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Policies that make the poor less poor
We should have policies to make the poor less poor. Unfortunately, policies explicitly aimed at trying to make the poor less poor typica...
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,888 posts.
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Nowhere is safe
Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batterie…
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What happens to developers who never go into management?
What if you never take that promotion?
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Avoid the Apple App Store
Have you ever though about building an iOS app? I did, but I now wish that I hadn’t.
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CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations
CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations.
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Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models
Explained by a former Sony engineer
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VCs are scared when they should be greedy
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the...
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Shopify elevated the non-manager career path and ditched meetings
The difference between crafters and managers and how Shopify rages against meetings
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Reports of Deno's Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Addressing recent Deno criticisms and sharing our vision for the future
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Here comes the first TikTok war
Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be captured in incredible detail by smartphones and social media. This changes everything.
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Myths about construction
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Construction is something you probably either love or hate, depending on your commute or profession. Obviously, as a civil engineer, it’s something I think a lot about, and over the past 6 years of reading emails and comments fr
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Facebook is other people
This is what "democratization" looks like
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Opendoor, a startup worth emulating
OpenDoor has a unique yet high-risk approach to residential real estate; that’s a great thing, both for its prospects and for society.
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How GitHub No Longer Works
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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MacKichan Software, maker of Scientific Word, has gone out of business
Scientific Word: Now Free for All Versions We are excited to announce that all versions of Scientific Word , from 4.1 through 6.1, are now available for free!
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Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero
"AI first" leaves humans nowhere. Learn about the Bus Factor and how the launch of ChatGPT has changed the landscape on knowledge sharing.
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HippyVM goes to Y Combinator and fails
tl;dr; We decided to go to Y combinator with HippyVM , our high performance PHP implementation, and we did not get through after two round...
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The great VC pullback of 2022
Are we witnessing a major VC pullback? Is it temporary? What does that mean for startups? Certainly the topic du jour in startup circles. Here’s what I’m seeing
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Startup Ideas
Proposals for new technologies, businesses, startups, satirical or serious.
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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
Marketo filed for IPO. They have $60m in revenues and a nice growth rate; unfortunately they're *losing* $35m/year. Why do SaaS business fall into the trap of being forever unprofitable, and what is the secret to the ones who overcome this trap?
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My experience releasing failed SaaS products
Build it and they will come! In the 1989 classic: Field of Dreams an Iowa farmer has a vision to bulldoze a portion of his corn crop in…
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How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website
How Adriaan van Rossum drove more than 30k visitors to his website from Hacker News
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The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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