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> we closed a $1.7M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins [...] in a little over 8 weeks This is fast and it's hard to believe that it was a terrible experience. How would have been yo…

OT: What eBay is really good at: If you want to buy a notebook with a US keyboard (which some devs prefer) and when it's hard to get them in your home country. eBay.com offers a Gl…

Had also one key which was registered as two key strokes every fifth to tenth time. Super annoying and the solution was strange: after vacuum cleaning and blowing the keyboard many…

Thought that all new Android One devices should get upcoming updates like the Pixel devices but they don't get Android P Beta (except the Nokia one).

The problem you face is pretty simple, your opportunity costs are just too high: The probability that you create a company as a first-time founder that generates $500k/yr or $42k/m…

Stopped using AMP. Created a site in pure AMP. All competitors didn't use AMP then (1 yr ago). My site was the fastest, didn't have any ads, was the lightest, the most beautiful, h…

Interesting piece but perspective matters. > don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short. It depends on your situation. …

Three years ago I forced myself to reduce my FB usage. - At the beginning I remember it was super hard not to check FB - So I just stopped posting first - Then I realized that it s…

Before we dive into a long discussion about depression, who has made actual experiences with Ketamine and likes to talk about it?

12 °F / -11 °C. On my bike. Listening to Gorillaz on my Powerbeats 3. They shut down after 5 minutes every time.

Maybe most of the tech fields covered by HN are also of my domain expertise.

OT: From my perspective, HN is the reference regarding tech content. The upvoted stories, the comments, the discussions are of such a high quality. It's just the best resource to s…

While most of us happily discuss what Candy Japan's CEO did right and wrong with his Youtube ads, they miss one little thing: Candy Japan, the master of upvoted stories on HN, burn…

Wrong question, wrong perspective. Even the very best jobs where everything seems to be perfect still have significant setbacks because of the nature of a job: - Employees suffer f…

Super nice thread with inspiring thoughts. My shot: Once I had a family with wonderful little kids I understood what 'quality time' really is. As much I enjoyed being with my frien…

Out of curiosity: why homeschooling?

Being on-site != lived in

> When he needed a shower, Peck — who was 35 at the time — would drive to his parents' home, which happened to be nearby. Why didn't he then just live with his parents for the 3 mo…

OT: Anyone know the best architecture using LE with a Docker Swarm cluster. I let one server do the challenge and renew the certificates with cron every three months. Those certifi…

A decade after social networks got popular people still do not understand how relationships are formed. They think you can get a buddy, find friends, be not lonely anymore with a s…

Dang, no need to get aggressive. I was on mobile and had not the time explain why all products around Facebook—which need to collect user's behavioural data to target ads etc.—can'…

I can't relate to her post. We use on purpose attractive female profiles for our support chat avatars (our product is a SaaS) and the cases where a user behaves like this are 0.5% …

It's the modern version of a trade war between the US and the EU which targets massive online monopolies which the EU doesn't have.

> Facebook will do just fine, they had years to prepare and an army of lawyers. They won't do fine. Don't want to go into details but their actual products/required architectures f…