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dreamdu5t

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Became a hacker after learning to read, sold my first company when I was 10, and started a VC fund at 13. I program for breakfast, create disruptive companies for lunch, and eat PhDs for dinner. While asleep, I generate passive-income and dream of my next TED talk.
  1. Booz Allen Hamilton gets $182M to build recreation.gov (federalnewsradio.com)
    4 points 3
  2. Finance industry creates 4% of jobs and takes 25% of profits (medium.com)
    6 points 0
  3. Ask HN: Most top Telegram bots are free, so who pays for hosting?

    There's no way to charge for bots, and all the popular bots are free. Are these bot developers just paying to host popular bots as a charity? Why do all these developers pay to host bots for nothing in return?

    5 points 0
  4. Crypto Rebels (1993) (wired.com)
    19 points 1
  5. Looie.co – Find serviced restrooms on demand (looie.co)
    12 points 20
  6. YC Startup Is Helping the Cops Track Sex Workers Online (vice.com)
    12 points 8
  7. Anarchists vs. ISIS: The Revolution in Syria Nobody’s Talking About (cvltnation.com)
    4 points 0
  8. Companies that ask, “What do you want to do?”

    The question comes in the form of, "What are you looking for?" or "What do you want to do here, ideally?" I find this question incredibly difficult to answer when interviewing with startups for engineering positions. It…

    2 points 4
  9. Judge orders Microsoft to turn over data held overseas (washingtonpost.com)
    69 points 60
  10. Coinlab sues Mt. Gox for $75 million (gawker.com)
    1 points -1
  11. Ask HN: Examples of "build first, monetize later" successes?

    I'd like some examples of the "Build First, Monetize Later" mantra of Silicon Valley? I'm looking for examples of startups that had no way of monetizing their original product, but then successfully did so after…

    4 points 6
  12. Ask HN: Examples of startups where engineers design the UX

    My experience as both an engineer and designer is that optimal UX is best achieved by having someone who can both design and code - not from someone whose only output is wireframes and diagrams or PSDs. Essentially,…

    10 points 5
  13. Pride in your work while working as a team

    What do you do when you feel like your CTO, team, or choice of technologies is preventing you from doing great work? As we've built our product/service, I feel like I've often been put in the position of sacrificing…

    1 points 0
  14. Three year old percentage padding bug in FireFox (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
    1 points 0
  15. Font Rendering Philosophies of Windows and OS X (damieng.com)
    1 points 0
  16. XML literals in JavaScript for the browser and nodejs (github.com)
    1 points 0
  17. Show HN: Sticky - A key/value cache leveraging the latest HTML5 storage APIs (github.com)
    3 points 0
  18. Bloodhound Is On The Scent Of The Perfect Conference App (techcrunch.com)
    7 points 0
  19. DOMination: Simple DOM Manipulation with jQuery (github.com)
    2 points 0