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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 551 posts.
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I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
Guides for independent artists on music distribution and promotion, plus announcements and updates from DistroKid.
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We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
Patreon gives creators the tools they need to reliably reach their fans, strengthen their communities, and build sustainable businesses
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Mozilla Acquires Pocket
We are excited to announce that the Mozilla Corporation has completed the acquisition of Read It Later, Inc. the developers of Pocket. Mozilla is growing,
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A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Understand iPhone performance and its relation to your battery.
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YC will hold interviews in Vancouver for founders who can’t get US visas
We’ve heard from some founders that they’re nervous about applying to YC because they worry they won’t be able to get visas to attend interviews or the summer program. We will hold a day of interviews in Vancouver for founders we’d like to interview but can’t get US visas. We will also experiment with allowing…
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Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home
In the face of a category 5 hurricane, Delta Air Lines meteorologists, dispatchers, pilots, cabin crew, and ground crew accomplished an incredible feat on Wednesday. As Hurricane Irma bore down San Juan, Puerto Rico, Delta sent one last flight to help evacuate a few hundred people from San Juan just before the airport…
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VR
About a month and a half ago I tried the new Oculus and was completely blown away. Even though there were clear rough points – expensive computer, not wireless, limited apps – I was amazed. The next morning I had two thoughts: 1. Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy…
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Introducing Keybase Chat
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Explaining React's license
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Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve encountered most in my career: founder, executive, and employee. I’m leaving out investor because the best path to being an investor that I’ve seen starts with being successful (or failing) at one of these three first. Below…
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Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again.
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YC’s Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the guidance below will…
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The Limitations of Deep Learning
This post is adapted from Section 2 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications).
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
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How to get your first 100k active users
What we learned growing Winnie’s network of parents from a small private beta to a booming national community.
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Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33
Update 9/18: CCleaner Cloud version 1.07.3191 is also reported to be affected Update 9/19: This issue was discovered and reported by both Morphisec and Cisco in separate in-field cases and reported separately to Avast. Update 9/19: There has been some confusion on how the
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YC AI
Some think the excitement around Artificial Intelligence is overhyped. They might be right. But if they’re wrong, we’re on the precipice of something really big. We can’t afford to ignore what might be the biggest technological leap since the Internet. In an effort to usher in more innovation with AI, Y Combinator is…
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Lavabit Reloaded
There is nothing here so move right along.
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