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The Relentless Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is retiring, and will go down as one of the great CEO’s in tech history, in part because of how he transformed Amazon into a tech company in every respect.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,889 posts.
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Ubuntu and open source help the City of Munich save millions
Challenge Munich is the third-largest city in Germany, with approximately 1.5 million inhabitants. The local governing body employs more than 33,000 people – 16,000 of whom use PCs as part of their daily roles. Those computers are located at different sites and their users have widely differing needs. In 2001, there…
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Insights from Adopting TypeScript at Scale
Rob Palmer shares some of the insights & lessons learned during Bloomberg Engineering's journey to adopt TypeScript as a first-class supported language.
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Who Pays for the Decentralized Web?
I recently attended the Decentralized Web Summit where industry giants Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee spoke about designing a new…
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The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
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Implementing API Billing with Stripe
Writing new billing and payments code with Stripe for our video call API
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End-of-Life Announcement for CoreOS Container Linux
CoreOS was founded in 2013 with the mission to improve the security and reliability of the internet.
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A Closer Look at the Lapsus$ Data Extortion Group
Microsoft and identity management platform Okta both this week disclosed breaches involving LAPSUS$ , a relatively new cybercrime group that specializes in stealing data from big companies and threatening to publish it unless a ransom demand is paid. Here’s a closer look at LAPSUS$, and some of the low-tech but…
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Time Series, the new shiny?
If you’ve been fortunate enough to have been studying penguins at McMurdo these last few seasons you may have missed the attention “Time Series” has been getting in the Big Data space. Then again, maybe not. Because if you were doing scientific work whilst snug in your North Face you may have been t
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All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase
Joel has decided to chase venture capital for StackOverflow, but I can’t exactly figure out why. He lists six benefits that just don’t compute under even light scrutiny: 1. The Answers market is in a land grab modeUnlike eBay, where there’s a general market for goods and you ge…
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AWS Media Services – Process, Store, and Monetize Cloud-Based Video
Do you remember what web video was like in the early days? Standalone players, video no larger than a postage stamp, slow & cantankerous connections, overloaded servers, and the ever-present buffering messages were the norm less than two decades ago. Today, thanks to technological progress and a broad array of…
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Mona Sans and Hubot Sans
Learn how to use and express yourself with GitHub’s open source variable fonts, Mona Sans and Hubot Sans.
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Announcing Google Cloud VMware Engine
VMware Engine is a fully managed offering that lets enterprises run existing virtual machines on Google Cloud infrastructure.
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Too Young to Know It Can’t be Done
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation. Pearl S. Buck Ask people what makes entrepreneurs successf…
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The Cult of the Root Cause
“Why?” is my favorite question because it illuminates relationships between cause and effect. And when we ask this question more than once we expose even deeper causal relationships. Unfortunately,…
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Blendle: A radical experiment with micropayments in journalism, 365 days later
One year of journalism without subscriptions, without ads and without clickbait
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Shutting down my side project of two years
I started blaster.fm in late 2010 with only a vague idea of what I wanted to do with it. Over the next two years …
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Postmortem of Venture-Backed Startup, Sonar
Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar
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Tina is not a CMS
Today, we’re excited to announce TinaCMS : an open-source site editing toolkit for React-based sites (Gatsby and Next.j...
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Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig project.
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Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)
Nico, Minitap’s CEO, shares what the team found in Google’s Artemis repository and why attribution matters for the open-source community.
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Gog.com Soon On More Platforms
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.