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Oracle v. Google and the future of software development
An update on Oracle v. Google, our long-running copyright dispute over the use of software interfaces.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,888 posts.
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Replit Mobile App
Introducing the Replit mobile app for Android and iOS. Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Replit mobile app. With the mobile app, you can code anything, anywhere. Build more, type less. Use the app to write a Python bot, build and launch your personal website, or run any program you can imagine with…
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Unit Economics
Commentators are looking hard for what’s wrong with startups in Silicon Valley. First they talked about valuations being too high. Then they talked about valuations not really meaning anything. ...
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Backlog size is inversely proportional to how often we talk to customers
Lessons learned from a year of startup life.
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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. This is the dominant narrative in every online discussion about the topic I've seen and it's a commonly expressed belief "in real life" as well. While I don't have anything…
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Vivaldi 8.0
More than thirteen years in, and I am still as excited about building this browser as I was on day one. Maybe more. That excitement comes from a genuine belief that the people who use Vivaldi deserve…
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The State of Apple's Developer Documentation
It appears that most of the old iOS conceptual documents have been moved to the documentation archive and are now unsupported.
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Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
How 50,000 fake stats kept getting cited by ChatGPT Read more on the Peec AI blog.
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Introducing Stripe UK
More accessible financial infrastructure has made it easier than ever to build an online business.
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Dick Smith Is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time
Want to know how to turn $10m in to $520m in less than two years? Just ask Anchorage Capital. The private equity group has pulled off one of the great heists of all time
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16 Things
We don’t invest in themes; we invest in special founders with breakthrough ideas. Which means we don’t make investments based on a pre-existing thesis about a category. That said, here are a few of the things we’ve been observing or thinking about; we’re especially grateful to our founders/companies, and the…
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Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra
We are excited to announce the launch of Windows Dev Kit 2023, which is built to help developers create Windows apps easily and efficiently for Arm. We u nveiled this device as “Project Volterra” at Build in May 2022. Learn more .
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The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.
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Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
In response to Australia’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, we'll restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing news on Facebook.
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Twitter's Fucked
The Twitter product is defective, broken beyond all hope of repair
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You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.