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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,895 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
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The Economics of Evil Google
Search as a public utility?
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So you think you own your Twitter name?
Update Tuesday 15th March An interview with @girlgeeks with the full story is available here: How-safe-is-your-Twitter-name/ Update Sun...
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Savings and Loan Crisis 1980–1989
In the 1980s, the financial sector suffered through a period of distress that was focused on the nation's savings and loan industry.
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Reality Check
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and
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A better way to divide the pie
In his new book, Prof. Barry Nalebuff proposes a fairer, more principled way to negotiate: splitting the additional value created by reaching an agreement. In this excerpt, he explains the concept through a visit to one of New Haven’s iconic pizza spots.
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New lower Azure pricing
As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).
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Mathematica v12.1
Biggest .1 release from Wolfram. 182 completely new functions, plus updates and enhancements. Includes full HiDPI support, computation with video, data structures, asymptotic superfunction, mathematical functions, plotting, geometric optimization, vector plotting, cross-hatching, computational topology, tabular data…
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Stripe in Japan
Stripe は、あらゆる規模や業種のビジネスにおける決済の受け入れ、柔軟な請求モデルの構築、および資金移動の管理を支援する、金融サービスプラットフォームです。
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You don't have to sell your company to have financial security
Paul Graham thinks that startup founders need to sell their companies to get freedom and security: They want enough money that (a) they don’t have to worry about running out of money and (b) they can spend their time how they want. Running your own business offers neither. You certainly don…
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Why we kept our startup in Australia
News, product updates, and conversations shaping the future of digital value from Macropod and the people building the next generation of payments.
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App Store: Sentence first — verdict afterwards
UPDATE 2 Jun 2010: Seems while Australia was sleeping a gazillion people read our little post, so allow me to clarify a few things – My Frame still appears to be in the App Store. No this was…
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Measuring how bad Twitter is
My last blog post (exposing Twitter's excessive costs) prompted horror story emails on Twitter. But the best thing sent to me was a finan...
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Policy, not tech, spurred Danish dominance in wind energy
An analysis of Denmark’s wind industry offers lessons for policymakers seeking to increase renewable electricity production with limited budgets, according to Cynthia Lin Lawell.
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Removing EU roaming charges is a big deal (2014)
The European commission came to similar conclusions as those below - and limited the effects of its end-of-roaming-initiative to disallow a real competition between carriers from different European countries. Unfortunately, we will still suffer from limited competitions and widely varying offerings within the single…
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Apple's New Market
If the importance of an integrated experience matter more with your phone than your PC, because you use it more, how much more important is an integrated experience that touches every detail of you…
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How Much Does a Compiler Cost?
The compiler tool chain is one of the largest and most complex components of any system, and increasingly will be based on open source code, either GCC or LLVM. On a Linux system only the operating system kernel and browser will have more lines of code. For a commercial system, the compiler has to be completely…
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Backblaze Privacy Update: Third-Party Tracking
Read this post for a privacy update regarding third-party tracking code on our website.
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