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AWS acquires Wickr
We’re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry’s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology. With Wickr, customers and partners benefit from advanced security features not available with traditional communications services – across messaging…
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Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Starting October 19, GitLab.com rate limits will align with your subscription. Sign in to unlock higher limits. Premium/Ultimate changes arrive in January.
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Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk
In comments submitted to the Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft Corp. is arguing that repairing its devices could jeopardize the cyber security of Trusted Platform Module (TPM) security chip. Don&…
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How much sleep do we really need to work productively?
How much sleep do you need? How does the sleep you get impact your work productivity? Read on to learn those answers & the myth of the 8 hours rule:
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Coco: Framework for enterprise blockchain networks
Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
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The Developer Coefficient: a $300B opportunity for businesses
Stripe is a financial services platform that helps all types of businesses accept payments, build flexible billing models, and manage money movement.
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Microsoft is failing to deliver emails that mention newclimate.org
Since 17 October, to our knowledge any email with the NewClimate URL (newclimate dot org) in the email body, link, signature, reply header or contained anywhere in an attachment is unjustifiably quarantined by Microsoft email servers without any notice, regardless of who sends or receives the email.
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The Open Book Sale of My $600K eCommerce Store, With Financials
Get an inside look at the process of selling an eCommerce store. Includes business history, traffic stats & full financials.
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Battle of the Business Cards
Solutions d'impression haute qualité, écologiques et sur mesure pour les entreprises et particuliers.
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Welcome Kevin, Michael, Steve, Dalton, and Andrew
YC has a bunch of announcements about people coming and going so I thought I’d do them all at once. Wufoo (YC W06) cofounder Kevin Hale is joining us as a partner. He was the force behind Wufoo’s much-admired design, and speaks widely about UX. Between Kevin and Garry Tan, we’ll now have two partners who are…
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A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
It's been a while since we've done something arbitrary, complicated, and confusing, so today I'm happy to announce that the name of the company has been changed, effective immediately, to Stack Exchange Inc !
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Clinical trial of a prion disease drug candidate begins enrolling participants
It’s the first time the potential treatment, a small interfering RNA targeting the prion protein, is being tested in humans.
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Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help
Landing page optimization (LPO) is the process of optimizing landing pages to boost conversions. Learn tips & examples in this guide written by experts.
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YC Hacks – August 2-3
We’re hosting a hackathon this summer at YC in Mountain View. Our goal is to give smart hackers an excuse to get together and spend time building something they find interesting. We don’t have a theme—we want to leave it open to any good ideas. The hackathon will start Saturday, August 2 at noon, and end August 3 in…
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AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022)
We created AcousticBrainz 7 years ago and started to collect data with the goal of using that data down the road once we had collected enough. We finally got around to doing this recenty, and realised that the data simply isn’t of high enough quality to be useful for much at all.
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What Does Evergrande Meltdown Mean for China?
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace2021176 points226 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The impact of Evergrande has caused financial distress to spread faster and more forcefully than Beijing’s financial regulators expected, putting pressure on them to move quickly to stop the contagion. But they cannot rescue Evergrande’s creditors without also undermining their fight against bad debt.
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New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
Announcing the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 for use cases that need more capacity, available now at $120. Plus new Raspberry Pi Carbon Removal Credits.