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Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications
We are members of the Facebook Notifications Data Science team at Meta. We ran surveys on how users felt about on-site notifications…
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 536 posts.
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2022.
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“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
I don't care about cookies has been acquired by Avast and remains free to use.
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Act-1: Transformer for Actions
AI has moved at an incredible pace in the last few years. Scaling up Transformers has led to remarkable capabilities in language (e.g., GPT-3, PaLM, Chinchilla), code (e.g., Codex, AlphaCode), and image generation (e.g., DALL-E, Imagen).
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From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb
Airbnb brands itself as creating community and fostering belonging. Today, former Airbnb software engineer Sahil describes how “Airfam” ignores internal inequi…
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Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
SerpApi’s Google Search API results serves all the results Google serves to users…But the amount of searches are quite different than what is being told below the search bar.
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One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions
Learn why top-down standardization efforts can often lead to failure and how understanding specific problems through collaboration and embedding wi...
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Apple security bounty upgraded
Apple’s Security Bounty program has paid nearly $20 million in rewards to security researchers in just two and a half years. Our new site makes it easier than ever for researchers to submit reports on the web, get real-time updates from Apple engineering, and earn recognition for helping to improve security for the…
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Discord fined €800k for failing to comply with several obligations of the GDPR
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
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Introducing a16z START
Introducing the a16z START program, which fuels founders at the earliest stages with 1:1 support, network introductions, and up to $1M in funding.
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An update on recent service disruptions
Over the past few weeks, we have experienced multiple incidents due to the health of our database. We wanted to share what we know about these incidents while our team continues to address them.
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700M users and Premium
Telegram now has over 700 million monthly active users. Today we're launching Telegram Premium – a subscription that lets you support Telegram's continued development and gives access to exclusive additional features.
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Feelings of guilt may signal leadership potential (2012)
Stanford GSB researchers find that how people respond to mistakes can be a "clue to who they are."
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From throwaway side project to Switch in 2 years: my indie gamedev story
Available now on Steam and Nintendo Switch I started this game back in 2020 as a fun little side-project to pass the time during the pandemic with lots of help from my son. Back then we didn’…
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DynamoDB 10 years later
Amazon DynamoDB was introduced 10 years ago today; one of its key contributors reflects on its origins, and discusses the 'never-ending journey' to make DynamoDB more secure, more available and more performant.
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Switching to a four-day workweek (2021)
Get a ride in minutes, order food and grocery delivery, rent a car or scooter, improve business travel and more. Available in 850+ cities and 50+ countries.
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Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and Belarus
Red Hat shares it's response to the war in Ukraine and how it is supporting its associates.
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Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR
Today we’re introducing Meta accounts: a new way for people to log into their VR headsets that doesn’t require a Facebook account. When we announced that we would start requiring people to log into Meta Quest using a Facebook account, we received a lot of feedback from the Quest community. We took that feedback into…
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How much have tech layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?
How much have 2022 layoffs impacted engineers? We combed through and tagged dozens of layoff lists. The results may surprise you.
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Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
We’re excited to roll out a new way to help your community server hold organized, meaningful conversations without drowning each other out: Forum Channels.