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I hacked Gumroad’s API and broke a bunch of tools
A critical security vulnerability in Gumroad's API allowed anyone to generate unauthorized license keys for paid products without making a purchase.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,021 posts.
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PlanetScale Scaler Pro
See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless.
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Apple reports third quarter results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2023 third quarter ended July 1, 2023.
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The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession
Tech is increasingly divorced from the real economy thanks to the COVID hangover and Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
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Pinecone raises $100M Series B
Dear Pinecone Community, I am thrilled to share some exciting news with you all. We raised $100 million in Series B funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from ICONIQ Growth, and our existing investors Menlo Ventures and Wing Venture Capital. This funding brings our valuation to $750 million, hitting…
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Every software project is a startup that will probably fail
It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.
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How to write a cold email (2020)
Some tips on writing a cold email.
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A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022
Maddie Stone, Security Researcher, Threat Analysis Group (TAG) This is Google’s fourth annual year-in-review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild...
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Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
In the 1980s, the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was focused on the nation's savings and loan industry.
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Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)
The LEGO Foundation to donate LEGO® MRI Scanners to hospitals globally
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ElevenLabs Launches Voice Translation Tool to Break Down Language Barriers
Voice AI platform ElevenLabs unveils new AI Dubbing feature - the biggest milestone yet in the company’s efforts to remove language barriers
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The Workflow Pattern
How to implement event sourced workflows?
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Thoughts on getting laid off after nine years at Twilio
Friday was my 9 year anniversary of starting as a Developer Evangelist at Twilio. Monday I was laid off.
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NVD Damage Continued
There is something about having your product installed in over twenty billion instances all over the world and even out of the globe. In my case it helps me remain focused on and committed to working on the security aspects of curl. Ideally, we will never have our heartbleed moment. Security is also a generally ……
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Adtech is built on a privacy fault line
The IAPP's Cobun Zweifel-Keegan rounds up the latest privacy developments from Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the U.S. for the week of 24 July 2023.
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A fourth of U.S. health visits now delivered by non-physicians
Health care provided by nurse practitioners and physician assistants expected to rise
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Shitflation, shrinkflation, inflation database
A recent UK Channel 4 TV programme talked about the recent decline in quality of food: YouTube Channel 4
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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble
Back in 2017 Long Island Ice Tea – known for its undistinguished, barely drinkable sugar-water – changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp." Its shares surged to a peak of 400% over their pre-announcement price. The company announced no specific integrations with any kind of blockchain, nor has it made any such…
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The secret sauce of TikTok’s recommendations
Dive into the inner workings of TikTok’s awesome real-time recommendation system and learn what makes it one of the best in the field!
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Amazon doubling down on return to office
The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
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Stratechery Year in Review
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2023.
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What’s wrong with billable hours
I know a bunch of you already have your pitchforks out, so let me start out by establishing some goalposts for my premise. When I’m done, you may still want to skewer me, but at least it’ll be for the right reasons, if you do. Through the rest of the post, I’m going to draw...
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HashiCorp did it backwards
Hashicorp recently announced they’re changing the license of Terraform to a source-available license, BSL1.1.
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The Tyranny of ‘The Plan' (2013)
A long, close reading of Poppendieck's talk on how plans quietly become the thing we manage instead of the outcome, from the Empire State Building up.
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The evolution of expert communities
A look at how online forums grow, thrive, and then decay.
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Minimum Viable Finance: The Guide for Seed/Series A Startups
Causal has joined Lucanet to deliver Extended Planning and Analysis (xP&A) as part of the Lucanet CFO Solution Platform. Make smarter planning decisions with unified real-time insights across financial and operational planning.
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US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade
Counterpoint Research Insight
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Protocol Labs is laying off 21% of staff (89 people)
Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.