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Study: Focus will shape the future of distributed work
The shift to working from home has mostly been positive for knowledge workers, but the challenges reveal a $1.2 trillion opportunity.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,099 posts.
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A few negative online reviews early on can hurt a restaurant
Just a few negative online restaurant reviews can determine early on how many reviews a restaurant receives long-term, a new study has found. The study, published earlier this month in the journal Papers in Applied Geography, also found that a neighborhood’s median household income affected whether restaurants were…
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The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
Why prediction has overtaken perception as the biggest challenge in the field.
1024
Prisma Raises $12M Series A
Prisma raised $12M in Series A funding to keep building the next generation of database tools for application developers.
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Apple, Hey, and the Path Forward
A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals
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Technical Copywriting:What Engineers Can Learn from Apple’s M1 MacBook Marketing
Notes on building, technology, health, and living deliberately by Ayush Kumar.
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A Developer Culture Test
See a shorter, and updated version of this test here: The Pragmatic Engineer Test: 12 Questions on Engineering Culture [https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pragmatic-engineer-test/]. I've talked with dozens of software developers about what they like and dislike about their workplace - team, and company …
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Crime Shouldn't Pay: Why Big Tech Executives Should Face Jail
Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai need to be indicted.
1030
Selling a Tiny Project
How I sold my tiny online store builder One Item Store, and how I think anyone can sell their tiny projects online.
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Climeworks lays the foundation to scale up carbon dioxide removal significantly
Climeworks has signed groundbreaking agreements with Carbfix and ON Power to lay the foundation for a new plant that will significantly scale-up carbon...
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Fintech in Chains
"Fintech can come out of the shadows" is the title that Wall Street Journal editors gave to Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris' oped last week . I have not in a long time seen a title that more utterly contradicts the content of the essay. For what they advocate is exactly the opposite: Fintech in chains, hemmed in by…
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The Un-American Rule on VC's Legal Fees
Legal Fees: Not a Hill to Die On, But Some Parity Would be Nice
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Chips and Geopolitics
TSMC showed the power of modularization, and now they are core to the U.S. national security strategy.
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A Legal Deep Dive on Mexico’s Disastrous New Copyright Law
Mexico has just adopted a terrible new copyright law, thanks to pressure from the United States (and specifically from the copyright maximalists that hold outsized influence on US foreign policy).This law closely resembles the Digital Millennium Copyright Act enacted in the US 1998, with a few...
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A Checklist for Evaluating New Technology
New technology often comes along with a lot of promises. All the hard things? They’re easy now. All of your troubles? Shh, they’re all better now.
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Joe Rogan got ripped off
How did Spotify convince the world’s biggest podcaster to give up billions?
1038
Something funny is about to happen to some prices
Technology, running tech companies, data science, religion, translation technology, natural language processing, backups, p-adic linguistics, academia
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“Out of the Crisis” Podcast
Over the past few weeks, I have recorded a series of conversations with people leading the way out of this mess. They range from prominent ...
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A synthetic control causal analysis of Musk's tweet on Tesla stock price
a terse analysis of tesla stock prices and how one of elon’s tweets moves them
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Average UX Improvements Are Shrinking over Time
On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.
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The Coronavirus Recession and What It Means for Developers
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
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First, Do No Harm
As regulators look closer at acquisitions they should be extremely wary of unintended consequences. The current system works well for everyone, most of the time.
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Why a land-value tax is inevitable
A decade after the late 2000s recession, much of the world is now back at the top of the economic cycle, and critically near the next…
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Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?
3 ways to look at the stocks with huge gains despite businesses with huge losses.
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When Tailwinds Vanish
The Internet in the 2020s
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Private equity looting public health in a pandemic
During a 2007 trip to NYC, while taking long walks from one indie bookstore to the next, lugging increasingly heavy bags of pressed vegetable matter, I stumbled on Simon Lovell's How to Cheat at Everything at the St Mark's Bookshop.
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Little Ideas
A list of ideas, in no particular order and from different fields, that help explain how the world works…