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Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
The wait is over. Starting today, anyone can hail a ride with Waymo in San Francisco. Rain, shine or Karl the Fog, just download the app, and ride.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 776 posts.
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
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How America's universities became debt factories
This essay first appeared in my newsletter. Sign up here if interested in F'ing up the status quo and fixing education. Here's a puzzle: how do you create a trillion-dollar debt bubble that can't be popped? Answer: make student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. Now, here's a trickier one: how do you fix this mess…
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Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
We spend a lot of time suing embezzlers. All over the world. Week in and week out. Big embezzlers, small embezzlers, smart embezzlers and very smart embezzlers… That’s right, no dumb embezzlers because almost all the embezzlers we encounter are smart. Some are very smart. Some are brilliant. And, almost always, most…
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Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that "avoiding those things" is already a plan for success.
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Reflections on Palantir
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
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No More Blue Fridays
No More Blue Fridays: How eBPF is already being adopted to prevent kernel crashes.
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Buy payphones and retire
Dropshipping AliExpress watches, AI-generated SEO spam websites... marginally legal and ethical passive income schemes, that serve to generate that income mostly for their promoters, can feel like a modern phenomenon. The promise of big money for little work is one of the fundamental human weaknesses, though, and it…
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An electric new era for Atlas
Our electric Atlas robot is here. With decades of robotics R&D and practical expertise, Boston Dynamics is tackling the next commercial frontier.
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Leaving LinkedIn
What if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company's fast pace? Chris Krycho faced this very question at LinkedIn. His journey was marked by challenges: from the nuances of remote work to the struggle of influencing company culture, and a critical incident that put his principles to the test…
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OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning
Discover OpenVoice: Instant voice cloning technology that replicates voices from short audio clips. Supports multiple languages, emotion and accent control, and cross-lingual cloning. Efficient and cost-effective, outperforming commercial APIs. Explore the future of AI voice synthesis.
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Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
Google search results are becoming annoying to use and Open AI is about to eat Google's lunch.
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Move Fast and Abandon Things
Maybe it’s the change of weather. Fall often finds me looking backward, to the past — and anyway it is as good excuse as any as to why I have found myself peering into old hard drives trying to recover old bits and bytes from games that I wrote some thirty-five years ago or so.
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The end of Airplane.dev
I worked at Airplane, an internal tooling startup, for nearly two years. Earlier this year, it was announced that the company was being acquired by Airtable and that the product would be shut down. In this blog post, I want to explain what happened from my perspective as a former employee.
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Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves. The business model of big tech is over.
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Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
With 380MM MAUs, Roblox probably counts more players than the entire AAA gaming ecosystem, is more played than Disney+ is watched, and is starting to rival smaller social networks in scale. But Roblox has yet to profit. How can it become a business comparable to its operating scale?
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You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it
When I was still working at Faculty , we took on a new client that was not yet named Matter . We eventually transitioned from an agency-client relationship to a startup relationship, where I became the VP of Technology. This is what I’ve been doing for the past two-ish years.
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The Reddits
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
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Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
Gross incompetence or purposeful deception?
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Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
Why is this economy so difficult to manage? The macro statistics are hiding the experience of being cheated.
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Uber charges more if you have credits in your account
My hypothesis was that Uber seemed to be picking a higher price because I had credits in my account. I might be willing to spend more because my 'real' out of pocket cost was less, and those credits were trapped anyway. I decided to use my Uber credits for Uber Eats instead. That pricing seemed normal.
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Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
Lidl is launching sovereign cloud computing in Europe. GDPR and data compliance is driving the EU to look for local alternatives.
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Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
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Care Doesn't Scale
I met a social worker whose job was to look after four orphaned children. She’d alternate with her coworkers spending 24 hours at a time living with the kids, effectively acting as their parent. The children, unsurprisingly, had a lot of trauma and so her job was certainly not an easy one, but she found it deeply…
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Why Gumroad Didn't Choose Htmx
In this essay, Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad, explains why the company decided against using htmx for its new project, Helper, in favor of React and Next.js. He shares the challenges faced with htmx, including issues with developer experience, user experience limitations, scalability, and AI tool support. While…
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What it was like working for Gitlab
I joined GitLab in October 2015, and left in December 2021 after working there for a little more than six years.
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Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
By all accounts, Pat Gelsinger is affable, technically sharp, hard-working, and decent. Those who have worked for him praise him as a singularly good manager. In January 2021, when Gelsinger was abruptly named the CEO of Intel, this is more or less all I knew of him — and I found myself urgently needing to learn much…
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Sourcegraph went dark
Towards the end of my mid-2019 job search, I was down to joining the Google Go team or Sourcegraph. Sourcegraph ultimately won due to cultural factors - the most important of which was the ability to build 100% in the open . All documents were public by default. Technical and product RFCs (and later PR/FAQs) were…
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