Yesterday, famous VC Jason Lemkin passed on a startup because the deck was dated from 2 months ago, which he saw as a negative signal. Of course, people on Twitter and Linkedin got riled up. Let me tell you why … Read more
Captain, we are being scanned! Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have mixed feelings about caches. One on hand, caching is critical to the performance of systems at every layer, from CPUs to storage to whole distributed … Read more
When discussing artificial intelligence, a popular topic is recursive self-improvement. The idea in a nutshell: once an AI figures out how to improve its own intelligence, it might be able to bootstrap itself to a god-like intellect, and become so … Read more
It took me several seconds to parse the casual quip “But, aren’t you folks web2?”. I probed further and they continued—“Isn’t Zerodha[1] web2? Why don’t you convert it to web3?”. For the next few minutes, I struggled to explain how … Read more
Personal connections are crucial for job search. As I often repeat, “Friendship rules the world.” Yet most empirical studies fail to find any connection between extraversion and career success. This recent literature review reports that over 75% of empirical studies … Read more
Fentanyl test strips (FTS) are a simple, inexpensive, and evidence-based method of averting drug overdose. FTS are small strips of paper that can detect the presence of fentanyl in any drug batch—pills, powder, or injectables. This tool might be lifesaving … Read more
Ask HN: Why aren’t there any real alternatives to Electron? 17 points by tentacleuno 42 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments I have to use Discord and Element on a regular basis (which both use Electron). … Read more
If I recall correctly the famous 1% rule (not that one) but rather[1] was the topic of a recent article (which I cannot now find but am hoping will randomly come into my memory at 2 AM and/or someone will … Read more
I like to think of it as my Mark Zuckerberg moment: I was a graduate student and it was a sweltering summer evening in Cambridge. Text messages were slated to go out to recent high school graduates in Massachusetts and … Read more