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A failed AI girlfriend product, and my lessons
Lessons from Dolores, my failed AI girlfriend product: built on the Stanford AI Town paper with GPT and ElevenLabs voices, why it earned $50 and I gav
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,886 posts.
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The adblocking revolution is months away
The thing about print adverts was that they stayed where they were. Photo by Bethan on Flickr. TL:DR: when Apple’s iOS 9 comes out in September, there’s going to be a dramatic uptake of…
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UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.
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Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
Which companies pay for oncall, and how much? Philosophies across the industry for paying for standby duty and numbers from 80 companies.
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The Apple Watch
After one week wearing an Apple Watch, my big picture thoughts and observations. It all hinges on the Taptic Engine and digital touch communication.
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We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
GitLab is building Heroku for production apps in hyper clouds, integrated into your DevSecOps workflow: The 5 minute production app.
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CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978
The latest report in EPI’s annual series analyzing current and long-term trends in CEO compensation.
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Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors
This is a furry blog, where I write about whatever interests me and sign it with my fursona’s name. I sometimes talk about furry fandom topics, but I sometimes also talk about applied cryptog…
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The age of the grift shift
For a book proposal I am currently working on (German, no proposal isn’t done yet because I keep reworking stuff, my agent hates me) I am thinking a lot about late stage capitalism and technologies, about how the kinda terminal economic system shapes the technologies it brings forward etc. And there are of course a […]
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"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
Last week, US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel.
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South Korea has limited a working week to 52 hours, in order to stop overwork
The previous limit was almost 10 hours every single day, including weekends.
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Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
Vendor attribution study of 19,450 European company websites. Cloudflare is the largest internet-facing infrastructure vendor in every one of seven EU markets.
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The Meteoric Rise of DigitalOcean
Explore thought leadership, industry insights, and other resources related to cybercrime detection, disruption, and takedowns.
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Is Hacker News Bullshit?
The future of online media
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Just Say No
Saying yes is easy—at first. It makes you feel better. And it makes you feel like you can do anything! And the person you're saying yes to also gets a happy feeling because you're going to do something for them. Saying no is hard. It's an admission you can't do something. And worse still, you're disappointing someone…
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All the oxygen trapped in a bubble
There are many good reasons to be concerned about whether the internet industry is in another bubble. Once shaky, unproven businesses hit the NASDAQ, the chance that granny is going to lose her pension fund goes up big time. That’s the direct economic consequence that you’ve probably heard already.…
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Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months
tl;dr: In August 2017, I reported a vulnerability to Panera Bread that allowed the full name, home address, email address, food/dietary…
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ReactOS was selected for Google Summer of Code 2016
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia
The pending update to the EU Copyright Directive is coming up for a committee vote on June 20 or 21 and a parliamentary vote either in early July or late September. While the directive fixes some longstanding problems with EU rules, it creates much, much larger ones: problems so big that they...
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A Short 100-Question Diligence Checklist
Plus! Bank Capital; Where Venture Funding is Squeezed; Free Shipping and Marginal Costs; Chinese Apps and Data Advantages; Many Funnels; Diff Jobs
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Coffee and its Effects on Feature Creep (2011)
Starting in mid-2004 and until the end of 2006, I worked at a small DNS and DHCP software company called Nominum . These days Nominum offer...
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Post-GPT Computing
Is software done now? Processing the the ChatGPT Plugins announcement.
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