6271
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,982 posts.
Tech Industry & Business
Any year
6272
Introducing Instapaper 4.1 for iPhone, iPad
With so many Retina iPad updates, it looks like the App Review team is working overtime to approve apps quickly. In a very pleasant surprise, my 4.1 update was approved much more quickly than I expected. Thanks, App Review team!
6273
6274
6275
The Story of a Lucky Economist
The career guide 80,000 Hours highly recommends getting an Economics PhD . I completely agree with their assessment. If you have an academic...
6276
6277
A brief history of oral peptides
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
6278
6279
6280
6281
6282
Manifestos and Monopolies
Facebook has long had too much power, but Mark Zuckerberg’s expressed willingness to use said power for political ends means it’s time to consider countermeasures.
6283
You Should Self-Publish
Your experience has been an inspiration to me, Joe, as I've noted on my own blog . I've always believed that self-publishing was the mark of permanent amateurism. Now, I've self-published my own book, Dead Furst . I've sold... next to nothing. But I'm obscure, and patient, and have a lovely Carl Graves cover. So…
6284
6285
6286
6287
6288
How to Build a Biotech
You’re intrigued by biotech and want to explore ideas in the area. Where do you start?
6289
Evidence-based Software Engineering – book beta
My book, Evidence-based software engineering: based on the publicly available data is now out on beta final release ( pdf , and code+data ). The plan is for a three-month review, with the final version available in the shops in time for Christmas (I plan to get a few hundred printed, and made available on Amazon).
6290
6291
Peak Valley?
The Economist has a cover story this week called Peak Valley. The article suggests that Silicon Valley’s lead as a hub for innovation has peaked and other regions are rising. It ends with the concern that innovation more broadly has peaked. I somewhat agree with “the rise of elsewhere” narrative and disagree that…
6292
Why do east Asian firms value drinking?
East Asian businesses often go out drinking.
6293
Iceland: The emerging tech-ecosystem of the Nordics
An overlooked part of the Nordic tech-ecosystem
6294
6295
6296
6297
Meteor meets NoGPL
Meteor made a big splash this week. Check out their screencast if you haven’t already. For “real-time” web applications it really seems to simplify things a whole lot. The team behind it seems plenty experienced and they are building a business on Meteor by going with the GPL/commercial dual-license approach made…
6298
The gift card accountability sink
The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.
6299
Good engineers make terrible leaders
Yuval Noah Harari in his highly celebrated book Sapiens says that human values are shared myths and that there is no objective basis in humanism. I agree with him. In several separate exchanges on Twitter, I’ve debated the claim that technology has caused progress in human society or that there’s never been a better…
6300
Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.