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Sam Altman's pants are on fire
Even for him, his latest whopper is something
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 949 posts.
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Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta
On November 27, 2025, we will shut down our search proxy, Leta.
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Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
You can fault Tim Cook for a number of things. Number one on the list, of course, is that he is not Steve Jobs. The nerve of that man!
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Angel Investors, a Field Guide
I’ve been lucky to work with some of the best angel investors in the business. When I started Akita, my angel investors were my mentor Jason Hong, superangel Elad Gil, #ANGELS co-founder Jana Messerschmidt, Eventbrite co-founders Kevin and Julia Hartz, Stanford professor Dan Boneh, and NBA player Kevin Durant. I…
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Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
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OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout
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IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
IKEA is launching 21 new smart home products focusing on lighting, sensors, and control — all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. A significant step in making smart home technology easier to use, more affordable, and better adapted to real-life needs in the home.
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Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood
A company lost five senior engineers in 18 months. Exit interviews cited compensation. The real problem: information does not flow upward through organizational hierarchy. By the time problems reach executive level, they have metastasized into resignation decisions made months earlier.
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The kind of company I want to be a part of
'aight, hear me out guy(s) (👀 👀 👀)
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I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast? Brenda. Who is …
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I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
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Modular monolith and microservices: Modularity is what matters
Modularity is a crucial concept when designing and creating software. Independent of whether our chosen architecture style is to have a single unit of deployment - Monolith or multiple units of deployment - Microservices/Services. It is a quality that should be treated completely independent of how many deployable…
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Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production
Discover how agentic AI startups are scaling in the enterprise — with data, pricing insights, and lessons from 70+ founders and practitioners.
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Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury
The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related
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Why we migrated from Python to Node.js
Why we rewrote our backend from Python/Django to Node.js one week after launching Skald.
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Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
On each of the last two Fridays, Google has suspended SSLMate 's Google Cloud access without notification, having previously suspended it in 2024 without notification. But this isn't just another cautionary tale about using Google Cloud Platform; it's also a story about usable security and how Google's capriciousness…
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I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
Last Updated: June 17, 2026What impact is AI having on the job market? Everyone has an opinion, but…
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Simple trick to increase coverage: Lying to users about signal strength
Poking around in Android the other day I found this nugget in Carrier Config manager ; a flag (KEY_INFLATE_SIGNAL_STRENGTH_BOOL) to always report the signal strength to the user as one bar higher than it really is.
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OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History
OpenAI is now set to become a Public Benefit Corporation, with its investors entitled to uncapped profit shares.
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The profitable startup
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?
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How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose
Although counter-intuitive, it can be beneficial to build silos and decrease collaboration between teams. Balance the need for collaboration, coordination, and communication with these tips.
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Addiction Markets
Corporate gambling is economic coercion, a way to shift tax burdens away from the wealthy to the poor. It's been here since the 1970s, and now it's corrupting sports and young men. Abolish it.
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A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down
For years, one of my businesses has been a regular user of Wise (formerly TransferWise). Wise is a financial service that lets you send and receive money across currencies, often at a better rate and lower fee than traditional banks. Sounds great, right?
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Apple reports fourth quarter results
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter ended September 27, 2025.
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Taking money off the table
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
Introducing the $5 PlanetScale plan.
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Developers are choosing older AI models
At Augment Code, we run multiple frontier models side by side in production. This gives us a unique vantage point into how different models behave in real…
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Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 (2015)
One reader of this column in particular has been urging me to abandon for a moment my obsession with IBM and look, instead, at his employer -- Hewlett Packard. HP, he tells me, suffers from all the same problems as IBM while lacking IBM’s depth and resources. And he’s correct: HP is a shadow of
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AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
Two years after our AWS-to-bare-metal migration, we revisit the numbers, share what changed, and address the biggest questions from Hacker News and Reddit.