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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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Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD
Defy reality with Meta Quest. Our VR headsets redefine digital gaming and entertainment. Learn more about Quest 3S, and explore all headsets.
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Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
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What Comes After Zoom?
Zoom is the Skype of video - it turned a technology few people used much into a mass-market product. But next we’ll get the equivalents of Instagram and Snap - products that ask different questions. Zoom solved getting into a call, but why are you in the call?
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Why are interest rates so low?
Ben Bernanke says that low interest rates are not a short-term aberration, but part of a long-term trend and explains the rationale behind the Federal Reserve's continued policies.
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An embeddable and customizable fiat-to-crypto onramp
Let customers instantly buy crypto within your Web3 app.
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The Housing Market in San Francisco and Ideas to Fix It
(Also see my follow-up post on getting organized, and sign up to my tiny letter to get contacted about fixing housing affordability in SF). San Francisco’s housing system is broken. The only way...
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The Growth of Reddit
Explore the Quillbot blog for practical articles on writing, grammar, creativity, AI tools, education, marketing, and career growth.
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Leaving the Cloud
Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.
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Stop Building Closed Ecosystems
I'm sick of it. In the world of mobile development (though likely also elsewhere), we sink so much engineering talent into making tools that are great...
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Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App Store
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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Commuters prefer origin to destination transfers
It’s an empirical observation that rail riders who are faced with a transfer are much more likely to make the trip if it’s near their home than near their destination. Reinhard Clever&#…
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Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)
In a beautiful, rollicking piece last month for Aeon Magazine, web developer James Somers ponders the question, Are coders worth it?
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Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way
I wrote a piece a long time ago about The Wolf. It's my personal take on the mythical 10x engineer, except that they aren't a myth. They exist. I've seen them.
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Sorry You Missed It – Inside Rockstar North Blog Shut Down
I've decided to take the blog down. It's come to my attention some of my former colleagues don't enjoy it as much as I thought they would. N...
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The Sideprocalypse
You can't open a feed today without having AI boosters fling word salad like "agentic engineering" or "openclaw" into your beautiful but disapproving face. I'm terrible at predicting the future—you should ask me about selling NVIDIA stock in early 2022 some time—but one thing seems…
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The Fallacy of Money As A Means
If you want to make a lot of money perhaps you should first ask yourself this critical question which could dramatically alter the way you think about your
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Why Thieves Steal Soap
Stealing soap is almost as good as stealing cash.
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Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account
i dont really get it... did you actually create multiple account? did you redeem multiple adwords credit coupons? what exactly did you do? or were there just other people with the same idea so there were multiple adwords accounts advertising dropbox? if the latter: would it be possible to get other advertisers banned…
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Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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