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EmDash with some aggressive caching and SWR is effectively this, and we're getting closer to that every day. When the cost of maintaining the data part of the CMS is effectively fr…

I find it a little funny that their blog post goes into a lot of righteous detail on why they don't charge for address space like other providers and then on their pricing page the…

Hey HN! I'm a Product Manager at the FT in the UK, and VidGrid is something I've been working on for years in my own time. It's just got a major update just in time for the electio…

This was written a really long time ago by a former WSJ Graphics reporter (Elliot Bentley) who is now at Datawrapper. It is now operated by Muckrock and hasn't seen changes made to…

I'm so mad about Slack removing custom themes as part of this update. Seems entirely pointless given the volume of themes they now provide, it seems arbitrary that they have limite…

This is highly reminiscent of the numbers game from the British daytime gameshow Countdown. Contestants are given a choice of six numbers, from which they can choose how many big (…

Murdoch owns The Times" in London, not "The New York Times" (commonly referred to in the US as just The Times*). In the US his holdings are the Wall Street Journal and New York Pos…

But that's because the definition of a paper of record has changed, not because they no longer align themselves with the current definition. By that traditional definition the only…

I dropped pinboard.in recently. The interface hasn't had improvements in years, the extensions are all third party, and the API if you wanted to build your own is pretty limiting. …

I used to work for a major multinational media company. A few years ago the CTO at that media company looked to slash costs. They have a bunch of newspapers all over the world, and…

Yeah, sorry, that is what the world is like. It's a shame, but there's a way (as written in the post) that Apple could have accomplished something similar whilst still providing en…

This was part of the exciting suggestion of the original Stadia trailers: with the entire game and all the interactions happening in Google datacentres, you would only need to rece…

More discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25326232

There's no new information here, and some of these problems have been solved such as the group identification that happened during the HK protests. https://www.reuters.com/article/…

Something the New York Times have talked about recently is how they repositioned their subscription offers in the opposite direction to Tim's suggestion recently to great success. …

Generally they have a lot of media at a low cost. But if you want to support the production of this media, Apple currently take 50% of your monthly subscription as the cost of prov…

From working in media, another problem with micropayments is deciding on that dollar cost. Without coming up with some administration of value to each article (which I'm not saying…

They added a new setting recently to allow affiliate links like those used for tracking which might include this, try it out.

Thanks! I had no idea what I was searching for to try and find professional alternatives, so this is helpful :)

Hi HN! When I was at university (early 2010s) I worked a lot on student media, and got really into what the future of news would look like. Around the same time Microsoft backed a …