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One of my favorite classes with Bjarne from college was Bjarne telling us the story of a ten year-old who wrote him asking if it was too late to start programming and what he shoul…

Okay, you got me: """tech company""". I think it's probably a financial engineering company over everything else, but I mean "tech company" insofar as this post is going to the top…

Additionally, I think this is great to think about as far as the entire story of IPOing a big tech company in 2019. You start with the story the bankers sell you. They all want to …

It's been incredible watching each part of this unfold exactly as Matt Levine called it each week prior.

Any information on the state of the patient’s vision both pre and post-op? If you’re going from, let’s assume, blindness, to now full vision: how does your visual cortex move from …

The rise in the popularity of self-checkout is shown to also spike incidents of shop lifting from people who were unlikely to shop lift given that defrauding a machine can feel qui…

This is fantastic, I think for first time founders there’s a little bit of a gap between how they see their business (primarily product focused) and how an investor sees their busi…

From a blog I discovered earlier today, I felt like the content was apt for Hacker News bringing a sort of Girardian narrative to the startup world. Saw no comments, so thought peo…

Great piece! For reference, here’s the comment thread the first time posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13562968

I’ve seen discussion about this all over Twitter and thought it would be interesting to share regarding if the experiment is more correlatory than causal or vice-versa.

Probably the least stressful major version bump I've seen. Props to the team for solving the 4.4.x problem and pushing this out. Took a few minutes to update and now everything is …

Congratulations on your launch! I think this space is going to be super interesting and allowing companies to build products like this by simply adding an API to their pipeline is …

I'd really like to improve my intuition around linear algebra. It's been a little while since college, but sometimes I find that my natural understanding isn't as rock solid as I'd…

Haven't seen any discussion for this on HN, but came across Schmidt Futures. Seems like Eric and Wendy Schmidt's version of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but wanted to see i…