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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,889 posts.
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How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
Trustpilot promises to be “free and open” — in reality, they are the exact opposite, holding companies at ransom, and outright violating…
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Attack campaign involving stolen OAuth tokens issued to third-party integrators
On April 12, GitHub Security began an investigation that uncovered evidence that an attacker abused stolen OAuth user tokens issued to two third-party OAuth integrators, Heroku and Travis-CI, to download data from dozens of organizations, including npm. Read on to learn more about the impact to GitHub, npm, and our…
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Developing a new app is unreasonable condition that Apple imposes on dating apps
ACM (Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets)2022280 points325 commentsTech Industry & Business details
The revised conditions that Apple has imposed on dating-app providers are unreasonable, and create an unnecessary barrier. Apple must therefore pay another 5 million euros.
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Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming
People are focusing on the wrong thing when analyzing Apple's path forward in the face of slowing iPhone sales . Instead of debating how much Apple will try to monetize the iPhone user base with services (not as much as consensus thinks), the company is instead planning its largest pivot y
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What makes us Red Hat
Open source software is, in fact, eating the world. It is a de facto model for innovation, and technology as we know it would look vastly different without it. On a few occasions, over the past several years, software industry observers have asked whether there will ever be another Red Hat. Others have speculated that…
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Just paying Figma because nothing else works
My family wasn’t poor by any stretch of the imagination, but I was raised to avoid spending money whenever possible. I was also taught “it’s a poor craftsman that blames their tools”, which apparen...
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Does Steve Jobs know how to code?
Our curriculum is designed with one goal in mind: to help you launch your career in technology. As a global leader in curriculum development, our programs meet — or exceed — the hiring requirements of the technology jobs you want, empowering you with Day-1 Skills. WOZ technology training features in-browser coding…
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Yubico and Microsoft Introduce Passwordless Login
The Security Key by Yubico with FIDO2 enables passwordless login for Windows 10 devices and Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
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Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of full-time development on the tool NDepend I’d like to elaborate a bit here. Let’s start with the…
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Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn
In the popular trend of unintentionally horrifying “uplifting” news, out-of-touch corporate media give us supposedly charming, wholesome and positive news that actually, upon even minimal retrospection, reveals the dire conditions of late capitalism so many Americans now live under, and makes you feel worse after…
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Mozilla and Partners Prepare to Launch First Firefox OS Smartphones
First Open Web Devices Powered by Firefox OS Make Smartphones More Accessible; Regional announcements coming soon Mountain View, Calif. – July 1, 2013 – Mozilla, the mission-based organization dedicated to ...
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Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
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Someone is impersonating us in a recruiting scam
Our startup was recently the center of an elaborate recruiting scam. What do other companies do if they realize that someone is impersonating them to attack vulnerable job seekers? This article gives advice to job seekers and shares our story.
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Planning and Managing Layoffs
How you handle a layoff, how you communicate it to the people impacted, and how you manage and lead throughout the process really matters. It takes careful thought and planning, but it may be the most important planning you ever do as a leader.
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Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
Do you contribute to open source software (OSS)? We'd love to hear your perspective.
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Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
Disney introduced a next-generation robotic character representing Olaf, the beloved snowman from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Frozen.
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The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
Some classic (non-aggregation) monopolization!
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Factories are just rooms
Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 723 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
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The Deliberate Practice Guide (2021)
Deliberate practice is the key to expert performance in writing, teaching, sports, programming, music, medicine, therapy, chess, business, and more. But there’s more to it than 10,000 hours. Read to learn how to accelerate learning, overcome plateaus, turn experience into expertise, and enhance focus.
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How we unnecessarily burned 20k with Facebook Ads
We've also tried Facebook marketing. In this blog post we describe our successes and failures with the marketing channel Facebook.
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I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
This is the story of five years spent wandering around the JavaScript tech stack, wasting time, getting lost, and finally taking off.
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Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leadin
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VC Pitches in a Year or Two
Entrepreneur: I plan to launch a better streaming music service. It leverages the data on what you and your friends currently listen to, combines that with the schedule of new music launches and acts that are touring in your city in the coming months and creates playlists of music that you should be listening to […]