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pbreit

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San Francisco, CA. Checkout.com. Ex: Ingenico ePayments, Veem, Bold Financial Technologies, Eventbrite, PayPal, American Express. Projects: Cheeko B Pet Boutique, Canine Ties, MessageDesk.net, Pricetack.com, RunwayPOS.com.

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

Musk, experts urge pause on training AI systems more powerful than GPT-4

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

What Is the Purpose of “Bearer”?

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www.commonsense.news 4y ago

There Are Still Pioneers in America. Cole Summers Was One

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blog.postman.com 4y ago

2021 Postman Plans and Pricing Updates

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www.rdegges.com 4y ago

Why I Love Basic Auth

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www.medscape.com 6y ago

Covid-19: Could Hydroxychloroquine Be the Answer?

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www.realclearmarkets.com 6y ago

Elizabeth Holmes Is a Visionary, and We Need More Like Her

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boz.com 8y ago

The P Rules

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blog.runscope.com 8y ago

Phasing out the Traffic Inspector

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www.computerhistory.org 8y ago

MacPaint and QuickDraw Source Code (2010)

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take.lyft.com 9y ago

The Open Era of Autonomous

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www.coindesk.com 9y ago

Bitcoin Startup Align Raises $24M, Rebrands as Veem

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slack.com 9y ago

Slack Beta

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Where did the MoveLoot submission go?

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techcrunch.com 10y ago

Dwolla fined $100,000 for misrepresenting its data-security practices

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blog.jaredfriedman.com 10y ago

Why I wouldn’t use rails for a new company

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online.barrons.com 10y ago

Are Yelp, GrubHub, and Uber Creating Any Lasting Value? [paywall, try Google]

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www.streetinsider.com 11y ago

PayPal to Acquire Xoom (XOOM) for $25/Share

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venturebeat.com 11y ago

Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Twitter Cuts Off DataSift

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www.kpcb.com 11y ago

5 Tips on Building an Amazing Team

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abovethecrowd.com 11y ago

Today’s $100M+ Late-Stage Rounds Very Different from IPOs

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fortune.com 11y ago

Bracket Computing launches with $85M to rewrite cloud management

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upstart.bizjournals.com 11y ago

Yammer co-founder launches enterprise productivity app Nama

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www.newyorker.com 11y ago

Bachmann: Hawking Blunder on Black Holes Shows Danger of Listening to Scientists

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fundersclub.com 12y ago

Invest in Startups Via Tax-advantaged IRA

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www.geekwire.com 12y ago

UberX adds $1 ‘Safe Rides Fee’ for passengers

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www.businessinsider.com 12y ago

Why The Open Office Makes You Distracted, Exhausted, And Insecure

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Why are all the Eich posts being deleted?

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consequenceofsound.net 12y ago

GoldieBlox suing Beastie Boys over use of "Girls" in ad

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“ A total of around 575,000 residential heat pump units were sold across 11 European countries from January to March 2026, up from 494,000 in the same period in 2025”

Not a big increase on a relatively small base. What is the takeaway here?

I don't go to the gym much but that is one place where I would be VERY careful trying to strike up a confirmation and heaven forbid tapping someone on the shoulder.

EFF is leaving X 3 months ago

"X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago"

Does anyone believe this?

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

Very small percentage of students (the primary audience) are touch typists.

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

I would say the vast, vast majority of people are completely unable to use a non-lit keyboard in the dark.

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

I'd go further and suggest that metal is a lousy substance for laptop enclosures.

MacBook Neo 5 months ago

I would say "No keyboard backlighting" is a true show-stopper for a huge portion of the target audience (students).