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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,982 posts.
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How I Made $600K in the iOS Education Market (2012 update)
It’s been more than one year that I wrote “ How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market ” post which has been well received by the indie...
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Humble Beginnings
t's easy to forget the humble beginnings that great companies start from, and it's tempting to gloss over the fact that companies, now on the global stage, were once small projects with ugly designs and hacky implementations. Rarely do people set out with grand visions to create a
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What You Really Need Is A Market, Not An Idea
I'm a full stack web developer with a preference for Python. I also enjoy discussions on entrepreneurship and software marketing.
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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
The Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud is a startup self-incubator. Six successful applicants will receive a modest amount of funding and as much publicity as I can provide for their sustainable and useful business idea.
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Show HN: Designing Web Applications
It's not that you set out to create a poorly designed product, but lots of mistakes—big or small—along the way left you with an interface that does its job, but is painful to use.
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The Pirate Bay Is The World’s Most Efficient Public Library
The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This...
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Ingress
It’s a new thing on the Internet, a planetary-scale augmented-reality game being played on a real planet: ours. It’s fun to play, particularly if you have kids. And interesting, I think, for anyone who cares about issues of Life Online, even non-gamers.
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Introducing the Predictive Interface
Stephen Wolfram gives a look into the new Predictive Interface technology in Mathematica 9. Users are provided a list of buttons for possible actions to take next based on what they have already done.
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Feudal Security
It’s a feudal world out there. Some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google: We have Gmail accounts, we use Google Calendar and Google Docs, and we have Android phones. Others have pledged allegiance to Apple: We have Macintosh laptops, iPhones, and iPads; and we let iCloud automatically synchronize and back up…
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The product lens
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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You don't have to be local
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Post mortem of a failed HackerNews launch
Right after our TC press post we were onto showcasing Cucumbertown to the HN community and taking feedback. Things were looking fine for sometime until Murphy decided to play spoilsport and we hit ocean bottom when we showed up on the front page. 1 hour on the HN homepage and we were out. Pretty saddening experience…
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$15 Dedicated servers from OVH
While most of VPS providers are trying hard to stay in the business with their sub $5 VPS plans, OVH which is the worlds biggest consumer data center located in France is now ( uh for sometime ) offering $15 a month dedicated servers. While OVH has data center in Canada, this cheap offering is only available in their…
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How bundling benefits sellers and buyers
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The Best Tech Ad I’ve Seen Lately
A few days ago, I got a copy of TIME Magazine in the mail with an advertisement that really struck me as near-perfect. I thought I’d write a quick post about it since I haven’t heard m…
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What Has Changed
As I read this post in the WSJ about the changing nature of VC funding of consumer web companies, I thought that we may be looking at the symptoms and not the disease. As the WSJ notes, VC funding of consumer web and mobile companies is down 42% in this first nine months of 2012 […]
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I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem
I was chatting with a friend who expressed what I'm finding is a fairly common opinion. Well, yes, I'd love to move to Android - but all my content is in iTunes. I discovered that it wasn't apps which were the problem - buying them again is a pain, but most are free. It's media content which traps people into staying…