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The Costs of Requiring Accounts
Should online communities require people to create accounts before participating? This question has been a source of disagreement among people who start or manage online communities for decades. Re…
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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Murray's jailing is latest move in a battle to snuff out independent journalism
The supreme court’s refusal to hear Craig Murray’s appeal against his unprecedented conviction for ‘jigsaw identification’ means the British state is now effectively credentialising journalists. Only corporate journalists will be safe from state retribution.
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Passport
Announcing Passport, the new infrastructure supporting Stratechery.
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How Homogeneous Is Japan?
It depends on what you mean by homogeneity.
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California’s AV testing rules apply to Tesla’s “FSD”
Five years to the day after I criticized Uber for testing its self-proclaimed "self-driving" vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California's automated driving law, I find myself criticizing Tesla for testing its self-proclaimed "full self-driving" vehicles on California…
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EasyDNS is now accepting Dogecoin for payments
Continuing in our tradition of being a crypto currency trailblazer, we are now accepting DOGE payments for all services. We were the first ICANN registrar to accept Bitcoin... ...the first to accept Ethereum, ...the first to accept Litecoin and now ... DOGE. Remember who was there first, again. (and it…
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What’s Vivaldi’s business model?
Some browsers use your data in ad networks, push promoted content or use other invasive methods to fund their development. We don’t.
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Nominet announces that four directors have been removed
Nominet announces that four directors have been removed from their board seats as a result of a vote at today’s Extraordinary General Meeting.
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Building the Brex API
We’re excited to launch the Brex API this week! Now, customers can programmatically read their data, issue cards, invite users, send payments and much more.
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The Enterprise Eats Software
Just now, Avdi had a miserable experience buying curtains. He went to pick up an order that he placed last night, but Lowe’s didn’t have it. The order was sent to the wrong store and it…
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Parler Tricks: Making Software Disappear
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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University of Oregon will monitor students' social media statements
We have been discussing the expanding monitoring and sanctioning of teachers for their political commentary on social media. We have also discussed such actions taken against college, high school …
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Apple's Texas-Sized Problem
Link to: https://popular.info/p/apples-texas-problem
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How we paid for the War on Terror
Or, why Keynesianism and functional finance demand politics.
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Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?
This story has moved a lot since it was published – our update from March 3 tells the latest. Apple...
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UC secures landmark open access deal with world’s largest scientific publisher
The University of California today (March 16) announced a pioneering open access agreement with the world’s largest scientific publisher, Elsevier, making significantly more of the University’s research available to people worldwide — immediately and at no cost. The deal will put more UC research into the hands of…
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GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality.
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Vaccines and our return to office plans
An update on Google’s return to office plans, including vaccine requirements and extending voluntary work from home.
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Why Google's bookmark manager and Docs have purposefully bad UI
Chrome’s bookmark manager and Google docs have questionably bad UI and design. They both lack such basic organizational features, such as tags, one has to wonder if they are purposefully bad at helping you stay organized.
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Congress demands tech CEOs censor the internet even more aggressively
The repressive objective of the Democratic-controlled Congress is to transfer the power to police and censor political discourse from these tech giants to themselves.
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Interview with Hansen Hsu, engineer at Apple during transition from OS 9 to OS X
The last episode, I said I wasn't sure there was such a thing as culture, but that's not the case. Every place I've worked has been a bit different, and often those differences had huge impacts on the software we built. The team where people roll their eyes at UX feedback will not have as simple of a product as a team…
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How Google designed its wildfire feature for Maps
Learn more about Google. Explore our innovative AI products and services, and how we're using technology to help improve lives around the world.
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Staying on the path to high performing teams (2018)
A friend is six months into supporting a sixty person engineering group. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of their teams believe they have urgent hiring needs. It’s a great question, and captures a deeply challenging aspect of leading an organization: keeping the path after you’ve established a strategy and while it’s…
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Unified Patent Court is more expensive and an SME killer
Brussels, 31 october 2021 — FFII says the proposed Unified Patent Court is an SME killer with its super-expensive court fees of 20.000EUR. No small company will be able to defend itself if it is accused of violating a patent, the proposed UPC court fees will deny access to justice for small companies, the cost […]
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Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon
The origin of AWS and the story of Zimki, the world's first Platform as a Service that belonged to Canon.