13 years ago, we launched Watsi.org with a Show HN [1]. For nearly a year, this community drove so much traffic that we couldn’t list patients fast enough. Then pg saw us on HN, wrote us our first big check, … Read more
Over the past few years, Google has done a surprisingly great job of making YouTube less interesting and engaging — and in turn, less addictive. Maybe they’ve got some ethical guidelines in the top management now? If so, well done, … Read more
There’s a story I like to tell, which I vaguely remembered as originating at Bell Labs or Xerox PARC. A researcher had a rubber duck in his office. When he found himself stumped on a problem, he would pick up … Read more
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Over time I have gravitated toward using Bootstrap for the CSS in my personal projects (currently both in Anki Books, which uses Bootstrap JavaScript in server-rendered HTML, and Larder for only the CSS since it’s a React app which must … Read more
Hello HN, I’m Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We’re an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141 Today, I sold the company to a private equity firm for $200mn. It’s covered on TechCrunch: … Read more
Lately I’ve noticed that I get some unexpected benefits from being more human, and conversational, with ChatGPT. Prior to this, I was kind of above that, in the sense that I didn’t want to act as if I thought ChatGPT … Read more
On Christmas Eve I made a post trying to ensure that all of our fellow users were at the very least safe and fed over the holiday weekend. Thanks to your help, I was able to distribute to over 40 … Read more
Valve has been doing a lot of work for the past couple of years to improve the gaming experience on Linux-based operating systems. Their SteamOS is based on Arch Linux, and it’s nice, but not as nice as their latest … Read more
This morning, I sent the following post to the GitHub team. TL;DR: I’m moving on to my next adventure, and Thomas Dohmke (currently Chief Product Officer) will be GitHub’s next CEO. I will become Chairman Emeritus, which fulfills my lifelong … Read more