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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,158 posts.
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Estonia saved its citizens 820 years by moving public services online
The Estonian government estimates that going digital has saved the state and its citizens, 820 years in time and resources
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DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
The latest news and announcements from DoorDash.
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Kraken lays off 30% of staff
Today we’re announcing one of the hardest decisions at Kraken to date. We’re reducing our global workforce by approximately 1,100 people, or 30 percent, in order to adapt to current market conditions. We are extremely grateful for the contributions of those impacted by today’s announcement and we’ll do our best to…
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At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold.By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceXI have watched the recent news…
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The Casino-Chip Society
Why learning to see the layers of money will reveal the politics of 'cashless society', and much more
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Maersk/IBM to discontinue TradeLens, a blockchain-enabled global trade platform
A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk) and IBM today announced the decision to withdraw the TradeLens offerings and discontinue the platform.
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Gitlab Dedicated – our new single-tenant SaaS offering
Learn more about this offering, why we developed it and how customers can be added to our limited availability waitlist.
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Just Say No
Saying yes is easy—at first. It makes you feel better. And it makes you feel like you can do anything! And the person you're saying yes to also gets a happy feeling because you're going to do something for them. Saying no is hard. It's an admission you can't do something. And worse still, you're disappointing someone…
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The Buy and Hold Mindset
When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. It is hard to know when you’ve reached the bottom and can start buying again, but if you think about a ten or twenty-year hold, then it […]
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The AI war and how to win it
The battle for the future of the world
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Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
An Introduction to Statistical Process Control.
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Bye, Twitter
Today I’m leaving Twitter, because I don’t like making unpaid contributions to a for-profit publisher whose proprietor is an alt-right troll. But also because it’s probably going to break down. Read on for details.
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Startup Restructuring 101
Because your lifeblood, Revenue and Funding, are drying up
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Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener
An interview with Keith Blount, the founder, director and lead developer of Literature & Latte.
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Apple is becoming an ad company despite privacy claims
Apple’s ad business is growing fast. It tracks you in its apps and uses that data to sell ads despite its privacy claims.
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CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
What this report finds: Corporate boards running America’s largest public firms are giving top executives outsize compensation packages that have grown much faster than the stock market and the pay of typical workers, college graduates, and even the top 0.1%. In 2021, we project that a CEO at one of the top 350 firms…
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maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
For as long as I can remember, maps.google.com was the defacto domain for Google Maps. Also for as long as I can remember, I allowed this domain to use the location services of my browser.
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2 Years at Twitter
I was a Staff Engineer at Twitter’s Build/Bazel Migration team. After two incredible years, November 17 was my last day (I took the voluntary separation offer and resigned, not that it matters). Twitter has been a special place to work for, for its culture of excellence, diversity, and outpouring of care for all the…
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Chief scientist of major corporation can’t handle criticism of the work he hypes
A correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous points us to this article in Technology Review , “Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online. Galactica was supposed to help scientists. Instead, it mindlessly spat out biased and incorrect nonsense.” Here’s the story:
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The Twitter Advertiser Exodus
A $750,000 a month advertiser has left Twitter. One of hundreds. But in her post she explained the bases for the decision vis-a-vis her advertising investment in a neutral, non-ideological way. Peo…
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Bullshit Software Projects
Discover the frustrations and challenges faced by software developers in the world of "bullshit work." From pointless projects to busy wo...
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High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
We get a lot more done in way less time at Tremendous. We'll tell you exactly what that means.
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Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force.