Have you ever loved a car? Maybe it was an old truck you drove for hundreds of thousands of miles, or maybe it was your very first car: where you had your very first beer and your very first kiss. You can love a car and keep on loving it as long as you don't crash it. If you're willing to maintain…

October 7, 2014 Privacy vs. User Experience Apple is going to realize very soon that it has made a grave mistake by positioning itself as a bastion of privacy against Google, the evil invader of everyone’s secrets. The truth is that collecting information about people allows you to make…

Last night I speculated that the slow uptake of iOS 8 was about people not trusting Apple with iOS software updates — too many bugs, and too many friends and family members talking about those bugs. I still think there’s something to that angle. But it’s very clear that I was wrong about what the…

My labor of love the last two years has been The Magazine, first as its hired hand and then, in May 2013, as its owner. The sad truth has been that, while profitable from week one, the publication has had a declining subscription base since February 2013. It started at such a high level that we…

James Cooper 7 min read· Oct 10, 2014 -- I clicked on a link about the ‘world’s first 3D printed car’. I saw the headline on PSFK which is a site I trust and it was also a Washington Times link so — as we all do — I made that split second, nano-second, decision to click. Idiot. I’ve read a lot of…

Apple's WWDC 2026 Keynote: Follow along with our live blog. An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple's new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18. A Saturday launch is unusual, but it…

I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The story of Tilde.Club Paul Ford 14 min read· Oct 9, 2014 -- Stevie Nicks This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds of people all (sort of) working toward a vague common goal on a ridiculous project that did not exist two weeks ago.…

Gilad Lotan: How do Facebook Trending Topics work? @_RoySD dives deep into the #OccupyCentral data https://t.co/WxAi7dYtjx

Paul Buchheit on listening to users: I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sent it out to a few people for feedback, and they said that it was somewhat useful, but it would be…

Escorts make $100 a hand job  —  but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. Welcome to the new economy of the oldest profession.

Tim Broder: Solid, solid release of @tweetbot 3.5 http://t.co/1CA1b3MkV1

Marcelo Somers: Dropbox’s design team uses Git + Web Hooks to keep their shared design resources in sync https://t.co/CS3XwF5JI8

Codenamed “Moments”, Facebook Has Built An App For Super-Private Sharing Josh Constine 2:27 PM PDT · September 16, 2014 Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It’s clumsy and confusing…

Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup Kyle Russell 10:00 AM PDT · August 14, 2014 Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like quantum computing, decades of…

Facebook has long attempted to be the place where, above all else, you try to be yourself. Soon, Facebook will allow you to be yourself, but under a different name. The company is working on a stand-alone mobile application that allows users to interact inside of it without having to use their real…

The fundamentals of the economy are, well, okay. It's been slow and steady, but the recovery has chugged along enough to get us back to something close to normal. The economy has surpassed its pre-cri

Thinkstock For almost a year, a company called Titan has operated a network of advertising beacons, devices that are capable of identifying nearby smartphones and which are often used to push advertis

Hacker News API October 7, 2014· Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API. We’ve partnered up with Firebase (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real time, which should be a huge improvement for developers who had to rely on scraping the site for this info.…

Cap Watkins: The iPhone 6 - A Practical Review http://t.co/1QcyryJ9y6

In June, Facebook announced that users who wanted to send private messages from their phones would have to download a separate app–Messenger–in order to do so. As I wrote at the time, it was an unusua

Making your brand the first priority of development Paul Murphy 5 min read· Oct 7, 2014 -- Our friends at GameIndustry.biz asked for our thoughts on how we’re building out our game studio, which they published today. I thought I’d post it here as well, in case those outside the game industry find it…

NJ-assembly-tony-kurdzuk-NSL.JPG The Assembly voted to end the Christie Administration's practice of suppressing property tax rebate data last week (Tony Kurdzuk/Star-Ledger) Gov. Chris Christie has e

Social science has traditionally considered education and religion to be somewhat opposing forces. As societies become more educated, the reasoning goes, they will become less religious -- a phenomeno

Steven Sinofsky: Tech community Product Hunt’s new $6.1M could be a gift, or spoil the experience http://t.co/RcTX4hrDcK via @VentureBeat

chris muscarella: Venture capital and the great big Silicon Valley asshole game http://t.co/bIgW5TljeO via @instapaper

ryan: Someone is doing a solid job of running @TheAtlantic's Ello account. Only problem: they don't know who. http://t.co/f4rcJlO7Oo

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered agents at airports and other ports to "observe" arrivals from Ebola-affected countries for potential signs of Ebola infection.

Reddit, the Internet’s favorite place to share links, has raised about $50 million in funding. This is the round we told you about earlier this month , and many of the details are in keeping with that

Yes, we were accepted into one of the nation’s most prestigious accelerator programs and turned them down. So are we crazy? I’m sure there are those of you out there that think we are nuts for turning this opportunity down. That’s fine and you may be right. My goal is not to convince anyone that we…

David Barnard: “The battleground for app discovery…has more to do with where an app ranks in the search results, than…charts.” Yup! http://t.co/kweESJVm28

You know it’s a really good blog post when the engineers are sending it to the product managers instead of the other way around. PG’s Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule was one that rocketed around YouTube teams when it was originally published summer of 2009. The basic gist is that productive…