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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,895 posts.
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Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intu
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Don't Shave That Yak (2005)
The single best term I’ve learned this year. I want to give you the non-technical definition, and as is my wont, broaden it a bit. Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occur…
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Guys what is wrong with ACATS
Ever transferred assets between brokerages? Impressive, terrifying machinations happened in the background. No cats were harmed.
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The Cost Center Trap
In the 1960’s, IT was largely an in-house back-office function focused on process automation and cost reduction. Today, IT plays a significa...
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Revisiting Moneyball
Data, sports, payrolls, and memes
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The Locust Economy
Last week, I figured out that I am a part-time locust. Here's how it happened. I was picking the brain of a restauranteur for insight into things like Groupon.…
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How We Fooled Ourselves Into Waiting Too Long To Launch
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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Agility Requires Safety
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue
I will freely admit, I’ve been avoiding writing this article. In fact, as I type this, I’m still not sure that it’s something that I want to do. However, again, I come back to that damn promise I made when I started this whole thing about being open and honest. Curse me and my big mouth! I also stated just over a week…
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Why we switched from Google App Engine to EC2
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NVD Damage Continued
There is something about having your product installed in over twenty billion instances all over the world and even out of the globe. In my case it helps me remain focused on and committed to working on the security aspects of curl. Ideally, we will never have our heartbleed moment. Security is also a generally ……
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Workplace Experiments at 37signals
At our company-wide get together last December we decided that 2008 was going to be a year of workplace experiments. Among other things, we discussed how we could make 37signals one of the best places in the world to work, learn, and generally be happy. Here’s are a few of the things we…
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CEBIT Hanover to be cancelled
Die HANNOVER MESSE ist die Weltleitmesse der produzierenden Industrie. Sie verbindet Produktionssicht und Produktsicht, Marktvergleich und Systemverständnis, technologische Innovation und industrielle Umsetzung. Auf der HANNOVER MESSE erleben Sie zukunftsweisende Technologien live: Von autonomen ...
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A summary of my learnings on how to find startup ideas
I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas and below is the summary of what I’ve…