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Harness Acquires Codecov from Sentry

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webflow.com 1mo ago

Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web

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theindex.fyi 2mo ago

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

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www.datacenterdynamics.com 4mo ago

AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center", amid Iran attacks

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www.joanwestenberg.com 5mo ago

The Empire Always Falls

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techcrunch.com 4y ago

Draft.dev CEO on the importance of using experts in developer marketing

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ably.com 5y ago

We don’t use Kubernetes

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2020.stateofcss.com 5y ago

State of CSS – 2020

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medium.com 5y ago

The Dead Code Society

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www.sciencetimes.com 6y ago

Oxford Claims Their Covid-19 Vaccine Gives Off Long Term Immunity and Antibodies

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offset.earth 6y ago

Picking Apart Michael Moore’s the Planet of the Humans

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www.protocol.com 6y ago

Eventbrite lays off half its workforce as coronavirus crushes events business

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

A Coronavirus Explosion Was Expected in Japan. Where Is It?

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www.therosatechnique.com 6y ago

I’m Leaving Wayfair

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How to get more honest feedback in stand ups?

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

Facebook unveils new Workplace platform with email, CRM and more

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

GitHub has another service disruption

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www.sciencealert.com 10y ago

25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart

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Meta Down 1 month ago

I did back in 2020. I still have instagram but I removed it from my phone.

there was. I think it was something with a key at a data center and a DNS config. You would think after that people would have learned to have their own website and POSSE everything outwards, but businesses in particular still think a Facebook/Meta presence is good enough.

6 hours a week is low, unless its the average spread across industries. I think I spend more time in Claude Code via the CLI versus any other app I have on my laptop.

Like others said, the frustration is when it gets something so wrong you just think "wow, how'd you mess that up?" but when it gets it right its kind of nice. I also dont like that I basically tell Claude what to do, and then either go to busy work or waste time on the internet.

He would _always_ say "Let's find out together", and then proceed to find the answer in front of me, doing effectively LMGTFY but in a way that was extremely more helpful (by watching his workflow and allowing questions) and empathetic (by taking time politely and starting from what I knew, not what he knew).

I absolutely love this.

sure but a restaurant is always going to be a risky asset. I am thinking more in terms of a plumbing business. It's a business that will always have a need, no matter the economy because a bursting pipe doesnt care if its a recession or a booming market.

I guess what I would like to see is a pathway to making it easy to buy or start up crucial businesses like a plumbing business, HVAC company, etc. As the current generation of owners want to sell and retire, we should make it easier for people to be able to get in there and buy these companies before PE can.

yea the side of the table they sat on is one that fluctuates month over month, year over year. They recognize that it can work out, but its a gamble whereas working for a steady company (pre 2026 I guess) is the better option for their kids.

I think part of the problem with the succession idea is that a lot of people in these positions worked these hard jobs to try and give their kids a better life. They encouraged their kids to go to school for their passions and now those kids are in careers far removed from what their parents did.

Instead of succession, I wonder if there is a way to make it easier for these people to sell their company when its time to retire to someone who is looking to start the next step of their career. A lot of software engineers joke about becoming farmers, but if they could instead make an easy transition into a small business by buying a small business, we could prevent PE from raiding things.