Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,888 posts.
Joel Spolsky has a classic blog post on "Finding Great Developers" where he popularized the meme that great developers are impossible to find, a corollary of which is that if you can find someone, they're not great. Joel writes,
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
Redfin is moving to end our support of the National Association of Realtors
Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s CSDDD.
We’re deploying our own generative model which lets users design entirely new synthetic voices. Discover more about generative voice AI
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that I’ve come to rely quite heavily on data. I’ve counted typos on resumes, I’ve sifted through a corpus of engineering offers, and I’ve skimmed thousands of recruiting messages to tag them by personalization level. This post, however, is going to be a bit of […]
Not a shadowing day or research interview - a real job. What I learned working as a pest control technician.
A July 2017 milestone, with 34 organizations joining the alliance.
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
How earbuds influence our beliefs and push us apart.
But as good as that juiced up Mac Pro Tower is today, I know at some point, the time will have to come to an end, simply because Apple hasn’t built a PCIe-based system in many years now. As my article described, the alternative Mac Pro trashcan is simply not a solution for our needs, imposing too many limitations…
A new promo message for Microsoft Teams broke the Windows desktop shell and the taskbar for Windows 11 Insider users. Why can cloud services break Windows PCs?
On New Years’ Day, I woke up to 40 emails from Twilio, each with the subject line of, “Your Twilio account has been recharged.” In total…
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. attorneys seized an estimated $12.6 billion in asset forfeiture cases. The growth rate during that time averaged +19.4% annually.
Anthropic raised $30 billion, led by GIC and Coatue, with run-rate revenue of $14 billion and 500+ customers spending over $1 million annually.
TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.
Some might remember a book I released in 2016, “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen”. A lot has changed in the world since then, and Shenzhen is no exception.
There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder. But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before going any further, I should point out that this is a...
