Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,891 posts.
Patrick Reames had no idea why Amazon.com sent him a 1099 form saying he’d made almost $24,000 selling books via Createspace , the company’s on-demand publishing arm. That is, until he searched the site for his name and discovered someone has been using it to peddle a $555 book that’s full of nothing but gibberish.
You can now send direct messages (DMs) to people on Bluesky! Say hi to a friend, colleague, or a crush.
Today, we’re updating WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years, as part of our plans to test ways for people to communicate with businesses in the months ahead. The updated documents also reflect that we’ve joined Facebook and that we've recently rolled out many new features, like…
Bugs are a natural part of the app development process, when triaging a flood of bugs its important to understand priority versus severity.
In 2010, Congress capped fees for debit card networks so merchants don't get gouged by Visa and Mastercard. But the Fed stuck in a loophole for Discover. And that is leading Capital One to buy it.
Gift cards are a loosely-regulated quasi-financial product and frequently misunderstood. Here's how they operate under the hood.
Dear Matt,We were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us.Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting.First, you say we have been taking from the open source community without giving back, well, of course, that isn’t true. Here is a list of 224 projects on our public GitHub page, and…
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
An interesting blog post and its corresponding comment thread on Hacker News made me realize that, while I'd told the story of Haskell at IMVU to many people, I'd never written it down. :)
Every tool your company uses, synced into one encrypted data lake — built for Claude and Codex.
23andMe Granted First FDA Authorization for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
The Rapid Collapse of the 16th Largest Bank in America
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
Most people put too much effort into everything they do. Here’s a good example from Kristijan around tension in his hands when touching and holding things: Something clicked about inhibition and non-doing (in Alexander Technique), and the strongest effect has been a relaxation of my hands. Like I was touching...
By Haruka Miyagawa & Kylee Peña
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX ( see also )
Just A Quick Note Today on Magic Leap 2+ Month Old News Things have been very quiet lately with respect to Magic Leap. So quiet, that apparently the assignment of all of Magic Leap patents over 2 m…
The latest around all things personal finance. Staying informed about your money doesn't have to be difficult.
Wealth is easy to measure but hard to value.
Today, we’re excited to announce that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Apigee, a provider of application programming interface (API) management. APIs — the mechanism developers use to interface and integrate with outside apps and services — are vital for how business gets done today in the…
