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The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World
Over the last few months, there’s been increased attention on networks and how they interconnect. CloudFlare runs a large network that interconnects with many others around the world.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,885 posts.
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A founder-friendly term sheet
When I invest (outside of YC) I make offers with the following term sheet. I’ve tried to make the terms reflect what I wanted when I was a founder. A few people have asked me if I’d share it, so...
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Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?
Technical analysis is a part of finance that studies price moves to guide investment decisions.A lot of investors seem skeptical of the use of past price dat...
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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom
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Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation
Our top sponsors—companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in Python and its community—not only use Python for their own internal development, but also offer Python as a crucial part of the products they offer to their own customers. That is certainly true of Google, the Python Software Foundation’s…
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Chess.com vs. Lichess
A comprehensive comparison of the two most popular chess websites.
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Roku filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9B of cash, $487M is stuck at SVB
“$ROKU filed an 8-K saying that of its $1.9 billion of cash, $487mn is stuck at $SIVB (mostly UNINSURED)” is published by Vikash Ruhil.
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Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)
A subtle change has been made to the comments links, so they no longer pop up. Does this in any way help with the problem about comments not appearing on permalinked posts, readers? Update: seemingly not Update: Oh yeah!
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Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, with support for text and multimodal intelligence, multimodal fine-tuning, and high-quality images and videos.
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Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University,
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I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
Notable case of algorithmic approach to open source and non-profit giving
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Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
I'm evaluating new SaaS business ideas, and I wanted to share a little bit about exactly how I'm evaluating them.
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Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the...
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Europe's Software Problem
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Europe’s communication needs are currently almost exclusively delivered by Chinese hardware that connects us to US-based platforms. For a variety of reasons, this is not a good idea. As stated recently by Charles Michel, President of the…
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The New Apple Advantage
On the dearth of Apple-caliber products from companies other than Apple.
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Before Growth
We tell startups all the time that they have to grow quickly. That’s true, and very good advice, but I think the current fashion of Silicon Valley startups has taken this to an unhealthy...
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How to be a leader when the vibes are off
...and the vibes are definitely off It feels different in tech right now. We’re coming off a long era where optimism carried the industry. Something has curdled. AI hype, return-to-office mandates, and continued layoffs have shifted the mood. Managers are quicker to fire, existential dread has replaced
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Getting ready to operate GNU Taler in Germany
Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Reserves
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How far the once-mighty SourceForge has fallen
[Editor's note: This post is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of the Gluster Community] TLDR: SourceForge, once a mighty force f
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Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
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OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple
Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone… and we’re rather pleased to find they’re the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap.
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Mono Relicensed as MIT
At Microsoft Build today, we announced that we are re-releasing Mono under the MIT license and have contributed it to the .NET Foundation . These are major news for Mono developers and contributors, and I am incredibly excited about the opportunities that this will create for the Mono project, and for other projects…
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How Zidisha (YC W14) Is Misleading the Public About Its Interest Rates
Of all the microcredit innovators in recent years, one of the most interesting has been Zidisha.org. As Wikipedia explains , "Zidisha is...
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TPP Text Confirms Massive Loss to Canadian Public Domain
The New Zealand government posted the official Trans Pacific Partnership text today after years secret negotiations and occasional leaks of the text. It is an enormous deal with dozens of side letters between countries - Canada alone has eight side letters on intellectual property with seven TPP countries - that will…
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The 'Return to Office' Lies
i vent about return to office bullshittery.
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