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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,894 posts.
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The anti-inflation pivot of 2022
In response to the surge in prices that began in earnest in the summer of 2021 central banks all around the world are hiking interest rates.
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The rise of the U.S., the rise of China
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan in the second half of the 20th…
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Meta is not threatening to leave Europe
Meta is not wanting or “threatening” to leave Europe and any reporting that implies we do is simply not true.
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It's the land, stupid: How the homebuilder cartel drives high housing prices
Henry George was right about land values. And today we have a homebuilder cartel rooted in control of land and financing.
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Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse?
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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Books are not too expensive
Let’s Explore a Little Math
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I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years
A few weeks ago I wrote a small app that fetches JSON documents from app.net’s API and draws a word cloud . At first I wasn’t keeping the content around after generating the images. Later I thought of other things I’d like to do with the documents, so I decided to start storing them.
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Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices
Do you use a free Dropbox account? As of March 2019, you can only connect Dropbox with three devices. Here's how to work around the limit.
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How much is YouTube worth today?
Google acquired YouTube for US$1.6bn in 2006. In 2022, YouTube could be worth over US$180bn achieving a +110x return. Analysis of YouTube revenue and usage statistics and financial metrics.
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A few words about FiveThirtyEight
Silver Bulletin will begin publishing some new features soon — including Trump approval ratings. But the media just lost an extremely valuable resource.
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Goodhart’s law isn’t as useful as you might think (2023)
Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.
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Grok 4.1
Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker.
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Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released
Grow your business with Opera. Tap into our trusted brand and global audience of hundreds of millions to connect with new users and expand your reach.
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How to Afford Anything
Home Donate New Search Gallery Reviews How-To Books Links Workshops About Contact
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The most important software dev skills aren’t technical
Over the course of my career, I've found two characteristics to be among the most important for software developers to thrive.
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Hacker News as a case study to test the wisdom of the crowd theory
Marketing Plan: What It Is & How to Create One (With Examples)
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