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Startup idea checklist
I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match…
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New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity
The HN team members are some of the most thoughtful people about online communities I’ve ever met. So I’m always excited when they have a new idea to try. This idea is simple. We’re updating the guidelines to add: “Avoid gratuitous negativity.” Critical thinking is good; shallow cynicism, on the other hand, adds…
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Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
A corporate tale of greed, desperation, and the power of expectations. And a little bit about Capacitors.
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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
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I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups
Guides for independent artists on music distribution and promotion, plus announcements and updates from DistroKid.
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My Heroic and Lazy Stand Against IFTTT
IFTTT will maintain Pinboard support through at least the end of 2016. While this date is not specified in their full statement , I have confirmed it with the CEO and am pleased to announce it here.
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Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
Companies like Facebook aren’t building technology for you, they’re building technology for your data. They collect everything they can from FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp in order to sell visibility into people and their lives. This isn’t exactly a secret, but the full picture is hazy to most – dim...
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Why we lost Uber as a user
On 07/26/2016 01:53 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > The write amplification issue, and its correllary in VACUUM, certainly > continues …
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WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce it has received a $1,000,000 donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp. This ma...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.
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We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology
Saagar Jha's website.
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Don't rent the cloud, own instead
Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.
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What's SAP?
What's SAP? And why is it worth $163B?
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Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
"The problems are tractable, but they're still difficult”
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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
Notorious AV patent troll Axel Nix is at it again!
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EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear
The measures under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation will allow businesses to benefit from a more circular economy.
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From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
The one email I ever got from Steve Jobs, and it said …
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Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet
“We’ve never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there’s a better way to run the company.”
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