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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.
Tech Industry & Business
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OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
The entire team has joined OpenAI.
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SparkFun Gets A Subpoena
We've never seen a subpoena before, have you? Check this out...
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Running a business means contact with reality
A year ago I decided to help build a service business for my mom because I wanted to learn about marketing and business. One of the largest blindspots engineers have is around sales and marketing. I was determined to not fall into this trap, but marketing seemed like a skill I couldn’t just learn by […]
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GitLab acquires Peach Tech and Fuzzit
Acquisitions will make GitLab the first security solution to offer both coverage-guided and behavioral fuzz testing
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The Cloud Is Not for You
Shop a wide selection of domains at HugeDomains.com. Find the right domain name today.
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Startup Studios
Welcome to the golden age of the product studio
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The Financial Times has had an error on its “Market Data” page for 18 months
Market Data section of the Financial Times US Edition print edition from May 5, 2021. If you’ve flipped through printed broadsheet newspapers, you’ve probably seen pages full of tiny te…
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The Twitter "Patent Hack"
Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. I've been aware of this effort inside of Twitter for a while and I like to call this move the "Twitter Patent Hack" because I think…
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The Y Combinator Experience
An article about how Y Combinator can transform your company, and your life.
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MongoDB 2.0 Should Have Been 1.0
Recapping the criticisms made about MongoDB.
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Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting
Starting today, if you use Google Apps for Work or Edu, you can schedule meetings from anywhere with "Find a time" in Google Calendar for Android.
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After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice
Demo day just wrapped up for Beacon. We feel pretty good about what we've done since starting YC in January. But it's been a long and winding road to get here. One of my cofounders (@dmitric) and...
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The Shirky Principle (2010)
[Translations: Japanese] “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky I think this observation is brilliant. It reminds me of the clarity of the Peter Principle, which says that a person in … Continue reading →
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Community Banking and Fintech
How and why small, local banks power the fintech apps you use.
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Where to find ideas
A no-BS guide for new startups, new products, new GTM approaches, and new features
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Android is better
I started using a Nexus 4. I was going to go right back to my iPhone after a week. I was designing more and more Android interfaces at Twitter and realized I needed to more intimately grok Android UI paradigms.
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Launching Route 53 Files
Four decades ago, when the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server launched, it stored DNS records in "zone files". You could edit these files in vi , but BIND had to be told to reload them before your changes took effect. Later, other DNS servers came along, like Daniel Bernstein's tinydns, which served records directly…
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Marc Andreessen at Startup School [video]
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark
Venture capital marks are highly variable based on different valuation methods. These are the main "mark" valuation methods used by venture firms.
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So I finally tried Wave...
Last week, TechCrunch published a story about me not yet trying Google Wave (" Gmail Creator Thinks Email Will Last Forever. And Hasn't Trie...