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I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
Update: Amazon changed Glacier pricing on 21 December 2016, about 11 months after this was originally posted. The “gotcha” pricing…
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 146 posts.
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Buffer Layoffs
Some tough news: Buffer has made 10 layoffs, 11% of the team. We want to share openly how we got here, the financial details and how we’re moving forward.
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We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure. I’ve heard this advice over and over
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YC Changes
TL;DR: *Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call “YC”. *Ali Rowghani is now the CEO of the YC Continuity Fund. *I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes YC, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our new online class. We’ll add more organizational units over time…
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Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions
Diversity and inclusion are hard, especially in tech. Doing them right means agreeing on values, setting standards, calling out bad…
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A Response to Paul Graham’s Article on Income Inequality
While perusing HackerNews today, I encountered this article and this comment thread by Paul Graham (PG for short), founder of Ycombinator. I think that a lengthy response is in order. I originally …
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Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers
Hi! I’m Steve Feldman, Senior Ad Ops Manager at Stack Overflow. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by advertising. Even as a kid, I wondered what a company was trying to tell me by using one word instead of another in an ad. Over time, I developed a strong (read: subjective) opinion of what makes an ad ’good,’ and…
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Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak
Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian lawyers hide the wealth of a significant proportion of the 1%, and the massive…
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Instapaper is joining Pinterest
Today, we’re excited to announce that Instapaper is joining Pinterest. In the three years since betaworks acquired Instapaper from Marco Arment, we’ve completely rewritten our backend, overhauled our mobile and web clients, improved parsing and search, and introduced tons of great features like highlights…
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Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com
What hardware we're considering purchasing now that we have to move GitLab.com to metal.
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A Message to the Apple Community in Europe
A Message to the Apple Community in Europe.
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Mozilla Awards $385k to Open Source Projects
For many years people with visual impairments and the legally blind have paid a steep price to access the Web on Windows-based computers. The market-leadin
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What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
Last weekend I attended the Satoshi Roundtable conference along with Charlie Lee and about 70 other members of the bitcoin community.
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OpenAI technical goals
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible.
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Moving on from Picasa
Update March 26, 2018 : The Picasa Desktop application will no longer work online, which means that you will not be able to upload or downlo...
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Free Transactional Email Services – The Best Alternatives to Mandrill and Co
Round-up and comparison of several popular and free transactional email services and Mandrill alternatives.
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The piracy paradox at Udemy (2015)
My Pluralsight courses get pirated all the time. I used to have Google alerts for them but frankly, the flood of emails I’d get each day just didn’t justify the “return” I’d get by forwarding them on to the Pluralsight piracy folks. I ended up rationalising it
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Everything about the state of the Mac
Updates: October 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , November 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 18 , 22 , 27 , December 2 , 5 , 12 , 13 , 27 , January 2 , 5 , 5 , 9 , 11 , 13 , 22 , February 2 , 19 , March 15 , 17 , 21 , 22 , 28 , April 3 , 5 , 6 , 12 , 20 , 23 , May 3 , 6 , 19 , June 4 , July 27 …
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The $300M Button (2009)
How changing a button increased a site's annual revenues by $300 million.
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The Reality of Missing Out
Tech is entering a period of inequality where the big winners lift the sector as a whole even as smaller companies suffer. The best example is Facebook, Google, and digital advertising.
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Is PaaS dead?
Is PaaS dead? Trends, pivots and troubles in PHP cloud hosting in 2015, seen from inside one of the companies competing in it.
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When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark
Venture capital marks are highly variable based on different valuation methods. These are the main "mark" valuation methods used by venture firms.
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A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Another Way of Looking at Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo
Imagine a contest in which we are going to pit man against machine. But instead of measuring who is best in playing the game of ‘Go’ we are going to measure who is fastest. In the one corner: Human, all of 175 pounds of extremely well trained runner. And in the other corner, a Formula 1 racecar with a remote control…
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The Brexit Possibility
Brexit’s downsides are clear; might tech help realize upsides in building something new based on a new world order?