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Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)
Hanging out in subreddits like /r/homelab, /r/servers, and /r/datahoarder, I see this question asked too many times: I have extra space in my home server, how …
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A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it
In this day and age of cybersecurity professionals crying out for roles, we're still seeing companies complain that there is a skills shortage and a lack of talent. A quick scan through your LinkedIn feed will show this is absolute nonsense: there is a mass of experienced, capable talent out there l
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DHH Is Worse Than I Thought
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
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Running a business means contact with reality
A year ago I decided to help build a service business for my mom because I wanted to learn about marketing and business. One of the largest blindspots engineers have is around sales and marketing. I was determined to not fall into this trap, but marketing seemed like a skill I couldn’t just learn by […]
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Where to find ideas
A no-BS guide for new startups, new products, new GTM approaches, and new features
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Instead of letting their commercial buildings sit empty, surely it would be better for landlords to lower the rent and got some use out of the building, right? Wrong. Here’s why.
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Palantir: The Most Evil Company
At the cutting edge of dystopia and genocide
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ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing.
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Why quadratic funding is not optimal
Introduction Quadratic funding has received a lot of attention recently as a mechanism for funding public goods. The Gitcoin grants program alone has distributed over $59M through QF funding rounds as of January 20241.\nQF is appealing because it is theoretically optimal under certain assumptions2. The problem is that…
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Microsoft's 1986 IPO
Its market cap hit $777 million and Bill Gates' net worth reached $350 million
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Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own
A now-deleted report by HonestAGI on GitHub showed a high number of similarities between Huawei’s Pangu and Qwen 2.5.
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Things managers do that leaders never would
Simon reveals the subtle but powerful ways leaders set themselves apart from managers—and why those choices matter most in times of crisis.
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Chess.com regional pricing: A case study
Explore Chess.com’s regional pricing, revealing the cheapest and most expensive countries, and tactics used to prevent price discovery.
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WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is macOS Tahoe: I know I am going to sound old and fussy, but Apple needs to roll this back. Some History The Finder logo has…
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ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform
We are excited to announce that ClickHouse has acquired LibreChat, the leading open-source AI chat platform.
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Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Open source LLMs now outperform closed alternatives at 90% lower cost for workhorse tasks. We compare benchmarks, pricing, and real-world performance.
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New York’s bill banning One-Person Train Operation
Bill Banning One-Person Trains Would Lock NY Transit in the Past
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It
Update 2025/07/21: Microsoft heard the complaints, and fixed the reliability added a better status page. Baby steps. Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents. Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Let’s talk about why. First, Fabric’s status page is fabricated bullshit. The link…
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Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition
RELEASE: Today the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild. The Guild will now begin the process to develop a contract.
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My thoughts on renting versus buying
I've read numerous articles about renting versus buying and most dive into financial projections while completely missing the bigger picture.
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales
And 11 signs you've got it backwards
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The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s
The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies...
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Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
Why you can't skip to the top (but you can skip to the bottom)
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The F-35 as a Subscription Service
by Benjamin Cook (into by Tom Cooper)