jeffreyq

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026

Extraordinary win, why not be profitable with strong growth without major dilution?

Hope to see you guys being written about in the same fashion as https://www.bvp.com/atlas/bootstrapping-to-100-million-arr-c...

down the road.

btw: your https://helloprenup.com/how-it-works/ page has a horizontal scroll that's probably unintended

seems ironic that the turns have tabled. "silicon valley devs" were the analogous "quant geeks" underdogs that unseated the ossified incumbents.

That said, I feel like "quant geeks" aren't quite underdogs compared to silicon valley devs. wdyt?

We can say with a high degree of confidence that SARS-CoV-2 was _not_ engineered.

Do you have any links, articles, or further reading you could share to help me understand where the high degree of confidence comes from?

This guy seems to be convinced of the exact opposite conclusion that is is indeed engineered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-eqdRSx7Y

Has anybody listened to this podcast episode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d-eqdRSx7Y&t=1s

Curious to have a discussion on this with anybody knowledgeable on the topic.

so inspiring, congratulations!

Already Russia is heading to the next panel in the cycle. Curious if you could share some links, or readings, blog posts, etc. in relation to this

Very :+1:

Always baffled me how little commercial sense HNers had when I was growing up and reading this forum.

How long have you been reading HN? How have you felt the "HNers" w.r.t. nose-for-commerciality (and along whatever other dimension you think is relevant) change over time?

Ooh! I would super recommend reading into the Tintin author's friendship with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Chongren. It also touches upon and confirms/applies to what the French individuals say about Hergé, but up until his writing of The Blue Lotus, I'd argue.

The section on Zhang Chongren's wikipedia was cool

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# Influence on Hergé

Hergé's early albums of The Adventures of Tintin were highly dependent on stereotypes for comedic effect. These included evil Russian Bolsheviks, lazy and ignorant Africans, and an America of gangsters, cowboys and Indians.

At the close of the newspaper run of Cigars of the Pharaoh, Hergé had mentioned that Tintin's next adventure (The Blue Lotus) would bring him to China. Father Gosset, the chaplain to the Chinese students at the University of Leuven, wrote to Hergé urging him to be sensitive about what he wrote about China. Hergé agreed, and in the spring of 1934 Gosset introduced him to Zhang Chongren. The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Zhang introduced Hergé to Chinese history and culture, and the techniques of Chinese art. Of similar age, they also shared many interests and beliefs. Hergé even promised to give authorship credits to Zhang in the book, but Zhang declined the offer. As a result of this experience, Hergé would strive, in The Blue Lotus and subsequent Tintin adventures, to be meticulously accurate in depicting the places Tintin visited.

As a token of appreciation, Hergé added the character "Chang Chong-Chen" (Tchang in original French-language version) to The Blue Lotus.[1]

As another result of his friendship with Zhang, Hergé became increasingly aware of the problems of colonialism, in particular the Empire of Japan's advances into China, and the corrupt, exploitative International Settlement of Shanghai. The Blue Lotus carries a bold anti-imperialist message, contrary to the prevailing view in Europe, which was sympathetic to Japan and the colonial enterprise[citation needed]. As a result, it drew sharp criticism from various parties, including a protest by Japanese diplomats to the Belgian Foreign Ministry.[citation needed]

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I bought a copy of The Blue Lotus after learning about how the publication of that adventure was a turning point in Hergé's understanding and open-mindedness about other (specifically China, in this case) cultures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Lotus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Chong-Chen

can you provide some napkin math as to why it's not enough?

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cool and slick website. reminds me of linear.app but when i attempt to scroll all the way down it lags. i'm on macbook air with chrome browser

something something minority report

Tangentially related, but you can try https://macro.com/ for reading your PDFs.

Thank you so much for sharing that short story. I've found my new favorite author.

Would your comment read any differently if you replaced "Chinese" with "United States", or "France", or any other Western civilized nation?

I'm curious to understand why China is to be blamed, exclusively? Correct me if I am misunderstanding your premise.

Interesting quote. I just came across the exact quote reading the latest of "The Upheaval" by N.S. Lyon

Can you further elaborate on why more government intervention would work better?

Well, as the parent poster mentioned, interest on the savings are not taken into account. Furthermore, the inflation in the price of the Starbucks coffee is also not taken into account. So, seems like the logic/reasoning still stands.

I absolutely do want the follow up to price discovery in elite software talent markets. That said, if this is something better discussed over a beer I've gone ahead and sent you an email :+1:

Incredible, thank you for taking the time to knowledge share!

Can you elaborate on what "labor rewards" means in the context of ``` Labor is not the only input to productivity, so there is zero reason labor rewards should match productivity. ```

Can you further elaborate on why monetary policy is directly related to profit margins? My understanding is that monetary policy / interest rates is controlled by the FED. When they raise rates then money is more expensive, therefore profit margins shrink, and the hiring bar has to increase.

Can you further elaborate on "price discovery" and how monetary policy interfaces with the bond market? Also, curious to better understand how you interpret monetary policy and bond markets ultimately impacting high-end tech hiring in a more concrete example.

Well put

Perhaps this recording tool built on top of / integrated with an e2e testing framework could be a revenue-generating side project for an enterprising soul :)

This is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing your story.

I was wondering what the early days of the journey looked like. - What did the first iteration of this product look like? Was it more or less similar, or substantially different from the spirit of httptoolkit today? - How did you go from (some semblance of a product) to first sale? / acquiring first customer? - did you spend anything on marketing/distribution?

I'm inclined towards your argument, but to play devil's advocate, I'd say you are making a false equivalence between a car and a company.

A car is exclusively a tool, and a company is a tool from some perspectives, but involves humans. Hence why ethics are involved and there is no clear answer.

If instead you replaced car with horses, or worse yet, with human powered transportation would your answer be any different.

Curious as to where you got your numbers from.

Also, the article indicates that "the companies plan to acquire up to $1 billion in build-to-rent properties, starting in Atlanta."

So, in the grand scheme of themes (greater US) probably a drop in the bucket. But maybe it's a big deal when we only look at Atlanta.