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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,873 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
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OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company.
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Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in
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Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project
I received an official response from Replit and my open-source project will be back up soon; please see the bottom of the blog post for an update. The rest of the content here will remain as a historical artifact.
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Bye, Amazon
May 1 st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.
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Google Search Is Dying
(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit)
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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
An open letter, or something
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I Sell Onions on the Internet
Vidalia Onions to be exact. They’re classified as a sweet onion, and because of their mild flavor (they don’t make your eyes tear up), some folks can eat them like an apple. Most of my customers do. During a phone order one season – 2018 I believe – a customer shared this story where he ... Read more
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War and national security uses of AI.
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Announcing unlimited free private repos
Today we’re announcing two major updates to make GitHub more accessible to developers.
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Claude Fable 5
Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.
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IBM acquires Red Hat
Editor’s note: A few moments ago, Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst shared this email with Red Hat associates. A few minutes ago, we announced that Red Hat has signed an agreement to combine forces with IBM in the largest software company acquisition to date. Red Hat will remain a distinct unit in IBM.Tomorrow…
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GitHub is now free for teams
Every developer and team can now get private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost with GitHub Free, and we reduced prices for some of our paid plans.
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I Am Deleting the Blog
[EDIT 2/13/21: This post is originally from June 2020, but there’s been renewed interest in it because the NYT article involved just came out. This post says the NYT was going to write a posi…
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Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS
Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.
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Claude Opus 4.6
We're upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model.
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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
When we came across the Otonomo API documentation we quickly realized it looked oddly familiar. That’s because we wrote it.
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.name Termination
Nearly twenty-five years ago I registered neil.fraser.name to provide a stable presence on the Internet. It has been the home of this website, my email address, and a server for APIs. It predates YouTube, Facebook, and smart phones. Minutes after my daughter was born, I also registered beverly.fraser.name .
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G is for Google
Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of which, of course, is Google.
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Reflecting on 18 Years at Google
I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google.
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Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval
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Anthropic acquires Bun
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
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John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Apple announced Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors and John Ternus will become Apple’s next CEO.
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.
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Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.