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Things I learned from 5 years at Vercel
Here are some of the lessons I learned and how I grew as a leader and manager, as well as a bunch of behind-the-scenes photos.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 949 posts.
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It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 6, 2025, including OpenAI’s Windows strategy, Sam Altman and boundless ambition, and the future of creation.
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'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay
DHH's Fizzy license blocks competing SaaS offerings, so it is source available, not Open Source, which has a specific shared meaning; the real issue is sustainability.
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The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was
Today, President Trump announced that the US Government would begin using taxpayer dollars to systematically buy up a variety of cryptocurrencies. Crypto prices shot up on the news. This is revealing, as crypto boosters have argued for years that cryptocurrency has legitimate economic value as a payment system outside…
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How renewables are saving Texans billions
A dive into ERCOT data reveals how solar energy is driving down electricity costs for Texas
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Three kinds of AI products work
The very first LLM-based product, ChatGPT, was just the ability to talk with the model itself: in other words, a pure chatbot. This is still the most popular…
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Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC
The EESC has adopted an opinion pointing out that nuclear energy is an essential component of the clean energy mix which is needed to phase out fossil fuels. The Committee calls on the European Commission to include key regulatory and financial enablers in order to make the planned investment possible, and to enhance…
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Kagi Hub Belgrade
We’re excited to announce that Kagi Hub Belgrade is now open! Our first office doubles as a free coworking space for all Kagi members. Reservations will be available from December 15th, and you can make your...
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Scarcity, Inventory, and Inequity: A Deep Dive into Airline Fare Buckets
Airline pricing may seem mystifying, but behind every airfare is a complex system of fare buckets and inventory controls. Airlines don't just sell seats - they manage a dynamic inventory of fares, divided into booking classes (fare buckets) with different prices and rules. For the technically curious, understanding…
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Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play
Happy New Year everyone! Just three hours into 2025, I received an email from Google Play Support with the following subject line: Action Required: Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies (Luck be a Landlord) Nothing has changed with Luck be a Landlord in the past few months,
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Europe's Largest Makerspace
MotionLab.Berlin is the new operator of Europe’s largest makerspace, which is being built on the ringberlin model campus in Mariendorf.
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Is outbound going to die?
HN Discussion
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Reality Check
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this and
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Agentic AI Foundation
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI have launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAF). Learn about this new non-profit organization dedicated to making agentic AI safe, accessible, and beneficial for everyone.
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GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last week sent a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly failing to block similar missives supporting Democrats. The letter followed media reports accusing Gmail of disproportionately flagging…
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Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming
This post was part of an experiment. It was largely generated by AI, and does not reflect my views. Please see the post How I Tricked Hacker News and Made The Front Page with AI Slop for details! The
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Ghost kitchens are dying
Ghost Kitchens Are Dying.
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Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Revisiting Moneyball
Data, sports, payrolls, and memes
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A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI
The machine learning community is finally waking up to the madness, but the detour of the last few years has been costly.
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What Killed Innovation?
I entered the data visualization field in 2012, when D3.js had just come out and interactive graphics were going through a digital Renaissance. By the time I was fully steeped in the field in 2016, it felt like a new, experimental project was coming out every week—each one pushing the boundaries of how we think about…
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America's reputation drops across the world
The proportion saying the United States will have a positive influence on world affairs has fallen in 26 out of 29 countries over the last six months. America’s reputation has fallen most markedly in Canada. For the first time in our decade-long survey series, China is placed ahead of the US when it comes to playing a…
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An update to our pricing
Our pricing model is getting much simpler!
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The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy
#Democrat, #VoteBlue, #Bernie, #JohnOliver, and 24 other hashtags Instagram censored on the day of Trump's inauguration.
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How the US built 5k ships in WWII
Among the most impressive manufacturing achievements of the US during WWII was the number of ships it produced.
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What makes 5% of AI agents work in production?
Beyond the Prompt: Notes from the Context Frontier