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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
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch for Windows Flaw
Microsoft on Tuesday issued an emergency software update to quash a security bug that’s been dubbed “ PrintNightmare ,” a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows that is actively being exploited. The fix comes a week ahead of Microsoft’s normal monthly Patch Tuesday release, and follows the…
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Step-By-Step Landing Page Copywriting
Let me start by warning you: This is a long post. I want to take you through the process of writing and designing the ConvertKit sales page. As you’ll see, I had a huge amount of help from Amy Hoy. Throughout the process she gave great advice on copywriting that I’d like to share here. […]
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Hackpad
I love Hackpad. And it's strange because most of what Hackpad does, Google Docs does. And I really like Google Docs. I use Google Docs dozens of times a day. But there is something about Hackpad that I like better than Google Docs for massively open online realtime document creation. Let's not turn that into […]
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Lead Bullets (2011)
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article
About a week ago, I shared a small blog article on Hacker News.
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I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.
Background In January 2010 I launched Preceden, a free web-based timeline tool. In May I migrated to a freemium plan, where users could add a certain number of events for free but had to upgrade to…
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A 20-year-old small company
Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve, and it also happens to be the 20th anniversary of our company - our official date of incorporation was January 28, 2005. I wanted to jot down a few thoughts this morning to mark the occasion. The Beginning of the Journey At the time, I was in Shenzhen and Glacier was in Beijing. We…
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Growing One's Consulting Business (2012)
How I got started consulting and the advice which changed my (business) life.
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Ten million users is the new one million users
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution
Posted on Friday 27 Sep 2024. 748 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
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Fireside Chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face
We discuss Hugging Face, Open Source, and AI
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch
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Patton's sword and the future of work
for some reason the assistant is offline. an unrestricted AI with a pirate accent has entered the chat
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Tumblr CTO Marco Arment Steps Down
After four years of my serving as Tumblr’s lead developer, Tumblr’s technical management needs have evolved to require types of experience that I don’t have, and my independent career has offered a lot of opportunities that I haven’t had the time to take full advantage of.
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The Journey of Launching My First Product, “To Do Cal”
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Don't launch
Here's a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? My answer is almost always the same: do...
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An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No
It was money they needed, but it came with strings attached.
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The Buy and Hold Mindset
When markets are in turmoil, like they have been for most of this year, I like to have a buy-and-hold mindset when it comes to making new investments. It is hard to know when you’ve reached the bottom and can start buying again, but if you think about a ten or twenty-year hold, then it […]
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Profits are driving inflation. When will politicians and the BoE admit it?
The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4%, supposedly to tackle inflation. There is just one problem with this decision. The Bank knows that much of the inflation we are suffering is being driven by rising oil and energy prices, largely resulting from conflict in the Middle East. It also...
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Reddit: One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued
One of social media's oldest companies is also its most undervalued
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Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference
I've recently set up my own consultancy company and decided to sponsor my local UKGovCamp conference. That entitled me to a logo on the site, a shout-out during the conference, and place to put any promotional stickers. Everyone loves stickers! But I decided to bring along something different - promotional sweeties! I…
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