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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,891 posts.
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Your Minimum Viable Product is Processing Credit Cards
If you’re building any sort of web service or mobile app and you can’t yet receive money from people – stop. Right now. Stop. For all that is right in the world – stop. If you can’t process credit cards right now – you don’t have a product and you barely have a business. Your … Continue reading "Your Minimum Viable…
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Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton to Help Lessen Chance of Worker Fatigue, Injury
The official home for stories from Ford. Get the latest news, in-depth vehicle features, media site information, and meet the people and ideas driving our company forward.
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Which countries are mentioned the most on Hacker News?
As I was walking around Osaka with Sacha , we started talking about Hacker News and how there seem to be a lot of popular stories about Japan.
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A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop
There is a belief within American media that a successful person can succeed at anything. He (and it’s invariably he) is omnicompetent, and people who question him and laugh at his outlandish…
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PhpMyAdmin Turns 15
The phpMyAdmin project was “born” on the 9th of September, 1998, when Tobias Ratschiller released version 0.9.0. The project has grown to be one of the primary tools for administering MySQL and MySQL-like databases, with over 200,000 direct downloads per month (and countless more users who use a prepackaged…
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Nobody’s going to steal your idea
When I was working on my dissertation, I thought someone might scoop my research and I'd have to start over. Looking back, that was ridiculous. For one thing, my research was too arcane for many others to care about. And even if someone had proven one of my theorems, there would still be something original
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Joel Spolsky, Snake-Oil Salesman
If there is a lecturer in TCD’s CS department that doesn’t know of the problems and issues Joel just raised in his Capstone Projects post, they’re a rare bird indeed. But what Joe…
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Stability AI Launches Stable Diffusion XL 0.9
Discover SDXL 0.9, Stability AI's cutting-edge release in the Stable Diffusion suite. Unleashing remarkable image and composition precision, this upgrade revolutionizes generative AI imagery. From hyper-realistic media production to design and industrial advancements, explore the limitless possibili
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Facebook Handled their IPO Exactly Right
Andrews Ross Sorkin wrote a piece for the NY Times that was just ridiculous. He put the blame squarely on the back of the CFO of FB. Talk about getting it 180 degrees wrong.
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Slimbook collaborates with the PowerPC laptop
We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Power Progress Community (PPC), the association behind the creation of a ordenador portátil con procesador PowerPC , in this case the NXP T2080. The PowerPC instruction set has been recently released by IBM as open source and given to the Linux Foundation.
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Never Have the “What Would It Take to Keep You Here?” Conversation
As a CEO, many of the scariest days I've faced have been those when a critical member of our team told us they were leaving the company. Your heart sinks.
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We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.
Link to: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1
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Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement
The Ethereum network will be undergoing a planned hard fork at <strong>block number 4.37mil (4,370,000)</strong>, which will likely occur between 12:00 UTC and...
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Three AM 911 call, 9 AM salesman
A few days ago, the smoke alarms in my house went off at 3am, so we got up and took it seriously when we smelled smoke everywhere. But after 20 minutes of searching high and low, we couldn't find a source, so as a precaution, we called 911 to
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Believe the Checkbook
AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
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Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project
I never thought about patents much. I just wanted to make stuff and share it with others. Then one day someone else patented my work.
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The Tech Job Meltdown
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.
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Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph
TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).
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The 37signals Effect
Super-fantastic-caveat : Despite the title, this post isn’t really about 37signals, in particular. I’ve used them as an example, only. I probably could have called it the “Joel on Software” effect, too. This post is about all of us who aren’t 37signals, or Joel, and the dangers we face when trying to incorporate…
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Google Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13
Fully managed Cloud SQL cloud database service now supports PostgreSQL 13.
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A Hacker Writes a Children's Book
[2018 Update: After posting this article and making it to the top of r/programming and HackerNews sales of the book increased noticeably. The book is now nic...
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Later Stage Advice for Startups
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android
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Tailscale free for open source projects
Tailscale is now free for open source projects using GitHub organizations. Enjoy up to 25 users, 5 devices per user, and more.
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Why App Speed Matters: Revenue
News, tips, and tricks from the team at Fly