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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,894 posts.
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Google Hangouts 4.0: now simpler, faster, more beautiful
We’ve been hard at work on big improvements to make Hangouts faster, simpler, and easier on the eyes.
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Air Support in a Backpack: The Switchblade
In March 2022, it was reported that the United States was sending over some Switchblades to Ukraine.
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9M Australians affected by Optus data breach
Optus notifies customers of a cyberattack that has allowed unauthorised access to customers personal information.
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Pattern Matching, Racial Diversity and the Hypocrisy of Big Tech Media
It’s Time to Watch the Watchmen – The Diversity Report of TechCrunch, Recode, The Information, Business Insider and Protocol. Prelude I have been writing about Diversity in Tech for over a decade now – a long time. However, my self-published posts have never really got the audience it was targeted
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Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)
One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer -- Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same problems as IBM while lacking IBM’s depth and resources. And he’s correct: HP is a shadow of
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Leaderless Teams
Subscribe ◎⁃◎ Hello, Welcome to Connecting Dots, the monthly newsletter on Innovation Leadership by Brett Macfarlane . I’m back in London after recent visits to Spain, France, Netherlands and Canada. Everywhere I went, the need for leadership to do more
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Bitbucket Joins Atlassian
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
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I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know
Cybersecurity is hard enough. Doing it across federal agencies is a mammoth task.
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Perpetual futures, explained
Crypto’s most popular product offers capital efficiency for professionals, leveraged exposure for the masses, rich yields for market makers — and a poorly understood failure mode.
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Video uploads now available across GitHub
With video uploads now generally available, developers have even more ways to collaborate on GitHub. Try it out for yourself!
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The API-ization of everything
Everything that used to be fax machines, contracts, and invoices and purchase orders in triplicate are going away. What's replacing it? The API. Before Stripe, you had to fill out a ton of forms...
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How exchanges turn order books into distributed logs
Every modern exchange is a distributed database in disguise. This article reveals how trading engines transform chaotic streams of buy and sell orders into a perfectly ordered, replayable log, ensuring fairness, determinism, and market data reliability.
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Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers
In a recent comment someone shared the fate of Patrick Jordan , owner of justanotheripadblog.com.
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Google Play killed my game and won't tell me why
Today, I’d like to share a (long overdue) update about the current state of the game, along with some sneak peeks! I wanted to update this website more often, but, well… life happened and I got busy with a bunch of stuff.
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PlanetScale increases plans to include billions of reads
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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The Document Foundation on City of Munich’s discussion on returning to Microsoft
The Document Foundation is an independent, charitable entity and the home of LibreOffice. We have followed the developments in Munich with great concerns and like to express our disappointment to see a minority of politicians apparently ignoring the expert advice for which they’ve sought. Rumours of the City of Munich…
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TikTok and the network effects of creativity
TikTok’s Warp Scan filter is a bizarre concept for a filter in and of itself, but the myriad of ways TikTok users put it to use just shows what happens when you throw random tools to the masses and allow for emergent creativity. It only takes a handful of innovators to unleash a meme tsunami.
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Why I’m not backing you on Kickstarter
I want to buy some clothes. From From Holden (not a typo). And I can’t. Because they’re full of Kickstoppers. More and more, I’m seeing exciting, fun projects on Kickstarter that make me think they’re being run by the cast of Community. Clever, well meaning, adorable, and more clueless than a general with a gmail…
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Dear Search Guard Users
We’ve filed a lawsuit against the makers of Search Guard. Here is what we know, the actions we’re taking, and potential impact to Search Guard users.
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FIDO2 security key company publishes results of internal security audit
This blogpost summarizes the result of a cooperation between SoloKeys and Doyensec, and was originally published on SoloKeys blog by Emanuele Cesena. You can...
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Pioneer manipulates scores to pick winners
Pioneer paints a pretty picture of a fair tournament for ambitious people of the world. In reality though, the organizers will manipulate…