Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 776 posts.
The term “psychological safety” is often misleading. When managers hear safety, many dismiss it as a soft style that implies complacency. Meanwhile, psychology implies too much mumbo jumbo. High-profile figures like Elon Musk advocating for a “hardcore” style perpetuate this misconception. But this is a fundamental…
[This post is about the day that Glitch failed, and how that failure created the opportunity to make Slack. We're sharing it here (out of chronological order) to mark 12 years since the famous pivot.] “We have to shut down the game.” Stewart Butterfield said. I looked at him
Don't panic! Here's how to tactfully answer salary expectations questions without costing yourself a ton of money
This blog post will cover the new sources of “chaos” that have been added to LavaRand and how you can make use of that harnessed chaos in your next application
Simple, efficient torque C-Motive’s motors are engineered to provide silent, maintenance-free, and high-efficiency torque for stationary industrial applicat ...
Posted on Friday 27 Sep 2024. 748 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.
I've recently set up my own consultancy company and decided to sponsor my local UKGovCamp conference. That entitled me to a logo on the site, a shout-out during the conference, and place to put any promotional stickers. Everyone loves stickers! But I decided to bring along something different - promotional sweeties! I…
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro -monopoly – they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the…
We're a bunch of ex-Triplebyte people. We loved it there, and we're trying to make something like it. Here's how.
Advice from "successful entrepreneurs" might be unreliable due to Survivor Bias. What's real, and what's random?
YouTuber Josh Cahill, who has nearly 700,000 subscribers, reviews flights and courts drama, it seems. Just a couple of months ago he was banned by Qatar Airways over a negative review. Now he’s taken on East Timor’s Aero Dili.
I’m putting the post about Lumina Probiotics back up, now edited to avoid any possible threats of libel.
New tech & business models are accelerating anime to even greater heights.
An example of how you can save money, simplify your architecture and speed up the development by going back to the basics and ditching the cloud, kubernetes and whatnot.
It’s easy to get carried away when you’re building a new web app. You’ve got big ideas, you picture millions of users flocking to your platform, and you start imagining the kind of infrastructure needed to handle all that traffic. So, you build for scale from day one—optimising databases, setting up powerful servers…
Supposedly, these lines were included in a 1979 internal presentation at IBM; screenshots of them routinely go viral:
The following is a copy of the internal message from our CEO.
A cartel of superstars has conquered culture. How did it happen, and what should we do about it?
One of the many lies in Silver Lake and WP Engine’s C&D was their claim that Automattic demanded money from them moments before our CEO Matt Mullenweg gave his keynote at WordCamp US. Tha…
His boundless ambition is putting AI, and the world, on a dangerous path.
On Friday we had an internal policy violation that affected three companies. I’ve been in touch with the founders and I’m appalled we made…
The central fact about child rearing by my parents was the equal intellectual status of everyone in the family.
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In some Amish communities these days, e-bikes are beginning to outnumber buggies on the roads. Horse-drawn buggies, long a symbol of the Amish lifestyle, are finding less use as more people in Amish communities adopt electric-powered bicycles. In small Amish towns across America such as Sugarcreek, Ohio, Napponee…
