Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,891 posts.
TikTok is an app that makes it easy for people to make short lip-synching videos, which unsurprisingly makes it a goldmine of creativity and memes. TikTok recently got in hot water with the Federal Trade Commission because it failed to comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)....
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Sketch 3.7 is an important update for Sketch. It introduces an all new version of Symbols and we can’t wait to hear what you think of them.
I put the awesome HBO GO app on the family's iPad yesterday and tried to Airplay into our family room TV. I got audio on the TV but not video. I thought I was doing something wrong. So I rebooted everything and tried again. Same thing. So I did a web search on the topic […]
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
We've all received a work email that made us cringe - the ones that sound formal and threatening or vaguely like a punishment for something we're pretty
You may have heard about instability issues with Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The issue has been gaining more attention as time goes on. I am posting to share what we've experienced here at Puget Systems, and what we're doing about it.
When you say "rock star" in your job post, you're discouraging the best software developers from contacting you. When you write, "We're looking for a rock star developer." A developer sees, "We...
Last week Amazon Pinpoint launched AWS Global SMS two-way text messaging and we didn’t get an opportunity to cover the launch. AWS Pinpoint users can now programmaticaly respond to their end-users’ text messages. Users can provision both short codes and long codes (10-digit phone numbers) which send inbound messages…
Learn how Alloy Agents improve autonomous vulnerability detection, boosting success rates and scaling offensive security testing with AI.
Here's a small thought experiment that explores an alternative approach to ranking posts on HackerNews.
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
This Black Friday, I had the occasion to ponder why it is that Apple offers free engraving on iPods and iPads (hereafter, iP*ds).
This is a coordinated effort to help educate and inform users on secure best practices relating to the recent Git ransomware incident.
I’ve spent a lot of time recently thinking about different proof-of-work mechanisms. When I say proof-of-work, I’m not talking about consensus algorithms like the ones that some crypto currencies use. I’m talking about social networks.
Planet plans to acquire the Terra Bella busines,s including the SkySat constellation of satellites.
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
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