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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 817 posts.
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Dear Tumblr: Banning “Adult Content” Will Harm Sex-Positive Communities
Social media platform Tumblr has announced a ban on so-called “adult content,” a move made, it seems, in reaction to Tumblr’s app being removed from the Apple app store. But while making the app more available is in theory good for Tumblr users, in practice what’s about to happen is mass censorship...
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The Co-Founder Relationship
If you were making a list of things that could go wrong on an seed, angel, or Series A investment, you would have to put the co-founder relationship right up there at the top of the list. Not every startup has co-founders. Some just have one founder. In some ways, that is a bit easier […]
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Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update
Since the completion of the token sale, we have been heads down turning Filecoin’s tremendous potential into reality – from implementing the core parts of the Filecoin protocol to growing our team with the best talent we can find.
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App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes
On September 12, 2018, Apple Inc. — you may have heard of them — held a big event at their Cupertino headquarters (Spanish for “ What pert headquarters! ”) to announce the latest models of their utterly beloved nightmare machine: the iPhone XR, the iPhone XS, and the iPhone XS Max. I’m seriously not making up that…
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On Apple's Love Affair with Swift
I wanted to write a thoughtful article in response to Dominik Wagner’s “On my misalignment with Apple’s love affair with Swift” . During my research I realized, that Chris Lattner had already done this. Sort of. 17 months before Dominik published his piece.
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Steam’s discovery algorithm killed my sales
Firstly I want to be clear that I have had some measure of success on Steam and I’ve enjoyed going to Steam Dev Days and other events and talking to their reps who seem to be genuinely interested supporting indie developers. So this blog post is not about me hating on Steam, rather it’s to discuss a recent issue that…
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The next ten years of Instapaper
This year Instapaper celebrated its tenth birthday and, now that we are an independent company, we’ve been thinking a lot about the next ten years of Instapaper and beyond.
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Why There Will Never Be Another Red Hat: The Economics of Open Source (2014)
Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing. Without open source, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and nearly every other modern technology company would not exist. Thanks to an amazing community of innovative…
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Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Whiteboard app for Windows 10. Whiteboard gives teams a freeform, intelligent...
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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
Is he secretly the best young economist today?
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Coinbase Commerce: merchants can accept multiple digital currencies
We’re excited to announce Coinbase Commerce, available today for merchants around the world. Merchants everywhere can use Coinbase Commerce…
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Apple reported its first quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, February 1, 2018.
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Managed CockroachDB: Geo-Distributed Database as a Service
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Managed CockroachDB, the fully hosted and fully managed service run by Cockroach Labs that makes deploying, scaling, and managing effortless.