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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 541 posts.
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Google’s New Business Profile: When Search Becomes a Political Tool
Google, in an effort to regain control of the antitrust narrative, has brazenly and deceptively enlisted small businesses to argue the company's case.
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Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation
When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business goals.
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Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets
This article highlights opportunities and potential risks of the DeFi ecosystem.
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Kwan’s Hierarchy of Product Needs: The Four Levels of Product Managers
A common dilemma faced by developer company founders is that while CPOs add significantly greater value than junior and senior PMs, they are expensive resources. To successfully navigate this dilemma, let’s break down the various levels of PM in terms of the product needs your business is likely to encounter.
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Our thoughts on compensation, and how they reflect Oxide's values.
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US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co
H&Co designs fonts for print, web, and mobile environments.
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What our research says about teen well-being and Instagram
Instagram's research shows that on 11 of 12 well-being issues, teenage girls who said they struggled with those issues also said that Instagram made them better rather than worse.
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Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg: act now on child and adolescent mental health
Será imposible identificar los retos que enfrentan los jóvenes si no podemos estudiar correctamente cómo estos interactúan en línea. Más de 200 académicos se adhieren a este manifiesto
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Employee #1: Reddit (2016)
Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Chris Slowe was the first employee at Reddit. He worked at Reddit for five years, then Hipmunk for five years, and now he’s back at Reddit, writing code. Discussed: YC’s First Batch, Meeting The…
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Airbnb to Block and Cancel D.C. Reservations During Inauguration
Airbnb will cancel reservations in the Washington, D.C. metro area during the Inauguration week.
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Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results
Fiscal year 2020 revenue totaled $431 million, representing an increase of 50% year-over-year; Q4 revenue totaled $126 million, also representing an increase of 50% year-over-year Fiscal year 2020 GAAP operating margin of (24.8)%, representing an improvement of 1,280 basis points year-over-year; non-GAAP operating…
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Facebook sues two Chrome extension devs for scraping user data
Today we filed a lawsuit against two individuals for violating our Terms of Service and Portugal’s Database Protection Law.
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Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)
Netlify has acquired FeaturePeek and is launching the next generation of Deploy Previews. Learn about collaboration tools for teams to manage feedback and deliver better web experiences.
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Microsoft Edge GA on Linux
From the Microsoft Edge team, we want to thank and celebrate customers and users who continue to trust and partner with us to make Microsoft Edge the best browser for your environment. Customers like GlaxoSmithK
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Lots to See in Firefox 93
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection.
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The Ball and Supply Chain
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
Here's why coders should take a second look at "no-code" tools.
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Paint.NET 4.3 is now available
This is a big release, with a lot of performance improvements across the whole app. Some of this is due to the migration from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 5, which may not sound like much but is act…
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Strike Date Set for 60k Film and Television Workers
Unless an Agreement is Reached, IATSE Members Will Begin Nationwide Strike on Oct. 18 at 12:01 a.m. (PDT)
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Results from being #1 on Hacker News for 6 hours
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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Ontario Court Declares the Ontario Math Proficiency Test Unconstitutional
The Ontario Divisional Court has ruled that the Ontario College of Teachers shall grant certification to teacher candidates who have not yet passed the Math Proficiency Test but who have otherwise met all other teacher certification requirements.
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Researchers chart path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care
A new analysis by Stanford researchers suggests the health care industry can reap many of the economic benefits of a "Medicare for All" program through incremental changes to the private health care market.
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Android Apps on Windows 11
Windows is a platform for creators Windows is the most open platform on the planet for creators. Part of living our commitment to openness is welcoming partner technologies and content that deliver powerful experiences. And what makes Window