Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 146 posts.
For 40 years, Costco has succeeded with a simple formula: reinvest merchandising profits into lower prices and better products; be a disciplined operator; and treat customers and employees well. But with greater share of shopping moving online, it’s fair to wonder if the company's best da
This controversial decision coupled with poor messaging has created anxiety the Open Source community. Learn what's happening and how we can move forward.
Amazon and Goodreads must take steps to combat the flood of AI-generated content that will mislead readers and damage author reputations.
Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"
Earlier today, GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij sent the following note to GitLab team members.
We harness every resource, insight, relationship, and competitive advantage to drive superior results for our clients.
Two years ago, Red Hat killed CentOS, a widely-used free version of their Enterprise Linux distribution. The community of CentOS users—myself included—were labeled as 'freeloaders', using the work of the almighty Red Hat corporation, without contributing anything back. Don't mind all the open source developers, Linux…
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
We’re happy to announce that OpenAI and Microsoft are extending our partnership.
We’re committing $30M to build Mozilla.ai: A startup — and a community — building a trustworthy, independent, and open-source AI ecosystem. We’re o
A capital-intensive, high-risk way to revolutionize global commerce
Duolingo’s newest subscription, Duolingo Max, offers a powerful AI-backed learning experience.
My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation : it's a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me – because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:
We're living through times of significant change.
Today we’re announcing the third generation of Tailscale plans and pricing. Most noticeably: The Free plan is expanding from one to three users. Monthly paid plans now include three free users, and bill you only for additional users who actively exchange data over Tailscale (“usage-based billing”) rather than for a…
We recently discussed Information industry jobs data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: That post showed that layoffs in Information were elevated relative to layoffs for non-farm employment overall...
OCV starts companies around the most promising open source projects.
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team, As we say in our Band Manifesto, change is the only constant. For this reason, I continue to reiterate that speed is the most defensible strategy a business can have. But speed alone is…
The 2020s are not the 1990s.
Last week I had the privilege to sit down with Sam Altman and 20 other developers to discuss OpenAI’s product plans. Sam was remarkably open. The discussion touched on practical developer issues as well as bigger-picture questions related to OpenAI’s mission and the societal impact of AI. Here are the key takeaways.
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New BigQuery pricing editions and autoscaling let you choose the right price-performance for your workloads, and pay for only what you use.
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
Data bottlenecks, generalization benchmarks, primate evolution, intelligence as compression, world modelers, and other considerations
