Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,908 posts.
We started Kapwing (an online image and video editor [https://www.kapwing.com]) almost two years ago and grew the company from 2 co-founders to 12 full-time employees in the last 12 months. Our team is based full-time in San Francisco, where the unemployment rate is astonishingly low. I wanted
Organisations using AI to cut headcount are making a short-term trade with long-term consequences. The ones holding their teams together and investing in how those teams operate with AI are building something more durable.
We think that Tech Debt is just lousy code written by reckless people. Here's a bigger picture view of what that really means in a Sustainable Software era.
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
I’m on a Harvard mailing list for some folks interested in startups and innovation. A recent thread of discussion was around hiring, and in a posting to the group I talked about making sure that you did your hiring so that you avoided the bozo effect. I was asked by a number of people what I meant by that, which led…
Google wants other search engines to pay to become a default option in Android. Here's why we're saying no.
We’re launching the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), an open standard, internet-native way for agents to pay—co-authored by Tempo and Stripe. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our PaymentIntents API.
Why do boring, moat-less businesses mint outsized profits for decades? On competitive neglect, the strategy hiding in plain sight.
China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heightens risks to U.S. defense and semiconductor supply chains.
As AI starts reading and actioning our inboxes, email authentication becomes the trust layer that the future of email depends on.
For brand diversity and innovation: Why we are taking legal action against Fender's cease and desist demand.
Volvo Trucks has delivered an electric truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. The truck can handle a total weight of 74 tonnes.
Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but…
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
One bad privacy idea that won’t die is the so-called “data dividend,” which imagines a world where companies have to pay you in order to use your data.Sound too good to be true? It is. Let’s be clear: getting paid for your data—probably no more than a handful of dollars at most—isn’t going to fix...
In conversation with Google Play Store developer support today, they confirmed to me that all new Android apps now require at least three days for approval.
