Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,897 posts.
How do you disagree with a decision that is not in the best interest of the company? As a leader, how do you enable your team to disagree in a productive way? Learn how with Matter's Decision Disagreement Framework.
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket. Your car's digital infrastructure is a costly, dangerous nightmare – but for automakers in pursuit of postcapitalist…
From Colt's traveling show to the Wrights' bicycle shop
2008 blast from the past: me, Mike Wallin, and Derek Sivers, the subject of this post. (Photo: A3maven) [Total read time: 3-5 minutes.] Derek Sivers is one of my favorite people. He is a programmer who lost his stage fright by doing more than 1,000 gigs as a circus ring leader (!!!). He’s also a […]
It's hard to say goodbye. Find out how 483 startups have failed and why in the words of their investors and founders.
Why personalized news recommendations and privacy are not mutually exclusive
It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called. Schumpeter once w…
FutureSearch's fundamentals-based forecast of SpaceX (SPCX), updated October 16, 2026. The stock fell from $192 to about $108 on the first post-IPO earnings report, then recovered to about $146, reopening a gap of about 50% to our $1.25 trillion sum-of-the-parts fair value. Revenue is doubling and the AI compute…
Elon Musk is a master promoter. His ability to bring his many endeavors into the limelight is unmatched in the technology industry.
How DHS’s H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US-trained talent
Donald Shoup, famed author of the most fascinating possible book about parking, can also do comedy. From his recent essay on “The Pseudoscience of Parking Requirements“: Everyone wants to park free, and most people consider parking a personal issue, not a policy problem. Rational people quickly become emotional about…
Rheinmetall launches first pilot project for innovative curb stone chargers with the City of Cologne and TankE
This is how bubbles collapse: the "vital few" 4% sell at whatever the market will bear, pushing prices down, and the 64% awaken to the rapidly narrowing window for locking in bubble capital gains. Here's how we can tell if a speculative bubble is a bubble : everyone says it isn't a bubble --the market has reached a…
Cristiano Ronaldo makes 100 times more money than Pelé did in his prime. If you understand why, you’ll know when to expect an AI to take your job.
I have been a skeptic of some of the more breathless claims made for Generative AI since at least October 2023, when I participated in a panel organized by S...
The battle for the future of the world
Subtitle: Yet Another Tech Interviewing Post There are hundreds and hundreds of blogs about how programming interviews suck, how they ask trivia questions or try to ask questions that only fresh graduates would know well (sort binary trees is the classical example). All these theories are correct, but I have
Today we’re submitting a plan to redevelop four sites to the Mountain View City Council.
Why predicted gridlock almost never happens and what this teaches us about travel demand
The doors 2019-nCoV will open, and the doors it will close.
All the weird outcomes from the most counterintuitive recession in history.
This Sunday's Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams is expected to draw more than 100 million viewers, some of whom will have Alexa-enabled devices within range of their TV speakers. When Amazon's new Alexa ad airs, and Forest Whitaker asks his Alexa-enabled electric…
Apple is being sued by the DOJ, but most of the complaints aren’t about the App Store. I think, though, Apple’s approach to the App Store is what led to this case.
