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Nim receives $100k in Bitcoin donations
Earlier this year we have had the privilege of receiving 1.868BTC (~117k USD at time of writing) to our long-standing Bitcoin wallet address.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option 2017-2021
The entire plot is generated by an R script that you can found here. Any suggestions (you can find my e-mail address on the "about" page) are welcome. There's a secondary plot here that displays the raw number of postings (total and remote). Caveats, and why this is just an …
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Community Banking and Fintech
How and why small, local banks power the fintech apps you use.
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Can we trust Microsoft with open source?
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
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Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack
Recently, the awesome-lisp-companies list was posted on HN, more people got to know it (look, this list is fan-cooked and we add companies when we learn about one, often by chance, don’t assume it’s anything “official” or exhaustive), and Alex Nygren informed us that his company Kina Knowledge…
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Chilling Effects
In what sense do 10% of people die of the cold? Also, why are heat-related deaths most common in Greenland?
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Building the Brex API
We’re excited to launch the Brex API this week! Now, customers can programmatically read their data, issue cards, invite users, send payments and much more.
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Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
Launched in 2013 in Munich, Flix is a global travel-tech champion providing sustainable and affordable travel solutions to more than 500 million travelers since its launch, across more than 40 countries on 5 continents through its brands FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound and Kâmil Koç.
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Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair
Recently equity-minded education reformers in New York City have been trying to curtail “gifted and talented programs,” saying they “do not condone a
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Android Apps on Windows 11
Windows is a platform for creators Windows is the most open platform on the planet for creators. Part of living our commitment to openness is welcoming partner technologies and content that deliver powerful experiences. And what makes Window
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Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers
Code quality affects the mental state of a programmer, communication within their team, and the incentives attached to their work. Improve your code and you can improve your organizational health and competence as a whole.
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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
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$1M bounty for details on Tether’s backing
NEW YORK, NY — Hindenburg Research, a forensic financial research firm, today announces it is launching the Hindenburg Tether Bounty Program (the “Program”) – a reward of up to $1,000,000 for information leading to previously undisclosed details about cryptocurrency “stablecoin” Tether’s backing.
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Deleting an S3 Bucket Costs Money
Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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Was Google Earth Stolen?
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YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
[ The following article, along with comments from Smartsound and Shockwave-Sound, was written by Tony Fleming and published with his permission. ]
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AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
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Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations
Researchers developed an algorithm that shows just how much more effective Spotify would be if it incorporated both likes and dislikes, in the style of platforms like Pandora.
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Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant
And your precious first principles math proves it
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Open source is coming to financial services
Open source will catalyze the financial services industry’s biggest evolution to date. This evolution will shift the power in this $25 trillion industry from business executives to developers, not just in fintech companies, but in centuries-old incumbents, as well. Until very recently, financial services were…
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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Tech compensation in 2021
Salaries in tech are going up, and many people are looking for new jobs or reevaluating the ones they have. However, many tech workers have no idea what their labor is worth on the open market. There’s a huge information asymmetry here: employers have access to detailed industry data on salaries, but workers don’t. In…
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Apple Joins Blender Development Fund
Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support continued core development for Blender.
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Apple Captures 75% of Global Handset Market Operating Profit in Q2 2021
Counterpoint Research Insight
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