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Guide to Equity Compensation
Stock options, RSUs, job offers, and taxes—a detailed reference, including hundreds of resources, explained from the ground up, for both employees and managers.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 7,905 posts.
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When you change the world and no one notices
Do you know what’s happening in this picture? Literally one of the most important events in human history.
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Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Beeper – Moving Forward
Each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to be unreliable due to interference by Apple, Beeper’s credibility takes a hit. It’s unsustainable. As much as we want to fight for what we believ…
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DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Together, DoorDash and Instacart would help stores of every size reach more customers with the kinds of innovative technology that the biggest online retailers and grocers build for themselves.
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Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack
Miners have begun to coordinate a 51% attack to stop EIP-1559, and the Ethereum community has responded.
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A good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
A practical guide to a good measurement culture where numbers don’t replace common sense
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Statement from Nvidia board of directors
The NVIDIA Board is initiating an independent investigation in light of recent reporting that founder and CEO Jensen Huang has been the target of a foreign intelligence effort. A committee of ...
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Embezzlers Are Nice People (2017)
We spend a lot of time suing embezzlers. All over the world. Week in and week out. Big embezzlers, small embezzlers, smart embezzlers and very smart embezzlers… That’s right, no dumb embezzlers because almost all the embezzlers we encounter are smart. Some are very smart. Some are brilliant. And, almost always, most…
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2014 Gates Annual Letter: Myths that block progress for the poor
Annual letters from the Gates Foundation.
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We ditched Google Analytics
Space Cybersecurity has become a prominent topic in the news, particularly when it comes to protecting space-related assets and technologies.
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Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
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Do not talk about pricing
I’ve been slightly obsessed with pricing since 2010. Before joining Magnetic, I was part of the team that changed the price of The Times…
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IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp
IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of HashiCorp, whose products automate and secure the infrastructure that underpins hybrid cloud applications and generative AI.
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Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
Firefox is the only major browser not backed by a billionaire and our independence shapes everything we build. This independence allows us to prioritize bu
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Open letter: Ban surveillance-based advertising
This letter has been sent by the undersigned to EU & US regulators, to urge them to take action on banning surveillance-based ads, as recommended by the NCC.
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Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
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Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts
Keeping in touch is easier and more affordable than ever.
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Roblox downloaded 145GB models from us (including adult content) without asking
On 15 and 16 October 2026, a crawler that said it belonged to Roblox walked through almost every project on Open3DLab, SFMLab and SmutBase, and proceeded to download complete copies of 1,027 files from 712 projects. 145.5 GB of our creators' work, downloaded for what we assume are AI training purposes.
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Google Fiber is coming to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville and Raleigh-Durham
It’s been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network in one U.S. city as an experiment — and were met with overwhelming enthusiasm. Now, Google Fi…
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
A system for leveling up at Square
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Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage
Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details
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Dilution
There has probably been more capital looking to invest in private technology companies in the past five years than any five-year period before. An obvious consequence of this increased supply is that company valuations (i.e. prices) have gone up, and so has the amount of capital raised by most companies. A non-obvious…
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Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search, published last year. A lot has changed: the legal case has advanced, AI has become the central battleground, and the need for...