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Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
With Claude Opus 4.6, finance teams get better reasoning on complex analyses, cleaner first-pass deliverables, and new tools built for where analysts actually spend their time.
Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned
Last year, I shared our story of applying, our application, and some advice on the YC application. Now that the Winter batch is in full swing and the application is open for the summer, I thought I...
Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an Experimental Android App
Today we have made Firefox OS 2.5 available worldwide. We are also making an early, experimental build of the OS -- Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview -- available for developers ...
Google acquires Metaweb (Freebase)
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
We're building a new infinite canvas for the web: built with React, made for developers, and with a super-fast engine for collaboration. Try it today.
The Dropbox iPhone App is Out
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design
Hi! My name is Rob, and I find the best website design leads for agencies on the web. Save hours finding great projects to pitch.
An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger about IDM 2.0, the acquisition of Tower Semiconductor, and the choices Intel did not make.
An MVP is not a Cheaper Product, It’s about Smart Learning
A minimum viable product (MVP) is not always a smaller/cheaper version of your final product. Defining the goal for a MVP can save you tons of time, money and grief. Drones over the Heartland I ran…
Full Instapaper API now available
The full Instapaper API is now available for developers. See the Full API documentation to get started.
Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography
We are honored to be recognized for the impact on the field of cryptography.
Thank You, Arash
It all started with an unexpected email from Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator. Paul wrote to say that he liked Dropbox, but for YC to be willing to invest, I needed a co-founder—I couldn’t apply by myself. The policy made sense—great companies tend to be started by great founding teams, not individuals. So who…
Faster, Better, Cheaper – The Art of Making Software
Nobody wants to deliver late, over-budget software. I don’t know a single software developer who wakes up in the morning and thinks “I’d like to do a rubbish job today. How can I cost my employer more money?” And yet, so many software projects don’t go well. And with every new project, there seems to be more and more…
One Year of Excalidraw
Reflecting on one year of growth, going from live collaboration to end-to-end encryption, and the role of community contributions.
What happens when housing prices go down?
A reflection on affordability, finance, and the deep contradictions we struggle to face.
Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the global automaker market
I wasn’t really paying attention, so maybe I’m the only one that hadn’t noticed, but Tesla’s market cap as of December 9th 2020 is a touch over 616 billion US dollars. That makes it kind of a big deal. In fact, it accounts for a full third of the global automaker market cap:
Prisma laying off 28% staff
Restructuring Prisma
How and why GraphQL will influence the Sourcehut alpha
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
'First to Do It' vs. 'First to Do It Right'
Apple wasn’t going to include a front-facing camera until they had software that made it useful in an iPhone-caliber way. HTC is happy to include a front-facing camera and leave its utility (and user experience) in the hands of third-party developers.
Mag Wealth (2024)
Mag World: an intuitive sense of scale, using orders of magnitude