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While "burning tokens" isn't necessarily a good thing, I thought it worthwhile to throw together a quick leaderboard to track the dev setups of the top HN token burners. Jesse ( ht…

I thought the same (“corporate junk”) early in my career... then I had to start getting dozens/hundreds of people to execute in a coordinated fashion against a defensible plan...

Interesting - these have exactly the design polish I'd expect from working at FB, Twitter, DBX, etc... From what I've seen most of the people I've worked with at those companies ca…

Related: Why Britain doesn’t build (worksinprogress.co) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477481

https://xkcd.com/327/

Wonder if CRV is reacting to the same underlying trends causing Warren Buffet to sell stock (e.g., Cape / Shiller PE ratio is close to an all-time high)...

> That particular right to flexible mistakes applies only to him. Not true. Source: worked for Zuck.

A few friends and I have been frustrated by the lack of AI assistance in Mac Apps. So we built something (this time for the Mac Terminal). It runs alongside your terminal and dynam…

Dropbox | Full-time | Remote North America I work with Drew (the DBX CEO) on 0-1 bets at Dropbox. I'd love to chat with former founders/early employees passionate about project man…

This is an special problem for the uninsured that struggle with mental health. A close friend struggled with bipolar. She was uninsured and making close to minimum wage…calls to su…

For those that believe Brad's take on Wikipedia's content isn't adding a fair amount of value... Presumably, if Legiblenews takes off and doesn't add value, Wikimedia is free to co…

Paying back debt requires income, which is taxed. In this example you continue to incur new debt, but at a rate not more than the growth rate of your assets.

In this example you will always have more in assets than you will borrow, so any new borrowing will be well collateralized. So yes, you can do this.

> there's a valid reason as to why it's being done (to prioritize Americans out of work) The "Fixed pie fallacy" [1] is probably both one of the most important tenants of modern po…

When I read these comments I'm left wishing we could be a more supportive community when peers try something new. I hope we can find a way to support Niko. It saddens me that many …

Interesting thesis, but... > The prediction that participants in the sleep condition would have greater discriminability compared to participants in the wake condition was not supp…

Most cases are not caught because there is a direct march, but because there are multiple distant relatives that match and allow detectives to triangulate the suspect. Final confir…

I wish conversations about public healthcare in the US included discussions about innovation in the healthcare industry. We don't need to argue that consolidating buyers (e.g. sing…