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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,888 posts.
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Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout
83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Haystack Analytics Study Finds
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It's a Tesla
Tesla is not a disruptor, but then again, neither is Apple, the closest comp: both succeed by building a brand around being the best.
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Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
Child pornography is a toxic subject, but a very important one that cannot and should not be ignored. This is an attempt to bring...
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LLMs are cheap
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.
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Is Hacker News a good predictor of future tech trends?
I set out to investigate whether Hacker News is a useful barometer for up-and-coming technologies that will hit the mainstream within the next few years.
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Hi, I’m from the games industry. Governments, please stop us
This may not be popular, but its how I feel. First, some background and disclaimers. I run a small games company making games for the PC, strategy games with an up front payment. We don’t make ‘free to play’ games or have micro transactions. Also, I’m pretty much a capitalist. I am not a big fan of government…
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I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Ecosystem
I was chatting with a friend who expressed what I'm finding is a fairly common opinion. Well, yes, I'd love to move to Android - but all my content is in iTunes. I discovered that it wasn't apps which were the problem - buying them again is a pain, but most are free. It's media content which traps people into staying…
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How Facebook Ships Code
coding, startups, facebook, culture, developer-driven culture
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Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours
Back in 2015, I wrote a blog post called Dropbox: the First Dead Decacorn. At the time, it was the most widely shared take I’d ever written. I learned several things from writing this piece, and no…
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On responses to “Bye, Amazon”
Boy, when your I’m-outta-here essay goes viral, do you ever get a lot of input. A few responses came up often enough to be worth sharing. This was via email, Twitter DMs, blog comments, and LinkedIn messages. All of which went completely batshit.
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How the US Treasury imposes sanctions on me and every other "Stephen Law"
Right, here's another thing I am getting off my chest - email letter to OFAC (edited slightly from version sent). Dear OFAC This corresp...
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Winamp has announced that it is "opening up" its source code
Winamp builds tools that empower artists to manage their music and revenue, while delivering a player that offers a seamless listening experience. Discover our products!
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Responding to Wired's ad hominem hatchet job
I have long been a fan of Wired's coverage of privacy and security issues, particularly the insightful reporting and analysis by Ryan Singel...
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Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Down to Users and Misses the Point
Mark Zuckerberg’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today (paywalled, but summarized here) relies on all-too-familiar refrains to explain the dubious principles and so-called “facts” behind Facebook’s business model. It’s the same old song we’ve heard before. And, as usual, it wildly misses users’...
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Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance —nearly 40 percent of all climate funds disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years— is not being properly tracked due to poor record-keeping practices, reveals a new Oxfam report published today ahead of the World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C.
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Chrome OS is here to stay
We’ve been working on ways to bring together the best of both Android and Chrome OS, but there's no plan to phase out Chrome OS.
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Reddit API Pricing Would Cost Apollo Developer $20M per Year
Link to: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
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Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)
Silent changes in payment methods on big creator funding platforms raise some unpleasant questions.
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What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon
“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
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Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style
A cheap USB stick and the marketing around it caused disappointment, more at 11.
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The death of Google
Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com/the-death-of-google PDF: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.pdf Google Docs: https://lauren.vortex.com/google-death.gdoc
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Steve Ballmer steps down as board member at Microsoft
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