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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 941 posts.
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The declining profitability of Google Adwords
Google Adwords used to be a great way to get targeted traffic cheaply (if you knew what you were doing). I think those days are well and truly over. I have been using Google Adwords to advertise my…
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The making of Medium.com
There is plenty of media in the world already. And no matter what happens to traditional media economics, there’s nothing to stop the torrent of information rushing from smartphones, corporations, and new-fangled media startups onto the Internet, available for the world to see.
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Human Intervention as a Competitive Advantage
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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CloudFlare and Free Speech
This question assumes the answer. A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.
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The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup
A surprisingly generous sharing of ideas (and the actual deck) from a successful fund-raise.
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Valencia region government completes switch to LibreOffice
The administration of the Spanish autonomous region of Valencia has completed its switch to LibreOffice, a free and open source suite of office productivity applications. Last week Friday the region's...
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Peter Norvig and eight others are Hacker School residents
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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App.net’s new direction
Today, App.net launched free accounts . Previously, everyone had to pay — originally $50/year, then reduced to $36/year.
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Leaving Twitter
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter. I left to start my own company. What I'll be working on is v...
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A Startup Reading List
Books are still vital. Ask the CEOs of the successful companies and you will find that they are well read. Ask the top people everywhere and they read to expose themselves to new ideas.
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The API-ization of everything
Everything that used to be fax machines, contracts, and invoices and purchase orders in triplicate are going away. What's replacing it? The API. Before Stripe, you had to fill out a ton of forms...
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We’re Being Sued For Linking To Shopzilla
(image) If you like crime stories, you’ll love this. ‘True Crime: Hammersmith’ is the story of a deranged criminal organisation […]
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Bank of America Bot Cares About You
I’ll let the horror of automation speak for itself. Not that you need further reassurance that there are no “souls” aboard this ship. WARNING: Some naughty language (this is compl…
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The Y Combinator Startup Index
In a former life I served as Editor of Seattle 2.0, and one of the most popular pieces of content we produced was the Seattle 2.0 Index – a monthly ranked...