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Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 999 posts.
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The Closing of the Frontier
T he Anthropic Mythos announcement is the first time in my life I’ve felt truly poor. Maybe because I grew up on the internet and it was the one permissionless place where you could have leverage and a shot at uncapped exploration and ambition. That is now changing with the gap between models that are publicly…
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I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack
Stop burning cash on cloud bloat. Discover the exact $20/month stack I use to run multiple $10K MRR apps—before expensive infrastructure kills your startup.
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The Problem That Built an Industry
How a conversation on a plane in 1953 set in motion the stack that eventually processes tens of thousands of flight bookings per second, and why that stack is still here.
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If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruitin…
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20 years on AWS and never not my job
While I created my AWS account because I was interested in Amazon S3, that was not in fact immediately available to me: In the early days of AWS, you had to specifically ask for each new service to be enabled for your account. My new AWS account did come with two services enabled by default, though — Amazon Simple…
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Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
Here is a photo of my family. I love them more than anything. Images have power, I hope. Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the...
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Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict
A beloved hometown impersonator had no idea what he was signing up for with this photoshoot.
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Nowhere is safe
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batterie…
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Helium is hard to replace
The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.
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We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
GitButler has raised a Series A round to accelerate developing the infrastructure for how software gets built next.
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Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
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An Interview with Pat Gelsinger
Investing in Startups and Pushing the Boundaries
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Session is shutting down in 90 days
The Session Technology Foundation cannot continue without your support. Donate today to help Session in its fight for survival.
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Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!
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Layoff Thinking
Were you recently laid off? I have some, hopefully, helpful thoughts to survive the maelstrom of self-doubt and pain that's swirling around inside your head.
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One item purchased, ten emails
A single online order now generates ten emails. A look at how retail email got this far out of hand.
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I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue
Update (April 9, 2025): Since publishing this post, a human support agent from Anthropic has reached out to me. I appreciate them following up.
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Claude Managed Agents
Claude Managed Agents is Anthropic's suite of composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale. See what's new and how to get started.
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Moving fast in hardware: lessons from lab to $100M ARR
How to move fast when building for the physical world
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Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?
An open letter urging Heroku to clarify its roadmap, define “sustaining engineering,” and communicate honest business intent to developers.
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After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
Soon after I launched this blog in February 2005, I signed up for Google AdSense. My goal was to make a little money and learn about the industry from the inside. In particular, if I was going to cover the...
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Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute
Anthropic secures multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity starting in 2027, its largest compute commitment to date.
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I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok
As someone who prefers using services via their websites, I’ve gotten terribly jaded lately. Almost everyone wants me, and by extension, you, to use their darn apps to consume content and off their web versions.
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What being ripped off taught me
Expensive lessons
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LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation
Ideally, we would have preferred to avoid this post. However, the articles and comments published in response to Collabora’s and Michael Meeks’ biased posts compel us to provide this background information on the events that led to the current situation. Unfortunately, we have to start from the very beginning, but…
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Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
A few years ago I was in a meeting with developers and someone asked a simple question: “What’s the right framework for a new Windows desktop app?” Dead silence. One person sugges…
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My Google Workspace account suspension
As the title suggests, I have finally become the victim of Google’s account suspension.
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How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Update (9 Apr 2026): Another one. A helpful person sent in Microsoft 365 Copilot for US Government. That's 81. Chart updated.
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The Document Foundation ejects its core developers
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