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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 568 posts.
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How to hire an idiot (from the 'How to sell your software for $20,000' guy)
Wow, I remember how idealistic I was when I was about to bring on my first employee! After dealing with bad bosses over my career, after doi...
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So you want to be a consultant?
Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself?
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
Bravo. Here's hoping I never reach the end of that vine. I like to think there's always more.
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Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics . Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up , in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google…
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Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Reddit goes open source - the actual announcement from reddit.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Rails and Merb Merge
Today is a fairly momentous day in the history of Ruby web frameworks. You will probably find the news I’m about to share with you fairly shocking, but I will attempt to explain the situation. Before talking tech, and even going into the details of the announcement, I want
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Aaron Swartz: How To Launch Software
37signals recommends that software developers pursue what they call the Hollywood Launch . They don’t give any argument for this method, except perhaps the title (as if Hollywood was a business you should try to imitate?) — I guess the idea is that you’re supposed to do it since 37signals says to.
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Python 3.0 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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A Fundraising Survival Guide
August 2008 Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn't do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal. One reason it's so brutal is…
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Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic
For an entrepreneur, the line between horrible mistake and runaway success can be so thin that even Kate Moss would be envious. I lived with Gravatar for nearly four years before that line even became thick enough to measure.