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Patrick McKenzie

Popular posts: 78
Total points: 24,475
HN comments: 11,944
Rank: #23 personal

Visit kalzumeus.com → On Hacker News Dec 2008 – Feb 2025

Tech Industry & Business 58 Career & Management 18 Startups 14 Software Engineering 13 Society, Policy & Culture 11 Life, Learning & Writing 9

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1

Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You

20171,088 points306 commentscited by 47Security & Privacy details

2

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

20111,021 points1,056 commentscited by 109Career & Management details

3

Announcing Starfighter

2015932 points400 commentscited by 7Tech Industry & Business details

4

I’m Joining Stripe to Work on Atlas

2016850 points317 commentscited by 3Career & Management details

5

Japan's Hometown Tax

2018847 points713 commentscited by 4Society, Policy & Culture details

6

Doing Business in Japan

2014818 points356 commentscited by 50Tech Industry & Business details

7

What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

2014801 points395 commentscited by 15Systems & Performance details

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How Discount Brokerages Make Money

2019696 points219 commentscited by 28Tech Industry & Business details

9

What Working at Stripe Has Been Like

2019685 points178 comments Career & Management details

10

Patio11's perspective on the Japan Earthquake

2011673 points108 commentscited by 3Society, Policy & Culture details

11

Talking About Money

2015650 points401 commentscited by 14Tech Industry & Business details

12

Salary Negotiation

2016609 points410 commentscited by 6Career & Management details

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Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

2012596 points511 commentscited by 127Career & Management details

14

How Running A Business Changes The Way You Think

2011477 points184 commentscited by 3Career & Management details

15

What Working At Stripe Has Been Like

2020439 points262 comments Career & Management details

16

I Saw An Extremely Subtle Bug Today And I Just Have To Tell Someone

2011413 points78 comments Software Engineering details

17

Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune

2012409 points154 commentscited by 5Tech Industry & Business details

18

Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2016

2016402 points249 commentscited by 4Tech Industry & Business details

19

What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

2013401 points176 commentscited by 5Security & Privacy details

20

Kalzumeus Software Year in Review 2014

2014391 points153 commentscited by 9Tech Industry & Business details

21

Tether: The Story So Far

2019377 points225 commentscited by 21Crypto & Blockchain details

22

Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game

2015365 points155 commentscited by 7Games & Graphics details

23

What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing

2014362 points113 commentscited by 6Security & Privacy details

24

Running a Software Business on 5 Hours A Week

2010359 points78 commentscited by 15Tech Industry & Business details

25

Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022

2022340 points323 commentscited by 4Crypto & Blockchain details

26

App store payments will have increased competition

2021331 points282 comments Tech Industry & Business details

27

Staging Servers, Source Control & Deploy Workflows, And Other Stuff

2010330 points54 comments Infrastructure & DevOps details

28

Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience

2015302 points186 commentscited by 3Games & Graphics details

29

Bingo Card Creator (etc) Annual Report

2010288 points88 comments Tech Industry & Business details

30

Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No

2025282 points75 comments Society, Policy & Culture details