Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,981 posts.
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My colleagues and I realized this over beer: dry erase markers cost almost nothing, yet a lecture hall never contains functioning dry erase markers.
Many people have been writing about Google this week - either in response to the Newsweek cover story , or to the recent Wired article about Google’s growing pains, and its happy motto: “Don’t be evil”.
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
As steer and drplokta pointed out yesterday , the Nielsen diagram was grossly out of proportion, so it looked like RIM and MS were better than they were. I passed the data to steer, who then played around with R (code is in the other post), and produced the second diagram. I've tried to line them…
At Carta we spend a lot of time thinking about how to better educate employees on startup equity. Even new hires at Carta often don’t…
A brief retrospective on an attractive product First Republic used to offer, and a wider discourse on the banking crisis.
The explanation lies in the interaction of labor laws and aviation regulations. Let's consider labor laws first. The law compels a company to negotiate with a labor union. If it cannot reach an agreement, however, and the union goes out on strike, the company is able to hire replacement workers and continue its…
I'm building OpenCNAM with friends: a simple API that returns caller ID names for phone numbers, with a free tier of 60 queries an hour, no account needed.
Whenever you watch a video on YouTube now, you will likely get an advert for a scammy product. In the past few weeks I've seen:
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
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Ryan MacInnes is a web developer, programmer, and designer in Los Angeles, CA. He loves working on Ruby on Rails projects, Javascript and iOS. His forte is large, scalable and highly interactive web applications with a beautiful minimal approach to UI and UX.
How a conversation on a plane in 1953 set in motion the stack that eventually processes tens of thousands of flight bookings per second, and why that stack is still here.
How do habits work? How do you change your habits? How do you hold yourself accountable? This complete habits guide contains everything you need to know.
I really like Twitter. I think it’s a great, fun, service, that helps enable interesting online communities, and is a surprisingly effective way to spread news and information to lots of people online. One of the things that I’ve loved about Twitter is their API, and how open and welcoming they’ve been to developers…
This article explores an alternative explanation: foreign airlines do comparatively poorly because their first officers have almost no pilot-in-command experience.
I've been excited about Stripe ever since one of the founders, Patrick Collison, emailed me in 2009 to say that he was "trying to build a credit-card processor that doesn't suck". My immediate reaction: "I think that might be the most ambitious plan I've ever heard from someone associated with YC ". When Patrick went…
Aka, how do I know if a product leader knows what they're doing? There are thousands of articles, courses, and guides on how to build a roadmap for product managers. Even with all these resources, roadmaps often become a point of contention between product managers and their stakeholders. There
At Greylock, my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time.
Advice on the most important decision you’ll make as an early employee.
In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.̶…
I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave ...
