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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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What I Learned at Clubhouse
25 lessons, 2 years, from 1,000 users to millions
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How to earn money by hacking a “walking for money” app
Or how to reverse engineer React Native apps, and abuse API.
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Work Somewhere Dysfunctional
The rewards are great if you can survive…
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Reversible and irreversible decisions (2018)
When decisions are reversible, speed them up. The biggest risk is dragging your feet. When decisions are irreversible, slow them down. The biggest risk is making the wrong decision.
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A case study in early-stage startup execution
Before joining Wave four years ago, I spoke to a former employee about his experience. He said something that has stayed in my memory ever since: “Wave is really good at execution, so by working at Wave, you’ll learn how to execute very well.” Now that I’ve been here a while, I thought it would be good to write down…
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Why is American administrative capacity in decline?
Some speculative hypotheses
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Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces
The pandemic made evident how much work can, and should, be different. The forced change to accommodate remote workflows also brought to light what I like to call “virtual offices”. Unlike truly remote friendly workplaces optimized for asynchronous communication, these aim to merely transport the office into a virtual…
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Do data-driven companies win?
Some gut-based judgements on the effectiveness of data.
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Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics
The supply chain crunch, modern logistics, and that famous trip around the Port of Long Beach
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The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
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Engineers should do customer support and success
The best PLG founders, startups, strategies, metrics and community. Every week.
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Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC
A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.”
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California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
Practically doubling state taxes—even if the burden is partially offset through state-provided health coverage—could send taxpayers racing for the exits.
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Is there a housing shortage or not?
The housing shortage in the US is a perennially popular topic of conversation for the urbanist crowd (which online includes basically everyone.) The basic argument is that housing starts collapsed after the financial crisis and have never truly recovered.
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The branch banking model
Ever wondered how bank branches work at a nuts-and-bolts level? Let's dig into the logic and economics of them.
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The YC Summer 2022 Batch
For the Summer 2022 batch, we received 19,000 applications from founders around the world and funded 240. Today, these founders will present their companies to an invite-only audience of investors at our 35th Demo Day. Here’s what we saw in the S22 batch.
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The South Asian Polycrisis
In deciphering the global polycrisis it can be helpful to break down the interplay of crisis dynamics into regional systems.
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The case for energy optimism
I’ve been working on a few more involved projects but thought it would be good to put down my thoughts on recent energy developments.
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The first thing that ever sold online was pizza (2018)
If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your […]
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How the Consumer Computer Is Consuming Computing
When the personal computer went from being a "bicycle for the mind" to a surveilled shopping mall.
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DBT Cloud increase Team plan price by 100% and limit features at the same time
We’re updating the dbt Cloud Developer and Team plans to better reflect product maturity after years of improvements.
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Building the Future of TensorFlow
The TensorFlow roadmap for 2023 and beyond
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How messed up was Germany's energy policy?
It's not as bad as a lot of people are saying
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United flies passenger flight on sustainable aviation fuel supplying one engine
United Flies World’s First Passenger Flight On 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supplying One Of Its Engines
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Go Developer Survey 2021 Results
An analysis of the results from the 2021 Go Developer Survey.