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Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

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520 points kevinyew | 6 comments | 04 Sep 25 12:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.242s | source | bottom
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jshchnz ◴[04 Sep 25 14:58 UTC] No.45128040[source]▶
$610M, all cash??? How were they worth that much... all they seemed to ever do was rebrand
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Waraqa ◴[04 Sep 25 15:38 UTC] No.45128484[source]▶
"Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (especially those with imaginative interfaces). That’s our secret sauce. It lets ex-iOS engineers prototype native browser UI quickly, without touching C++."

https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc...

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1. scosman ◴[04 Sep 25 16:18 UTC] No.45128936[source]▶
A UI framework? What’s the other $608m for?
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2. Groxx ◴[04 Sep 25 16:32 UTC] No.45129086[source]▶
Yeah, I kinda read that as "it's not just a chromium fork with additional code. the code is organized. nobody has ever done that before!"
3. ale ◴[04 Sep 25 20:56 UTC] No.45132089[source]▶
Just like the old Carlin joke. Made me chuckle.
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4. ausssssie ◴[04 Sep 25 22:13 UTC] No.45132829[source]▶
Or... A UI framework? what's the other $612m for?
5. shruggedatlas ◴[05 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45134325[source]▶
I wanted you to know that, due to this comment, I "lost" approximately 45 minutes watching George Carlin's best jokes
6. potamic ◴[05 Sep 25 05:49 UTC] No.45135351[source]▶
What was the joke?