New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 679 posts.
How I almost killed Facebook
It is a little-known fact that I nearly killed Facebook before it started. At least, that's what I like to think. Though, perhaps it was in...
Call to action: Deceptive marketing of Safari 4
@burnout426 I was one of the complainers. But my complaints were limited and refered only Opera tools panels (sidebar setup, Bookmarks/History panel). I'm still confident that mentioned panels should be locked at 100% zoom because they directly refer to the UI (which is not zoomable in Opera). So sidebar setup have…
You can go beyond quotas now on Google AppEngine
Posted by Brett Slatkin, App Engine Team We're psyched to announce that developers can now purchase additional computing resources on App ...
How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.” – Eric Ries I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio ar…
Heroku: Why Instant Deployment Matters (YC W08)
How much better are two steps than three? Does it matter if something takes five minutes instead of twenty? When it comes to software deployment and...
Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
Startups in 13 Sentences
February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them. Then I thought: what…
Daring Fireball: Copying the Wrong Thing
The key ingredient I see in successful apps, Mac or web — and, really, in creative commercial endeavors of any kind — is that the creators are building something they themselves love.
Non-Hierarchical Management
You want to get something done. But it’s too big to do it by yourself, so you bring in some friends to help out. In your dreams, all your friends just “click”, understand exactly what it is they’re all supposed to do, and do it quickly and effective. In reality, this almost never happens.
What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned [with video]
Larry (@lhalff) and I have been recording a podcast for the past year called Citizen Garden that covers various topics related to the web, technology, and social networking. Well, given Ma.gnolia&#…
Matt Mullenweg's 12 Rules to Move from 1 User to 100k
Printer-Friendly Flyer One-Page Flyer (PDF) for your bulletin board. (Requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader .)
iReddit: The official Reddit iPhone app arrives
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
How I made over $2 million with this blog
On Twitter early this morning I said something provocative . "I've made over $2 million from my blog and Dan thinks blogs can't make money. He needs to get out of the box more often."