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We need a middle class for startups
Idea: Make Mittelstands cool in America. Rebrand the US Middle Market. Create a studio and fund to build and buy Mittelstands.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,158 posts.
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I fought the PayPal and I won
Payment processors hostile to freedom of expression hate me for this one weird trick!!
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Tailscale raises $100M
We’ve raised $100M in a Series B financing led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from our existing major investors: Accel, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital, along with a cast of many prominent angels and smaller investors.
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Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
There's a cocktail party version of the efficient markets hypothesis I frequently hear that's basically, "markets enforce efficiency, so it's not possible that a company can have some major inefficiency and survive". We've previously discussed Marc Andreessen's quote that tech hiring can't be inefficient here and here…
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Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Apple today announced plans to introduce Tap to Pay on iPhone, empowering merchants in the US to accept contactless payments.
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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. We'll tell you exactly what that means.
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Finland will seek NATO membership immediately
Tasavallan presidentin kanslia Valtioneuvoston kanslia Tiedote 30/2022 12.5.2022 Kevään ajan on käyty tärkeää keskustelua Suomen mahdollisesta Nato-jäsenyydestä. Aikaa on tarvittu kotimaiselle kannanmuodostukselle sekä eduskunnassa että koko yhteiskunnassa. Aikaa on tarvittu...
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Why I will never buy another Samsung device
I’ve been on Nexuses and Pixels since Nexus one. Stock-or-nothing was me. However, the mobile phone market has become a bit stale and…
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Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
While I was leading PKC’s security practice, we did probably 20-30 code security audits, almost of all of them for startups that were just around their Series A or B (that was usually when they had cash and realized that it’d be good to take a deeper look at their security, after the do-or-die focus on product market…
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NASA selects SiFive and makes RISC-V the go-to ecosystem for future missions
SiFive X280 delivers 100x increase in computational capability with leading power efficiency, fault tolerance, and compute flexibility to propel next-generation planetary and surface missions
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I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
and i think you do too - but i'll tell you anyway
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Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
In this article, Lago's cofounder Raffi gives an overview of the technical challenges we faced while implementing a hybrid pricing model at Qonto, and what we learned during this journey.
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The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues
Copyright maximalists just don’t know when to stop. Having failed in their 2020 attempt to use U.S. law to force GitHub to permanently cut off access to youtube-dl, an open source tool that allows users to download and preserve videos, on the theory that the tool can also be used for infringing...
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Thank You, Valve
For all the effort to make Linux a platform to game on.
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We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
How the heck do we run a massively popular website and asset resource while being funded primarily by donations?
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SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc
A few days ago we received a large packet in the mail from Meta's legal team informing us that SimulaVR has been subpoenaed for their antitrust case FTC vs. Meta Platforms , in relation to the government's recent injunction against their acquisition of a VR fitness company.
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Welcome Home, Garry Tan
Today we're excited to announce that Garry Tan will be YC's next president and CEO. He is a visionary and builder — having founded the earliest blogging platform and advised hundreds of startups over the last decade.
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Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
For the past one and a half years I've been working on a secret Factorio project. Today we are finally revealing it. As announced during Nintendo Direct, Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch! It's already in the final stages and the global release date is set for 28th October 2022. Here is what to expect: All of the…
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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
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Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
Were you aware of it: Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides. Don't just take my word for it: open up the network monitor of your...
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Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
https://gofund.me/8950f458
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Why is it so hard to give Google money?
I’ve been trying to run search ads on Google for over a month. Due to two unrelated snags, I’ve only had ~12 hours of uptime with those ads in that time. Based on conversations with other startups that run Google Ads, my experience is neither unique nor surprising. Apropos of Google’s earnings day, I wanted to vent a…
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Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
searchmysite.net was designed to be a search engine free from SEO spam, but now almost all traffic comes from SEO spammers.
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The next Google
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.