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Steinway's 600,000th piano, the Fibonacci
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 705 posts.
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The ‘Oh, Shit’ Moment When Growth Stops
“A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.” –from the movie Annie Hall Most high-growth businesses stare down periods when growth unexpectedly slows down or stops altogether. At some point, that…
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Why Dole owns container ships
Dole operates the largest refrigerated fleet, or reeferships, in the world. Here's why it makes sense for a major importer to operate its own ships.
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Why Mitch McConnell Cannot Be Allowed to Decide the Fate of the Patriot Act
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear this week that, while the Senate is rapidly approaching recess, the Senate “will stay in [session] until a deal is struck to extend” the Patriot Act. McConnell has also introduced legislation for both long-term and short-term reauthorization...
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How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month
Discover the tech stack used by Soylent. Explore 24 tools across 3 categories.
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Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily
This is getting serious. Just 5 months after reaching 1 billion messages , Telegram doubled in user activity — and hit 2 billion messages delivered per day.
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Why We Chose Redshift
How we decided on Redshift for giving our customers access to their raw data in SQL.
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How patio11 builds Twilio apps
Founder of Bingo Card Creator and Appointment Reminder talks Twilio. Includes monitoring, environment-based safeties, queue management and sample code.
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EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus on Protecting Public from Bad Patents
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents being issued. Its quality efforts should serve the...
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Airbnb and San Francisco
Airbnb has recently been attacked by San Francisco politicians for driving up the price of housing in the city. San Francisco has tried, and will continue to try, to ban Airbnb in various ways....
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Apple Reports Record Fourth Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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IBM Launches Z13 Mainframe
Learn about IBM's performance and progress to become a more innovative and focused company.
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YC Fall 2015 College Tour
How do you come up with an idea? What makes a great founding team? How do you raise money from investors? Join YC partners and alumni at colleges around the country. Hear their stories and find out what it’s really like to start a startup. You’ll also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one office hours. 9/19: Hack…
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What Did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?
Five key traits of unicorns at the Series A. Some may surprise you.
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Welcome Jared
I’m delighted to share that Jared Friedman is joining YC as a full-time partner. Jared co-founded Scribd, the world’s online library, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006. He was the CTO there. Jared has also been an investor in more than 30 YC companies. Before Scribd, he studied computer science at Harvard…
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Richard Prince, the world’s highest-grossing “photographer”
How to make hundreds of millions of dollars by taking pictures of other people's pictures.
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Quantifying the Clickbait and Linkbait in BuzzFeed Article Titles
You probably do not know that the 3 most interesting things I found will blow your mind.
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Rethinking office space
Today we’re submitting a plan to redevelop four sites to the Mountain View City Council.
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Software has its own Gresham's Law
I recently found myself reading a few of Gregor Hohpe's blog posts and came across Design Patterns: More Than Meets The Eye . In it, Hohpe repeats a message that needs to be repeated every so often even now, twenty years after the publication of the GoF book: software patterns are fundamentally about human…