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I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 776 posts.
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How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
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Microsoft is driving users away
What will be the end of Windows? Microsoft.
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Grok-2 Beta Release
We announce our new Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini models.
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Why Triplebyte Failed
How a once-successful, well-liked company failed, as told from within.
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Redis is forked
Where do we go from here?
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Next stop: Miami
Get ready for a touch of magic in the Magic City. We're excited to announce that Waymo One will be expanding to Miami!
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Carta to exit secondary trading business
No. Not anymore. Because we have the data, if we are trading secondaries, people will always worry that we are using the data, even if we…
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Falcon 2
TII launched a second iteration of its renowned large language model (LLM) – Falcon 2.
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Money bubble
I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly. Nonetheless I’m mostly going to write about AI, because it intersects the technosphere, where I’ve lived for decades.
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Cargo Airships Are Happening
I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
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ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
Current status: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) is available in the WordPress.org plugin directory, where the ACF team at WP Engine publishes and maintains
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Sorry, Gas Companies – Parody Isn't Infringement (Even If It Creeps You Out)
Activism comes in many forms. You might hold a rally, write to Congress, or fly a blimp over the NSA. Or you might use a darkly hilarious parody to make your point, like our client Modest Proposals recently did. Modest Proposals is an activist collective that uses parody and culture jamming to...
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What happened with the Web Monetization API?
I was pretty hot on it for a minute. I wanted it to succeed and thought it had the bones to make it. Coil was the main startup trying to push it. They did the right thing by just making it work fir…
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How we crowdfunded $750k for a giant book about keyboard history
At first sight, the idea of 1,216-page two-volume work on keyboards for $150 might seem like a heavy lift. But it was years in the making.
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Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity
I came across this recent video from Vicky Zhao last week and loved her brief summary of how she grew in her ability to clearly articulate ideas on the spot by getting to the point, using story str…
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The future of kdb+?
It’s been 2 years since I worked full time in kdb+ but people seem to always want to talk to me about kdb+ and where I think it’s going, so to save rehashing the same debates I’m going to put it here and refer to it in future. Please leave a comment if you want and I will reply.
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When the "R" goes missing from R&D (2021)
A Cautionary Tale about Too Much Siloing and Not Enough Trust
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Un Ministral, Des Ministraux
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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The business of check cashing
Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
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New 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings
Raspberry Pi launched the 2 gig Pi 5 for $50, and besides half the RAM and a lower price, it has a new stepping of the main BCM2712 chip. This is the BCM2712 D0 stepping. Older Pi 5's shipped with a C1. In their blog post, they said: The new D0 stepping strips away all that unneeded functionality, leaving only the…
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Senate Vote Tomorrow Could Give Helping Hand to Patent Trolls
Update 11/19/24: The Senate Judiciary Committee is still scheduled to vote on the PREVAIL Act on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Please express your continued opposition through our action center, linked below. A patent on crowdfunding. A patent on tracking packages. A patent on photo contests. A patent...
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Major data center power failure (again): Cloudflare Code Orange tested
Just four months after a complete power outage at a critical data center we were hit with the exact same scenario. Here’s how we did this time, and what’s next
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Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.
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Notion's mid-life crisis
Notion sat down on the curb, crushed his cigarette into the pavement, put his face into his hands, and sobbed. It felt good to finally let i...
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Drift towards danger and the normalization of deviance (2017)
Organizations tend to drift towards danger and normalize deviations from procedure.