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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,339 posts.
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Which job skills are most employable?
Like many others, we’ve promoted the idea of learning STEM skills. Is that the wrong advice?
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Making shit work is everyone's job
“Oh, that’s not my job,” is the sound of doom. Maybe not imminent doom, but doom indeed. It’s the magic inflection point when a company becomes too big (even if only psychologically) for any single employee to give a rat’s ass about job numero uno: Making shit work. …
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Welcome Anne, Ben, and Joe
Note: Anne, Ben and Joe are no longer part-time partners. I’m delighted to announce three new part-time partners. Anne Wojcicki is the cofounder and CEO of 23andMe. Anne is one of the world experts on biotechnology and healthcare companies; her guidance will be invaluable to the increasing numbers of these companies…
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The curious case of our iOS app (Prey)
Resources and best practices for IT ops, cybersecurity, mobility, privacy, and product updates.
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So a female programmer walks into a bar…
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Peter Thiel’s Unorthodox Management Philosophy of Extreme Focus
“What are your top five priorities for this week?” “What are the top three objectives and key results you’re using to measure how you’re doing for the quarter?” These are questions that get thrown around by managers at work to help their teams prioritize and focus on achieving the most important accomplishments. In Pet
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Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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10 Years of Hacker News "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" Trends
The "Ask HN: Who is hiring" monthly post on Hacker News, available on the first day of each month, provides a platform for users to share tech job listings for free. Analyzing 10 years of these posts with a Python script reveals significant shifts in hiring trends. This insight into the evolving tech job market can…
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A Review of “Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems”
There are many books available that deal with modernising legacy codebases. These books generally focus on how to go about understanding the legacy system, improving test coverage, introducing build automation, as well as strategies for refactoring or rearchitecting the codebase. However, Marianne Bellotti’s Kill It…
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Joi Ito Named Director of the MIT Media Lab
Cambridge is booming with innovation, food, music, and history, highlighted in detail by the Cambridge Office for Tourism’s “Unpack my Cambridge” video series.
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Consider applying for grad school
9 reasons to apply to grad school right now, and 8 reasons not to.
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Sony Interactive Entertainment lays off 900 people
The PlayStation community means everything to us, so I felt it was important to update you on a difficult day at our company. We have made the extremely hard decision to announce our plan to commence a reduction of our overall headcount globally by about 8% or about 900 people, subject to local law and […]
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Commitment vs. Forecast: A Subtle But Important Change to Scrum (2011)
One of the most controversial updates to the 2011 Scrum Guide has been the removal of the term “commit” in favor of “forecast” in regards to the work selected for a Sprint. We used to say that the Development Team commits to which Product Backlog Items it will deliver by the end of the Sprint. Scrum now encourages the…
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Not a Hacker or a Hipster – How I Got My First Startup Job
I was first introduced to start-ups as a career choice during my post-uni “I’m not getting a city job” phase. Although that’s still going…
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Employee #1: Tumblr
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Sales Hiring Guide For B2B Startup Founders
Everything you need to know about sales hiring for startups: the stages, a 5-step recruiting process, and strategies to build a top team.
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Steps to Building an Engineering Competency Matrix
Learn how to provide your employees and reports with a clear, agreed-upon, and well-defined path for growth within your organization.
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DHH: Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco?
Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that’s true to the extent that your great big idea fits the current cultural mold of that environment. If you’re looking to b…