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Microsoft pushes ahead with controversial ‘buy now, pay later’ feature for Edge
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,121 posts.
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Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?
Does Amazon make more money from ads than AWS? Quite possibly.
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Cloudflare on the edge
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.
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What happens when the NYT and New Yorker make mistakes
Most educated people believe that premier news outlets are inherently trustworthy.
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Where are all the containers? The global shortage explained
Hillebrand Gori makes logistics easy for wine, beer and spirits. Rely on tailored transport, warehousing and supply chain services that keep your beverages safe and your business growing.
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Are daily standups hurting your team?
What software developers can learn from Ford and GM
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California State Legislator Introduces Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics
Today, California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced Senate Bill 519 to decriminalize certain psychedelics in the interest of public health and safety and to address some harms of the War on Drugs. The bill would decriminalize MDMA, LSD, DMT, psilocybin, psilocyn, ibogaine, and mescaline and…
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Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
Credit to Brad Sams for first reporting on this, Alongside the Windows 11 announcement today, Rish Tandon, the CVP Engineering for Microsoft Teams, posted on Twitter about changes coming to Microsoft Teams architecture. It gave a lot of useful insight into what is coming. Microsoft Teams is...
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Planning and estimating large-scale software projects
This weekend I was talking with a friend about how I'd planned and estimated a huge software project in one of my previous jobs. By that I mean not something which can be done by a single team in a sprint or two, but something which requires several teams, across several quarters of effort, involving many other…
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T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen…
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The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine
This is the story of a Bitcoin trade — the most financially impactful trade I’ve ever made in my life. It’s also the story of the…
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Gift card gang extracts cash from 100k inboxes daily
Some of the most successful and lucrative online scams employ a “low-and-slow” approach — avoiding detection or interference from researchers and law enforcement agencies by stealing small bits of cash from many people over an extended period. Here’s the story of a cybercrime group that compromises up to 100,000 email…
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Happy Birthday, OpenStreetMap
Looking to learn more about what makes TomTom tick? Read the latest articles and news about maps, location data and the world they power in the TomTom Newsroom.
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Netflix Made Record Profits in 2020, Paid a Tax Rate of Less Than 1 Percent
Netflix’s “current” federal income tax for 2020 was $24 million, which equals just 0.9 percent of the company’s pretax income for the year. This is another way of saying Netflix paid an effective federal income tax rate of just 0.9 percent in 2020. If the company paid the statutory rate, its tax bill would be $572…
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Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
[ Update: Users can’t reproduce this any longer, as they have pushed a server-side fix for this issue. It still counts as an embarrassing failure by Google. If you would like to see what the bug looked like, there’s a video at the bottom of the article.]
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Databases in 2021: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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OpenAI’s API now available with no waitlist
Wider availability made possible by safety progress.
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OKRs masquerade as strategy
Desire is not a Strategy
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Gitlab is moving to a three-tier product subscription model
Bronze/Starter is being phased out and current customers have over a year to transition.
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Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active states
2021 is shaping up to be a big year for our efforts to secure your right to fix your stuff.
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How this Ends
We are in the middle of one of the great asset bubbles of modern times. It has been brought on by the easy money policies of central banks around the world aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic. Interest rates are near zero or negative in most developed economies and asset prices have gone […]