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Bitcoin drops below $20k, Ether cracks $1k – what this means
A huge Rube Goldberg machine slapstick custard pie clown car, where each custard pie triggers three more custard pies.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,158 posts.
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Steve Yegge Joins as Head of Engineering of Sourcegraph
TL;DR: Steve Yegge has joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering, where we are building the world's most open and comprehensive code intelligence platform (CIP).
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I'm making drugs for cats
For all the new readers who’ve joined since my post about effective altruism and elections, welcome!
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Mystery Blips
A young operations engineer learns a lesson about creative debugging
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Brave launches private search ads
Starting today, Brave Search will feature privacy-preserving ads as part of a global beta program.
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Purchasing Power Parity: Fair pricing for SaaS products
Developer, writer, indie hacker · 📍 Montreal, QC
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Entire telecomm infrastructure of Iceland sold to private equity?
In October 2021, Ardian agreed to buy 100% of Míla, which controls the largest Icelandic telecoms network, from Síminn, the country’s privatized national telecoms operator. Read the interview with Orri Hauksson, CEO of Síminn, Daniel Von Der Schulenburg, Head of Infrastructure for Germany Ardian and Gonzague Boutry…
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Terrible things I'd do with your money
In some of Daniel Kahnemann's books and any other business advice-type articles, you always seem to read the same argument: The thing important people all over the world would like to see is incr
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You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange…
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Go Developer Survey 2022 Q2 Results
An analysis of the results from the 2022 Q2 Go Developer Survey.
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Operating well – what I learned at Stripe
Over the last few years, I’ve grown from a fine to a good operator.
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Political Chips
Chips are the clearest example that economic efficiencies will not be the ultimate decider of technology’s end state: politics will play an important role.
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Adobe XD, where did it go wrong?
From love to disillusionment with Adobe XD. Why I had to jump ship, and what went wrong for Adobe’s design tool.
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Crypto firm Bitpanda lays off around 20% of its people
We unfortunately needed to announce that we’re letting part of the team go during a call earlier today. We made this incredibly difficult decision to ensure that we stay true to Bitpanda’s mission and keep building the leading investment platform in Europe and beyond.
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Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn
On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in…
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ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Rebellion at DataRobot over insider stock sales
What happens when executives are allowed to secretly sell stock at a company that is doing poorly? And what can founders learn from this incident?
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Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.
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Technology Choices for My SaaS in Retrospect
Two years ago, I started out building a new software product. From the start, it would require mobile, web, and backend components to make it work, so I had to make quite a few technology choices. Here is how those turned out.
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Learnings of a CEO: Wade Foster, Zapier
Today, Zapier automates work by connecting with over 5,000 apps. The company has been profitable since 2014 and is valued at $5B – with 700 employees working remotely. Wade, Zapier CEO, shared his learnings growing into the role of a growth-stage CEO.
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New numbers on music consumption
And it's not just the dominance of old songs—the whole creative culture is losing its ability to innovate. But why?
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A Year-End Letter from our Executive Director
This letter was originally published in our 2022 annual report. The past year at ISRG has been a great one and I couldn’t be more proud of our staff, community, funders, and other partners that made it happen. Let’s Encrypt continues to thrive, serving more websites around the world than ever before with excellent…
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Facebook (Meta) international cable expansion: animated map
Facebook has increased its submarine cable holdings from near-zero to 6% of the world's total backbone infrastructure as of 2022, and will double by 2024.
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My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
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