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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,121 posts.
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The Sovietization of the American Press
The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement
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I Shipped, Therefore I Am
“Who are you and why are you here?” –Dave Cutler (DaveC)
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The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)
According to Humphrey Bogart, the only good reason for making money is “so you can tell any son-of-a-bitch in the world to go to hell”.
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Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor Its Writers
This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent.
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Julia receives DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation
Julia Computing wins DARPA award to accelerate electronics simulation 1,000x with AI & ML. Discover how Julia's unique capabilities boost US semiconductor competitiveness.
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Why I Didn't Open-Source My Second SaaS
Analytics built for developers. Real user monitoring with page-load decomposition, Core Web Vitals, error tracking and conversion — cookie-free and without a tag manager.
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I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service. In the process I went viral on Tik Tok, made $1000 in a week, hired a Japanese voice actor, and learnt about the weird world of emoji domains.
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Investigating how the New York Times A/B tests their headlines
Part 1 of a series on the New York Times, in which I take a close look at how (and when) the New York Times tests multiple headlines for a single article.
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Interview with Vitalik Buterin on ETH2, Scaling Plans, NFTs, etc.
Please enjoy this transcript of my conversation with Vitalik Buterin and Naval Ravikant. Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) is the creator of Ethereum. He first discovered blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies through Bitcoin in 2011 and was immediately excited by the technology and its potential. He co-founded…
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The Uyghur Genocide: An examination of breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention
This report is the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.
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The Future of Group Messaging
An analysis of modern messaging, and the evolutionary next steps.
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The Railsification of SaaS
Every decade since the dawn of the World Wide Web in 1989 there have been about two major paradigm shifts in how web software is built and…
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The Roblox Microverse
Roblox is something new and interesting that abstracts away the platforms underneath it.
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Generalists vs specialists – Who has a greater chance of success? (2019)
The world often hands us what are called
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Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm
Nicholas Kristof in Sunday's New York Times asks a pressing -- often quite pressing -- question. Why are there no public toilets in America? He is right. He calls for a federal infrastructure plan to fix the problem: "Sure, we need investments to rebuild bridges, highways and, yes, electrical grids, but perhaps…
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Why I did not go to jail (2014)
A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be like. Here’s a piece that I wrote for the book that did not make the cut. I still think it’s a pretty good story and gives you a flavor. I just tell the truth so...
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Excel Never Dies
The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies
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Interview with Patrick Collison
In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs.
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Google suffers from a digital petro curse
The profits that spew out of our ad-infested internet accrue to Google most of all. For the last couple of years, Google has seen an astounding $40 billion dollars per year flow into its coffers from US online advertising alone – a market in which it commands an astounding ~30% share. And then there's the…
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NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
Like most traps, they’re mysterious and then appealing and then it’s too late. An NFT is digital treasure chest, a status symbol and an apparent item of value. Like a Pokemon card, or a…
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30k U.S. organizations newly hacked via holes in Microsoft Exchange Server
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations, multiple sources…
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The reason Okta spent $6.5B on Auth0
Explore the business drivers behind Okta's acquisition of Auth0, including market positioning, strategic goals, and the future of authentication providers.
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Compensation as a Reflection of Values
Our thoughts on compensation, and how they reflect Oxide's values.