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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 934 posts.
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Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum
Here at Mozilla, we’re extremely excited about next month’s release of Firefox Quantum, with massive speed improvements, a brand new UI, and many Developer Tools upgrades -- available now in ...
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Testing Cliqz in Firefox
About a year ago, Mozilla announced a strategic investment in Cliqz GmbH, the Munich, Germany-based provider of search and privacy tools. Today, we want to tell you about an important ...
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Index Investing Makes Markets and Economies More Efficient (2016)
U.S. equity index funds have grown dramatically in recent decades, from a negligible $500MM in assets in the early 1980s to a staggering $4T today. The consensus view in the investment community is that this growth is unsustainable. Indexing, after all, is a form of free-riding, and a market can only support so many…
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An Open Letter from Freelancers at Nautilus Magazine
December 13, 2017 Dear Readers, Funders and Board Members of Nautilus Magazine, As of December 13, we are writers and editors awaiting payment from Nautilus magazine for a collective debt totalling $50,000. Some of us have been waiting to be paid for more than a year. Our numbers span many time zones, from
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What People Think You Can’t Say in Silicon Valley
Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Tim Ferriss, and most recently Sam Altman (but see his clarification) think there are too many opinions…
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Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%
Effective immediately B2 download pricing is only $.02/GB. B2 cloud storage pricing is now 1/4th the price of Amazon S3, Google Cloud, or Azure.
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Indie games don't make money
At the time of writing, a quick check of stats on steamspy for player unknown:battlegrounds reveals this chart:
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The Uber Conflation
It’s easy to conflate criticism of Uber’s regulatory approach with accusations about the company’s culture. That is CEO Travis Kalanick’s responsibility; it’s also a f…
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Extending per-second billing in Google Cloud
We are pleased to announce that we’re extending per-second billing, with a one minute minimum, to Compute Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and App Engine flexible environment VMs. These changes are effective today and are applicable to all VMs, including Preemptible VMs and VMs running our premium operating…
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Faster, Better, Cheaper – The Art of Making Software
Nobody wants to deliver late, over-budget software. I don’t know a single software developer who wakes up in the morning and thinks “I’d like to do a rubbish job today. How can I cost my employer more money?” And yet, so many software projects don’t go well. And with every new project, there seems to be more and more…
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Symantec Backs Its CA
Broadcom Community - VMTN, Mainframe, Symantec, Carbon Black
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Avoid Vendor Lock-In Risk with Multi-Cloud Deployments
Using CockroachDB means shifting operational thinking from disaster recovery to disaster resilience, and completely side steps the risks associated with vendor lock-in.
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Announcing Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android, Microsoft Launcher
10/12/17, 8AM PT: Microsoft Edge for Android: Good news; the wait is over for those wanting to test the Microsoft Edge Preview for Android. Starting today, you can go here to download the preview app. We can’t wait to hear what you think of it. Microsoft Launcher for Android: Thank you to those who’ve already
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Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia
Grant supports development of more advanced tools for volunteers and staff to reduce harassing behavior on Wikipedia and block harassers from the site.
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An Early Engineer's Guide to Early Stock Option Exercise
Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee.
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Understanding AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic
In today's post, we'll be discussing AdSense account suspensions due to invalid traffic. We have found that there are two types of publishers who may have inval…
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Jeff Bezos Escapes Scrutiny from His Own Paper–and Its Rivals
A review of 190 articles about Amazon.com from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Bezos-owned Washington Post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly positive–ofttimes boosterish–coverage.
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Monzo’s Response to Cloudbleed
Your salary sorted into Pots. Your spare change turned into savings. Your money, doing what it should with Monzo.
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Fundraising Rounds Are Not Milestones
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.” Meanwhile, YC alumni I talk to tell me that their angel investors regularly ask them, “When are you going to raise a Series A?”. I’d like to make the point that success isn’t the same as raising a round of financing. Quite the…
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We Analyzed 100M Headlines
Write better headlines with tactics from our analysis of 100 million headlines. Discover the best headline trigrams for Facebook, Twitter & more.
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Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA
New capabilities of Same Day ACH become effective over phases to allow financial institutions and businesses to acclimate to a faster processing environment, as well as to ease the implementation effort. Beginning September 15, 2017, Same Day ACH is available for debit entries, enabling the same-day processing of…
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Dell Offers Computers Preinstalled with Ubuntu
Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of…