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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 776 posts.
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Does “building in public” work?
When everyone builds in public, no one builds in public.
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A Post-Google World?
Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.
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Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions
Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.
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Goodbye Auth0
My 6 years at Auth0 ... how it all started, what Auth0 meant to me, and why I will proudly wear that shield for as long as the swag holds up.
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We removed advertising cookies, here's what happened
Since our removal of cookies, we’ve seen both positive & negative effects. Learn more about our experience of going cookieless here.
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Automating processes with software is hard
We have decades of experience trying to automate processes. My biggest lesson is that automation is not about the easy and known flow, but about exception handling.
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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall?
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Don't squander public trust on bullshit
a tragedy of the public emergency system commons...
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Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
Airlines use up to four digits for flight numbers. That means they can have up to 9,999 flights (since there’s no flight zero), and no one comes close. American Airlines operates around 6,700 daily flights including its American Eagle regional services. So they should have plenty of room to grow! Except they don’t…
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
The lofty theory and the sordid reality of "perf".
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Zamba2-7B
Zyphra is excited to release Zamba2-7B, a state-of-the-art small language model. At the 7B scale, we outperform the leading models of Mistral, Google’s Gemma and Meta’s Llama3 series in both quality and performance.
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Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
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Apple curl security incident 12604
tldr: Apple thinks it is fine. I do not. On December 28 2023, bugreport 12604 was filed in the curl issue tracker. We get a lot issues filed most days so this fact alone was hardly anything out of the ordinary. We read the reports, investigate, ask follow-up questions to see what we can learn … Continue reading the…
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Dear Europe, please wake up
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
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The AI Investment Boom
AI Demand is Driving Skyrocketing US Investment in Computers, Data Centers, and Other Physical Infrastructure
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The rise of batteries in six charts
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.
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CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Guest Post Every once in a while I get a question, either privately or in a department meeting, regarding CUNYFirst. Here is what I ...
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A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
Taking a look at a16z’s blog posts.
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Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
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XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
Some timezone observations on the recently discovered backdoor hidden in an xz tarball.
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Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now
On sale now at $5: Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new microcontroller board. It's built on RP2350, our new high-performance, secure microcontroller.
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App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)
Discover why native apps are becoming obsolete in today's web-first world. Learn how web apps, including web games, are revolutionizing industries and how platforms like Rogue Engine are leading the charge.
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Why OpenAI's Structure Must Evolve to Advance Our Mission
A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit’s success.
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A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023)
This is our 200th episode, so I wanted to do something special. Everyone loves to complain about the poor quality of Japanese software, but today I’m going to explain exactly what went wrong. You'll get the whole story, and I'll also pinpoint the specific moment Japan lost its way. By the end, I think you'll
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What I learned selling my company
At my first company, I internalized the standard advice to never think about M&A. The consensus was, and is, to just keep growing the business and good things will come. I did that, and I was lucky that good things did come in the form of a $130M acquisition