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by jbyers 10d ago
This is good for Tottenham, we need that money: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7542593/2026/09/02/tottenha... ($405M in gross transfer spend in this summer's window)
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by jbyers 2mo ago
Two stories: 1. We had an engineer who worked remote (us in Silicon Valley, him in Central Europe) in the early 2000s. He was - and still is, I'm being vague to protect his privacy - massively productive. He generated reams of high-qua
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Cursed, a genz programming language made by Claude in a 3-month loop(ghuntley.com)
6 points by jbyers 1y ago|1 comments
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Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects(freewheeling.info)
158 points by jbyers 1y ago|157 comments
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by jbyers 2y ago
Title reads as clickbait; this is a repackaging of previously-reported layoffs with no additional content
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by jbyers 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497093
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by jbyers 2y ago
I suspect they meant "hundreds of thousands"
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by jbyers 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
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YouTube on Bigtable(cloud.google.com)
2 points by jbyers 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 3y ago
This article is not particularly detailed, authoritative, or newsworthy. Wikipedia offers a better overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
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The Enshittification of TikTok(wired.com)
4 points by jbyers 4y ago|1 comments
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The (Charlie) Munger Operating System(fs.blog)
6 points by jbyers 4y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 4y ago
Without exception?
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Mystery Boom in New Hampshire(nytimes.com)
5 points by jbyers 5y ago|0 comments
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The False Narrative Around Theranos(blog.eladgil.com)
5 points by jbyers 5y ago|1 comments
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AMD EPYC “Tau” VMs on Google Cloud(cloud.google.com)
8 points by jbyers 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 6y ago
Note the post was written in January 2020.
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by jbyers 6y ago
The author of the blog post is one of the founders of Keybase (and also a member of Hn, maxtaco).
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by jbyers 6y ago
...and if you'll accept it fully loaded, the price is $15M.
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by jbyers 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141513 links to the Dropbox Blog post ( https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/thank-you-quentin--a... )
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Dropbox Hires New CTO and GM(blog.dropbox.com)
54 points by jbyers 7y ago|3 comments
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by jbyers 7y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616244
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by jbyers 8y ago
This article does its subject something of a disservice in the fourth paragraph: "His fortune comes not from some flash of entrepreneurial brilliance or dogged devotion to career, but from a lifetime of prudent do-it-yourself buy-and-h
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Six New Cryptocurrencies in BigQuery Public Datasets(cloud.google.com)
3 points by jbyers 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbyers 8y ago
Notably, from that site: "Vitess has been serving all YouTube database traffic since 2011, and has now been adopted by many enterprises for their production needs." (I work at Google, but not on Vitess or YouTube)
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by jbyers 8y ago
"But there’s still one thing that continues to nag me after all these years - how the hell did Dave track me down 3,000 miles away from home after midnight on that hot summer’s eve in Bristol, Connecticut?" Assuming t
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by jbyers 8y ago
For those experiencing an acute sense of déjà vu, this deal was announced in December 2017 and closed today.
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by jbyers 8y ago
This works surprisingly well for a class of unsophisticated attackers. nginx, among others, will happily spoon-feed very large numbers of concurrent clients at 1 byte / second.
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by jbyers 9y ago
"The year was 1986 ... ended up settling on Las Vegas's MGM Grand." This immediately made me think this story is made up: the MGM Grand as described and pictured opened in 1993. As noted in the comments, the actual year is mo
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Going Multi-Cloud with AWS and GCP: Lessons Learned at Scale(metamarkets.com)
229 points by jbyers 9y ago|54 comments

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