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I, Pencil (1958)
I am a lead pencil–the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write…. [From “I, Pencil”]
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 510 posts.
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Looking ahead for WhatsApp
Today, we’re updating WhatsApp’s terms and privacy policy for the first time in four years, as part of our plans to test ways for people to communicate with businesses in the months ahead. The updated documents also reflect that we’ve joined Facebook and that we've recently rolled out many new features, like…
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Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
Dear Matt,We were all very surprised by your post, as you have so many claims against us.Wow, dude I did not even know we were fighting.First, you say we have been taking from the open source community without giving back, well, of course, that isn’t true. Here is a list of 224 projects on our public GitHub page, and…
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Google to acquire Apigee
Today, we’re excited to announce that Google has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Apigee, a provider of application programming interface (API) management. APIs — the mechanism developers use to interface and integrate with outside apps and services — are vital for how business gets done today in the…
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Moving on from Picasa
Update March 26, 2018 : The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or downlo...
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Microsoft, I Forgive You
Microsoft is different now. The evil masterminds are all retired. No more Ballmer jumping around screaming for developers, developers, developers. No more Gates plotting monopoly schemes for world …
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US Cellular Now a Part of Project Fi's Network
With the addition of a third network, Project Fi now gives you more coverage and speed, helping you stay connected wherever you are.
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Why YC
Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups. Four times a year we invest in a large number of startups.
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Microsoft Joins the Eclipse Foundation
At Microsoft, our developer mission is to deliver experiences that empower any developer, building any application, on any OS. And this mission requires
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Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
An new app called Spaces lets people get together instantly to share articles, videos and images around any topic.
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Learning from Tay’s introduction
As many of you know by now, on Wednesday we launched a chatbot called Tay. We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay. Tay is now offline and we’ll look to bring Tay...
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The illegal city of Somerville
Zoning is complicated. It’s complicated on its own, with even small towns having dozens of pages of regulations and acronyms and often-inscrutable diagrams; and it’s complicated as a policy issue, with economists and lawyers and researchers bandying about regression lines and all sorts of claims about the micro and…
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Announcing Google Research, Europe
Posted by Emmanuel Mogenet, Head of Google Research, EuropeGoogle’s ongoing research in Machine Intelligence is what powers many of the products be...
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Alaska Airlines to Buy Virgin America for $2.6B
My first airline was started out of frustration. As a young record executive, I travelled the world flying by other airlines, but found the experience dreadful. So in 1984 I chartered one second-hand Boeing 747 and offered flights between London and New York. People thought we were mad and bound to fail quickly…
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YC Updates and Additions
Y Combinator now has 5 major groups—YC Fellowship, YC Core, YC Continuity, YC Research, and Hacker News—and we’re putting one person in charge of each group. Paul Buchheit is taking over for me as managing partner of the core YC program. We’re going to continue doing YC Fellowship (!), and Kevin Hale is going to be…
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What's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP
In 2015 we migrated Quizlet from our legacy host to a large cloud provider. AWS is the default choice for most companies, but after comparing the options, we went with Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a summary of our analysis.
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Steam Sales 2015
The 2015 was the best year for Steam yet.
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How to Pick Your Battles on a Software Team
Everyone knows they should pick their battles, but how do you decide when? Here are 3 questions for figuring out when to push back and when to let it be.
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Dash developer's response to Apple's response
Dash provides instant offline access to 200+ API documentation sets, code snippets, and cheat sheets. Features MCP support for AI integration with Claude and other AI agents.