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Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
The better goal? Keep your head down, make a great product, and build a successful business. Silicon Valley prays at the altar of the billion-dollar
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 371 posts.
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U.S. Tech Funding – What’s Going On?
What’s going on in the public markets? What are all these so-called “unicorns”? What’s going on in venture capital? “This time is different.” It is different. Because it’s always different… And one big reason is mobile.
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Study: Some car models consuming around 50% more fuel than official results
New cars, including the Mercedes A, C and E class, BMW 5 series and Peugeot 308, are now swallowing around 50% more fuel than their lab test results, new…
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Ruling from USPTO Invalidates All Claims Used to Threaten Podcasters
San Francisco - The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) invalidated key claims in the so-called “podcasting patent” today after a petition for review from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)—a decision that significantly curtails the ability of a patent troll to threaten podcasters big...
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YC for Hardware
As YC has grown, we’ve funded more and more hardware companies. Hardware companies have very different needs from pure software companies, and we’re delighted to announce a number of new resources for YC hardware companies. First, there are a number of new deals for our hardware startups–across-the-board discounts &…
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WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
Xoilac TV - trang web phát sóng bóng đá trực tiếp không thu phí của người dùng hot nhất năm 2025. Đây cũng là một trong những kênh được yêu thích và có số
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Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec
Video codecs remain an area of active research and development. The current generation video codec is H.264 – in widespread usage on the Internet. Cisco
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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Looking at cloud storage providers? B2 is 3x-30x cheaper than all of the other cloud storage providers including, Amazon S3, Azure, and Google.
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Test drive of a petrol car
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VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases
Legal | Report Trademark Abuse VideoLAN, VLC, VLC media player and x264 are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN non-profit organization. VideoLAN software is licensed under various open-source licenses: use and distribution are defined by each software license.
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Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car
EFF is fighting for vehicle owners’ rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles and to repair and modify their vehicles, or have a mechanic of their choice do the work. At the moment, the anti-circumvention prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably restricts vehicle...
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An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split
The official blog of the AnyList team.
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Almost Everything We Do Will Be Open
We're announcing a move from doing the majority of our development work internally, to almost exclusively working in public issue trackers on GitLab.com.
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TPP banning requirements to transfer or access to source code of software
This is a video by Zack Struver about Senator Bernie Sander’s proposal to expand Veterans access to patented medical inventions. The video discusses both the proposal by Senator Sanders to give the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs the authority to… Continue Reading →
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Homejoy says goodbye
Homeaglow is the easiest way to find a great house cleaner!
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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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Slack Platform Launch
Welcome to the official Slack blog. Explore our latest product news, research on the future of work, and tips for using Slack to be more productive.
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Guide to Sending Email Like a Startup
Sendwithus helps teams manage transactional emails outside of source code — leading to streamlined workflows and always on-brand emails. Learn more here!
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Google announces Android for Work
Posted by Rajen Sheth, Director of Product Management, Android and Chrome for Work (Cross-posted on the Android Blog .) Over a billi...
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Updating Our Open Source Patent Grant
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