Why Startups Die
Startups have a notorious failure rate – some estimates say 9 out of 10 startups eventually fail. Yet, contrary to what many first-time founders expect, startups rarely fail because a giant competitor swoops in or because of some external “homicide.” Instead, most startups die by “suicide,” meaning their demise is self-inflicted by internal issues. As […]
Show HN: Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git
Simple, CLI-friendly secret storage that lets you safely commit encrypted secrets to version control. For small teams who want something simpler than sops/git-crypt for .env and infra secrets. lockenv provides a secure way to store sensitive files (like .env files, configuration files, certificates) in an encrypted .lockenv file that can be safely committed to your […]
Microservices Should Form a Polytree
Microservices are a treacherous path. On paper, they look wonderful: small, focused components; independently deployable units; clean, well-defined interfaces. What could go wrong? Plenty. Teams often discover that a system that began as a tidy collection of services has quietly evolved into an Armageddon of impossible-to-trace failures and a painfully slow development experience. Microservices are […]
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring
Join truemetrics – Build technology to navigate the world truemetrics helps organizations to navigate the world more efficiently. We are solving one of the biggest pain points in last mile delivery: how to get parcels, groceries, and food to the right door faster and more efficiently. Our technology sits in the smartphone of the courier […]
Socialist ends by market means: A history
Introduction: Bridging Socialism and Markets What if the egalitarian goals of socialism could be achieved not by state control, but by harnessing the dynamism of free markets? This is the core idea behind the philosophy of seeking “socialist ends through market means.” It envisions a society where workers and communities achieve economic justice and social […]
Show HN: Cdecl-dump – represent C declarations visually
Dump C declarations visually on the command line. ./cdecl-dump “int a” ./cdecl-dump “void f(int a)” ./cdecl-dump “unsigned char *const *arr[20][30]” ./cdecl-dump “int (*const fp[20])(void)” The program uses a hand-written, table-driven lexer and parser.
The era of jobs is ending
Morning again. The alarm pleads. The phone lights up. For a second you’re no one. Then the memories rush in: the commute, the plain desk, the boss’s irritating face hovering in the back of your mind. You do the math you always do, have to do:Eight, nine hours a day.Forty, fifty years.If you’re lucky, you […]
Bag of words, have mercy on us
photo cred: my dad Look, I don’t know if AI is gonna kill us or make us all rich or whatever, but I do know we’ve got the wrong metaphor. We want to understand these things as people. When you type a question to ChatGPT and it types back the answer in complete sentences, it […]
XKeyscore
National Security Agency surveillance Map of global NSA data collection as of 2007, with countries subject to the most data collection shown in red Programs Pre-1978 ECHELON MINARET SHAMROCK PROMIS Since 1978 Upstream collection BLARNEY FAIRVIEW Main Core ThinThread Genoa Since 1990 RAMPART-A Since 1998 Tailored Access Operations Since 2001 OAKSTAR STORMBREW Trailblazer Turbulence Genoa […]
Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
We are indebted to Antonio Campos and Luis Angel Mejia for directing the process to match the administrative records needed for this study. Lisseth Escalante and Alfonso Rodriguez Saldarriaga provided excellent research assistance. We recognize the contributions of Pablo Ibarrarán, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín in the original randomization implemented for the development of this […]