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The biggest source of waste is untapped skilled pragmatists
The biggest source of waste is not low performers or having too many employees.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 776 posts.
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Mixtral 8x22B
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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An electric new era for Atlas
Our electric Atlas robot is here. With decades of robotics R&D and practical expertise, Boston Dynamics is tackling the next commercial frontier.
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The Acid Test Clause (2017)
“A contract is only as good as the people who sign it,” was a saying often quoted by an elderly attorney I worked with for the first fifteen years of my practice and I always nodded in his general direction when he said that and smiled as if agreeing. I liked and respected him, he […]
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MKBHDs for Everything
Marques Brownlee has tremendous power because he can go direct to consumers; that is possible in media, and AI will make it possible everywhere.
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Tax consequences of WIN95 team members keeping a piece of software for testing
It basically falls under the de minimis rule.
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Redis is forked
Where do we go from here?
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How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys
"Someone left a human liver at the wrong hospital’s cargo bay in 90 degree heat, and no one noticed for an hour and a half."
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A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit
PMF Method from First Round is a free, intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders increase their odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Read about the four levels of PMF in this preview of PMF Method content.
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Thoughts on low latency trading if exchanges went full cloud
A thought experiment on the winners, losers and new players in a cloud-driven stock, fx and commodity-trading world
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Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
We spend a lot of time suing embezzlers. All over the world. Week in and week out. Big embezzlers, small embezzlers, smart embezzlers and very smart embezzlers… That’s right, no dumb embezzlers because almost all the embezzlers we encounter are smart. Some are very smart. Some are brilliant. And, almost always, most…
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Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available
Neon is now Generally Available. We’ve shipped major improvements to Neon internals that, combined with our operating experience scaling up to 700,000+ databases over the past year, give us the confidence that Neon is ready to support your business-critical workloads. If you’re building or scaling an application, you…
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We are moving to General Availability
Supabase is officially launching into General Availability.
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The Guide to Stock Options Conversations
Why every manager should talk to their employees about stock options
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The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
Arc is our company-building immersion for pre-seed and seed stage companies. This framework outlines three distinct archetypes of PMF which help you understand your product’s place in the market and determine how your company operates.
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Double-entry bookkeeping as a directed graph
In the past couple of years, I’ve been working in billing and payments at Justworks . This experience introduced me to the world of bookkeeping and accounting in ways I didn’t expect: I took a course and read a textbook in accounting, adopted plain text accounting for my personal finances, and worked in a double-entry…
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Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces
Proton and the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes are joining forces. We’ve long been admirers and are excited to welcome Mo and his team.
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Beeper acquired by Automattic
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
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Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
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How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
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ElephantSQL Is Shutting Down
The ElephantSQL team announces that ElephantSQL will discontinue its services.
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What makes housing so expensive?
Buying a home is by far the largest purchase most of us will make, and paying the rent or mortgage will be our largest monthly expense.
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How we communicate
The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here.
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The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World
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Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user
We're thrilled to announce that PartyKit, a trailblazer in enabling developers to craft ambitious real-time, collaborative, multiplayer applications, is now a part of Cloudflare
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A Lego model of financial capitalism
Unboxing the dark arts of finance
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Mario meets Pareto
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
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JetMoE: Reaching LLaMA2 performance with 0.1M dollars
The project is contributed by Yikang Shen , Zhen Guo , Tianle Cai and Zengyi Qin . For technical inquiries, please contact Yikang Shen. For media and collaboration inquiries, please contact Zengyi Qin.
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Anatomy of a credit card rewards program
Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.
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German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the homepage of the…