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Deconstructing Pinterest’s reverse-image-search SEO growth hack
Discover SEO strategies, AI search optimization tips, and digital marketing insights from RankScience. Boost your search rankings and grow your business.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,888 posts.
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Backblaze Announces B2 Compute Partnerships
B2 Cloud Storage has now partnered with Packet and ServerCentral to announce compute options. Here’s everything this means for you as a customer.
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The value of hitting the HN front page
I’ve been a member of Hacker News (HN) since 2012. You can see my profile here . (Thanks to Jeff Beard for introducing me to it so many years ago.)
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Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphica…
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Underscore Price Dynamics
Every iOS developer needs to listen to _DavidSmith’s most recent podcast episode, Real World Price Dynamics with Lauren Smith (it’s just 22 minutes).
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Google's Genie is more impressive than GPT5
It was a busy week in the AI world.
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Google Voice for iPhone Released
Earlier this year we launched a Google Voice HTML5 web app for iPhone users. Today we’re taking the Google Voice experience on the iPhone t...
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Things to know before starting a Patreon page
For the three years starting in April of 2017, I ran much of The Prepared’s (and ultimately my family’s) income through Patreon. I started doing so as an experiment - one that by any measure has been a success. But while Patreon was instrumental in that process, I recommend that creators not str
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The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
Posted by Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow, on behalf of the entire Google Brain TeamThe Google Brain team's long-term goal is to create more intell...
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Internet Association Endorses Internet Censorship Bill
A trade group representing giants of Internet business from Facebook to Microsoft has just endorsed a “compromise” version of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), a bill that would be disastrous for free speech and online communities. Just a few hours after Senator Thune’s amended version...
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Making is show business now (2020)
Nadia Eghbal’s new book, Working In Public: the Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, may not have been on your short list of books to read this year. It’s admittedly a nerdy topic: …
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To Understand Jio, You Need to Understand Reliance
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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Chinese app included malware to gain competitive advantage
Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the software. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting…
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Understand, Design, Build: A Framework for Problem-Solving
Discover how to create solutions using Lob’s framework for problem solving. Learn how to understand the problem, design an approach, and build a solution.
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Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)
When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…
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Waymo Premier
As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we listened to how we can offer an even more elevated experience for you, our top riders. Introducing: Waymo Premier.
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New US homeownership measure puts people first
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track
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Update on an Employee Matter
On Friday, January 8th, GitHub separated with an employee. Later that day and over the weekend, employees raised concerns about the circumstances of the separation. We took these concerns seriously.…
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Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
The amazing thing about Steam and its player base is that they buy games they aren’t going to play. More than likely the person buying your game is not going to play it.
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The age of Scrum is over
Scrum has given us a lot, but its time for some conscious uncoupling
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"We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday."
So, the US Secret Service has issued a requirement for software that can detect sarcasm in tweets . And lo, there was much rejoicing in the land, especially among post-doc researchers looking for grant money to pursue research in algorithmic applications of semiotics with a side-line in heuristic knowledge processing…
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One hiring filter that works
In a fairly popular blog post, Raganwald advocates against using various heuristics while filtering out resumes. For the most part, I agree with him. Since it's hard to find good programmers, false negatives are very costly compared to the cost of a false positive (a wasted interview). But I have …