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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,909 posts.
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How we fought bad ads in 2015
Here are some of the top areas we focused on in our fight against bad ads in 2015.
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How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?
Six AI assistants pursued an impossible £350 train refund in a simulated world, escalating to government officials, legal clinics and bank chargebacks.
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Google responds: Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal
Posted by Richard Whitt, Washington Telecom and Media Counsel Over the past few days there’s been a lot of discussion surrounding our an...
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Surface with Windows 8 Pro – Pricing
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DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss
Showcasing Hirundo’s bias unlearning capabilities on DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B, reducing its biases up to 76% compared to original performance.
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DHH: Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that’s true to the extent that your great big idea fits the current cultural mold of that environment. If you’re looking to b…
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Liquid democracy: two experiments on delegation in voting
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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The Liberty Phone
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: we’ve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.
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EFF Files Brief in Case to Hold IBM Responsible for Facilitating Apartheid
EFF defends rights in the digital world. But what about when the digital world enables violations of human rights? We think that’s important, too. That’s why we filed an amicus brief in In Re: South African Apartheid, a case that seeks to hold IBM's headquarters in New York responsible for...
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Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...
A year ago we put Sortfolio up for sale. We entertained a variety of offers, met with a few potential suitors in person, and negotiated numbers. Ultimately nothing came together. Then we shelved the process so we could focus all of our efforts on designing and building the new Basecamp. Sort…
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Why we ditched Amazon AWS
Ever since we started TestingBot (almost 2 years ago!) we've been running TestingBot on Amazon AWS (EC2 + S3 + other services). These last few mon...
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The Elastic Stack: Future of ELK Platform
Ship context-driven AI applications on Elastic's unified data platform, optimized for accurate and efficient retrieval at petabyte scale. Get started in minutes.
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Venture capital is going to murder Medium
It’s a crying shame, really. I love Medium. It’s the best writing environment on the web, and they sweat the details like nobody else. The community too is just peach. This could have been a love s…
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Opera browser built-in ad blocking, now in beta
Opera for computers is the first major browser that integrates a built-in ad blocking solution. For better browsing experience, download Opera beta today!
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SENS Research Foundation Receives $2.4M Ethereum Donation from Vitalik Buterin
Creating a Future Where Everyone Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives Building A Global Ecosystem To Advance Research That Will Overcome Age-Related Disease And Extend Healthy Human Lifespan Support LRI Subscribe Creating a Future Where Everyone Can Live Longer, Healthier Lives Building A Global Ecosystem To Advance…
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Finance information on Google
Now you can explore an improved and expanded Search experience for finance-related information globally on desktop and the mobile web.
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And then the music stopped
Remember way back to, oh, six months ago when champagne was popping and markets were roaring? Back when companies with no or few profits could premiere on the world stage to grand applause by merely converting a dollar into fifty cents? Those were the good times of boom, boom, pow. It’s am…
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Security for Elasticsearch is now free
We are thrilled to announce that the core security features of the Elastic Stack -- like TLS encryption, RBAC, and both file and native authentication -- are now free.
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Sand trafficking in Latin America
Criminal mafias are making massive profits from the illegal extraction and sale of sand for construction purposes.
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PostgreSQL is eating the database world
PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a mainstream best practice.
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What Makes a Hit
Columbia Business School. For over 100 years, we’ve helped develop leaders who create value for business and society at large.
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