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APIs All the Way Down
Going down the API-First Ecosystem Rabbit Hole with Shopify, Stripe, Twilio, and more
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,893 posts.
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Announcing Our $3.5M Philanthropic Growth Round
> Two years ago, we raised a seed round of donations to support our operations with one goal — to prove the Watsi concept. We built our dream team and started traveling to hospitals around the world to learn how Watsi could support more patients. Since then, we’ve grown 20x, supporting
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OpenAI to Acquire Astral
Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools
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What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
I went through a lot of interviews after being laid off by RStudio earlier this year. Some really impressed me---in particular, I think Automattic 's hiring process was excellent---but many were haphazard, confusing, or misguided . I'm not alone in feeling this way: Behroozi2019 found that the questions asked in…
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A case for ending lockdown
Introduction [DISCLAIMER: The original author is a layperson without medical/scientific credentials and this post represents a best-effort attempt to synthesize relevant research and unpack the policy implications of the “lockdown” approach as compared with the proposed alternative.] [Note: See the very last section…
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The K-shaped recovery
This installment of The Pomp Letter is free for everyone.
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Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Way back in 2012, The Guardian reviewed an eInk reader which cost a mere £8. The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader. As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't find any evidence of consumers getting their hands on one. Also, that £8…
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Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand government reform
Wishing for a more orderly disruption may misunderstand the nature of government reform
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Personal aviation is about to get interesting (2023)
FAA is getting one enormously consequential thing right
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Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
A central puzzle in evolutionary biology is that of spontaneous altruism. When two creatures interact, why might one sacrifice something of value in order to help the other? Why, if I'm rich, might I want to help the poor? In one view of the problem, there's n
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Globalization is dead and no one is listening
The “tool-in” ceremony of TSMC’s new fab in Arizona drew a lot of attention last week. CEOs from Apple, Nvidia, and AMD attended and spoke. President Biden, along with a coterie of cabinet officials, congresspeople, and local Arizona politicians, came to rally, celebrate, and claim (as we will
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The AI bullshit singularity
I’m sure we are all familiar with the idea of a technological singularity. Humans create an AI that is smart enough to create an even smarter successor. That successor then creates an even sm…
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents
Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.
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What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?
I recently came across the following question posted by Paul Buchheit (the founder of Gmail): Assume that I'm going to get rid of $20,000 and my only concern is the "common good". Which of these is the best use of the money: give it to the Gates foundation, buy a hybrid car, invest it in a promising startup, invest it…
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Interview with Paul Graham
The fixed point of Y Combinator
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Tinder’s pricing algorithm can charge users up to 5x more for same service
Tinder Plus users around the world must engage with an opaque and unfair personalized pricing algorithm, according to new research by Mozilla and Consumers International.
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Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020
Airbnb, Inc. announced today that it expects to become a publicly-traded company during 2020.
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Why I got Fired from Facebook (a $100 Million dollar lesson)
I got fired from Facebook... and it cost me $100 million dollars. Probably even more now. This is my story as (former) Facebook employee #30.
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Amazon's profits
The problem with Amazon is not that it doesn’t make a profit, but that you don’t actually know what the profits are. On the face of it, this sounds like an absurd statement - it doesn’t make any profits. After all, look at this chart - massive revenue growth, zero profit.
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The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO
Okay, I’m calling it: if you’re using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should probably stop. Why? Because over time it’s become a more and more spammy practice, …
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The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
OnlyFans has become part of the zeitgeist recently. The rise of e-girls and the prospects of making millions make it a fun thing to gawk at in a
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The industry structure of LLM makers
The Netscapes of AI
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Instacart: We're Sorry
Browse articles, updates, and insights from Instacart across all categories.
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Employment in America: WTF is going on?
The October 29, 2013 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter is the 500th edition. So rather than answer a reader’s question, I’m celebrating this milestone by making up my own question, and doing my best to answer it. (What? You don’t subscribe to the free, weekly e-mail Ask The Headhunter Newsletter? Don’t miss the next…
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Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work
When I make something good, I often spend most of my time making thousands of high-precision edits on an artifact that I thought should have been finished hours ago.