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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,889 posts.
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How this Ends
We are in the middle of one of the great asset bubbles of modern times. It has been brought on by the easy money policies of central banks around the world aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic. Interest rates are near zero or negative in most developed economies and asset prices have gone […]
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Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia
In response to Australia’s proposed new Media Bargaining law, we'll restrict publishers and people in Australia from sharing or viewing news on Facebook.
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The Need to Remove Bad Management
I’ve talked a lot recently about bad management as a root cause of poor infrastructure, especially on Twitter. The idea, channeled through Richard Mlynarik, is that the main barrier to good U…
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AirPods as a Platform
01 Intro One of the favorite activities of tech analysts, VCs and similar Twitter armchair experts is to predict what the next big technology platform might be. The usual suspects that come up in these conversations are VR/AR, crypto, smart speakers and similar IoT devices. A new contestant th
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Changes to LastPass Free
Update as of May 20, 2021 Free users will continue to receive support for technical issues until August 23, 2021 to assist through the transition of selecting an active device type. After this dat[..]
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Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism
comma.ai gets punished for being open, so why would anyone even bother?
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US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
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Clubhouse’s Inevitability
Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
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A second look at "no code" tools (2019)
Here's why coders should take a second look at "no-code" tools.
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Chris Sacca's Act 2: Lowercarbon Capital
Because we’ve run the numbers, and shit’s not great.
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K-9 Mail is looking for funding
K-9 Mail is looking to raise money to fund development.
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Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation
Our top sponsors—companies who step forward to make the biggest investment in Python and its community—not only use Python for their own internal development, but also offer Python as a crucial part of the products they offer to their own customers. That is certainly true of Google, the Python Software Foundation’s…
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Unpacking Interview Questions
A series sharing some of the questions I use when I interview for technical roles. I’ll unpack the question, when to ask it, and how to evaluate answers.
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Goodbye YC
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View,...
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1. Trends in income and wealth inequality
Barely 10 years past the end of the Great Recession in 2009, the U.S. economy is doing well on several fronts. The labor market is on a job-creating streak that…
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AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
Fundación PostgreSQL
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Cloudflare Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Results
Fiscal year 2020 revenue totaled $431 million, representing an increase of 50% year-over-year; Q4 revenue totaled $126 million, also representing an increase of 50% year-over-year Fiscal year 2020 GAAP operating margin of (24.8)%, representing an improvement of 1,280 basis points year-over-year; non-GAAP operating…
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Leaving Mozilla
I don’t think any little girl grows up with the goal of “I want to be an OSS Android browser developer” and to be totally honest, even as an adult I just kin...
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What I Think of Bitcoin
These unique insights drive our innovative investment engine, deliver returns for our clients, and inform global economic policy.
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Employee #1: Reddit (2016)
Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Chris Slowe was the first employee at Reddit. He worked at Reddit for five years, then Hipmunk for five years, and now he’s back at Reddit, writing code. Discussed: YC’s First Batch, Meeting The…
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Google is now telling users its apps are out of date. No updates are available
[ Update: Users can’t reproduce this any longer, as they have pushed a server-side fix for this issue. It still counts as an embarrassing failure by Google. If you would like to see what the bug looked like, there’s a video at the bottom of the article.]
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The unusual way I'm funding my open source work
From the Linux kernel to Firefox and Wordpress, Open Source is changing the world for the better. But how to achieve financial sustainability when you produce something that can legally be copied, by design, at zero cost? Revenue models for Open Source A lot has been written about achieving profitability
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State of Independent SaaS 2021
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.