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1.

GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code (venturebeat.com)

948 points by marcinkuzminski 2017-03-15 | 320 comments

2.

Google Chrome to stop autoplaying content with sound (venturebeat.com)

670 points by piyushgupta27 2017-09-15 | 182 comments

3.

Android now supports Kotlin (venturebeat.com)

620 points by JOfferijns 2017-05-17 | 216 comments

4.

Sergey Brin gives $500,000 to help Wikipedia (venturebeat.com)

545 points by recusancy 2011-11-18 | 196 comments

5.

PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever (venturebeat.com)

459 points by denzil_correa 2013-06-13 | 206 comments

6.

OMGPOP CEO tweets: "Shay Pierce was the weakest employee on the team" (venturebeat.com)

366 points by lleims 2012-04-01 | 181 comments

7.

Google removes AdBlock for Android from Google Play (venturebeat.com)

365 points by HaloZero 2013-03-14 | 201 comments

8.

Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers (venturebeat.com)

347 points by Down_n_Out 2018-12-21 | 156 comments

9.

Google tried to resist FBI requests for data, but the FBI took it anyway (venturebeat.com)

341 points by cwilson 2013-06-07 | 81 comments

10.

Red Hat is buying Ansible (venturebeat.com)

336 points by dlapiduz 2015-10-16 | 182 comments

11.

Startup developing HIV/AIDS vaccine is 2nd nonprofit accepted into Y Combinator (venturebeat.com)

334 points by playhard 2014-01-23 | 130 comments

12.

GitLab raises $100M from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1B valuation (venturebeat.com)

319 points by sethbannon 2018-09-19 | 200 comments

13.

AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution (venturebeat.com)

313 points by mactitan 2014-01-14 | 187 comments

14.

LinkedIn quietly removes option to export contacts (venturebeat.com)

313 points by QUFB 2015-07-23 | 125 comments

15.

YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals (venturebeat.com)

306 points by bhuga 2012-01-28 | 237 comments

16.

Workplace flexibility is the way to win the war for talent (venturebeat.com)

305 points by Mz 2017-08-20 | 133 comments

17.

W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins (venturebeat.com)

300 points by markoa 2019-03-04 | 147 comments

18.

Apple’s iPhone 5 touchscreen is 2.5 times faster than Android devices (venturebeat.com)

294 points by bumbledraven 2013-09-21 | 212 comments

19.

Official list of SOPA supporters (venturebeat.com)

292 points by superchink 2011-12-22 | 30 comments

20.

Oculus VR raises $75M (venturebeat.com)

288 points by dm8 2013-12-13 | 97 comments

21.

Powering Twitch and Medium, Algolia (YC W14) raises $53M (venturebeat.com)

278 points by losecontrol 2017-06-08 | 107 comments

22.

Sam Altman: ‘Too many’ Y Combinator companies raise money (venturebeat.com)

269 points by chasedehan 2017-12-21 | 158 comments

23.

Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training (venturebeat.com)

264 points by sylvainkalache 2017-06-28 | 201 comments

24.

SeaMicro drops an atom bomb on the server industry (venturebeat.com)

260 points by timf 2010-06-14 | 109 comments

25.

Born of Reddit, Imgur now dwarfs the ‘front page of the Internet’ (venturebeat.com)

259 points by r0h1n 2013-09-27 | 136 comments

26.

Google confirms next Android won’t implement Oracle's proprietary Java APIs (venturebeat.com)

256 points by ingve 2015-12-29 | 184 comments

27.

Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue (venturebeat.com)

254 points by richardboegli 2018-12-04 | 208 comments

28.

How one man made 22 games in 22 years, mostly from his basement (venturebeat.com)

254 points by code_duck 2015-02-18 | 108 comments

29.

Civilization: 25 years, 33M copies sold, 1B hours played, and 66 versions (venturebeat.com)

252 points by blammail 2016-02-18 | 190 comments

30.

Hardware is dead (venturebeat.com)

251 points by swombat 2012-09-17 | 145 comments

31.

Mozilla fixed a 14-year-old bug in Firefox, Adblock Plus uses less memory (venturebeat.com)

249 points by devNoise 2015-09-24 | 117 comments

32.

Screw you. Pay me. (venturebeat.com)

248 points by privacyguru 2011-04-15 | 86 comments

33.

Sony will allow indie devs to publish their own games on PlayStation 4 (venturebeat.com)

243 points by jeffreyfox 2013-06-11 | 86 comments

34.

A Skype call in Ethiopia will now get you 15 years in prison (venturebeat.com)

242 points by bane 2012-06-15 | 66 comments

35.

Youtube Instant creator gets instant job offer (venturebeat.com)

240 points by ajg1977 2010-09-10 | 76 comments

36.

Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston to take year-long sabbatical (venturebeat.com)

240 points by etr71115 2016-04-05 | 155 comments

37.

Google’s $1B purchase of Twitch confirmed (venturebeat.com)

237 points by owenwil 2014-07-24 | 96 comments

38.

This French tech school has no teachers, no books, no tuition (venturebeat.com)

236 points by joubert 2015-04-19 | 118 comments

39.

Amazon HQ2 finalists should refuse tax breaks, say nearly 100 economists (venturebeat.com)

235 points by champagnepapi 2018-01-31 | 210 comments

40.

A Classic Startup Horror Story (venturebeat.com)

231 points by t3mp3st 2012-02-27 | 81 comments

41.

Mobile browser traffic is 2X bigger than app traffic, and growing faster (venturebeat.com)

231 points by AnbeSivam 2015-09-27 | 136 comments

42.

Evernote’s 5% problem offers a cautionary lesson to tech companies (venturebeat.com)

218 points by fforflo 2016-01-05 | 121 comments

43.

Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator (venturebeat.com)

215 points by hornokplease 2010-11-12 | 35 comments

44.

Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor (venturebeat.com)

214 points by pbreit 2015-06-25 | 157 comments

45.

Pornhub launches VPNhub, its own virtual private network app (venturebeat.com)

212 points by sahin-boydas 2018-05-24 | 128 comments

46.

Computer science is now the top major for women at Stanford University (venturebeat.com)

212 points by denzil_correa 2015-10-10 | 147 comments

47.

No app store? No problem: Grooveshark rolls out full HTML5 site for all devices (venturebeat.com)

212 points by zoowar 2012-09-06 | 129 comments

48.

Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5 (venturebeat.com)

207 points by cpeterso 2015-02-26 | 92 comments

49.

Google Creates 'Dedicated Placement' in Search Results for AMP Stories (venturebeat.com)

207 points by anfilt 2019-05-11 | 196 comments

50.

Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis: AGI is nowhere close to being a reality (venturebeat.com)

204 points by z0a 2018-12-18 | 175 comments

51.

Zuckerberg accused of securities fraud (venturebeat.com)

201 points by bjonathan 2010-05-19 | 70 comments

52.

Planet Earth time lapse photos from the International Space Station (venturebeat.com)

198 points by evo_9 2011-11-14 | 18 comments

53.

Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube (venturebeat.com)

195 points by throwaway255 2018-12-10 | 212 comments

54.

WordPress creator slams Wix: ‘Your app editor is built with stolen code’ (venturebeat.com)

194 points by jaredtking 2016-10-29 | 70 comments

55.

Why is this job not handled by a machine yet? (venturebeat.com)

192 points by aidenlivingston 2017-02-09 | 214 comments

56.

The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam (venturebeat.com)

191 points by PhilipA 2013-08-13 | 119 comments

57.

Yammer CEO won't hire anyone from Yahoo who doesn't quit in next 60 days (venturebeat.com)

188 points by bproper 2012-03-14 | 192 comments

58.

4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity (venturebeat.com)

185 points by bond 2011-03-13 | 75 comments

59.

Intel AI open-sources library for deep learning-driven NLP (venturebeat.com)

183 points by rcarndrums 2018-05-25 | 35 comments

60.

Unemployed game designer creates mind-blowing solar system explorer app (venturebeat.com)

181 points by dwynings 2012-04-15 | 39 comments

61.

What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines (venturebeat.com)

179 points by zdw 2017-03-06 | 159 comments

62.

Trello hits 12M users, launches Power-Ups platform (venturebeat.com)

178 points by potshot 2016-01-19 | 95 comments

63.

Apple kills a Kickstarter project (venturebeat.com)

177 points by lambtron 2012-12-20 | 194 comments

64.

Rap Genius (YC S11) responds to Heroku’s call for ‘respect’ (venturebeat.com)

176 points by jolie 2013-03-02 | 87 comments

65.

Former Sequoia partners: The Midwest is the future of startups (venturebeat.com)

175 points by vollmarj 2016-08-30 | 260 comments

66.

Y Combinator presents 26 new startups (venturebeat.com)

175 points by dwynings 2010-03-23 | 189 comments

67.

The Google project to put an aquarium full of water bears inside a phone (venturebeat.com)

175 points by seycombi 2017-02-25 | 84 comments

68.

Amazon in talks with HP to buy Palm (venturebeat.com)

175 points by mjfern 2011-09-30 | 98 comments

69.

Oops: Facebook caught planting anti-Google stories to press (venturebeat.com)

173 points by evo_9 2011-05-12 | 31 comments

70.

Autodesk announces 925 layoffs (venturebeat.com)

171 points by spinningarrow 2016-02-04 | 147 comments

71.

Crossbar Resistive RAM stores a terabyte on a chip (venturebeat.com)

170 points by iand 2013-08-06 | 74 comments

72.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: MPAA chairman Christopher Dodd should be fired (venturebeat.com)

167 points by ukdm 2012-01-24 | 35 comments

73.

Glassdoor: Airbnb dethrones Google as the best tech company to work for in U.S (venturebeat.com)

167 points by aritraghosh007 2015-12-09 | 120 comments

74.

Microsoft Research wins image recognition competition (venturebeat.com)

166 points by espeed 2015-12-12 | 41 comments

75.

Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public (venturebeat.com)

163 points by cienrak 2012-03-06 | 23 comments

76.

After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF (venturebeat.com)

163 points by malyk 2014-10-01 | 154 comments

77.

Eric Schmidt's book is wrong about how Google works (venturebeat.com)

163 points by mandeepj 2014-12-01 | 87 comments

78.

Hands On: India’s $35 Aakash Android tablet lands in America (venturebeat.com)

160 points by evo_9 2011-10-26 | 51 comments

79.

How LinkedIn used Node.js and HTML5 to build a better, faster app (venturebeat.com)

159 points by jc123 2011-08-16 | 73 comments

80.

Gumroad raises $7 million from KPCB (venturebeat.com)

158 points by thoughtpeddler 2012-05-07 | 65 comments

81.

Top designers react to Google’s new ‘Material’ design language (venturebeat.com)

158 points by harrisonweber 2014-06-27 | 78 comments

82.

Y Combinator announces growth program for later-stage startups (venturebeat.com)

153 points by ascertain 2017-12-14 | 38 comments

83.

Apple is finally allowing developers to sell their apps to other developers (venturebeat.com)

152 points by rmah 2013-06-12 | 28 comments

84.

Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD (venturebeat.com)

151 points by neya 2012-08-01 | 78 comments

85.

Why Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin (venturebeat.com)

149 points by bpierre 2017-06-12 | 134 comments

86.

Transport app Citymapper trials its own smart bus service in London (venturebeat.com)

147 points by seventyhorses 2017-05-08 | 76 comments

87.

WebRTC is almost here, and it will change the web (venturebeat.com)

146 points by denismars 2012-08-13 | 91 comments

88.

Upverter (YC W11): the perfect tool for open-source hardware (venturebeat.com)

145 points by shamer 2011-09-13 | 29 comments

89.

Jack Dorsey giving up 30% of his stake in Square to help underserved communities (venturebeat.com)

143 points by richiezc 2015-10-15 | 84 comments

90.

Mary Meeker’s eye-popping annual Internet Trends report hits the web (venturebeat.com)

141 points by Codhisattva 2012-05-30 | 59 comments

91.

Epic Games shows jaw-dropping graphics for next-generation consoles (venturebeat.com)

141 points by evo_9 2011-03-08 | 119 comments

92.

BlackBerry confirms it will end in-house hardware development (venturebeat.com)

141 points by endswapper 2016-09-28 | 161 comments

93.

People's underestimation of AI (venturebeat.com)

137 points by aidenlivingston 2016-12-28 | 238 comments

94.

India to launch its first mission to Mars [video] (venturebeat.com)

136 points by gagan2020 2013-10-15 | 53 comments

95.

Why Apple employees avoid getting in the elevator with Steve Jobs (venturebeat.com)

136 points by bond 2011-08-25 | 46 comments

96.

Mesosphere raises $73.5M with Microsoft participating (venturebeat.com)

136 points by mwilcox 2016-03-24 | 13 comments

97.

Ctrl-labs’ armband lets you control computer cursors with your mind (venturebeat.com)

134 points by sahin-boydas 2018-06-17 | 68 comments

98.

PC market has seen its first growth quarter in six years (venturebeat.com)

133 points by tronotonante 2018-07-14 | 86 comments

99.

Google has quietly launched a CDN (venturebeat.com)

132 points by prostoalex 2015-12-14 | 42 comments

100.

Zenefits confirms 250 layoffs, 17% of company workforce (venturebeat.com)

132 points by stygiansonic 2016-02-26 | 54 comments

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