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The Private Capture of Public Genius
Essay I of Upstream of Everything
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,888 posts.
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Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Bag of hurt
In 2008, Steve Jobs was asked 1 if and when Macs would play Blu-ray movies. He responded candidly :
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Increasing transparency through advertiser identity verification
Our goal is to ensure users understand who is advertising to them and why they are seeing specific ads.
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37signals invests in The Starter League
Today we’d like to announce that we’ve bought a stake in The Starter League. This is the only investment that 37signals has ever made in another company. What is The Starter League? The Starter League (formerly known as Code Academy) is a small school in Chicago that teaches Rai…
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YC Open Office Hours
Earlier this fall, we announced our first Open Office Hours [https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-and-hispanic-founders] where founders got to meet one-on-one with YC partners. We piloted the program with Black and Latino founders, over 650 founders applied in under a week, and we were able…
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Stripe: Alipay support
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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What Not To Build
I get to play a government scientist on the internet. As a result, a large part of my work involves being exposed to new and interesting tec...
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On being an Engineering Manager
Would you like to study a programming language but can’t quite make up your mind on what’s the best option for you?
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Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free Video
Things are moving fast for royalty-free video codecs. A month ago, the IETF NETVC Working Group had its first meeting and two weeks ago Cisco announced Tho
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New productivity software startups
There's a wave of companies trying to find new ways to make software for work, building bundles of workflows and networks that capture the spreadsheets, emails and phone calls of some industry or profession and turn them into structure, automation and time.
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Google+ is now available with Google Apps
Posted by Ronald Ho, Product Manager Google Apps fans, today we’re ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more l...
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Web Intents - the future of web apps
Web Intents is a new project designed to solve the problem of web application integration. Inspired by Android's intent system, it allows developers to build features without needing to integrate with every possible 3rd party service. Web Intents lets users choose their preferred service for actions like image editing…
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Our Stock Option pledge
The latest news, feature releases, and how to grow with data. Get tactical growth tips once per week.
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies)
Over the past few weeks, I’ve helped a handful of startups work on their YC applications and interviews. I spent much of the time brainstorming with the founders on the best way to explain their business in the most clear and compelling way possible. These founders knew a lot
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A vote for me is a vote for dipshit businesses everywhere
Vote for my SxSW panel! VCs are increasingly unnecessary to get companies started, and I haven't heard cogent arguments for why a founder should elect to go with them for an early round. Until that changes, they'll continue to be useful for growth-stage but less and less useful for early-stage companies.
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NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.
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Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
In Digital Media Lost the Newsstand. Micropayments Are the Obvious Way Back , Rick Bruner makes the case for giving micropayments another try.
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This time is different
3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX. The problem is, the same dudes (and it was nearly always dudes) who…
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China is the manufacturing superpower
The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined. China is now the world’s sole manufacturing superpower. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined. This column uses the recently released 2023 update…
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We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI