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The AI Investment Boom
AI Demand is Driving Skyrocketing US Investment in Computers, Data Centers, and Other Physical Infrastructure
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,886 posts.
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Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
Some really great software developers have been passed...
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Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms
Jura Liaukonyte, associate professor at Dyson, and colleagues tracked ad viewership using tools that, instead of just monitoring the television, measured actual viewer presence in the room, and focal attention on the screen.
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Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow
[I’ve added an update after watching the announcement.]
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A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity.
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The rise of batteries in six charts
The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.
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Facebook's Desperate Smoke Screen
Soros vs. Facebook One of the big headlines from last month’s World Economic Forum at Davos was a scathing speech delivered by George Soros. The ... Read more
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Hedge funds use satellite images to beat Wall Street
Berkeley Haas research finds there may be a dark side to the rise of “alternative data” in capital markets While Assoc. Prof. Panos Patatoukas was discussing Walmart in his Financial Information Analysis course last year, a student brought up the story of how company founder Sam Walton used to count cars in store…
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CUNY paid Oracle $600M for its HR software (2013)
Guest Post Every once in a while I get a question, either privately or in a department meeting, regarding CUNYFirst. Here is what I ...
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Alexa: Amazon's Operating System
Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon is building exactly that with Alexa.
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An Apple ISA is coming
Apple is on track to diverge from ARM and x86 to design its own proprietary instruction set. This good for the future of hardware–software co-design.
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Agent swarms and the new model economics
We compared old and new agent swarms building SQLite from scratch and found that better coordination delivers similar quality at a fraction of the cost.
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A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing
Taking a look at a16z’s blog posts.
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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures
In a recent episode of President Curtis , the President struggles with opening a door on two separate occasions. These doors don't work beca...
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Running Costs of a SaaS app
A close look at the costs that go into running Cushion and the reasons why we use specific services.
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Dust in the Light
The Internet ends gatekeepers and increases transparency, which has world-altering effects — both good and bad.
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2022 Cloud Report
The 2022 Cloud Report is the only cloud performance report to compare AWS, Azure, and GCP on benchmarks that reflect critical applications and workloads.
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Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling
Patent Trolling’s twin: Copyright trolling I’ve covered Patent Trolling in some detail in the movie The Patent Scam. Today I’ll briefly go over a variation on […]
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23andMe meets FDA standards, adds back wellness reports
23andMe made some news today, with the launch of a new experience for customers that includes the first and only direct-to-consumer genetic service that meets U.S. FDA standards. We invested nearly two years of work conducting extensive user testing, working with regulators, scientists, physicians, and top product…
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The Collapse of Complex Business Models
I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration. Against that background, though, they were worried
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Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
Originally when launching Mahalo, Jason Calacanis claimed that it would be spam free and that SEOs would have hell to pay.
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Our Startup Handbook
Over the past ten years, we have invested in and worked with close to 100 startups. Along the way, we have seen teams, ideas, and practices work spectacularly well. And, we’ve seen others that didn’t work out as expected. We decided to take the experiences and insights learned over the past decade and compile them […]
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