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No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader
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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 16,880 posts.
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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users
Microsoft announces vague changes to the default web browser setting for Windows Insider. Nothing but wishful thinking. Still force-opens web links in Edge.
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Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch
For the past one and a half years I've been working on a secret Factorio project. Today we are finally revealing it. As announced during Nintendo Direct, Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch! It's already in the final stages and the global release date is set for 28th October 2022. Here is what to expect: All of the…
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Dropbox Project Infinite
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Copying is the way design works (2020)
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
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AWS's Egregious Egress
Amazon’s says: “We strive to offer our customers the lowest possible prices, the best available selection, and the utmost convenience.” When it comes to egress, their prices are far from the lowest.
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Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
Ah, the tech industry.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard
Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance today announced a new working group that plans to develop and promote a new connectivity standard.
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The FAA’s Hiring Scandal
Inside a decade of struggle to bring a scandal to light
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On average, skipping college and investing tuition costs nets a higher return
We've all heard how expensive college is getting, along with plenty of criticism surrounding its value in a changing job market. Of course, there are many benefits beyond the monetary ones that should be considered when exploring college options, but for the purpose of this post I'm going to limit the scope and purely…
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HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece
I set up my own company in 2012. After decades of working for other people I felt the time was right. I had the experience and the contacts…
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“Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
A monopoly both in search and advertising, Google, unfortunately, shows that they are not able to resist the misuse of power.
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Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser
Starting today, new Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech.
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An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
There's a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt when it comes to stock options, and I'd like to try and clear some of that up today. As an engineer, you may be more interested in getting on with your job than compensation. However, if you're working at
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The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
"We have nowhere else to go and Amazon knows it." The FTC and states are going after Amazon, largely for stopping merchants from offering discounts elsewhere.
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Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Eighty percent of American households meet this income threshold.
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Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
Apple is the one tech giant that has never been associated with ads, proudly declaring its customer a jewel it will never sell to advertisers. But it seems that Apple is now immersing itself deep into the ad business. Will its promises be kept?
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Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems program to address structural vulnerabilities in Python and PyPI. It was the PSF’s first time applying for government funding, and navigating the intensive…
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Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices—customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of...
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Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch
No co-founders. No funding. No connections. No customers. No — you’re not nuts.
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Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
Were you aware of it: Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides. Don't just take my word for it: open up the network monitor of your...
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.