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Stack Overflow Culture
This blog post was most directly provoked by this tweet from my friend Rob Conery, explaining why he’s giving up contributing on Stack Overflow. However, it’s been a long time coming. A…
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A billion reasons never to buy IBM services
IBM just stole $1 billion from Canada. If this is how IBM treats staff and governments, how would IBM treat your small business?
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First Lightning mainnet release
Today, we at Lightning Labs are announcing the release of lnd 0.4-beta ! This release marks the 4th major release of lnd and the first Lightning mainnet beta, an important milestone. With this release, lnd has gained a considerable feature set, deeper cross-implementation compatibility, a new specialized wallet seed…
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Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents
The Trump administration blocked Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm, and I think it was the right move. Understanding why means understanding Qualcomm and Broadcom’s plan for the compan…
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Apple to acquire digital magazine service Texture
Apple today announced it will acquire Texture, the digital magazine subscription service that gives users unlimited access to their favorite titles.
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Slack's bait and switch
Slack has finally decided to close down their IRC and XMPP gateways. True to form, you can only read their announcement if you already have a Slack account and…
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MIT and newly formed company launch effort to build compact tokamak pilot plant
Development of fusion power, a carbon-free, combustion-free source of energy, is now on a faster track toward realization, thanks to a collaboration between MIT and a new private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. CFS will join with MIT to carry out rapid, staged research leading to a new generation of fusion…
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Mozilla’s Servo Team Joining Mixed Reality
Mozilla's Servo team joining Mixed Reality
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TunnelBear Joins McAfee
TunnelBear joins McAfee but will continue to develop the bear-filled products you've come to know and love.
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Ten Hours of Static Gets Five Copyright Notices
Sebastian Tomczak blogs about technology and sound, and has a YouTube channel. In 2015, Tomczak uploaded a ten-hour video of white noise. Colloquially, white noise is persistent background noise that can be soothing or that you don’t even notice after a while. More technically, white noise is many...
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Prove you are not an evil corporate person
Google Is Quietly Providing AI Technology for Drone Strike Targeting Project Google Is Helping the Pentagon Build AI for Drones
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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet
Before I left Google to work on my own startup, I hadn’t thought much about monetization. I believed that, because so many websites do it everyday, charging people for online services would be straightforward. But as I started growing Kapwing, my video editing website, [https://www.kapwing.com/] with
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From idea to revenue in 5 working days, thanks to HN
I needed to ship something. I was stuck in the midst of several larger projects, both for clients and myself, with no end in sight, and to keep going I needed the confidence boost that only shipping code can provide. So I spent part of my weekend, shifted some priorities around, and got to work on Kismet .
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Lessons from Spotify
Spotify has a marginal cost problem, but while the cause is unique to Spotify, the challenges are more applicable than it seems.
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How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management
Amazon’s home page is arguably the most valuable real estate in the world. What happens if that page offers an ASSET MANAGEMENT tab?
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23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
23andMe Granted First FDA Authorization for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
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Updated Request for Startups
The application deadline for YC Summer 2018 is on March 24, and in honor of the deadline, we published an update to our Request for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/] (RFS). While many of the best ideas we’ve funded were ones that surprised us, there are always a collection of ideas we wish more founders would…
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The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO
Spotify's direct listing IPO filing reveals how monthly churn fell from 7.7% to 5.5% as personalization and family plans drove subscriber retention at scale.
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Pitching Your Startup
Tell your company’s story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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Founding Stories Are Myths
Founding Stories Ignore The Most Important Parts of Starting a Business
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