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GOOG-411 was "competing" with a strong company (1-800-FREE411) by serving no ads in a category worth ~$3.5B at the time. It was inexplicable at the time, but they did this to get v…

So, Quri (2009, now part of Trax), which was the startup copy of Proctor & Gamble's retail intelligence operations. But now like a sponge for any AI budgets not earmarked for hardw…

most audio and video schemes support streaming, in the case of MP3 we are talking about frame-based compression I guess to restate my curiosity: are things like Animation Pose Comp…

the shoulder rotation plotted at various frequencies sparked for me: is there an "MP3" of character animation data? The way that we have compression optimized for auditory percepti…

AdderaLLM was right there

Has anyone tried to make a Yahoo! Directory vision of YouTube/web video? This isn’t going to get better on behalf of YT product teams, and Sora et al are going to ratchet up the st…

Based on the polished rib bone / leatherwork precedent, I am going to presume these were fabric-softening dryer balls.

this site, yikes. In summary, we don’t know what happened yet, but you assume it’s the direct and obvious outcome of ? And that ? In that’s the game, then, I suspect the Spotify te…

Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: design, browser-oriented code, GIFs Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ho5lIt8UubFM8HELmqb0I6…

I get that idealists will be up in arms about user-agent based self-censorship and still feel this way. It’s reversible immediately if it was proven to be harmful.

I think that Apple should insist that webviews used this way identify themselves via JS as monetization containers, with clear definitions for when and why subject to App Store rev…

San Francisco IGN is hiring in many departments, but here are a few that might particularly interest the HN reader. Shipped in 1996, we're not a startup, but most of that code is g…