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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,981 posts.
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Scaling from 2k to 25k engineers on GitHub at Microsoft
Jeff Wilcox is a principal engineer at Microsoft working on Microsoft's engineering system. Jeff lives in Seattle.
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Bitcoin is not a store of value
Before we begin, I’m not just some crypto FUDster.
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Money bubble
I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly. Nonetheless I’m mostly going to write about AI, because it intersects the technosphere, where I’ve lived for decades.
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The Economy
I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago in which I said macroeconomic collapse “may happen” and a few friends asked me why. To be clear, I don’t think it’s the likely outcome—I think we’ll find a way...
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Why I Left Google
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Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing
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Resumes suck for hiring engineers
In this experiment, I wanted to see how good engineers and recruiters were at resume-based candidate filtering. Going into it, I was pretty sure that engineers would do a much better job than recruiters. However, that’s not what happened at all. As it turned out, people were pretty bad at filtering resumes across the…
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I can no longer recommend MailChimp
MailChimp doesn’t seem to think double opt-in is a good idea for mailing lists anymore.
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Google I/O 2021 and Uncomfortable Questions
Android app development books
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Why do incompetent managers get promoted?
Two books — 45 years apart — explain it. If you want to get ahead, it’s time to face the facts.
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MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
After seeing a little spike in traffic on Analytics I did some further investigation. Lo and behold Websanova is tracking MLB.com!
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CodeCombat in Y Combinator
Originally posted on the CodeCombat blog.What a crazy weekend! We launched our beta on Friday morning by posting to ...
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Investor Herd Dynamics
August 2013 The biggest component in most investors' opinion of you is the opinion of other investors. Which is of course a recipe for exponential growth. When one investor wants to invest in you, that makes other investors want to, which makes others want to, and so on. Sometimes inexperienced founders mistakenly…
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Today I saw the future
Mozilla and OTOY deliver the power of native PC applications to the Web, unveil next generation JavaScript video codec for movies and cloud gaming
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Surviving Data Science at the Speed of Hype
john-foreman.com is your first and best source for information about john foreman. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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Scaling GitHub's Employees
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How to give a great presentation: advice from a legendary adman (2012)
“No speech was ever too short.”
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OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
Soundtrack: In Flames - Colony To further support my independent journalism, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $7 a month or $70 a year. If you’re subscribed to the free newsletter and logged in, you should see at the bottom right hand corner of your screen a little