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  1. Dear fellow HNers: I said my account has a max karma of 32767, and I'm about to hit that limit. So, for my final post, I'd like to share some of my individual aspirations: * Be honest. We shouldn't lie, manipulate,…

  2. Lately, I've been getting many emails that appear to be from a fellow human HN user who saw something you said on HN, and was inspired to reach out about joining their company. There's usually a whiff of AI, though they…

  3. What an incredible journey it's been. It took almost 7 years, and sometimes I lost hope that I would make it to a successful exit. But today I am pleased to announce that I finally achieved the ultimate Hacker News…

  4. Amazon's Hardcore Culture Reset (businessinsider.com)
  5. After some disruption to my best startup idea (ChatGPT, and co-founder separately deciding they were done with the rat race), I started looking for business cofounders who had good ideas, and who were ready to prototype…

  6. Notes from the SF Party Scene (theahura.substack.com)
  7. The Reality of Tech Interviews in 2025 (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  8. And has that changed, over time?

  9. Is Big Tech becoming more cutthroat? (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  10. Software Architecture with Grady Booch (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
  11. For an indie startup idea, to reduce some unusual abuse that I expect, I need a way to make it hard for abusers to create another account once banned. The process for doing this has to not be needlessly creepy or…

  12. I just saw a software engineering job post for an early startup that listed what the KPIs for the role would be. The KPIs seemed to be niche-specific correctness/reliability. I'm a big fan of correctness and…

  13. Let's say you're early in startup (not enough resources, have to move fast before runway ends, have to fix problems rapidly)... and prod has sensitive user data. I just had a thought about my tentative next project,…

  14. What do you think of this indie startup sketch? Suppose there's a complementary software project management methodology to what you're currently kinda doing (e.g., Agile, Kanban)... and someone built a tool for it that…

  15. Let's say you have a proof-of-concept for a Web browser extension... which you just realized could pivot to something that would be very useful to a large number of people (and a bit disruptive of some prominent tech…

  16. The first thing I need is a user-block feature. (HN has done an impressive job at nurturing civility, but it's time.) I saw a promising-looking add-on for Firefox, but it had only a few users so far, and there was a…