dutch-language text of The Diary of Anne Frank from Wikisou…
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People in Silicon Valley Don’t Click on Ads
At least, not according to Facebook data
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Moving on from Picasa
Update March 26, 2018 : The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or downlo...
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Valentine's Day Special: Bye Bye Tinder, Flirting in the Support Channel
... felt like a good idea for many of our male users as soon as they saw the photo of our support staff member for the first time.
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Airbnb purged 1,000 "entire home" listings days before preparing data snapshot
Adding data to the debate
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What do you mean ‘we need more time’? Project schedule estimation in software
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Open source is now ready to compete with Mathematica for use in the classroom
When I think about what makes SageMath different, one of the most fundamental things is that it was created by people who use it every d...
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Towards an Open Banking API Standard
Disclaimer: I am a member of the Open Banking Working Group (OBWG) and was involved in drafting the OBWG report. However, the thoughts and opinions presented here are strictly my own. The OBWG̵…
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IK12 and YC
We are excited to announce that Imagine K12, the original edtech accelerator, is joining Y Combinator to form an edtech vertical within YC. We founded Imagine K12 in 2011 to help companies innovate in education technology in order to improve outcomes for children in the United States and around the world. YC founder…
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We're ditching the office completely
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.
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Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers
Hi! I’m Steve Feldman, Senior Ad Ops Manager at Stack Overflow. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by advertising. Even as a kid, I wondered what a company was trying to tell me by using one word instead of another in an ad. Over time, I developed a strong (read: subjective) opinion of what makes an ad ’good,’ and…
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The Reality of Missing Out
Tech is entering a period of inequality where the big winners lift the sector as a whole even as smaller companies suffer. The best example is Facebook, Google, and digital advertising.
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Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment
Posted by Daniele Procida, Adrienne Lowe on Feb. 4, 2016
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Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
Building world-class games is a very difficult, time-consuming, and expensive process. The audience is incredibly demanding. They want engaging, social play that spans a wide variety of desktop, console, and mobile platforms. Due to the long lead time inherent in the game development and distribution process, the…