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Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions
Massive banks are now accused of cheating customers billions of dollars in interest payments according to financial reports.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 776 posts.
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Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)
The world is full of gatekeepers who think they have veto rights. Don’t believe them. Pitbull got it right when he said "Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice."
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When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016)
A talk given at the ebookcraft conference, March 30, 2016
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It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.
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CockroachDB license change
What you need to know about the changes that happened to CockroachDB Enterprise this past November.
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Apple vs. the "Free Market"
Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages:
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Is "Rich Dad Poor Dad" a Fraud?
With my interest in personal finance, the headline Robert Kiyosaki, ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ Author, Says, ‘I Am a Billionaire in Debt’ — And Calls Dave Ramsey An Idiot For Encou…
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Grok-2 Beta Release
We announce our new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini models.
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The Myth of the Product-Market Fit (2013)
The ideas behind Product Market Fit (PMF) were first articulated by Marc Andreessen in a detailed blog post around 2007 [https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html].
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Why we picked AGPL
ParadeDB has been licensed under AGPL from day one. Here's our thought process and case study on why we picked AGPL.
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Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.
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Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth
Introducing the autonomy, product, and operations teams.
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The Shameful Defenestration of Tim
On Tim Peters' recent suspension as a Python core developer
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Intel's Immiseration
The long, seemingly inevitable decline of an icon
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
On sale now at $5: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new microcontroller board. It's built on RP2350, our new high-performance, secure microcontroller.
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Mistral Agents
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way
Bad experiments are worse than none at all
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How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
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YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
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VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)
Peter Jennings early history of VisiCalc
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Puget Systems' Perspective on Intel CPU Instability Issues
You may have heard about instability issues with Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors. The issue has been gaining more attention as time goes on. I am posting to share what we've experienced here at Puget Systems, and what we're doing about it.
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Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
Airlines use up to four digits for flight numbers. That means they can have up to 9,999 flights (since there’s no flight zero), and no one comes close. American Airlines operates around 6,700 daily flights including its American Eagle regional services. So they should have plenty of room to grow! Except they don’t…
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How to build quickly
Do “outline speedrunning”: Recursively outline an MVP, speedrun filling it in, and only then go back and perfect. This is a ~10x speed up over the ‘loading-bar’ style (more on that below) Don’t just read this article and move on. Go out and do this for the very next thing you make so you can […]
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The future of kdb+?
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.
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Intel Reports Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Intel Corporation today reported second-quarter 2024 financial results.
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GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
We are enabling the rise of the AI engineer with GitHub Models – bringing the power of industry leading large and small language models to our more than 100 million users directly on GitHub.