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What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
What AirGradient learned while making a plastic injection mold in China, from DFM and tooling quotes to samples, revisions, and production risk.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,021 posts.
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Vivaldi on iOS
Announcing the launch of Vivaldi on iOS – a new browsing experience available now on the App Store.
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Database Performance at Scale – A free book
Discover new ways to optimize database performance and avoid common mistakes that impact latency and throughput.
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The Workflow Pattern
How to implement event sourced workflows?
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Vespa.ai is spinning out of Yahoo as a separate company
Vespa is becoming its own company!
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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
"We have nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it." The FTC and states are going after Amazon, largely for stopping merchants from offering discounts elsewhere.
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Lumber prices down 11% YoY
Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The CME group discontinued the Random Length Lumber Futures contract on May...
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Building personal and organizational prestige
Most months I get at least one email from an engineering leader who believes they’d be a candidate for significantly more desirable roles if their personal brand were just better known. Similarly, when funding is readily available during periods of tech industry expansion, many companies believe they are principally…
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Redfin Is Leaving the National Association of Realtors
Redfin is moving to end our support of the National Association of Realtors
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How China's “debt traps” work
Raiding the Global South like a piggy bank.
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Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It
I quit my job towards the end of last month. When I started this blog, I told myself, “Don’t talk about work.” Since my employment is in the rear view mirror, I’m going to b…
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Never say no, but rarely say yes (2011)
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
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The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)
Stockpicking of unloved and undervalued Japanese companies using the Graham and Dodd framwork of value investing.
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The missing middle in game development
Other than he is my total hero, and he was born and he was raised in my hometown , I wanted to interview John Romero to try and solve the modern indie game development paradox.
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ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), new research from Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard chair and co-founder Karim Lakhani and In collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), new research from Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard chair and co-founder Karim Lakhani and others involved…
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Meta in Myanmar
I’ve never trusted Facebook, mostly because I’ve been around tech for a long time and everything I’ve ever learned about the company looked like a red flag. But once I started to really dig in, what I learned was so much gnarlier and grosser and more devastating than what I’d assumed.
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Privacy washing: Google claims to support privacy while lobbying against it
Just as Big Oil has used greenwashing to block environmental protections, Big Tech uses privacy washing to stand in the way of privacy.
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Burning money on paid ads for a dev tool – what we've learned
Since starting PostHog in 2020, we’ve learned a bunch about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to marketing to engineers . Paid ads is a…
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Cloudflare is now powering Microsoft Edge Secure Network
This integration will allow Microsoft Edge users who opt in to browse the Internet more privately, without being tracked across websites
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Mistral 7B
The best 7B model to date, Apache 2.0
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Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
Be My Eyes’ AI assistant, powered by GPT-4, is rolling out to hundreds of thousands of iOS and Android users over the next several weeks.
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Google's 25th Birthday
For Google’s 25th birthday, we’re celebrating alongside our users with a special Doodle and some surprises in Search.
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Radar Maps Platform
Radar Maps Platform is live, a fast, affordable alternative to Google Maps and Mapbox with integrated geofencing.
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Why we bootstrap
Venture capital isn’t the necessity it once was for tech startups. We've chosen to bootstrap because it gives us flexibility in the way we build. Here's why.
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John Romero on his book “Doom Guy” and developing games at a small scale
I think the biggest reason so many indie games “fail” is that teams enter into making huge, overly ambitious projects that take years to release before they are ready. Indie teams do not spend enough time making smaller (and less profitable) games first before transitioning to multi-year projects.
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Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
The Apache Software Foundation offers a suite of office productivity software named Apache Open Office. Based on the download page, you would never guess the last major release of the software was made available in 2014. With that bit of release history in mind, would it be fair to consider Apache Open Office as an…
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The casino in your pocket
A very rough statistical analysis of a casino trick used by games on your phone (n=28).