Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 16,888 posts.
I learned the hard way how important a carefully designed sign-up process is. I saw a large percentage of interested people fail to sign up because of easily preventable flaws in the flow.
Cloudflare announced their exciting new object storage product, Cloudflare R2. Will they take market share?
Once upon a time, Cisco, Ericsson, Klarna, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, WhatsApp, Amazon and many other top companies kept a secret. Erlang was that badly kept secret. Discover more on our blog.
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Apple Vision is incredibly compelling, first as a product, and second as far as potential use cases. What it says about society, though, is a bit more pessimistic.
From this week we're switching to working Monday-Thursday for all team members at Beacon. Here I'll explain why we've decided to make this change, how it's going to work for us, and what it'll mean for our customers.
The purpose of this article is to share my story in hopes of connecting to the right people at Facebook who can help me save my businesses…
Know when it's time to break up with your customers.
Last week, Microsoft published the binary file formats for Office. These formats appear to be almost completely insane. The Excel 97-2003 file format is a 349 page PDF file. But wait, that’s not al…
There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it. It's a design bug woven into people's identities and sense of self-worth. Fixing it will be painful. Influential and otherwise very smart people will deny till their last breath that it even exists. But I believe it should be fixed before it…
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
The SaaS website best practices you need to close more sales, based on online behavior of 1,000s of SaaS buyers.
October 2008 The economic situation is apparently so grim that some experts fear we may be in for a stretch as bad as the mid seventies. When Microsoft and Apple were founded. As those examples suggest, a recession may not be such a bad time to start a startup. I'm not claiming it's a particularly good time either…
Several months ago, reddit shook with the news that longtime subreddit /r/jailbait -- dedicated to, well, you can probably guess …
A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (without getting lucky).” More
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
Multinational organisations are collaborating in the open on OpenStreetMap
EFF is fighting for vehicle owners’ rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles and to repair and modify their vehicles, or have a mechanic of their choice do the work. At the moment, the anti-circumvention prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably restricts vehicle...
50% of strong liberals support firing Trump donors, 36% of strong conservatives support firing Biden donors; 32% are worried about missing out on job opportunities because of their political opinions.
Apple & Google at the EU DMA compliance workshops, June 2025.
Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.
Cal.com goes closed source after 5 years. Here’s why rising AI-driven security risks and vulnerability discovery are forcing us to protect customer data.
