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Raising Prices Is Hard
Everyone is faced with raising prices at some point. It's hard not to upset your customers let alone get them to rave about it. Here's how we did it.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,885 posts.
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Database Performance at Scale – A free book
Discover new ways to optimize database performance and avoid common mistakes that impact latency and throughput.
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Google to Acquire Mandiant
Transform cyber defense with Mandiant. Engage frontline experts for incident response, threat intelligence services, and cyber risk management.
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The 18 things you must do when launching a new website
The process of launching a new website is, for many entrepreneurs, bloggers and business owners, an uncertain and scary prospect. This is often due to both unanswered questions and incomplete knowledge of which questions to ask. In this post, I'll give my best recommendations for launching a new…
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Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
Nuclear power currently makes up slightly less than 20% of the total electricity produced in the US, largely from plants built in the 70s and 80s.
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Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad Idea
Corporate media—whose owners are overwhelmingly from the class that would be paying a wealth tax—are returning to throw cold water on the idea.
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Is everything an MLM
Last week, I linked to a NYT article about the spread of CorePower Yoga: how its business model is contingent upon enrolling thousands in expensive “teacher training” courses, even though there’s already a surfeit of teachers out there.
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Ethereum Has Issues
I first wrote about the problem of bots front-running transactions a year and a half ago in The Order Flow , citing Dan Robinson and Georgio...
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JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
Since the initial announcement of Fleet, we have had an overwhelming amount of interest from all of you, with over 137,000 people signing up for the private preview. Our reason for starting with a clo
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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents
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Facebook's PR feels broken
Facebook’s communications operation has begun to feel like its completely broken down over the past few days.
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Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company
David analyzes the root causes of the Boeing 737 Max crash. Read here.
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
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Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19
The PCR diagnostic platform Vivalytic enables COVID-19 rapid tests — a blessing for Clemens Weller and his mother, who suffers from dementia. Learn more!
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Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
As you may have already seen, Mozilla is not in the list of organizations accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015.People who have observed the list carefully may have noticed that
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Funding Django is not an act of charity, it's an investment
Posted by Daniele Procida, Adrienne Lowe on Feb. 4, 2016
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Technical, cognitive, and intent debt
three layers of system health, AI as cognitive system 3, what's expensive if agents make coding free, and the future of source code
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A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy
We’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia streaming service.
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Oculus Quest 2
Shop the Meta Quest 2 all-in-one VR headset and immerse yourself within new virtual worlds. Explore everything that our second gen VR device has to offer.
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Who cares about diversity?
All across the Academy, schools are requiring “Diversity Statements” as a condition for new hires.
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AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Large language models encourage smart financial behavior, but they fall short on the more subtle aspects of saving and investing, according to MIT Sloan’s Taha Choukhmane and co-authors.
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YC China and Qi Lu
Edit: Read this update [https://blog.ycombinator.com/an-update-on-yc-china/] on YC China. I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSydk0XzxEE] is joining YC to launch and run YC China. I have been trying to recruit Qi for many years—he is one of the most impressive technologists I know…
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Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people
A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy