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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who you are." "Get back up and try again!"
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,148 posts.
Society, Policy & Culture
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We've lost our respect for complexity
I was talking recently to a friend about a video essayist I like, (Dan Olson of Folding Ideas) and when asked why I thought he was any good I pondered it for a moment and said “he has a lot of respect for complexity”. On reflection, I think that is one of the virtues I […]
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It's time to make computing personal again
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
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Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...
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ATProto and the ownership of identity
The new age of social-enabled apps
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I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
I've been using Feeder to keep up with the news for awhile now. For a long time, I just checked AllSides. But then I found out NPR in my state supports ...
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Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
And a plea to think seriously about climate change without getting distracted
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Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
$30 billion company want's you to pay $5 for using your own camera as a webcam
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Is the world becoming uninsurable?
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I ditched the algorithm for RSS
Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.
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Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
I have my suspicions
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Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
How the redesign of a street in a walkable college town reflects our broader values for cars over people.
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In the belly of the MrBeast
what does MrBeast mean?
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Vanished from Google/Bing/LinkedIn: a rebuttal of an anti-net neutrality paper
What if something can't be found through Google Search? Does it still exist? That question I have to ask myself when I found that a blogpost...
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Right to root access
right to repair laws should include provisions requiring manufacturers to unlock a device's bootloader (to provide root access) upon consumer request.
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I deleted my social media accounts
Retrogames revised.
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Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
Every few months or so, somebody asks on social media why a particular DVLA digital service is turned off over night. Rather than answering it every time, I’ve decided to write this post, so I can point people at it in future. It’s a great case study to show why making government services digitally native can be quite…
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The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
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Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics
The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic.
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The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets th...
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Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history.
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Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.
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Software is eating the world, all right (2024)
I retired from my IT career a couple of months ago after 43 years of commercial software product development and transitioned to the real…
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Apple squandered the Holy Grail
Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect
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I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …