Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,099 posts.
We spent one day 1 building a system that immediately found a mid 7 figure optimization (which ended up shipping). In the first year, we shipped mid 8 figures per year worth of cost savings as a result. The key feature this system introduces is the ability to query metrics data across all hosts and all services and…
Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
The Internet ends gatekeepers and increases transparency, which has world-altering effects — both good and bad.
The American Medical Association is not a charitable organization. The American Medical Association is not an educational organization. The American Medical Association is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation, designed from the ground up to enrich its executives and serve its own bureaucratic interests…
Buy on Google is now zero commission and open to third-party digital commerce providers.
A powerful approach to nonviolent communication at your company
‘Cutting-edge’ is the term usually associated with blockbuster product releases, yet the philosophy of product development central to the…
The public’s right of access to court proceedings is well-established as a legal principle, but it needs constant defending. In part, that’s because private parties keep asking publicly-funded courts to resolve their disputes in secret. As we and others have written before, this problem is...
DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages. Meeting startups at the very start of their journey is one of my…
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ 
