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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 522 posts.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.
xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.
We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies.
Who were the most popular personal bloggers of 2025, and what made them successful on Hacker News?
Agents made implementation cheap, so I started doing far more of it in parallel. My GitHub history since 2019 shows what that did: as VP of Technology I am back at my full-stack engineer pace, with bursts, burnout and a low season that is no longer low.
tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.
The delirious rantings of Frederick Vanbrabant. A blog focused on the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, product, and business strategy.
Microsoft have fired most if not all of the team at id Software responsible for developing the idTech game engine during Xbox layoffs
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
We're in the era of trillion-dollar companies, but that doesn't mean you should leave $5 on the table!
When web-based social networks started flourishing nearly two decades ago, they were genuinely social networks. You would sign up for a popular service, follow people you knew or liked and read updates from them. When you posted something, your followers would receive your updates as well. Notifications were genuine…
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …
May the MacBook Neo live so long that its name becomes inapt.
I’ve been running Kimi K3 alongside Claude on my normal coding work, and for all practical purposes I can’t tell them apart. Same tasks, same quality of outp...
Today Raspberry Pi announced more price increases for all Pis with LPDDR4 RAM, alongside a 'right-sized' 3GB RAM Pi 4 for $83.75. The price increases bring the 16GB Pi 5 up to $299.99. Despite today's date, this is not a joke. I published a video going over the state of the hobbyist 'high end SBC' market (4/8/16 GB…
I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …
If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.
A timeline of founding a company in Germany: €11,800 spent, two companies registered, 203 days to a VAT ID, and a registration nobody mentioned.
The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired MediaWiki’s most influential developer and disbanded the team whose entire job…
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext
The story of the nice!nano; a wireless Pro Micro-compatible microcontroller board I made in my freshman year of college.
Garry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.
Or: How the 2020s broke our brains
12 papers retracted, 7 editor positions removed, and the "open secret" of Elsevier’s elite paper mill exposed.
AI-generated code copyright explained for builders.
