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Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround
Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,886 posts.
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Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
I got an email from Network Solutions — where I still have two domains, originally registered in the ’90s — that informed me I have been enrolled in their WebLock Program.
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How to Get Startup Ideas
November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others…
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Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus named interim Co-CEOs. Holthaus also appointed to the newly created position of CEO of Intel Products. Frank Yeary named interim executive chair.
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Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
2 weeks of dealing with Google as a developer
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Starting an Internet Service Provider
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.
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Why Japanese companies do so many different things
The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations
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We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
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A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
I borrowed a friend’s Tesla 3 yesterday. About 5 minutes into the ride, the windshield started fogging up. I couldn’t find the defroster on the large control screen Teslas are so famous for. In desperation, I tapped the CAR icon but that took me to the settings screen which ended up being a dead end. Frustrated, I…
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Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
It was on the news this mroing, Mozilla will stop developing FirefoxOS phones , and the top Hacker News comment really resonated with me. Sure, IoT is the future, and it would be great if we had more nifty stuff there ( shameless IoT privacy plug ), but these headlines make the bad taste that I’ve had in my mouth ever…
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Time to end the war on drugs
Richard Branson's blog - where he shares his thoughts on business, Virgin news, leadership, life, family and the global issues he cares about the most
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Tim Cook’s Company-Wide Email on Hkmap.live Doesn’t Add Up
Link to: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1182348757360234497
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Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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xAI joins SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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We need a middle class for startups
Idea: Make Mittelstands cool in America. Rebrand the US Middle Market. Create a studio and fund to build and buy Mittelstands.
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Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.
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The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Important update for LTSE Equity customers.
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Why you should not use Google Cloud
FINAL UPDATE (25-March-2022): Because of this article, we often keep getting asked if we still use GCP and if we would recommend it to…
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Intel's disruption is now complete
“Look, Clayton, I’m a busy man and I don’t have time to read drivel from academics but someone you told me you had this theory… and I’m…
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Killing TurboTax
An API to compute the tax position in real time, reaching consumers via neobanks and challenger banks like Cash App, Chime and others.
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Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram.
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