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I didn’t personally know your dad, but like many others here depended on his work with QModem during the late 80s and early 90s. The fact we are all on Hacker News is evidence of h…

Hey look on the bright side. If this is legit, then it will inevitably become a reference in the bill to overhaul the DMCA when it (finally) gets introduced! The beginning of the e…

Based on how well CrowdStrike has managed their response to date, this is a plausible scenario.

All this, but there is also some negative PR getting funded, presumably by the incumbent car manufacturers threatened by Tesla. Remember that NYT article came out in 2018 that pain…

For those of you unfamiliar with the specific challenges IoT patching brings, here is a blog post from just last week on one aspect of the topic: http://tomalrichblog.blogspot.com/…

With respect to the name “X” - I’ll bet he revives the OG x.com brand - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

It’s called a hedcut. WSJ built a generator in 2019, but it's only available to subscribers. [1]. There are artists that offer commissions, including at least one WSJ artist. [2] 1…

Join an existing startup in the same field. Not only will you learn a lot - on someone else’s dime - but you will meet plenty of people hungry to do the same.

Ancestry.com is a very well designed product with lots of data and a powerful network effect. I designed a search products for incident response data - also high volume, noisy but …

My view, you are describing the Kindle. Amazon sees the same potential - and risk - and has been quietly iterating for over a decade in the segment. If you want to go seriously exp…

I like your anecdote, I might steal that one. IANAL, but I negotiate a lot of enterprise SaaS agreements. When considering the SLA, it is important to remember it is a legal docume…

That is a per-user privacy setting. You can flip your profile to public.

I’d recommend joining an existing, early stage startup in the same/similar niche you eventually want to build your own product in. While there, make an effort to network with the n…

I frequently recommend https://openviewpartners.com/blog/founder-led-selling/ as a good early stage enterprise sales framework. It is addressing a different, but complementary, set…

Reading all the negativity here reminds me of the iPod reception back in 2001! This is prescient y’all. This is the technology future I want, not that dystopian blade runner world!…

This is the new normal, folks. Consumer technology is manufactured for six to twelve months, but live in our homes for three to five years. Today's manufacturers cannot afford to u…

http://www.mathmaniacs.org/lessons/01-binary/socratic.html That exercise is excellent to teach kids how to count in binary and why computers are based on it.

Graph databases are the NoSQL of this half decade. Move cautiously. Just because you conceptualize it in your mental model does not mean you need a graph database. Further, recogni…