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When someone says they hate your product
How to reset the thermostat, and CodeRabbit as a case study
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 47 posts.
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Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
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The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
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John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
John Giannandrea is retiring, and Amar Subramanya joins as vice president of AI.
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Why top firms fire good workers
Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.
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I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
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Zed is our office
From the Zed Blog: A look at how we use Zed's native collaboration features to run our entire company.
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
A practical guide for hiring a developer as a small indie studio. How we, a three-person team, managed 159 applicants using a streamlined, time-efficient process. The article covers designing relevant take-home assignments and a simple Gmail labeling system for high-volume candidate triage.
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Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood
A company lost five senior engineers in 18 months. Exit interviews cited compensation. The real problem: information does not flow upward through organizational hierarchy. By the time problems reach executive level, they have metastasized into resignation decisions made months earlier.
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Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category
arXiv’s computer science (CS) category has updated its moderation practice with respect to review (or survey) articles and position papers. Before being…
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Why I code as a CTO
Assembled CTO John Wang on why coding makes him a better leader—and how AI tools are redefining what it means to build at scale.
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Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview
How to reliably understand if a candidate is a good programmer, inspired by Casey Muratori
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Regarding the Compact
The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter asking that MIT review the document.
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Why most product planning is bad and what to do about it
OKRs created more ceremony than clarity, so we built Problem Driven Development: a 4-day quarterly process focused on problems, not solutions.
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There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
In the last 3 months, I've interviewed 134 engineers - students, mid-level, seniors and even CTOs.
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I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher
I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher.
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Job mismatch and early career success
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
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You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
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How to Give a Good Talk
In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…
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Data engineering and software engineering are converging
The official JS client for connecting to ClickHouse.
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Code review can be better
Slightly unusual genre today: a negative result about our git-review tool for a different take on code review process, which we decided to shelve, at least for the time being.
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OPA maintainers and Styra employees hired by Apple
Banner announcing OPA creators joining Apple
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AI is a floor raiser, not a ceiling raiser
A reshaped learning curve
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Managing time when time doesn't exist
The Ultimate Productivity Paradox
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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia
The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled payments on active grants. Over 1,000 NSF research projec…
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Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?
Reflecting on how our compensation model is going
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We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job
Cybersecurity isn’t just a priority for Kraken, it’s part of our origin story and embedded into our DNA.