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Startup Failure Post-Mortems
It's hard to say goodbye. Find out how 483 startups have failed and why in the words of their investors and founders.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 344 posts.
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Why some businesses aren't allowed on Stripe
We’re building business infrastructure. As with other kinds of infrastructure (like hosting or electricity), we'd like to make it available to as broad a set of users as possible.
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Scaling to exabytes and beyond
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Merging vs. Rebasing
Compare git rebase with the related git merge command and identify all of the potential opportunities to incorporate rebasing into the typical Git workflow
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Rescuing REST from the API Winter
Simple AJAX using HTML attributes
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PEP 518 – Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects
This PEP specifies how Python software packages should specify what build dependencies they have in order to execute their chosen build system. As part of this specification, a new configuration file is introduced for software packages to use to specify...
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Human Height
The average height of a population can inform us about the nutrition and living conditions of populations in the past for which we have little other data.
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Against Intellectual Property
Would a libertarian society recognize patents as legitimate? What about copyright? In Against Intellectual Property, Stephan Kinsella, a patent attorney of many
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Hunger and Undernourishment
What are the consequences of undernourishment and how can we make progress against hunger and undernourishment?
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Guns and suicide: A fatal link
In the United States, suicides outnumber homicides almost two to one. Perhaps the real tragedy behind suicide deaths—about 30,000 a year, one for every 45
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RSS 2.0 Specification (Current)
The current version of the RSS 2.0 specification (2.0.11), published on March 30, 2009.
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High-income Americans pay most income taxes, but enough to be ‘fair’?
By design, wealthier Americans pay most of the nation’s total individual income taxes.
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Democratic vs. Republican occupations
An interactive chart of the political lean of professions, Democratic versus Republican, built from campaign contribution data.
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RethinkDB is shutting down
Today I have sad news to share. After more than seven years of development, the company behind RethinkDB is shutting down. We worked very hard to make RethinkDB successful, but in spite of all our efforts we were ultimately unable to build a sustainable business. There is a lot of information to unpack – over the next…
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A Brief History of Who Ruined Burning Man
In 1986, at the very first Burn, a crowd of complete strangers gathered around the Man once it was lit it on fire. Nobody had invited them. They didn’t know anything about the 10 Principles, or understand what The Man was...
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Fixing Python Performance with Rust
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
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T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately
Back in November, T-Mobile announced a new service for its mobile customers called Binge On, in which video streams from certain websites don’t count against customers’ data caps.[fn]To be fair, T-Mobile’s plans don’t have traditional data caps—they just slow down to “2G” speeds once customers...
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Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the Future of Ruby Performance
Jonan: Welcome everyone. Today we are doing an interview to talk about new features coming in Ruby 3. I am here with my coworker, Sasada Koichi san....
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Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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BYOT: Bring your own team
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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A Farewell to FRP
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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The Trouble with CloudFlare
Wednesday, CloudFlare blogged that 94% of the requests it sees from Tor are "malicious." We find...
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With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy
Microsoft had an ambitious goal with the launch of Windows 10: a billion devices running the software by the end of 2018. In its quest to reach that goal, the company aggressively pushed Windows 10 on its users and went so far as to offer free upgrades for a whole year. However, the company’s...
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How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
How we're solving storage and performance issues as we scale.
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The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler
The technology industry is still young, but its history is already rich with myths and legends.
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