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Introducing Stripe UK
More accessible financial infrastructure has made it easier than ever to build an online business.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,674 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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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Signal released end-to-end encrypted group calls a year ago, and since then we’ve scaled from support for 5 participants all the way to 40. There is no off the shelf software that would allow us to support calls of that size while ensuring that all communication is end-to-end encrypted, so we bui...
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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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16 Things
We don’t invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas. Which means we don’t make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category. That said, here are a few of the things we’ve been observing or thinking about; we’re especially grateful to our founders/companies, and the…
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Git at any scale
Hosting Git repositories at scale is a nightmare. When Linus Torvalds designed the first version of the information manager from hell (that's actually the tagline for Git, look it up ), he had a very specific use case in mind: his own. He wanted to replace BitKeeper, the distributed version control system that was…
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λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming language
An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Featuring Ideas from Lambda Calculus
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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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Porting Tailscale to Plan 9
Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust principles, between any resources on any infrastructure.
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Common Server Setups For Your Web App
When deciding which server architecture to use for your environment, there are many factors to consider, such as performance, scalability, availability, reli…
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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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Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure
MIT’s Erik Demaine improves on his landmark, 18-year-old algorithm for generating origami folding patterns for any 3-D shape. The new work adds the requirement of “watertightness,” or minimizing the number of seams in an origami approximation of a closed surface.
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Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra
We are excited to announce the launch of Windows Dev Kit 2023, which is built to help developers create Windows apps easily and efficiently for Arm. We u nveiled this device as “Project Volterra” at Build in May 2022. Learn more .
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Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
In response to Australia’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, we'll restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing news on Facebook.
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Apple’s refusal to support Progressive Web Apps is a detriment to the web
Why hasn’t Apple added support for service workers in Safari for iOS? Could it be because it goes against their app store revenue model?
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We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan
We're reversing course. After taking in feedback from the community, we’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan.
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AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
A reshaped learning curve
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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and run in the browser.
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Announcing Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices soar. Yet, supporting their growth is extremely expensive, and neoclouds do not have the same cash nor operating cash…