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My Losing Battle with Enterprise Sales
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,880 posts.
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We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software gets built next.
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Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
These tiny insects kill more than 1,000,000 people every year
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Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
The unfortunately botched economics of emergency care
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The "email is authentication" pattern
By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.
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I don’t believe in sprints
Sorry, I have opinions again.
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Impacts of lack of sleep
Sleep is important. People vastly underestimate the extent to which not sleeping is harmful, viewing it as a valid trade off for productivity and overlooking all of the longterm negative effects.
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MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble
MacBook Neo processor: Apple's A18 Pro, the iPhone 16 Pro chip. Geekbench 6: 3,569 single-core, between M3 and M4. Full CPU benchmarks, thermals, and $699.
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Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review , “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.” Here’s the story:
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Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care
There is now a number, that you can't see, that follows you wherever you go.
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The MacBook keyboard fiasco is way worse than Apple thinks
Apple keep insisting that only a “small number of customers have problems” with the MacBook keyboards. That’s bollocks. This is a huge issue, it’s getting worse not better, …
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LSD: Not Even Once
Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. […] – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple
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Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI
Meta AI announces Purple Llama, a project for open trust and safety in generative AI, with tools for cybersecurity and input/output filtering.
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Poll on macOS 10.12 is broken
When Mac OS X first launched they did so without an existing poll function. They later added poll() in Mac OS X 10.3, but we quickly discovered that it was broken (it returned a non-zero value when asked to wait for nothing) so in the curl project we added a check in configure for that … Continue reading poll on mac…
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Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
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Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive…
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Working at Netflix
Working at Netflix 2015: What is it like to work at Netfilx? Brendan Gregg describes his job and experiences at Netflix after several months as a senior performance architect.
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Privilege is bad grammar
When I got my first real job, I used to get so nervous about writing emails to my boss. I would run spellcheck, triple-check the grammar, read over it again ...
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The AI Misinformation Epidemic
Interest in machine learning may be at an all-time high. Per Google Trends, people are searching for machine learning nearly five times as often as five years ago. And at the University of California San Diego (UCSD),
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AI founders will learn the bitter lesson
Historically, general approaches always win in AI. Founders in AI application space now repeat the mistakes of AI researchers.
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FLX1s phone is launched
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Cities with High Salary to Cost of Living Ratios for Software Developers
There are many tech hubs in the United States (which this article will cover exclusively, sorry) but which ones are able to maintain low costs of living while also having high average salary for software developers? This post will address that question using a few calculations and data sourced from publicly available…
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We're ditching the office completely
Last week we closed down Buffer's only physical office. We're now fully, truly remote. Here are the reasons why.
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Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money
Learn how psychological biases are used to trick players into gambling money in the new Mario Kart Tour game, raising ethical questions.