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More and more software is moving into a subscription model. I'm looking for high quality suggestions for software that you can buy and fully own without having to keep paying for a…

Isn't this a stochastic variant of Barnes-Hut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%E2%80%93Hut_simulation

The fast.ai courses are exceptionally good for getting started and learning the concepts, but, once you've mastered an intuitive understanding of the techniques, I highly encourage…

I completely agree re: Potemkin village tour of recruiting, but, those townhalls are not a window into company culture at all exactly because they get leaked. The only way to get a…

It's a vicious cycle, but, every time one of these internal town halls gets leaked to the internet, the execs lose the ability to speak candidly, and the workers feel like execs ar…

Joe Weisenthal (who is always worth listening too in matters of finance) put it well here: https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1634985524007157760?s... Some VCs were definitely …

I absolutely think that depositors should be made whole - and - they will. At the same time, I think a lot of the VCs who systematically talked shit about government regulations wh…

Absolutely: the challenge is that any signal that you use to identify "good websites" from "bad websites" will be adversarially optimized by incredibly motivated people. You are de…

I distinctly remember a prescient thread from Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO) about how trying to run Twitter would break Musk - and - it looks like it was spot on. He paid 44 bill…

You.com has a similar code search specific product. What do you plan to offer that they don't?

Beyond the criticism of the format, I found the explicit clout chasing to be completely offputting, and I think I used Clubhouse a grand total of 3x before never turning it on. I w…

I wish this was on the GoodNotes/SublimeText model: pay once for a premium version of the app, and then never worry about subscriptions. The moment something requires subscription …

I know that Apple is incredibly secretive about their launches, and I'm not surprised that carries over to their internal culture, but, I'm incredibly skeptical of stories told fro…

I agree with your first point: 24 out of 394 is too many for my taste, but, given how hyped the sector is, it’s not a huge amount. Per the second point, I actually completely disag…

What a disappointment, so many NFT/crypto companies. Given current blockchain technology, this is something that straight up makes the world a worse place by making existing proces…

I'm a bit torn: I see the potential for civil liberties abuse, but, one of the things I loathe the most about American culture is how entitled 'consumers' feel towards treating wor…

I think the complaints about SEO spam are valid - but - I think msweibel and pg misdiagnose the challenge. The challenge is that you are dealing with an adversarial system, and, th…

Reading that story, I wonder where hustle culture went wrong. Paul Graham famously celebrated "breaking the rules" ( http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html ) - but - this is a cra…

Really exciting work: could you make it easier to find peer reviewed studies (or even better, ongoing clinical tries) that critically evaluate your product on the webpage?

Hi HN, Does anyone have suggestions for great software (ideally crafted by a small indie team, but, anything is fine) that you've paid for that does NOT involve a subscription or v…

Microsoft almost certainly still loses money on the Xbox itself.

That's exactly right. I've seen zero products where the blockchain is a compelling value ad, with the exception of: - it makes it easier to raise capital by claiming that what you …

I'm a bit confused: Google Stadia (and the Amazon/Nvidia) HN has a deserved reputation for missing the obvious value add of a service, so I'd like people to correct me but - isn't …

I've been reading a few of the white papers about this, but I'd absolutely love to go deeper in this. Do you have any suggestions? I am especially interested in assessment about CO…