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I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders
On May 4th, my book Hello Web App was released. Since then, hundreds of people used it to learn how to build web apps using Python and Django.
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I just need a programmer
I first became acquainted with Pat Conroy's work when, as a freshman in college, I watched The Great Santini as a requirement for one of my honors courses. This film struck me as both sad and hopeful. Since then, I have seen a couple of other movies adapted from his novels.
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Never attribute to stupidity what is adequately explained by opportunity cost
People aren't incompetent or lazy, just busy doing other things.
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LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
LFM2.5-24B-A2B: an open-weight 24B reasoning model with 2B active parameters, built for fast, private on-device agents. Beats Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw.
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Replicate is joining Cloudflare
Replicate’s going to carry on as a distinct brand, and all that’ll happen is that it’s going to get way better. It’ll be faster, we’ll have more resources, and it’ll integrate with the rest of Cloudflare’s Developer Platform.
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We can do better than “same, but electric”
We've been making compromises to the limits of fossil fuels for so long that we've forgotten they're compromises.
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Netflix's New Chapter
Netflix waited out Blockbuster with better economics, and it’s seeking to do the same with its competitors today; the key to the company’s differentiation, though, is increasingly creat…
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How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
“Kara sold her software company for $1.33 billion and paid ZERO capital gains taxes. I don’t mean the tax bill was deferred to a later year. I mean the tax
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Request for Startups: Climate Tech
At YC, we believe founders and startups can make a positive impact on climate change and support the transition to a sustainable future. Here are a few areas and ideas we find most interesting, and hope to see founders apply with.
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now
...or at least, not without a lot of patience or a fat wallet. But why? And are there any signs Raspberry Pis will become available to the general public again soon? To be clear, I'm speaking of the mainstream SBC Raspberry Pis, like the Pi 4 model B, the Compute Module 4, the Pi Zero 2 W, and even in many cases the…
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How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ
Artificial intelligence is the biggest tech construction project in a century. Here's what that looks like.
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How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier
The UC Negotiating Team Ivy Anderson, (Co-Chair), Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library; Jeffrey MacKie-Mason (Co-Chair), University Librarian and Professor, School of Information and Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the…
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Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken
All the broken parts of the Adult Entertainment Industry from the view point of a software developer
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What Was TON And Why It Is Over
For the last 2,5 years some of our best engineers have been working on a next-generation blockchain platform called TON and a cryptocurrency we were going to name Gram. TON was designed to share the principles of decentralization pioneered by Bitcoin and Ethereum, but to be vastly superior to them in speed and…
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RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Agentic coding presents an existential threat to a broad set of low-code tools.
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Quantifying the Impact of “Cloudbleed”
Last Thursday we released details on a bug in Cloudflare's parser impacting our customers. It was an extremely serious bug that caused data flowing through Cloudflare's network to be leaked onto the Internet.
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WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin
At WordPress.com, our mission is making publishing democratic — accessible and easy for anyone, anywhere. And while anyone can start a free blog here, not everyone can access upgrades (like g…
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Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR
I had the privilege of leading PlanGrid to $100M in ARR before I stepped down as CEO and passed the baton to Autodesk Construction. I’ve had years to dissect the mistakes I have made in my first...
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Eight Years at Roblox
I joined Roblox at the end of 2012 as a rendering engineer; I had just spent more than a year working on various titles from FIFA franchise after years of console game development and was becoming a bit tired of the “big game development”. My work on FIFA was as a contractor and I got an offer for a full-time…