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twitter.com 7mo ago

Elon: Satellites best way to scale AI within 4 years

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ouraring.com 1y ago

Oura Ring 4

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themighty.com 5y ago

The Value in Sharing a Variety of Mental Health Narratives

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www.nbcnews.com 7y ago

Scientists say mysterious 'Oumuamua' object could be an alien spacecraft

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venturebeat.com 7y ago

Steve Wozniak’s online institute Woz U slammed with student complaints

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www.fastcompany.com 8y ago

WeWork has bought Flatiron School

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Self directed IRA startup investing

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

VR Cameras

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uberhand.weebly.com 10y ago

Uber Hand

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How do you manage your orgchart?

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mindingourway.com 10y ago

Have No Excuses

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

3rd party statistics auditor

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Apple Confirms Special Event on September 9, Likely for iPhones

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Try out Oculus VR in SF?

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

Amazing Deaf Communication Tool

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www.washingtonpost.com 12y ago

The second-largest religion in each state

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www.washingtonpost.com 12y ago

The Economics of Adultery

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Amazon Same-Day Delivery Arrives In San Francisco

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blog.side.cr 12y ago

The New Sidecar Has Arrived

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Speak Good English Movement

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www.mtgox.com 12y ago

Bitcoin hits $350

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www.joelonsoftware.com 12y ago

The Joel Test: Steps to Better Code

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Acquisitions Department?

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: How do acquisition taxes work?

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en.wikipedia.org 13y ago

History of Humanity

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blog.cloudcitydevelopment.com 13y ago

Dealing with Heroku’s Random Router

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www.nytimes.com 13y ago

Robert W. Fogel dies at 86

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: How do I stop my form emails from ending up in spam?

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www.thehindu.com 13y ago

An Indian Education

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www.reductress.com 13y ago

Dove's sketch artist leaks drawings of the women who actually were ugly

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What does Starship reusability mean for $/kg to LEO? I know there are longer term targets of $10/kg but that supposes efficiencies that aren’t here yet. Would be helpful to understand before Starship reusability where the state of the art was in terms of $/kg to LEO and where we would be with impending Starship reusability.

Meta has a history of churning out MVPs and doubling down on what works. Launching with a desktop client, EU, etc are in direct opposition to a lean MVP. Meta definitely has some missteps but not sure this is one.

Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones. Carrying over the social graph was a wise decision imho.

The Starship analogy makes little sense as well. Starship is not an MVP and well on track to continue to push forward the state of the art of rocket engineering.

Mueller talks about “ pharmaceuticals, or materials, or semiconductors” production shifting to space. Can anyone expand on this please? What aspects of these industries is better done in space? How large (in revenue) are those portions of those industries? Thanks!

I was rejected by YC and still point to them (namely, the combo of PG’s essays and HN comment wisdom) as the greatest single source of startup advice as I’ve built a company in the 9-10 figure range. Thank you YC! You have done so much for the startup community!

Apple Mac Studio 4 years ago

Why are they doing this? Trickle down effects for their mass market products? There is no way that the prosumer market is big enough to justify this distraction for Apple even if it used to be their core business line.

Seems like an especially smart investment. Tycoons purchasing storied media assets usually have to contend with journalistic integrity when trying to push their agenda. Binance will not have any such challenges with Forbes.

My business received about 1.25M from PPP. It was essential cash flow for us and helped save the business (from a cashflow pov) but it was also 100% a massive handout. On a systemic level it makes some sense I guess, but at a micro level it seemed like a bailout to the people who needed it the least. There is also basically no reason it had to be a handout vs an actual loan that required repayment.

Tiny 5 years ago

A close friend of mine sold them a business. They are quick as advertised but pay bottom of the barrel multiples. Helpful if you need cash quick I guess.

What am I missing here? Why is spacex valuation 100bn if this is true? I would think it would be 1tn easily in this kind of capital abundant environment. Is the risk that high? Is the market size being overestimated?

Stripe Press 5 years ago

I've got a bit of a hack when it comes to sussing out which business books are the best. I look at the endorsement quotes and check if they are quotes from practitioners or quotes from other authors. 90%+ of the time they are from other authors and I know that likelihood of quality is low. On the other hand, quotes from practitioners (and especially ones successful in their field) are worth their weight in gold. Stripe Press books pass this test surprisingly often.

Udemy S-1 IPO 5 years ago

Interesting that the founding CEO owns only 1.5% of the company while the current CEO owns 2.5%. Wonder if this is because of secondary or dilution? How much does the other cofounder (Gagan) hold? I would have thought this was a huge success story for founders but it might not be?

Robinhood S-1 IPO 5 years ago

Democratizing investing is akin to democratizing gun ownership. Yes, more people have access to the technology/service/etc. but is it really desirable?

"which made the decision to make these changes very difficult"

Odd choice here. I think it's kind of textbook not to say that the decision to layoff people was hard on you.

Any way to track how many subscribers Starlink has on anything like a real-time (weekly or monthly would be awesome) basis?