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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,982 posts.
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‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
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The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn
Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that Internet services store customer data for up to 18…
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In defense of the Google Chef (2011)
I'm on the road with very limited internet connectivity so I can't do the homework I normally would before posting this, so it's possible th...
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Writing Effective Welcome Emails
Learn some tips and tricks on writing welcome emails that actually get responses.
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Sam Altman's Bubble Talk Bet Is 1 Year Old
I’m tired of reading about investors and journalists claiming there’s a bubble in tech. I understand that it’s fun to do and easy press, but it’s boring reading. I also understand that it might...
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RSA warns developers not to use RSA products
In today’s news of the weird, RSA (a division of EMC) has recommended that developers desist from using the (allegedly) ‘backdoored’ Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator — w…
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Twilio – Why there's no API for crossing the chasm
How the market focus and culture that helped Twilio reach significant heights can transform from assets into liabilities…and what to do about it.
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The current balance of power in open models
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
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Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling
Long story short, I went to Silicon Valley and found angel investors for my Browserling startup that I am doing together with James Halliday (SubStack). James Halliday, our lead investor and advisor David Weekly, and me. Here is how I did it. Last year in March, James offered me to do a startup. He had this idea of...
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Fundraising Mistakes Founders Make
There’s a lot written about what you should do when you raise money, but there hasn’t been as much written about the common mistakes founders make. Here is a list of mistakes I often see: •...
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$15,000 In Income From An EBook, How I Did It
Over less than 6 months I've made more than $15k in revenue from Clean Ruby . It's an unfinished book and I've been working to polish it up and get new content out to my customers but I wanted to take a step back and review where I am.
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My EC2 Wishlist
While I've made engineers inside Amazon aware of all of these at various times, I think it's time to post my wishlist here — both so that a wider audience inside Amazon can hear more about these, and so that the FreeBSD community (especially the people who are financially supporting my work ) can see what I'm aiming…
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Things I learned from 5 years at Vercel
Here are some of the lessons I learned and how I grew as a leader and manager, as well as a bunch of behind-the-scenes photos.
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Feudal Security
It’s a feudal world out there. Some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google: We have Gmail accounts, we use Google Calendar and Google Docs, and we have Android phones. Others have pledged allegiance to Apple: We have Macintosh laptops, iPhones, and iPads; and we let iCloud automatically synchronize and back up…
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What Happened to NewsBlur: A Hacker News Effect Post-Mortem
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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The Three Machines
Lately, I’ve been stewing over increased complexity being generated by companies around their organization approaches. While this activity varies by stage, in many cases the leadership team expa
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Why you should take the money
SEOmoz founder and visionary Rand Fishkin is struggling with whether he should personally award himself millions of dollars from his company. Here's why I think he should.
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