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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,107 posts.
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Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
Want to know how to turn $10m in to $520m in less than two years? Just ask Anchorage Capital. The private equity group has pulled off one of the great heists of all time
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AWS Application Load Balancer
We launched Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for AWS in the spring of 2009 (see New Features for Amazon EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and Amazon CloudWatch to see just how far AWS has come since then). Elastic Load Balancing has become a key architectural component for many AWS-powered applications. In…
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Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta
We’re excited to announce that the Node.js runtime on Google App Engine is going beta. Node.js makes it easy for developers to build performant web applications and mobile backends with JavaScript. App Engine provides an easy to use platform for developers to build, deploy, manage and automatically scale services on…
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Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google
Posted by Sujith Ravi, Staff Research Scientist, Google ResearchRecently, there have been significant advances in Machine Learning that enable comp...
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Employee #1: Amazon
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Paul Graham on Doing Things Right by Accident
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Image Processing 101
At the Recurse Center, I spent some time teaching myself image processing. When I started, I had no idea what it entailed. I just knew that it could help me recognize text, shapes and patterns and to do interesting things with them.
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How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartment in San Francisco
Learn how to build and deploy a Slack bot in Python to identify the best rental properties using Craigslist, Slack, and Python.
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Facebook AI Research Team Open Source DeepMask and SharpMask
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‘Diamond-age’ of power generation as nuclear batteries developed
New technology has been developed that uses nuclear waste to generate electricity in a nuclear-powered battery. A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol have grown a man-made diamond that, when placed in a radioactive field, is able to generate a small electrical current.
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Mono Relicensed as MIT
At Microsoft Build today, we announced that we are re-releasing Mono under the MIT license and have contributed it to the .NET Foundation . These are major news for Mono developers and contributors, and I am incredibly excited about the opportunities that this will create for the Mono project, and for other projects…
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Just A New Fractal Detail In The Big Picture (2015)
When the central heating takes effect I'll get up and make myself some tea and porridge to which I'll add some nuts and fruit. I'll switch on The World Service to hear the news, and then make a few phone calls about damp-proofing. And I'll probably plant the daffodil bulbs for Spring (it says on the packet they should…
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All the best advice we could find on how to get a job
We've read a lot of job-hunting advice. Most of it is useless. Here's what we've found actually works — starting with why job boards are a last resort.
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Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab
DeepMind's scientific mission is to push the boundaries of AI, developing systems that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how.
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Pokémon GO: The Data Behind America’s Latest Obsession
Similarweb's blog is a go-to resource for digital professionals and marketing experts offering a wide range of business tips, industry insights, trends and more.
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Introducing .NET Standard
Questions? Check out the .NET Standard FAQ. You can find the latest version of the compatibility matrix here. In my last post, I talked about how we want to make porting to .NET Core easier. In this post, I’ll focus on how we’re making this plan a reality with .NET Standard. We’ll cover which APIs we […]
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GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
We are excited to announce our partnership with DigitalOcean, the world’s simplest cloud infrastructure provider.
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Air India Taking Advantage of Tailwinds
On 15 October, Air India adjusted the routing of its Delhi—San Francisco flight to increase the distance of the flight by over 1000 kilometers. In doing so, however, the airline saved 2 hours and 15 minutes of flying time. How did they manage that? In a word: wind. Track the Pacific flight to San Francisco […]
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How the Windows Subsystem for Linux Redirects Syscalls
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Debugging PostgreSQL performance the hard way
Adventures in getting to know our database
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Flash-Free Video in 2016
Read about how we turned off Flash support for VHS, the New York Times video player.
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Curing Our Slack Addiction
Expert articles, security news, product updates, guides, and research from 1Password on password management, privacy, and digital security.
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What $50 buys you at the Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen, China
We’re building the Model 01, a hackable ergonomic keyboard with mechanical keyswitches, programmable RGB LEDs, opensource firmware, and a…