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I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I’ve sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,878 posts.
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DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency’s sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code…
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Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job
I got laid off from a software engineering job in April of 2020.
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An Update on Bradfitz: Leaving Google
After ~12.5 years at Google and ~10 years working on Go ( #golang ), it's time for me to do something new. Tomorrow is my last day at Google.
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Voxtral Transcribe 2
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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Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Twitter supposedly lost around 80% of its work force.
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Brave launches 1.0
San Francisco – November 13, 2019 – Brave Software, makers of the innovative Brave browser which combines privacy with a blockchain-based digital advertising platform, today announced the official launch of Brave 1.0. The Brave open source browser fundamentally shifts how users, publishers, and advertisers interact…
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VR
About a month and a half ago I tried the new Oculus and was completely blown away. Even though there were clear rough points – expensive computer, not wireless, limited apps – I was amazed. The next morning I had two thoughts: 1. Because VR games are so physical, gaming will no longer be perceived as an unhealthy…
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Google is winning on every AI front
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
telegra.ph/private-internet-access-vpn-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-israeli-spies-12-0120191,004 points359 comments details
arccompute.com/blog The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of Private Internet Access VPN. I'd like to start by giving credit…
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Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)
(Note: This was written in 2016. I recently — in late 2019 — wrote a post about some things I’ve learned since then .)
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Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business
Bootstrapping a side project into a profitable seven-figure business in four years.
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YC Fellowship
Ten years ago, Paul Graham said there could be ten times as many startups if more people realized they could try. Thanks to the work he, Jessica, Trevor and Robert helped do, that’s become true. We think there is still room for another ten-fold increase in the number of (good) startups. But even now, a lot of good…
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Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce
Earlier today, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison sent the following note to Stripe employees.
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Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire CoreOS, Inc., an innovator and leader in Kubernetes and container-native solutions, for a purchase price of $250 million, subject to certain adjustments at closing that…
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An Open Letter to Intel
Thanks for putting a version of MINIX inside the ME-11 management engine chip used on almost all recent desktop and laptop computers in the world. I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windows, Linux, or MacOS. And I didn't even know until I read a press…
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Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
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Nvidia won, we all lost
Since the disastrous launch of the RTX 50 series, NVIDIA has been unable to escape negative headlines: scalper bots are snatching GPUs away from consumers before official sales even begin, power connectors continue to melt, with no fix in sight, marketing is becoming increasingly deceptive, GPUs are missing processing…
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In defense of the Google chef
I'm on the road with very limited internet connectivity so I can't do the homework I normally would before posting this, so it's possible th...
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The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
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DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster and SFWA President Mary Robinette Kowal discuss the non-payment by Disney of several contracts for works including multiple Star Wars and Aliens novelizations.
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John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
We have incredible news to share with the community: legendary game programmer John Carmack will be officially joining the Oculus team as...
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Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.
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Introducing Keybase Chat
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Ending Bitcoin Support
Starting today, we are winding down support for Bitcoin payments. Over the next three months we will work with affected Stripe users to ensure a smooth transition.
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20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time
<img src="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/bandits/MAB-2.jpg"/> A/B testing is used far too often, for something that performs so badly. It is defective by design: Segment users into two groups. Show the A group the old, tried and true stuff. Show the B group the new whiz-bang design with the bigger…