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• Code Mode: the better way to use MCP

  by pw on 9/26/2025, 10:27 PM with 2 comments

• Show HN: CofounderBot – your virtual cofounder, powered by AI

  by pw on 3/14/2023, 1:14 AM with 1 comments

• Show HN: FeelBetterBot – Your personal therapy chatbot, powered by AI

  by pw on 3/13/2023, 6:06 PM with 2 comments

• Show HN: FeelBetterBot – Your personal therapy chatbot, powered by AI

  by pw on 3/13/2023, 6:03 PM with 4 comments

• ChatCBT

  by pw on 3/12/2023, 9:16 AM with 0 comments

• How We Built Fly Postgres

  by pw on 11/30/2022, 9:11 AM with 96 comments

• by pw on 11/16/2022, 6:39 AM with comments

• Working at Fly.io

  by pw on 11/2/2022, 10:37 PM with 0 comments

• Engineering Manager

  by pw on 10/20/2022, 9:34 AM with 1 comments

• Live Read Replicas for SQLite

  by pw on 7/4/2022, 4:39 AM with 4 comments

• DigitalOcean Functions

  by pw on 5/25/2022, 6:02 AM with 0 comments

• Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats

  by pw on 5/24/2022, 2:26 AM with 257 comments

• Last Mile Redis

  by pw on 7/16/2021, 9:36 PM with 59 comments

• Bill and Melinda Gates announce decision to end marriage after 27 years

  by pw on 5/3/2021, 9:08 PM with comments

• Okay, the GPT-3 hype seems pretty reasonable

  by pw on 3/18/2021, 4:08 AM with 0 comments

• The Holy Church of Christ Without Christ

  by pw on 3/13/2021, 7:20 AM with 0 comments

• Limits of Giving

  by pw on 3/4/2021, 6:45 AM with 0 comments

• Lorien Psychiatry

  by pw on 1/22/2021, 3:32 AM with comments

• Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory

  by pw on 9/17/2020, 12:46 AM with 0 comments

• Effective Political Giving

  by pw on 9/17/2020, 12:45 AM with 0 comments

• Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory

  by pw on 9/15/2020, 3:53 AM with 1 comments

• Case Study: GoDutch.cash

  by pw on 7/12/2020, 6:58 AM with 0 comments

• Why marketing is eating the world

  by pw on 7/1/2020, 8:05 AM with 0 comments

• My Dad Has Coronavirus. I Don’t Know If I Should Say Goodbye.

  by pw on 3/26/2020, 8:45 PM with 1 comments

• It’s Basically Just Immoral to Be Rich (2017)

  by pw on 3/25/2020, 4:49 AM with 0 comments

• What It Feels Like to Become Rich (2012)

  by pw on 3/5/2020, 9:17 PM with comments

• How OnlyFans Changed Sex Work Forever

  by pw on 2/28/2020, 10:52 PM with 0 comments

• Why and how to start a for-profit company serving emerging markets – benkuhn.net

  by pw on 2/24/2020, 3:14 AM with 0 comments

• What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

  by pw on 5/28/2019, 12:41 AM with 146 comments

• Dustin Curtis Uses Posterous (2010)

  by pw on 4/4/2019, 3:58 AM with comments

• Square Reader SDK

  by pw on 8/3/2018, 7:57 PM with 0 comments

• (Ruby) Hyperloop

  by pw on 7/9/2018, 8:45 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Want to text with someone living in poverty in the developing world?

  by pw on 5/29/2018, 12:41 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Do you experience much “flow” running a startup?

  by pw on 5/18/2018, 12:42 AM with 1 comments

• The Incomprehensible Luxury of Ice Cream

  by pw on 5/16/2018, 6:49 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Security of Passwordless Login?

  by pw on 5/8/2018, 7:32 PM with 25 comments

• Log in by Email

  by pw on 5/2/2018, 9:30 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Would you donate directly to poor Kenyans?

  by pw on 4/21/2018, 6:18 AM with 19 comments

• Where Yegge’s Wrong

  by pw on 3/26/2018, 9:47 PM with 63 comments

• How to do what you love and make good money

  by pw on 2/21/2018, 5:44 AM with 0 comments

• The more they pay, the more they value it

  by pw on 2/17/2018, 3:04 AM with 0 comments

• Get Personal

  by pw on 2/14/2018, 3:17 AM with 0 comments

• Notes from an Emergency

  by pw on 5/17/2017, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Hacker News doesn’t pay the bills

  by pw on 3/13/2017, 8:37 PM with 1 comments

• Whiteboard Interviews

  by pw on 3/7/2017, 9:28 AM with 80 comments

• Programming Doesn’t Require Talent or Even Passion

  by pw on 2/10/2017, 7:06 AM with 53 comments

• Make More Money as a Software Developer II: Side Projects (Content Businesses)

  by pw on 1/15/2017, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• Build Your Product by Marketing It First

  by pw on 1/14/2017, 8:29 PM with 0 comments

• Ray Dalio interview on Bridgewater and fake news

  by pw on 1/11/2017, 2:27 AM with 1 comments

• Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

  by pw on 12/22/2016, 10:08 PM with 580 comments

• Show HN: HowDoYouPronounce.org – Made with AWS Polly

  by pw on 12/19/2016, 4:38 AM with 3 comments

• Introducing the new Google Wallet experience on the web

  by pw on 12/15/2016, 10:29 PM with 0 comments

• Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People – Maciej Ceglowski

  by pw on 12/7/2016, 7:24 AM with 1 comments

• Maciej Ceglowski – Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart

  by pw on 12/7/2016, 7:23 AM with 1 comments

• Maciej Ceglowski – Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

  by pw on 12/7/2016, 3:25 AM with 3 comments

• Show HN: CaliforniaBirthIndex.org – look up people born in California

  by pw on 9/11/2016, 5:49 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: Sign a document online and have it physically sent

  by pw on 9/10/2016, 12:35 AM with 4 comments

• Appointment Reminder Sale Page

  by pw on 9/9/2016, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• Colin Powell thinks cell phones are fancy television remotes

  by pw on 9/8/2016, 10:21 AM with 2 comments

• Pillow Talk with a Professional Cuddler

  by pw on 6/18/2016, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• Why did I Recommend What I Did for Rails 6?

  by pw on 6/17/2016, 3:04 AM with 0 comments

• Imagined Rails 6: Doubling-Down on Resource-Based Design

  by pw on 6/17/2016, 3:00 AM with 0 comments

• How DHH Organizes His Rails Controllers

  by pw on 6/17/2016, 2:59 AM with 0 comments

• It’s Rucksacks and Foxholes as Army Goes Old School for New Conflicts

  by pw on 6/4/2016, 9:35 AM with 0 comments

• 10x more selective

  by pw on 6/3/2016, 8:32 AM with 1 comments

• How to Get Hired as a Technical Co-Founder

  by pw on 6/3/2016, 8:22 AM with 0 comments

• Announcing Rails 6: An Imagined Keynote

  by pw on 5/18/2016, 11:44 PM with 1 comments

• F.B.I. Director Suggests Bill for iPhone Hacking Topped $1.3M

  by pw on 4/22/2016, 7:03 AM with 0 comments

• Numbers station

  by pw on 2/28/2016, 1:12 AM with 0 comments

• A warning to anyone receiving advice

  by pw on 2/25/2016, 7:05 AM with 1 comments

• Finding a Co-founder in College

  by pw on 2/8/2016, 11:22 PM with 0 comments

• Nerd Culture

  by pw on 2/1/2016, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• The Wizard of Oz Approach

  by pw on 1/25/2016, 10:30 PM with 0 comments

• A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process

  by pw on 1/25/2016, 10:30 PM with 1 comments

• Motivating Employees Without Fear

  by pw on 1/18/2016, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• Lumoid's Aarthi Ramamurthy on Tackling Self-Doubt

  by pw on 1/15/2016, 9:38 PM with 0 comments

• A Guide to Seed Fundraising

  by pw on 1/8/2016, 10:12 PM with 55 comments

• One Amazon Year

  by pw on 12/9/2015, 3:20 AM with 1 comments

• Why programming languages matter

  by pw on 10/30/2015, 4:52 AM with 0 comments

• PMs Gone Bad

  by pw on 10/30/2015, 4:50 AM with 0 comments

• How Artificial Intelligence Will Really Kill Us All

  by pw on 10/30/2015, 4:24 AM with 0 comments

• Late bloomer, not a loser. – 500 Hats

  by pw on 10/30/2015, 4:18 AM with 1 comments

• How I Sold My Bible App Company

  by pw on 10/20/2015, 9:16 PM with 0 comments

• The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)

  by pw on 10/9/2015, 4:24 AM with 58 comments

• Relax for the same result

  by pw on 10/4/2015, 11:07 PM with 0 comments

• What it means to be great

  by pw on 10/1/2015, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• Sonadier

  by pw on 8/29/2015, 9:03 AM with 0 comments

• AppCanary

  by pw on 8/20/2015, 5:48 AM with comments

• Snapchat Lost a Ton of Money Last Year

  by pw on 8/20/2015, 5:21 AM with comments

• L. Condoms (YC S15) Provides Safe Sex, On-Demand

  by pw on 8/10/2015, 4:35 AM with 50 comments

• Brown M&M's, Tesla, and Security

  by pw on 8/10/2015, 4:34 AM with 0 comments

• Breaking Smart

  by pw on 7/29/2015, 12:04 AM with 1 comments

• Gigaom.com Acquired by Knowingly Corp

  by pw on 5/26/2015, 11:35 PM with 1 comments

• BingoCardCreator.com Sale Page

  by pw on 5/25/2015, 11:00 PM with 191 comments

• Fred Wilson: How to Be Your Own Boss

  by pw on 4/7/2015, 7:23 AM with comments

• Alex Payne Joins Jacobin Magazine's Advisory Board

  by pw on 3/4/2015, 12:14 AM with 0 comments

• Alex Payne – What I've Been Doing

  by pw on 1/30/2015, 6:25 PM with 0 comments

• Programming for Marketers

  by pw on 1/21/2015, 1:17 AM with 0 comments

• Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s

  by pw on 1/18/2015, 7:12 PM with 9 comments

• Ask HN: Anyone interested in a HN Slack group?

  by pw on 1/11/2015, 3:01 AM with 4 comments

• Start-ups and Emotional Debt

  by pw on 1/9/2015, 7:11 PM with 1 comments

• Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980s

  by pw on 1/8/2015, 10:57 PM with 0 comments

• Hack.pledge()

  by pw on 1/6/2015, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Mutation testing with Mutant

  by pw on 2/17/2013, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• The five decade view of life

  by pw on 8/15/2012, 6:21 AM with 0 comments

• Proximo: Heroku add-on for a static outbound ip

  by pw on 8/8/2012, 5:17 AM with 0 comments

• With anti-shill order, Google/Oracle judge enters “uncharted territory”

  by pw on 8/8/2012, 12:22 AM with 0 comments

• After 3 Decades in France, Minitel’s Days Are Numbered

  by pw on 6/28/2012, 11:33 AM with 0 comments

• HTML5 vs. Obj-C is not the same as PHP vs. C

  by pw on 6/27/2012, 10:35 PM with 0 comments

• Office hours revisited

  by pw on 6/16/2012, 10:44 PM with 4 comments

• Storing Passwords Securely

  by pw on 6/6/2012, 8:00 PM with 133 comments

• Get Rid of That Code Smell – Control Couple

  by pw on 4/29/2012, 6:32 AM with 0 comments

• Hacking the Non-Disposable Planet

  by pw on 4/19/2012, 12:42 AM with 1 comments

• Without comment

  by pw on 4/6/2012, 11:10 PM with 0 comments

• Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day

  by pw on 4/5/2012, 2:12 AM with 0 comments

• The Inscrutable Lines of Cause and Effect

  by pw on 2/29/2012, 11:29 PM with 0 comments

• Dynamic Pictures

  by pw on 2/20/2012, 6:18 AM with 0 comments

• Is Y Combinator seriously disrupting the VC industry?

  by pw on 1/11/2012, 2:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ocean Marketing Supports Obama

  by pw on 1/4/2012, 10:46 PM with -1 comments

• How to Get Fired for Buying IBM

  by pw on 12/27/2011, 2:32 PM with 0 comments

• The Last Five Feet: The Local Internet Versus Receptionists

  by pw on 12/19/2011, 12:23 PM with 0 comments

• Inside Amazon's Playbook: How Bezos Built Today's GE

  by pw on 12/15/2011, 3:37 AM with 17 comments

• How to Tweet

  by pw on 11/28/2011, 3:48 AM with 0 comments

• Byron Reese, of Demand Media fame, is up to something

  by pw on 11/7/2011, 7:14 PM with 1 comments

• How to Hire a Great Marketer for Your Company

  by pw on 10/2/2011, 4:28 AM with 2 comments

• Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings

  by pw on 8/17/2011, 5:14 AM with 1 comments

• Better To Do Than To Think

  by pw on 7/17/2011, 4:53 AM with 10 comments

• Noah Kagan and the Faceless Bitch slide

  by pw on 7/11/2011, 7:50 AM with 209 comments

• Marmalade: Spreadable Elisp

  by pw on 6/23/2011, 5:28 AM with 0 comments

• On beating roulette: part 2

  by pw on 5/30/2011, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• Bret Victor, beast of burden

  by pw on 5/10/2011, 1:01 PM with 0 comments

• Kill Math

  by pw on 5/10/2011, 12:54 PM with 108 comments

• Interview with a cracker

  by pw on 4/23/2011, 6:01 PM with 15 comments

• My Experience With the EC2 Judgment Day Outage

  by pw on 4/21/2011, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• Bacterial Marketing

  by pw on 4/21/2011, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• Google's Matt Cutts Talks Down Keyword Domain Names

  by pw on 3/11/2011, 6:40 PM with 2 comments

• Programmer as Market

  by pw on 2/20/2011, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• Andrew Warner is in the hospital

  by pw on 2/2/2011, 10:03 PM with 43 comments

• The Suicide Of Bill Zeller

  by pw on 1/11/2011, 10:25 AM with -1 comments

• Oh, The Opportunity

  by pw on 12/16/2010, 2:23 AM with 0 comments

• How many devices do you need?

  by pw on 12/4/2010, 5:28 AM with 0 comments

• Demand Media Case Study

  by pw on 11/30/2010, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• Investments for dummies

  by pw on 11/21/2010, 1:24 AM with 0 comments

• How To Wind Up In An Office Chair, Fixing IE6 Bugs Even If Your Skills Rock

  by pw on 11/14/2010, 9:50 PM with 0 comments

• A Sandwich, A Wallet, and Elizabeth Taylor's Cousin

  by pw on 11/5/2010, 1:55 AM with 0 comments

• Spotting vaporware: three follies of would-be technologists

  by pw on 10/4/2010, 6:20 AM with 1 comments

• Security Lessons Learned From The Diaspora Launch

  by pw on 9/23/2010, 2:46 AM with 139 comments

• Being Geek: The Trailer

  by pw on 9/20/2010, 2:01 PM with 1 comments

• Showing more results from a domain

  by pw on 8/20/2010, 6:16 PM with 0 comments

• Liquid Fold

  by pw on 8/15/2010, 1:26 PM with 0 comments

• Amazon CloudFront Adds Default Root Object Capability

  by pw on 8/6/2010, 12:49 AM with 9 comments

• My experiment with smart drugs (2008)

  by pw on 7/17/2010, 10:10 PM with 142 comments

• Wordnik: All the Words.

  by pw on 7/12/2010, 11:46 AM with 0 comments

• Designing for Emotion

  by pw on 7/5/2010, 2:54 AM with 0 comments

• Tim Bray doesn't know operator precedence rules

  by pw on 6/30/2010, 6:56 AM with 71 comments

• Face to Face (ChatRoulette, FaceTime?)

  by pw on 6/26/2010, 8:54 AM with 1 comments

• You’re smarter than you think

  by pw on 6/22/2010, 7:37 AM with 5 comments

• Customer Development Interviews How-to: What You Should Be Learning

  by pw on 6/14/2010, 6:32 PM with 0 comments

• RSS Replay

  by pw on 5/25/2010, 8:59 AM with 8 comments

• The Myth of the Super Programming Language

  by pw on 5/12/2010, 4:36 AM with 7 comments

• The Greater Apple Co-Prosperity Sphere

  by pw on 5/11/2010, 12:28 PM with 0 comments

• Videos from the Institute for Advanced Study

  by pw on 4/26/2010, 6:39 AM with 0 comments

• The scariest pricing idea ever. That works.

  by pw on 4/20/2010, 3:33 PM with 71 comments

• Practical Ruby Training Exercises

  by pw on 4/19/2010, 4:38 AM with 0 comments

• Ruby Best Practices - Full Book Now Available For Free

  by pw on 4/19/2010, 4:33 AM with 4 comments

• Stop pretending about passion

  by pw on 3/31/2010, 7:17 PM with 1 comments

• Cyber Warriors

  by pw on 3/30/2010, 2:52 PM with 0 comments

• David Ogilvy: We Sell or Else

  by pw on 3/23/2010, 4:28 AM with 0 comments

• Idea: Multifocus Photography

  by pw on 3/22/2010, 8:13 AM with 3 comments

• The best bank in the US

  by pw on 3/21/2010, 6:56 PM with 50 comments

• I'm not an enterpreneur, I'm a dirty hack

  by pw on 3/15/2010, 5:49 PM with 1 comments

• Andreessen’s not-so-hot idea for publishers

  by pw on 3/11/2010, 2:17 PM with 0 comments

• Fire the “web designer”

  by pw on 3/5/2010, 3:39 PM with 33 comments

• How to get better at UI design

  by pw on 2/26/2010, 11:18 PM with 4 comments

• Mac Mini colocation

  by pw on 2/20/2010, 6:40 AM with 33 comments

• Words You Can't Say in Business Development

  by pw on 2/12/2010, 4:20 PM with 10 comments

• Make Lists. Not Too Much. Mostly Do.

  by pw on 12/11/2009, 9:44 AM with 12 comments

• Success vs ability

  by pw on 11/16/2009, 2:47 PM with 0 comments

• The Fort Hood Shooter: A News Quiz

  by pw on 11/16/2009, 1:08 AM with 0 comments

• "If you...start a small business, you will be able to get coverage."

  by pw on 9/21/2009, 7:33 PM with 0 comments

• Focus Hard. In Reasonable Bursts. One Day at a Time.

  by pw on 8/21/2009, 5:37 AM with 13 comments

• Learn Emacs in Ten Years

  by pw on 7/14/2009, 8:34 PM with 37 comments

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

  by pw on 7/11/2009, 9:03 AM with 2 comments

• Recommended Web Design Books

  by pw on 7/11/2009, 8:57 AM with 0 comments

• Kickstart My Heart (with Adderall)

  by pw on 7/11/2009, 8:44 AM with 0 comments

• How To Take Ritalin Correctly

  by pw on 7/5/2009, 10:01 AM with 68 comments

• s3-bash, BASH scripts for Amazon's S3

  by pw on 5/11/2009, 5:36 AM with 0 comments