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402: Payment Required
I’ve been interested to watch the increasing debate around ad blocking in iOS 9, and especially the heated nature of the discussions, which…
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Microsoft acquires Havok
Today, we are proud to announce that Microsoft has acquired Havok, the leading provider of 3D physics, from Intel. As we welcome Havok to the Microsoft family, we will continue to work with developers to create great gaming experiences, and continue to license Havok’s development tools to partners. We believe that…
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Meet the new Asana
We’re so excited to share with you what we’ve been working on for the last several months: the new Asana.
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Volkswagen and Cheating Software
Portuguese translation by Ricardo R Hashimoto For the past six years, Volkswagen has been cheating on the emissions testing for its diesel cars. The cars’ computers were able to detect when they were being tested, and temporarily alter how their engines worked so they looked much cleaner than they actually were. When…
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Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
New cars, including the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW 5 series and Peugeot 308, are now swallowing around 50% more fuel than their lab test results, new…
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Two HN Announcements
The HN community feels like it owns HN, and we like it that way. HN has become an important institution in the tech community, and though it was initially developed for YC founders it’s clearly evolved into much more than that. We’ve always felt that the best way for HN to benefit YC is simply for it to maximally…
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Doing an HD Remake the Right Way
This is part 1 of a series. Part 2 (regarding Final Fantasy VI) is here [https://www.fortressofdoors.com/doing-an-hd-remake-the-right-way-ffvi-edition/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Fantasy V [http://store.steampowered.com/app/382890/] just came out on Steam…
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Let a thousand flowers bloom, then rip 999 of them out
For the past eleven months I’ve been the tech lead for Twitter’s Engineering Effectiveness group. Engineering Effectiveness is our name for what elsewhere might be called Developer Tools, Developer Productivity, Engineering Infrastructure, or Developer Efficiency. We provide the tools and processes that allow the rest…
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Airbnb and San Francisco
Airbnb has recently been attacked by San Francisco politicians for driving up the price of housing in the city. San Francisco has tried, and will continue to try, to ban Airbnb in various ways....
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Google introduces 'Customer Match' – target web ads to email addresses
Mobile has changed the game for both consumers and brands. Consumer expectations for immediacy and relevance are higher than ever, and succ...
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Stupid Apps and Changing the World
An article came out today in Businessweek about arrogance and Silicon Valley. I thought it was good, but there was one more point I wanted to make. People often accuse people in Silicon Valley...
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Final update on the JetBrains Toolbox announcement
Hello, tl;dr We are moving forward with subscriptions with important adjustments. You will receive a perpetual fallback license once you pay for a year up front or 12 consecutive months. You wi
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Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
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Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
Recently I’ve seen several interesting conversations about ad blocking, and I wanted to remind people about a great offering called Google Contributor. With Google Contributor, you contribute…
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The strange economics of open-source software
I always use the names of economists for my machines' hostnames. keynes, friedman, marx, fisher, ricardo. So every so often the strange economics of open-source software hits me. Today it is almost taken for granted that the source code for most software is freely available. This is a profound and remarkable change…
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A Decade at Google
One of the key challenges you face in an industrial research lab is how to choose your projects. You want your projects to be interesting research but also contribute to your company. As a junior researcher, you’re typically in the situation of choosing a project to join, while later in your career you are expected to…
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Looking at cloud storage providers? B2 is 3x-30x cheaper than all of the other cloud storage providers including, Amazon S3, Azure, and Google.