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Show HN: Chomp Game built in React.js
I built a game called Chomp, which sparked my interest back in college when I learned about it in a game theory context. It’s a 2-player game, where you take turns biting chunks of chocolate off of a chocolate bar, avoiding a special ‘poison’ square. Whoever chomps the poison square, loses. I’m learning React / …
Find this site: Someone built a personal ‘tinder’ (with reward incentive)?
Hey HN, I’m trying to find this old website (created at least 4 years ago), can you help? This guy created a site where you could nominate your friends to become friends (maybe romantic partner, I don’t remember) with the creator. It began with a bio of himself and the nomination form without much else. …
These entrepreneurs leveraged technology to power segments like dairy and footwear and built successful businesses
Digital adoption has become a key factor for small and medium businesses to not just thrive, but also to survive. Digitisation has enabled many micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to reach out to more customers, enhance their productivity, and increase operational efficiencies. This week, SMBStory covered the journeys of Ahmedabad-based Prompt Dairy and Coimbatore-based Walkaroo. …
COVID-19 vaccines built on proven technology
Las vacunas para prevenir la propagación del COVID-19 que están en uso ahora son las más rápidas en haber sido desarrolladas en la historia reciente, causando que algunas personas tengan dudas acerca de vacunarse. Pero la tecnología de las vacunas ARN mensajero que se usa en las vacunas de Pfizer-BioNTech y Moderna ha existido por …
Zappos ex-CEO Tony Hsieh built his company’s culture around customer service and made sure it survived Amazon’s takeover. Here are the 6 best quotes from his memo announcing the deal
Ethan Miller/Getty Early Zappos investor and former CEO Tony Hsieh died on Friday. Hsieh raised the bar for customer service while running the online shoe seller, empowering his employees to send flowers and cards to customers, speak with them for hours, help them to order pizzas, and even hand-deliver especially valuable packages. The Zappos chief …
Google Chrome built for M1 Macs will be available to everyone soon
Now that Apple’s ARM-powered PCs have arrived, developers are retooling their software to run natively on the M1 CPU instead of relying on Rosetta 2 emulation. For many of us, Google Chrome is the program we use the most, and according to tweets from the team, you should be able to get an optimized version …
OBITUARY-Samsung’s Lee: tainted titan who built a global tech giant
In February 1993, five years after taking over from his father at South Korea’s Samsung Group, 51-year-old Lee Kun-hee was frustrated that he wasn’t making his mark. He summoned a group of Samsung Electronics executives to a Best Buy store in Los Angeles for a reality check on the Samsung brand. Covered in dust, a …