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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,889 posts.
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The pleasures of poor product design
A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.
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Web hackers vs. the auto industry
While we were visiting the University of Maryland, we came across a fleet of electric scooters scattered across the campus and couldn't resist poking at the scooter's mobile app. To our surprise, our actions caused the horns and headlights on all of the scooters to turn on and stay on for 15 minutes straight.
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Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market
Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.
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Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator
San Francisco - Attorney Charles Carreon dropped his bizarre lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman today, ending his strange legal campaign against Inman's humorous and creative public criticism of a frivolous cease and desist letter that Carreon wrote on behalf of his client Funny Junk...
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Life Is Driven by Network Effects
Revealing the Unseen Forces That Guide Your Life What city you live in. Who you date or marry. Which job you choose. What clothes you wear. We all think we make these choices ourselves. It certainly feels like we’re in full control. But it turns out that our choices — both in our startups and in … Continue reading…
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Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
A guest post on Georgism by Lars Doucet
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Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us
Right now, any robocall hacker in the world can instantly take over your phone’s screen, knocking you out of your mobile gaming experience, disrupting you as you check out at the store, or breaking your concentration as you try and type out an email.
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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
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OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months
Hello readers! This premium edition features a generous free intro because I like to try and get some of the info out there, but the real indepth stuff is below the cut. Nevertheless, I deeply appreciate anyone subscribing. On Monday I will have my biggest scoop ever, and it'll
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How We Institutionalized Incompetence
And so we face the ultimate irony: 'bailing-out-everything' destroys the entire rotten system. You've probably noticed things no longer ...
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The worst possible antitrust outcome
Last year, Google lost an antitrust case to Biden's DoJ. The DoJ lawyers beat Google like a drum , proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Google had deliberately sought to create and maintain a monopoly over search, and that they'd used that monopoly to make search materially worse, while locking competitors out of…
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Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider
Valve and Itch have been in the spotlight for being more or less forced by "Payment processors" to pull certain adult content off their storefronts. The short story of it is Valve pulled a couple of games down while Itch pulled down everything marked mature/adult temporarily and had to sort through their entire…
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W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
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Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
We still have a couple of weeks until the holiday season, but here’s an early gift for you: I’m excited to announce our brand new Original Prusa MINI, a smart and compact 3D printing workhorse with all the bells and whistles...
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Google Needs to Come Clean About Its Chinese Plans
Eight years after Google initially took a stand against Internet censorship by exiting the Chinese search market, we are disappointed to learn the company has been secretly re-considering an extended collaboration with the massive censorship and surveillance-wielding state. According to an...
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Hackathon Be Gone
Last weekend I attended the MHacks: Refactor hackathon on behalf of my company. I acted as a representative of my company as well as a mentor for the hackers...
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Suck It, Wall Street
In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker
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How I Made $600K in the iOS Education Market (2012 update)
It’s been more than one year that I wrote “ How I've Made $200k in the iOS Education Market ” post which has been well received by the indie...
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Microsoft cURLs too
On December 19 2017, Microsoft announced that since insider build 17063 of Windows 10, curl is now a default component. I've been away from home since then so I haven't really had time to sit down and write and explain to you all what this means, so while I'm a bit late, here it comes! … Continue reading Microsoft…
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SparkFun À La Carte
Point and click your way to a fully-populated, custom board from SparkFun.
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Google responds to NY Times article by improving its algorithms
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Patent Troll Lodsys Settles for Nothing to Avoid Trial
Today we learned just how determined the patent troll Lodsys is to avoid a ruling on the merits of its claims. When software security company Kaspersky Lab refused to surrender, Lodsys settled for nothing (yes, you read that right—absolutely nothing) rather than take its claims to trial. First,...
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