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The Impending Cloud Reshuffle
A theory that cloud vendors will focus on the lowest layer of the infrastructure stack and startups will take over the software layer.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 580 posts.
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Outgrowing Software
When software eats the world, the questions that matter stop being software questions.
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Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter
Eager to obtain vindication for the pre-election falsehood they spread about the Hunter Biden story, journalists falsely claim that the CIA blamed Russia for it.
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Intel is dying and we can’t save it
How I realized that this is truly the end of the Intel era.
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The Itanic Has Sunk
By today, July 29, 2021, Intel has shipped the last of its …
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Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant
And your precious first principles math proves it
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Product-focused and sales-focused companies
Every company has a focus, and for most it's either sales or product. Here's why both are the wrong focal points
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Saying Good Bye to Hey.com
I have decided to switch away from the Hey.com email service by Basecamp. I started using it because I wanted a good independent provider that was not from Google, and I’ve been trying out se…
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Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed
<p>I’ve been self-employed for 2 years now. I love it and want to encourage others to go for it, but first, I need to answer a question as f...
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What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
No, you will not write as much code as you think.
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Understanding Coinbase
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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So you want to compete with Roblox
My inbox is stuffed with pitches from start-ups wanting to compete with Roblox, that plucky Lego-ish multiplayer game-creation platform currently valued at 41 billion dollars. They shouldn't try, but here's how to maybe not fail if they insist anyways.
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Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch
This documents my process of finding a fix for the “Original game not found” problem when installing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate from Ubisoft. For the actual fix, pleas…
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How to price your SaaS product
Guest post by Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell
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Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
Engineers optimize for efficiency by working in parallel, creating waterfall regardless of Scrum. True agile means fixing stakeholder queues.
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SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others
New research into the malware that set the stage for the megabreach at IT vendor SolarWinds shows the perpetrators spent months inside the company’s software development labs honing their attack before inserting malicious code into updates that SolarWinds then shipped to thousands of customers. More worrisome, the…
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Cracks are showing in Enterprise Open Source's foundations
I've worked in open source my entire career1. To say that I'm worried about the impact recent events have on the open source ecosystem would be an understatement. In the past couple months: Red Hat effectively killed CentOS Elastic effectively killed Elasticsearch People may rightfully refute these statements, but the…
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Enterprise, IT architecture and strategy is getting more and more frustrating
With increasing IT volumes in the world, landscape change is getting harder and harder, and we need to adapt to that fact. Upper management is very slow to adapt and the Enterprise/IT Architect/Str…
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So you want to build a carbon capture company
Would you like to win one hundred million bucks from Elon Musk? Carbon capture (CC) is all the rage these days, with dozens of companies springing up to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and help stab…
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Clubhouse is the big stinker that nobody wants to talk about
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at. Click to read DO NOT SUBSCRIBE HERE subscribe at wheresyoured.at, by Ed Zitron, a Substack publication.
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Ad block shouldn't break your checkout
TeeSpring's checkout doesn't work if you have ad block turned on
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Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch
As we near the end of this decade, and more importantly the end of the hell that was 2020, I realised two things. First, I survived catching Covid-19, and secondly that I had a good story about the…
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Kina Knowledge, using Common Lisp extensively in their document processing stack
Recently, the awesome-lisp-companies list was posted on HN, more people got to know it (look, this list is fan-cooked and we add companies when we learn about one, often by chance, don’t assume it’s anything “official” or exhaustive), and Alex Nygren informed us that his company Kina Knowledge…
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Science upside for Starship
This blog is a direct follow up of Starship Is Still Not Understood, and is part of the series on popular misconceptions in space journalism. Now available in audio form. I think it is relatively s…
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A Compass for the Politics of Collapse
The word "collapse" appears more and more often in recent political debate. Online, in the media, in the Academia, and in radical politic...