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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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The Importance of Abandoning Crap
Curating the intersection of modern lifestyle and technical obsession. We are currently architecting our systems for the upcoming launch.
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How to Ask for an Introduction
I don’t know a ton of important people. But as a founder of a venture-backed startup with some amazing investors and advisors, I do know a few.
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Gave up a day job Now what? - Income report #3
So here is my another monthly income report. At the beginning I would like to thank to all my loyal readers that are visiting my site (leave a comment on this post with a short HI if you want me to…
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Saying "NO"
I saw this cartoon in a tweet today. It’s the story of how a boss corrupts the work of a professional. It’s a funny cartoon, and a sad story that happens all too often in our profession. But who, exactly, was at fault?...
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Get that job at Google
Thanks, Steve; that was very helpful, although it would've been more helpful before I had a phonescreen with you guys last fall and totally brainlocked on a tree traversal. I kid you not, I could hear the guy interviewing me impatiently tapping his fingers on the table. He was just ITCHING to pencilwhip my ass out of…
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The Wrong Way to Get Noticed by YC
So, I’m sitting at my kitchen table the other night thinking about startup type things when an idea pops into my head: Create an index for Hacker News. Now, this isn’t the first time th…
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The boring truth about why groups don't get invited to interviews
A lot of groups that don't get invited to interviews would like to know why. This is a reasonable thing to want. If there's something wrong with your project, you want to know what.
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We are changing our developer productivity experiment design
Our second developer productivity study faces selection effects from wider AI adoption, prompting us to redesign our approach.
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Google has a problem retaining great engineers? Bullcrap.
Once again, there’s been another story about how Google is having trouble retaining talent. Despite all Eric Schmidt’s attempts to tell folks that Google’s regretted attrition rate has not changed in seven years, this story just doesn’t want to seem to die. (And those stories about Google paying $3.5 million and $7…
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You Don't Need Math Skills To Be A Good Developer - What About A Great One
Why everyday CRUD work needs little math, but search, machine learning, cryptography and other interesting fields need plenty.
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Why some smart people are reluctant to share?
Life Beyond Code - Personal and professional development for technology professionals.
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