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The beginning of scarcity in AI
GPU rental prices surged 48% in 60 days. The AI compute shortage will force startups to compete not on speed of iteration, but on access to infrastructure.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,888 posts.
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MKBHDs for Everything
Marques Brownlee has tremendous power because he can go direct to consumers; that is possible in media, and AI will make it possible everywhere.
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Michael Lewis: shilling for the buyside?
Journalism, in the ideal world, is supposed to inform the citizenry of facts important to their well being. Modern journalism seems to involve issuing press releases from the oligarchical reptiles …
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Bad behavior is almost always good politics (2021)
Most great thinkers have speculated about the kind of leadership that might give rise to a better society, analyzing it through what’s sometimes called a “normative” lens: What should we be doing? In Leviathan, for example, Thomas Hobbes argued for a single, absolute sovereign to hold together the social contract. He…
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Walmart releases more affordable analog insulin
BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 29, 2021 — Walmart announced the launch of the first-ever private brand analog insulin, which will revolutionize the access and affordability to diabetes care by offering customers a significant price savings without compromising quality. Available exclusively through Walmart’s private ReliOn…
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Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future…
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Netflix's UX design is keeping people up at night
How UX design is impacting the way we binge watch television.
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Why Programming Is Hard to Fundamentally Improve (2017)
My thoughts on why programming hasn’t changed that much and where the next generation of improvements will come
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Google Public DNS turns 8.8.8.8 years old
Posted by Alexander Dupuy, Software Engineer Once upon a time, we launched Google Public DNS , which you might know by its iconic IP addre...
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Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
The first real money I ever made from game development was on Android. It was in 2013, when Android was still the underdog compared to the iPhone, and was being touted as a great platform for developers. I’d taken two weeks to build Patchy, a retro arcade game revamped for touch controls, and published it on the…
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Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
An update on the Hearthstone Grandmasters APAC competitive ruling.
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AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
Fundación PostgreSQL
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Online Education's Dirty Secret - Awful Retention
I’m extremely excited about online education, but I’ve noticed that online education products have a really serious problem: low retention. I’ve used Coursera, EdX, Hack Design, Duolingo, Codecademy… and I’ve churned from all of them. I bet you did too!
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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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Starbucks’ WiFi goes Google
We’re teaming up with Starbucks to bring faster, free WiFi connections to all Starbucks stores in the United States.
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Reid Hoffman's $30M bet: Send partners, not cash, to startups
Search through thousands of startup jobs, across any location or remote, hiring for software engineers, product managers, designers, marketing, sales, and more.
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An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About AI’s iPhone Moment
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the impact of ChatGPT, Nvidia’s new cloud service, and how Nvidia is adapting to new geopolitical and competitive realities.
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Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?
With people spending more time on social media, many rightly wonder whether that time is good for us. Do people connect in meaningful ways online? Or are they simply consuming trivial updates and polarizing memes at the expense of time with loved ones?
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The golden era of being an open startup is gone
To me, the golden era of being an open startup is gone. Some founders and early adopters are shutting down their open pages and changing their transparency practices. I don’t think they are doing it just because things change and we need to cope.
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Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks
We live in an era that devalues conformity, while simultaneously preserving it in many interesting ways. Everyone is allowed to have an opinion. Divergent views produce conflict, however, and disagreement, argument, and debate define our current moment. If we merely disagreed on matters of taste - our favorite color…
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Adobe, Apple, and Flash
If Adobe needs Apple to grant them further access to the hardware to make the *Mac* version of Flash Player better, what are the odds that they’d get that sort of low-level hardware access on the iPhone OS? (Hint: zero.)
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The value of institutional memory
In 1978, a dredging gang working for British Waterways was struggling with a problem. They were trying to clear obstacles on the Chesterfield Canal so they could stabilise a concrete wall — not an …
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The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millenial
A few months ago, while dining at Veggie Grill (one of the new breed of Chipotle-class fast-casual restaurants), a phrase popped unbidden into my head: premium…