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I've spent a bit of time last year trying to convey my product instincts to the Zulip team and mostly stopped because I felt like they didn't care enough / weren't moving very fast…

If you're interested in this stuff at all, check out some code. Example: https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT/blob/main/FLT/M... Also check out the blueprint, which describ…

Poe's Law is hitting me in the face right now. This is satire, right? I can't quite tell (seriously! please tell me) If it is satire, it's quite subtle and well done. It references…

It's actually because replies boost their email domain's reputation. (Mark as spam is a good response, given that it's exactly what they don't want)

Is that 20x cost... actually bad though? (I mean, I know Datadog is bad. I used to use it and I hated its cost structure.) But maybe it's worth it. or at least, the good ones would…

> "solution to no particular problem" I deeply disagree. While Worldcoin's execution seems questionable at best, the idea seems like a solution to a problem that we (society) defin…

Iframes bypass CORS, so the trick is to use an Iframe and figure out (using some side channel since you can’t peek into the frame) whether the iframe loaded the content successfull…

…no? Exercising 2h/week (close to the minimum) costs 100 hours per year, at $100/hr that’s close to 10k already and that doesn’t include the attention cost, or anything to do with …

Can someone explain more about what happened here?

I think Wren is doing a pretty nice job (www.wren.co).

I agree that this is possible, and definitely worth paying attention to. But some hype cycles are "real", e.g., looking at the internet in early 2000, you might have thought it was…

I agree the modern rules are better. Mogg Fanatic was massively nerfed in the modern rules though, which is sad, because it was such an iconic part of the monored deck. (It used to…

It took me a while to notice, but there is more text if you click on the images then mouse over the highlight boxes.

Employees not succeeding at disconnecting from work is often unintentional, and caused by subtle, pernicious effects of middle managers simply existing and following basic incentiv…

Off topic, but I am very interested in the topic of what other inventions are universal (I've thought about this myself a bit). Do you have a list or writeup?

In the last few months, for some reason, my (completely unmaintained) LinkedIn has started to top search results for my name -- over my regularly updated personal website and blog …

If one of my reports were joking about quitting, I would at least consider whether they were in a ha-ha-only-serious mode, and probably bring it up at our next 1:1. I don't think t…

I’d expect that the ergo costs of using a laptop at all (short key travel, screen down from eye level) would swamp the additional cost of having the keyboard off center. After all,…

Nooo don't compromise your vision for hacker news commenters! Great product design is a mix of flexibility and opinionatedness. You have to find your "users" and then build the thi…

I'm a medium experienced home chef, and I have a Thermapen, and really like it. It's a better thermometer than the $10 one, or even a $30 one. The accuracy doesn't matter very much…

Haha, yup. And if you sign an Android app in CI, Codecov might have had access to your signing keys. Good luck changing those.

What do you think he should be doing instead?

I know you are being sarcastic, but I don't know if everyone understands Sam Altman's motivation for running OpenAI the way it's being run. Sam is trying to create AI which causes …