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Dark Horse Discord
How a gaming chat platform is secretly connecting the internet, and defining the future of work
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,981 posts.
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Other People’s Problems
It’s surprisingly easy to be generous and find solutions to our friend’s problems. Much easier than it is to do it for ourselves. Why? There are two useful reasons, I think. FIRST, beca…
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Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost
Why Crypto Fireside is migrating from Medium to Ghost.
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Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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We created a fake delivery company to get a job
/imagine one day randomly finding yourself in a foreign country thousands of kilometres away from home. Your own country is suddenly at war, and all you have is a backpack hanging off your back. That’s a weird situation to be in. But you have to figure something out. So starting a fake delivery company sounds like the…
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Selling Bitcoins in Canada
In 2013, I bought a few Bitcoins from a dude in a coffee shop, paying with hundred-dollar bills. Later that year I sold enough to get my money back . Then I forgot about them, Bitcoin’s price gyrations occasionally registering in a corner of my mind. But earlier this month I decided to find out if the remainder could…
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Can GPT optimize my taxes? An experiment in letting the LLM be the UX
TL;DR Yes, albeit with patience.
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Goldman Sachs sent a computer scientist to jail over 8MB of open source code
In 2009, a brilliant software engineer Sergey Aleynikov was arrested by the FBI at Newark Liberty International Airport. The allegation? He stole Goldman Sachs source code, about 8 megabytes of it....
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Better than Free (2008)
[I’ve revised and condensed this short essay into an updated version, which you can read on my Substack here: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/better-than-free] The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we … Continue reading →
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Tacocopter Basics
The Tacocopters are coming. Sure, the original pitch was a clever troll aimed at credulous and impatient fast-food junkies. But the numbers don’t lie – a typical taco weighs less than a pound, and aircraft that can autonomously fly a few dozen ounces of payload to your doorstep are already available for around a…
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409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered
Background: 409A is a set of tax rules passed, in part, to stop companies from avoiding taxes through issuing underpriced (cheap) equity as compensation. While well-intentioned, it spawned a cottage industry of third-party valuation firms/i-bankers who charge companies, including startups, thousands (sometimes…
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Two Weeks Until Tapeout
Chronicles of a bad idea. Or how I designed a systolic array with in-silicon debug infrastructure from scratch in under two weeks, and taped it out on Global Foundry 180 nm though a Tiny Tapeout experimental shuttle.
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Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?
I recently built a website that breaks down the cost of a UK electricity bill. It's interactive, and I'd recommend visiting it before reading this post. Check it out here: electricitybills.uk Here are three interesting things about the data. #1: The wholesale power cost is only one third of
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Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students
The ministry of education in Turkey recently announced that they will be offering Delphi free of charge to students of computer sciences. An estimated one million students will thus have access to …
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Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
A viral TikTok sardine diet and warming oceans have collided to create a real canned-sardine shortage — and it's not ending soon.
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Are forum platforms dead?
👋 Hello everyone. I'm Matt Mecham and today I will be your Rosieland guide. It feels that every other week a new article is written proclaiming the death of the venerable forum platform. The author often cites forums they used to frequent in the early 2000s and how they now hang out on Twitter and Discord, which, in…
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Uber Stockholm throw a PR-tantrum when refused unfair advantages
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Vesper, Adieu
If I could do it all over again, here is what I would do differently.
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Ad block shouldn't break your checkout
TeeSpring's checkout doesn't work if you have ad block turned on
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What I Learned at Stripe
In February 2022, I left my job at Splunk to take some time first to relax then to focus on finding a fantastic next job . I managed to do both during my three months of funemployment, landing a job at Stripe in the Atlas team in May. I was laid off in November 2022, along with most people who were hired during this…
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HFT in My Backyard
INTRO As soon as the summer sun returns to Belgium, there is a natural human migration from Francophone Wallonia to the west coast sea in the Flemish part of the country. Here, à la mer du Nord, pe…
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The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup
Message from a Jedi to a Young Padawan When I graduated and was considering pursuing startups, an alum from my fraternity gave me some advi...