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Why I Won't Use Rimuhosting
I originally got a VPS at Rimuhosting because their website lauded their “fanatical service” and a friend had concurred. In September 2006, I ordered my first server.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,897 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
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Nvidia's CUDA Monopoly
CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a closed-source low-level API that interfaces software with NVIDIA GPUs.
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Show HN: Designing Web Applications
It's not that you set out to create a poorly designed product, but lots of mistakes—big or small—along the way left you with an interface that does its job, but is painful to use.
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Something funny is about to happen to some prices
Technology, running tech companies, data science, religion, translation technology, natural language processing, backups, p-adic linguistics, academia
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Another Theory to Explain 10X Programmers
a blog post by @azwinkau
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Is Apple Evil?
Today’s iPad introduction has to be about the most depressing Apple product launch I’ve ever watched. As has been noted , Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field only works when he believes in what he’s selling and he didn’t seem to really believe in this. The audience must have further added to the disappointment, expecting a…
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Rust in 2023: Growing Up
When I started working on Rust in 2011, my daughter was about three months old. She’s now in sixth grade, and she’s started growing rapidly. Sometimes we wake up to find that her clothes don’t quite fit anymore: the sleeves might be a little too short, or the legs come up to her ankles. Rust is experiencing something…
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Google's 25th Birthday
For Google’s 25th birthday, we’re celebrating alongside our users with a special Doodle and some surprises in Search.
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The strange economics of open-source software
I always use the names of economists for my machines' hostnames. keynes, friedman, marx, fisher, ricardo. So every so often the strange economics of open-source software hits me. Today it is almost taken for granted that the source code for most software is freely available. This is a profound and remarkable change…
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Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws
A new wave of litigation focused on violations of municipal regulations is emerging against multifamily housing landlords, many of whom are facing antitrust litigation targeting their use of certain revenue management products. The new regulations may potentially provide a simpler path to liability and the possibility…
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“Out of the Crisis” Podcast
Over the past few weeks, I have recorded a series of conversations with people leading the way out of this mess. They range from prominent ...
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EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments
Continuing in our tradition of being a crypto currency trailblazer, we are now accepting DOGE payments for all services. We were the first ICANN registrar to accept Bitcoin... ...the first to accept Ethereum, ...the first to accept Litecoin and now ... DOGE. Remember who was there first, again. (and it…
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Data is at the heart of search, but who has access to it?
In my February 23 blog post, I gave a brief overview of how search engines have evolved over the years and how today’s search engines learn from past searches to anticipate which results will be mo…
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Ten Year Futures
Looking forward 10 years, there are three primary technology that will change everything - cars, augmented reality and machine learning. But in the meantime, there ere huge changes around advertising, TV and retail that come from consumer behavior and industry dynamics, not tech, but will c
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Content isn't king
People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - content and access to content was a strategic lever for technology. This isn’t really true anymore. Music and books don’t matter much to tech, and TV probably won’t matter much either.
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The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)
Vulcan & dBASE
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Ancestry to paywall formerly free features included with DNA kit
Ancestry is in the process of revamping its DNA services with higher prices and new fees, including a new paid offering called AncestryDNA Plus that paywalls formerly free features. Here's what we know, and what you can do if you have ever purchased an AncestryDNA kit.
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price
a terse analysis of tesla stock prices and how one of elon’s tweets moves them