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Inside a viral website
Peeling back the curtain of running a viral meme website for 5 days. More details than you could ever hope for.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments
Over the past few years, Apple seems increasingly willing to cooperate with authoritarian governments, uninterested in protecting its own users, and unwillin...
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Google is testing its new ad targeting tech in millions of browsers
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. Today, Google launched an “origin trial” of Federated Learning...
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Benzene detected in hand sanitizers
Learn how Valisure’s work in pharmaceutical quality and transparency was recognized in the U.S. Senate Aging Committee report, highlighting their collaboration with the Department of Defense and commitment to innovation.
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Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”
Last year, I posted a series of articles about a purported “breach” at Ubiquiti. My sole source for that reporting was the person who has since been indicted by federal prosecutors for his alleged wrongdoing – which includes providing false information to the press.
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Man Built a $188M Fortune Investing in Stocks Then Donated It to Charity
Jack MacDonald was a frugal attorney who wanted to build a big net worth to give it to charity thanks to his hobby of investing in the stock market.
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Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images
I’m excited to share Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images today. The reason I’m excited about this acquisition is because it’s not goodbye, it’s about acceleration. This is not one of those tech acquisitions where the company is bought to be shut down. Unsplash will
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Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is back in its all-online format
Apple today announced it will host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 7 through 11, in an all-online format.
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The Deno Company
We have raised money to enable the millions of web programmers out there to maximally leverage their craft.
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Bitcoin as a Battery
One of my favorite things about crypto is that, every so often, your conception of what it is changes. Bitcoin at first was “weird internet money” and then it was “a protocol” and then it was “digital gold”. Ethereum is “ICOs”, or maybe “DeFi”, or maybe “Web3”, or maybe all three, or maybe something...
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Epic corporate jargon alternatives
I’m working on a list of corporate jargon alternatives. There are already plenty of resources telling you what you should be saying instead, such as “soon” for “ASAP” or “waiting” for “holding pattern” and the like. But they usually lack that flair of ostentation we have come to be accustomed to. Therefore, I had the…
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Open source is not a business model (2018)
Person 1: Did you know that 60% of restaurants close within three years of opening ?
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Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively
The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.
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Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?
Does Amazon make more money from ads than AWS? Quite possibly.
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Funds for Open Source
Helping companies invest in open source projects because we want open source creators to have a good livelihood and work sustainably, which is critical to the health of the whole ecosystem.
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Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
Hillebrand Gori makes logistics easy for wine, beer and spirits. Rely on tailored transport, warehousing and supply chain services that keep your beverages safe and your business growing.
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Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0
New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger delivered a keynote with the right strategy, the right tactics, and most importantly, the right spirit to return Intel to success.
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Learn about problems, not solutions
Sometimes people ask me what they should learn - they've heard AI is kind of hot, but DevOps is too? What's the best way to get into AI? Should they s
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Uniswap v3
All about Uniswap V3.
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Scaling YC
One of the most common questions I hear is: “why has YC continued to grow our batch size?”. For each twice-yearly batch, we receive thousands of applicants through our online application [https://www.ycombinator.com/apply]. We have always wanted to fund as many great founders as possible and are convinced that in the…
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We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
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How to price your SaaS product
Guest post by Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell
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Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
An event-tech partner for ambitious experiential teams.
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Nominet announces that four directors have been removed
Nominet announces that four directors have been removed from their board seats as a result of a vote at today’s Extraordinary General Meeting.
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In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
In August of 2019, I published research from now-defunct clickstream data provider, Jumpshot, showing that 50.33% of all Google searches ended without a