211
Addiction Markets
Corporate gambling is economic coercion, a way to shift tax burdens away from the wealthy to the poor. It's been here since the 1970s, and now it's corrupting sports and young men. Abolish it.
Topics /
Tech Industry & Business
The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 949 posts.
212
213
Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)
Explore one of the world's largest and most discussed duopolies, from the origins of the credit card to its combined market value of $850 billion.
214
You don't have to pay the Microsoft 365 price increase
Here’s how to keep the price of your subscription the same as it’s always been.
215
You don't want to hire "the best engineers"
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
216
217
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
218
Apple vs the Law
Apple & Google at the EU DMA compliance workshops, June 2025.
219
Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment
Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) and Waymo reached a preliminary agreement to explore a collaboration focused on accelerating the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies.
220
Databricks acquires Neon
Databricks agrees to acquire Neon, a serverless Postgres database company, to bring speed and flexibility to production workloads.
221
Twitter Shadow Bans Turkish Presidential Candidate
The X account of a Turkish opposition leader with 9.7M followers is restricted in Turkey. Although his new account is not restricted, many users say they don't see his posts on their homepages.
222
Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…
223
The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
224
GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)
While Silicon Valley obsesses over AI, a weight-loss drug is quietly becoming the biggest economic disruptor since the internet. Here's why your job, investments, and future depend on understanding it
225
New Study: Waymo is reducing serious crashes and making streets safer
The path to Vision Zero requires reducing severe crashes and improving the safety of those most at risk. Our latest research paper shows that the Waymo Driver is making significant strides in both areas. By reducing the most dangerous crashes and providing better protection for pedestrians, cyclists, and other…
226
A new form of verification on Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
227
LLM Year in Review
2025 Year in Review of LLM paradigm changes
228
Announcing the data.gov archive
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
229
A year of funded FreeBSD development
For several years leading up to this point I had been talking to Amazonians on and off about the possibility of Amazon sponsoring my FreeBSD/EC2 work; rather predictably, most of those conversation ended up with my contacts at Amazon rhyming with "Amazon should definitely sponsor the work you're doing... but I don't…
230
The RAM shortage comes for us all
Memory price inflation comes for us all, and if you're not affected yet, just wait. I was building a new PC last month using some parts I had bought earlier this year. The 64 Gigabyte T-Create DDR5 memory kit I used cost $209 then. Today? The same kit costs $650! Just in the past week, we found out Raspberry Pi's…
231
A bug saved the company
Fortune favors the buggy?
232
I don't think AGI is right around the corner
Continual learning is a huge bottleneck
233
I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
“Bye bye bye.” It took some time, and a serious amount of research, but I have finally crossed the finish line. I have officially migrated my digital life to pure, EU-hosted solutions.
234
The Generative AI Con
It's been just over two years and two months since ChatGPT launched, and in that time we've seen Large Language Models (LLMs) blossom from a novel concept into one of the most craven cons of the 21st century — a cynical bubble inflated by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman built
235
YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.
236
237
The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
Together, the Bitter Lesson and Scaling Laws reveal that the god of Compute we worship is yoked to an even greater one — the god of Data.
238
Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
In Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say “Ship the Roadmap.” What new information are they comm…
239
Perplexity Deep Research
Deep Research accelerates question answering by completing in 2-4 minutes what would take a human expert many hours.
240
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement that strengthens its long-term partnership, expands innovation, and ensures responsible AI progress.