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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,419 posts.
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Mobile is Eating the World
There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile. They are the same. In other words, technology is now outgrowing the tech industry.
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We Make Mistakes
We’ve just finished reviewing applications for the Winter 2015 batch and have sent out invitations for interviews. In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying over the Summer 2014 batch. Reviewing this many companies is a humbling experience and one we take very seriously. Most of us who…
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Mozilla Advances JPEG Encoding with Mozjpeg 2.0
We’re pleased to announce the release of mozjpeg 2.0. Early this year, we explained that we started this project to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining ...
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Quora in the next YC batch
This month, YC will be participating in Quora’s most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer’s YC batch. This is a new experiment for us; we’ve funded later-stage companies before, but none close to Quora’s stage. Our hope is that both the company and the YC community will get a lot of value out…
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We've Open-Sourced Everything
CodeCombat is a programming game for learning to code [https://blog.codecombat.com/180000-child-programmers-versus-44-ogres]; a multiplayer coding challenge arena [https://blog.codecombat.com/beat-this-level-get-a-programming-job] for sharpening your skills; a Y-Combinator-funded…
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PSD to HTML is Dead
There are PSD to HTML tutorials are all over the web. In fact, many have asked why there's not a PSD to HTML tutorial on Treehouse. So why is it dead?
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JavaScript: Servo’s only garbage collector
pre.sourceCode { margin-left: 2em; } .sourceCode > span.k, .sourceCode > span.o, .sourceCode > span.bp, .sourceCode > span.kd { font-weight: bold; } .sourceCode > span.kt, .sourceCode > span.cp { ...
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Wayback Machine Hits 400,000,000,000
The Wayback Machine, a digital archive of the World Wide Web, has reached a landmark with 400 billion webpages indexed. This makes it possible to surf the web as it looked anytime from late 1996 up until a few hours ago. Let’s take a trip back in time and visit some sites. Yahoo (Captured way back
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Transit – A format for conveying values between different languages
We are pleased to announce today the initial release of Transit. Transit is a format and set of libraries for conveying values between applications written i...
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The first stable release of PyPy3
We're pleased to announce the first stable release of PyPy3. PyPy3 targets Python 3 (3.2.5) compatibility. We would like to thank all of th...
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Shutting down Ubuntu One file services
Today we are announcing plans to shut down the Ubuntu One file services. This is a tough decision, particularly when our users rely so heavily on the functionality that Ubuntu One provides. However, like any company, we want to focus our efforts on our most important strategic initiatives and ensure we are not spread…
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CSS: It was twenty years ago today
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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135 new currencies at Stripe
Starting today, businesses using Stripe in the US and Europe can accept payments in 139 currencies.