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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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Telegram: No-SIM Signup, Auto-Delete All Chats, Topics 2.0 and more
With this update, you can have a Telegram account without a SIM card and set up a global timer to automatically delete messages in all new chats. Topics in groups are now even more powerful – and available for groups with 100+ members.
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McDonalds Event Driven Architecture
We explore our journey of developing a unified platform enabling real-time, event-driven architectures.
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Apple Music Sing
Apple Music Sing is an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favorite songs with real-time lyrics and adjustable vocals.
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FTX Contagion
Charting the FTX collapse.
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A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director
This letter was originally published in our 2022 annual report. The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more websites around the world than ever before with excellent…
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Air Marshals Will Refuse Orders to Go to the Border, Prefer First Class Cabins
Armed federal officers publicly threatening to defy orders from the President seems like it’s getting insufficient attention. The Biden administration largely continuing Trump’s border policies (he’s building the wall!) seems under-covered as well. The claim about vulnerable flights as a result is absurd.
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Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports
Hertz announced a $168 million settlement covering 364 claims against them, at an average of just over $460,000 per customer. There are perhaps a dozen more customers who are suing Hertz, that are not a part of the settlement. I have to think that in many of those cases the customers believe the egregiousness of their…
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AI Homework
The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
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Google has a company strategy, not a product strategy
Or, Why Google keeps killing products
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Software horror show: SAP Concur
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
Our Amazon journey started in January 2018 when HyperVolt released the first massage gun on the market. We were so careful with this…
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The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months
Market Data section of the Financial Times US Edition print edition from May 5, 2021. If you’ve flipped through printed broadsheet newspapers, you’ve probably seen pages full of tiny te…
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Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?
In 2017, consulting giant Booz Allen cut a deal with the government to extract junk fees from Americans who want to use Federal lands and waters for hunting or fishing. Will Congress or Biden act?
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Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.
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Booz Allen ticketmastered America’s public lands
An arms dealer makes millions on junk fees from National Parks visitors.
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How to move fast and not break things as a remote company
The Facebook-era “move fast and break things” startup motto no longer applies in today’s hyper-competitive environment. This is especially true for SaaS startups like Jam, where customers trust and rely on their products to complete their work. If you’ve met anyone on the Jam team, you
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The Death of Quanta Magazine
Yesterday Quanta Magazine published an article written by Natalie Wolchover, Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer . I’m shocked and disappointed. I thought Quanta Magazine was the most respectable source of science news, they have published several quality, in-depth articles in difficult topics. But…
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PostScript: A Digital Printing Press
CHM publicly releases the source code for the breakthrough printing technology, PostScript.
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An embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp
Let customers instantly buy crypto within your Web3 app.
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Brave launches private search ads
Starting today, Brave Search will feature privacy-preserving ads as part of a global beta program.
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Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
We're building a new infinite canvas for the web: built with React, made for developers, and with a super-fast engine for collaboration. Try it today.
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Company, Team, Self
Back when I was managing at Uber, I latched onto a thinking tool that I drilled into the teams I worked with: reach the right outcomes by prioritizing the company first, your team second, and yourself third. This company/team/self framework proved itself a helpful decision-making tool, and almost always led to the…
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LastPass owner GoTo has been hacked
We recently concluded our investigation into the security incident first shared with customers in November of 2022 regarding unauthorized activity in a third-party cloud storage environment. We eliminated the threat actor’s access to the environment and found no evidence of additional compromise or threat actor…
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