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Chilling Effects
In what sense do 10% of people die of the cold? Also, why are heat-related deaths most common in Greenland?
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Tech Industry & Business
The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,889 posts.
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A Bitcoin miner in every hand
By Balaji S. Srinivasan (@balajis)
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Board Members
Over the last five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investors to founders. It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few. Founders’ desire for control is good in...
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New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations
Transparency is at the heart of everything we do at Twitter. That’s why we routinely disclose datasets of information operations we can reliably link to state actors.
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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Working Title (Insurance)
Title insurance is grossly overpriced relative to actual risks involved. Why is that?
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Mozilla Announces Experimental Partnership with ProtonVPN
Mozilla has long played an important role in the online world, and we’re proud of the impact we’ve had. But we want to do even more, and that means exploring ...
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Companies hide negative news with unrelated press releases alongside SEC filings
A new study, forthcoming in The Accounting Review from Jessica Watkins, assistant professor of accountancy in the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, found that, alongside 8-K reports featuring negative news, managers tend to push out simpler, unrelated press releases to divert attention from the…
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To Protect Legitimate Interests, Seattle Should Cap All Forms of Innovation
In a 9-0 decision Monday, the Seattle City Council voted to cap the number of UberX, Sidecar and Lyft drivers on our streets — to protect the legitimate interests of taxi companies and the revenue they create for our city.
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The Disappointing Tea.xyz
I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.
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Alleged $7.5B fraud in online advertising
Online advertising is often based around the idea of an "impression," but few of us actually know what that means. We assume it means some sort of interaction with a human being, but as it turns out, we're quite wrong. Today we dive into some staggering statistics with Samuel Scott.
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Zig Software Foundation 2025 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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Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising
Above is a graph that displays the amount of Form Ds filed, where the entity (read: company/firm) name contains the phrases "fund I", "fund II", "fund III", and "fund IV". The x-axis is not the prettiest, but it is broken down by quarter. You can see that the line for "fund I" sees by far the greatest peak around…
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We decided to go for the big rewrite
For small programs, where it would be a question of a few days or a few weeks to rewrite them, it will generally not be worth pondering this question for very long, and in most cases it will be better to just get started on either fixing the existing implementation or on rewriting it. For small programs it is possible…
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Deadlines and sprints are bad for you
The development team’s capabilities for battling deadlines are fairly restricted, yet they end up committing to them in day-to-day life…
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What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line
There’s been some speculation that we significantly increased the amount of posts here on SvN in the build up to the launch of the new Basecamp, and in particular that we targeted the front page of Hacker News for those articles. Some people aren’t happy about this. I’d like to…
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9to5
Last week, 9to5mac published this article in which the author intentionally derided me and Instapaper, called it “Instascraper”, and initially accused Instapaper of being responsible for the now-debunked “FBI” UDID leak. Despite my attempts to get them to correct what they wrote, they refused.
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App Analysis: Air Canada
This blog series focuses on the collection of device data by various popular mobile apps. Data is often collected in the name of advertising, error monitoring, fraud detection, and social media integration.
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Why Pierre Omidyar decided to join forces with Glenn Greenwald
Yesterday word leaked out that Glenn Greenwald would be leaving the Guardian to help create some new thing backed by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay. I just got off the phone with Omidyar. So I can report more details about what the new thing is and how it came to be.
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Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Announcing Wolfram SystemModeler
Large-scale system modeling environment for instant visualization, simulation, analysis of systems with mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical, biological and other components.
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Cash Flow and Destiny
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