1981
Konwinski Prize
Why I launched the K Prize, aka, why want to give $1M to the first open source AI that gets 90% on contamination-free SWE-bench.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 16,888 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
Any year
1982
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand the nature of government reform
1983
Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit
Elon Musk’s latest legal filing against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves—in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure.
1984
The Rise and Fall of Ashton-Tate (2023)
Vulcan & dBASE
1985
Parkinson's Law: It’s real, so use it
Yes, just set that deadline.
1986
The Google Willow Thing
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…
1987
The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager
And how to combat it. The story of an EM who created a ChatGPT for the internal docs in a few hours
1988
Debanking (and Debunking?)
Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.
1989
Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
By all accounts, Pat Gelsinger is affable, technically sharp, hard-working, and decent. Those who have worked for him praise him as a singularly good manager. In January 2021, when Gelsinger was abruptly named the CEO of Intel, this is more or less all I knew of him — and I found myself urgently needing to learn much…
1990
Cold Email Handbook
Learn how to master cold email outreach from 0 to $1M ARR. A comprehensive playbook on infrastructure, copywriting, and AI-powered personalization at scale.
1991
Mistakes as a new manager
Transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager is tough but rewarding. The key is to delegate, find new sources of fulfillment, focus on quality over quantity, maintain proper engagement…
1992
Kagi Teams
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide. While most enterprise tools force you...
1993
Intel’s board, and an example of when boards and short-termism fail
Pat lost his seat because of an incompetent board. Let's meet them.
1994
ChatGPT Pro
Broadening usage of frontier AI
1995
Next stop: Miami
Get ready for a touch of magic in the Magic City. We're excited to announce that Waymo One will be expanding to Miami!
1996
I algorithmically donated $5000 to Open Source
Notable case of algorithmic approach to open source and non-profit giving
1997
Amazon Nova
Amazon Nova foundation models deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price-performance, with support for text and multimodal intelligence, multimodal fine-tuning, and high-quality images and videos.
1998
Intel Launches Arc B-Series Graphics Cards
Engineered from the ground up to deliver immersive gameplay, fast content creation, and easy-to-use AI capabilities.
1999
Y Combinator and Power in Silicon Valley
A demonstration of power by Silicon Valley’s top startup accelerator.
2000
2001
Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.
2002
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
2003
The deterioration of Google
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
2004
Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers
Practical accounting for fintech engineers, and also how not to repeat my silly mistakes.
2005
Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)
Hetzner raises prices This morning I received an email from Hetzner stating that they are raising prices in the US while significantly reducing bandwidth. The largest price percentage increase is 27.52% for CPX21 servers, and the smallest is 4.17% for CX3+ servers. Bandwidth allotments are decreasing on average…
2006
Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
To increase security we are limiting access to certain Web API endpoints for new applications.
2007
Rails is better low code than low code
Update 2024-12-02 : There was a lively discussion about the post on Hacker News you might also find interesting: link to thread.
2008
The industry structure of LLM makers
The Netscapes of AI
2009
Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark
Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
2010
Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
A data scientist’s perspective