Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,981 posts.
It seems that The New York Times Company (“The Times”) got fed up with the pace of its negotiations with Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of The Times’ content for training and…
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
Twitter is changing CEOs once again; what if the company changed its business model from ads to subscriptions?
Apple are planning to kill mobile web apps. This is not an exaggeration. We must stop them.
The US will need a lot more tungsten in the future. Where will it come from?
As I was exiting Oxford Railway Station, I glanced at this screen showing the bus departure times. Notice anything odd about it? sigh Yet again someone has shoehorned Microsoft Windows into a product it is completely unsuitable for. Why does a screen which displays a fairly basic set of information need to be running…
Culture matters for startups. For a startup to succeed, it must have a culture that reflects what it wants to achieve. This is one of my areas of expertise. I've spent the past decade focusing on Y...
About two years ago, I switched from taking my personal car to the airport, to hailing Ubers and Lyfts. The math of it was pretty simple: Uber was cheaper than paying for my driving and parking*. A…
A theory that cloud vendors will focus on the lowest layer of the infrastructure stack and startups will take over the software layer.
Coursera’s free Statements of Accomplisments die a quiet death.
Let’s make software even better.
A Revealing Memo A couple weeks ago, BuzzFeed leaked a memo written by Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth in the summer of 2016. It contained ... Read more
I just reached $4,000/month with my internet startup as a solo developer. Because I didn't let people talk me out of my startup idea.
If you take a look at Apple's Environment page you might well be impressed by the amount of reuse Apple is getting by taking back devices....
There was a tremendous amount of reaction to and discussion about my blog entry on the midlife crisis in open source . As part of this discussion on HN, Jay Kreps of Confluent took the time to write a detailed response – which he shortly thereafter elevated into a blog entry .
There’s an article on highscalability that’s talking about the move from Rails to node.js (for completeness: its sister discussion on Hacker
There is such a thing as a free lunch
Analyzing compensation packages from 2019 new-graduate technology job offers.
I am embarking on a long-term project to investigate why US construction costs are high using case studies, so everything I’m going to say so far is tentative. In particular, one of my favori…
A proposal to end exclusionary zoning would allow for 100,000 more homes in Berkeley's neighborhoods.
