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The Self-Cancelling Subscription
When family TV show night became systems debugging night.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 522 posts.
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AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing
The AI boom is more likely a marker of the end of the 50-year digital boom than the start of a new wave of innovation.
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I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs.
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The Hierarchy of Money
Money. The villagers are tired of bartering. The dairy farmer wants to buy corn, even when he does not have milk to trade, and the corn farmer wants to buy meat, even when the butcher does not want corn. So they decide that special gray stones that they can collect from a nearby riverbed will represent an abstract…
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Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
Lotus Notes had encryption, rich text, and read receipts before email did. Why it still failed, and the dangers of starting software from scratch.
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Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.
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Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets
How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.
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Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely
SpaceX priced its debut at a $1.77 trillion valuation, edging Saudi Aramco's $1.7T for the largest in history. Each block is $25 billion. Aramco was the only company that ever came close; the famous tech IPOs barely register.
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America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital
$6 trillion in patient capital, $60+ billion in annual fees, and the infrastructure that never gets built
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The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter
Discover how communication patterns shape team performance, innovation, and collective intelligence. Learn why idea flow matters more than talent alone.
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What will be left for us to work on?
My keynote at ICML 2026
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Memorizing session transcripts isn't useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
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Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game (Video Games Chronicle), not owning it. And there is truth mixed in with a bold-face…
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I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now
“Preface to the highest stakes negotiations in history.”
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Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
First we reinvented statistics. Then finance. Now we're reinventing program management and calling it agentic orchestration.
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The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services
A hypothesis on the not-so-distant future of software, books, music, and movies, in which most of what we consume gets cheaper, more abundant, and noticeably worse, while the human-made variant moves into a luxury segment of its own.
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When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs
From Situational Awareness’s Blow-up to Materials Science to the HuggingFace Hack
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What would a serious AI product look like?
Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?
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Move Slow and Fix Things (2024)
Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always …
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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
An emoji flipbook presentation by Alex Komoroske about how dysfunctional organizational dyanmics arise even when individuals are well-behaved
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The revenge of the data scientist
AI eval mistakes and the data science practices that fix them.
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How to defer US taxes
Your government wants you to create taxable wealth.
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Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
Understanding “extend and pretend”
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When the cheap one is the cool one
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.
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LotusNotes
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the war would not last forever, and…
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ICE Awards $25M Iris-Scanning Contract to Bi2 Technologies
The no-bid deal is five times the size of the agency's previous contract with the Massachusetts company and could put devices in agents' hands by late June.
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Last gasps of the rent seeking class?
Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on…
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws
Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.