Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 949 posts.
After building a software company to a multi-billion dollar exit, I made the jump to hardware. Now I’m working on carbon removal + steel at Charm Industrial , and electric long-haul trucking with Revoy . It’s epically fun to be building in the real world, but little did I expect that more than half the cost of…
In his latest memo, Howard Marks explores if there is a bubble in AI, identifying uncertainty, parallels to past bubbles, AI's vast potential, and emphasizing the importance of prudence.
Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
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How tech companies make money and why it's important
For years, one of my businesses has been a regular user of Wise (formerly TransferWise). Wise is a financial service that lets you send and receive money across currencies, often at a better rate and lower fee than traditional banks. Sounds great, right?
Why Apple Just Killed the iPhone Interface (And What Comes Next)
At thousands of uploads/second, S3’s per-request fees dominated costs. We built N3, a Rust in-memory landing zone with S3 as overflow.
Akamai provides a global CDN that serves visitors inside and outside of China via the Akamai global network and strategic in-country partners.
€6.5M in revenue, 65% EBIT margins, a full infrastructure migration, and enough features shipped to make your head spin — all with 13 people. Ten years in, still small, still profitable, still having...
Persistent shortfalls in domestic savings, requiring funds from abroad to finance domestic investment spending, could be why the U.S. runs a trade deficit.
Tomorrow, July 31, 2025, Figma plans to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “FIG.”
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
Thoughts on FOSS and fintech, layered by Mahmoud Hashemi
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
I try not to write anything even vaguely political on this blog because we have a variety of views on a variety of subjects and no one is ...
Recalls at major automakers cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year. It’s a huge issue. To mitigate it, our company created an analytics department solely focused on categorizing warranty claims into actionable problems.
Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.
The initial, feverish enthusiasm for large language models (LLMs) is beginning to cool, and for good reason. It’s time to trade the out-of-control hype for a more pragmatic, even “boring,” approach. A recent MIT report shows that 95% of companies implementing this technology have yet to see a positive outcome. It’s…
How algorithm-driven influence quietly replaces genuine discourse with engineered popularity.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents...
What does it mean to get things done? In the abstract, you can complete a mathematical proof or a problem set, but the real world is much fuzzier. Suppose I…
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
Apple’s Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. The deeper failure is an industry shipping more software while producing fewer engineers capable of fixing it.
Researchers have successfully used CRISPR gene editing technology to create a fungi strain that is highly efficient, more nutritious, and significantly more sustainable than its natural counterpart. The fungus Fusarium venenatum already stands out for its meat-like flavor and texture, leading to its approval for food…
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