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Render raises $80M in Series C financing
Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: we’ve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 949 posts.
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Sand trafficking in Latin America
Criminal mafias are making massive profits from the illegal extraction and sale of sand for construction purposes.
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The economics behind "Basic Economy" – A masterclass in price discrimination
Basic Economy fares are ultra-restricted airline tickets that offer a lower base price in exchange for fewer benefits than standard economy class. Introduced by major U.S. carriers in the 2010s, these fares have become a widespread strategy for market segmentation - a textbook example of price discrimination in…
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Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
I finally upgraded to a mechanical keyboard. But because Apple's so protective of their Touch ID hardware, there aren't any mechanical keyboards with that feature built in. But there is a way to hack it. It's incredibly wasteful, and takes a bit more patience than I think most people have, but you basically take an…
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Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production
Discover how agentic AI startups are scaling in the enterprise — with data, pricing insights, and lessons from 70+ founders and practitioners.
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Alignment is capability
Alignment is not a constraint on capable AI systems. Alignment is what capability is at sufficient depth. OpenAI and Anthropic have been running this experiment for two years.
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AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
The untold story of how one AWS employee turned a 20-day nightmare into a lesson in corporate accountability. Sometimes all it takes is one person who actually gives a damn.
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Doge to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then…
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Help my website is too small
How can it be a real website if it’s less than 7k?
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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe
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Simulated Economy Tutorial
Concept Motivation Imagine an open world RPG where your actions affect the price of goods, the markets reacting to anything the player may do (burn down wheat fields, cost of food increases; kill the merchants, prices differentiate between cities; sell the many swords you’ve collected on your adventures, tank the…
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How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority
With Trump’s return and the CLOUD Act, U.S. access to European data is a growing risk. Discover why open-source solutions and a solid cloud infrastructure are the only way forward to digital sovereignty.
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Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse
A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users.
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The latest fake literary agencies
Fake agencies mentioned in this post: The Elite Scout SocietyImplicitPress Literary AgencyJudith Carter LiteraryLiterary Agents AssociationMushens & Churchill Literary AgencyStory Arc Literary GroupsZenith Literary Not too long ago, I published a post with tips and techniques to help writers spot a fake literary…
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AMD RDNA 4 – AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Graphics Cards
New AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards deliver enthusiast-level gaming experiences supercharged by AI.
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Pakistani firm shipped fentanyl analogs, scams to us
A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo…
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Insights on Teufel’s first open-source speaker
An interview with some of the creative minds behind Teufel's new open-source MYND speaker. Find the whole story straight from the source.
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Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
And yet it does. Are we ready to deal?
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A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.
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Private antitrust cases are going through the courts
Private antitrust cases against Equifax, Pepsi, American Express, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and Corteva are going through the courts. And it turns out, judges get the monopoly problem.
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Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)
We analyze the system Amazon deploys on the US “amazon.com” storefront to restrict shipments of certain products to specific regions. We found 17,050 products that Amazon restricted from being shipped to at least one world region. - While many of the shipping restrictions are related to regulations involving WiFi, car…
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Fast Cash vs. Slow Equity
Knowing what you're building
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People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design
The Hidden Power of Aesthetics in Design
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Apple announces American Manufacturing Program
Apple announced a new $100 billion commitment to America, a significant acceleration of its U.S. commitment that now totals $600 billion over four years.
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Results of "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmark published
Scale AI and the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) are proud to publish the results of Humanity’s Last Exam.
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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.
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Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun and the End of “Just Add GPUs”
When two of the most influential people in AI both say that today’s large language models are hitting their limits, it’s worth paying attention. In a recent…
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To AI or not to AI
A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.