Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 923 posts.
I recently read Venkat’s synopsis of the book Seeing like a state, which I followed up by an excellent blog post titled The Meridian of Her Greatness. Venkat challenged people to summarize the most important ideas from that post in a tweetstorm. He said if it gets more than 100 likes, on Twitter he’ll give… Read More
“Boeing 737 Max: What went wrong?” (BBC) contains a plot showing the angle of attack data being fed to Boeing’s MCAS software. Less than one minute into the […]
This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and it’s going to keep happening. I th…
Airbnb, Inc. announced today that it expects to become a publicly-traded company during 2020.
Apple today announced Apple Arcade, a game subscription service that will feature over 100 new and exclusive games from renowned creators.
With fat tail, I.e. power law, project times, late projects are likely to be even later,
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our active monitoring SaaS app.
In a beautiful, rollicking piece last month for Aeon Magazine, web developer James Somers ponders the question, Are coders worth it?
Nimble Industries builds purpose-driven software like StatusGator, TrackSSL, and VimTricks – high-impact products solving real problems with clarity, reliability, and performance, trusted by teams worldwide.
It’s always best to speak plainly and honestly about the situation you are in. Or as Matthew Prince likes to put it “Panic Early”. Long ago I started a company in Silicon Valley which had the most beautiful code.
Social media companies today are using smoke and mirrors to hide an important key metric. I’m going to pick on Pinterest first because the social media company recently...
Telegram’s whole scheme was to skin precisely the retail buyers who securities registration is meant to protect from being ripped off.
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a small number of interviews for the Summer 2019 batch of YC in New York City on February 23. This will be the first in a series of interviews we do in cities outside the Bay Area. We’ll start with New York and will soon announce interview dates for other cities…
When I heard that ARM was to stop doing business with Huawei, I was a little bit puzzled as to how that worked: ARM is a British company owned by a Japanese conglomerate; how was the US able to extend its influence beyond its citizens and borders? A BBC report indicated that ARM had concerns over its US origin…
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology.
If AirPods were magical, AirPods Pro are supernatural. Apple’s newest pair of AirPods continues to make waves with “augmented hearing” entering people’s vocabulary. However, the broader implications found with Apple’s AirPods strategy are just as impressive. Apple is quickly removing all available o
At GitHub, we believe in empowering developers around the world. We also believe in basic human rights and treating people with respect and dignity. Today, I wanted to share a message I sent to all employees yesterday that is related to this, as it is important that we share our views on immigration policy with the…
For nearly a decade, we’ve been in discussions with the European Commission about the way some of our products work. Throughout this process, we’ve always agreed on one …
Technology should be optimized for humans, and prioritizing less in-app time needed to get the job done is so right now.
An exploratory data analysis of the extensions available from the Chrome webstore.
