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How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store
Insights from an indie app developer
First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
Since the earliest days of the Oculus Kickstarter, the Rift has been shaped by gamers, backers, developers, and enthusiasts around the world....
Reviewing Steve Yegge's Prediction Record
I try to avoid making predictions 1 . It's a no-win proposition: if you're right, hindsight bias makes it look like you're pointing out the obvious. And most predictions are wrong. Every once in a while when someone does a review of predictions from pundits, they're almost always wrong at least as much as you'd expect…
Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
Posted by Andrew Godwin on Dec. 11, 2015
Microsoft and Red Hat partner
The cloud is changing the world, offering enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers alike endless scale, speed and agility in a cost-effective way. I’ve been talking with customers about “why cloud” for years. Recently there has been a shift in these conversations, as the benefits have become…
Mobile Changes Everything
[vimeo 130722577 w=720 h=404] watch time: 25 minutes We’ve shared a lot of data about whether and why ‘this time is different’. But beyond that, why is the tech market opportunity larger than any time in history (no, really!)? One word: mobile. In this update of his past presentation on Mobile Eating the World …
China
The most important story of 2014 that most people ignored was the Chinese economy overtaking the US economy. (This is using the purchasing power parity metric, which incorporates differences in...
Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
Lately there’s been a barrage of articles about how Apple is destroying the open web (because “app store, lol”) and it is Time Something Was Done About This: Apple’s paranoid appr…
Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud
What is credit card fraud, how we noticed it and how it impacted our business.
Get away with Google Flights
A few tips to help you book this year’s dream vacation.
Why Go is doomed to succeed
Golang was explicitly engineered to streamline projects built by large groups of programmers with different skill levels, and there is no larger such group than the open source community.
A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived
It's flattering to see others appreciate our design and data visualization. Here is one YC company that appreciated us a bit too much.
The Content Marketing Handbook
A 30,000+ word blog post about how to write about information and make it spread. And something new from us: The Priceonomics Data Studio.
Things the media does to manufacture outrage
People are so sensitive these days! People are just offended by every little thing! Millennials, amirite?!
I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders
On May 4th, my book Hello Web App was released. Since then, hundreds of people used it to learn how to build web apps using Python and Django.
Go to Prison for File Sharing? That's What Hollywood Wants in the TPP Deal
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States' excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while locking the US to the same lengths so it will...
Send Money to Friends in Messenger
We're giving people a more convenient and secure way to send or receive money between friends.
Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
[M]ortgages were acknowledged to be the most mathematically complex securities in the marketplace. The complexity arose entirely out of the option the homeowner has to prepay his loan; it was poetic …
Happy 10th birthday to us
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
Thanks HN: Glowforge will open-source its firmware
Meet Glowforge, the 3D laser printer that makes magical things at the push of a button.
An Apple ISA is coming
Apple is on track to diverge from ARM and x86 to design its own proprietary instruction set. This good for the future of hardware–software co-design.
23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports
23andMe made some news today, with the launch of a new experience for customers that includes the first and only direct-to-consumer genetic service that meets U.S. FDA standards. We invested nearly two years of work conducting extensive user testing, working with regulators, scientists, physicians, and top product…