The TypeScript Workshop: A Practical Guide to Confident, Effective TypeScript Programming
by Ben Grynhaus, Jordan Hudgens, Rayon Hunte, Matthew Thomas Morgan and Wekoslav Stefanovski · 28 Jul 2021 · 739pp · 174,990 words
TypeScript. We'll look at state management solutions for React applications and styling solutions. Then, we will use Firebase, a serverless backend, to build a Hacker News-style application. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to bootstrap React applications using the Create React App command-line interface. Introduction
Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
by Ryan Holiday · 2 Sep 2013 · 52pp · 14,333 words
new rock stars of the Silicon Valley. You see them on the pages of TechCrunch, Fast Company, Mashable, Entrepreneur, and countless other publications. LinkedIn and Hacker News abound with job postings: Growth Hacker Needed. Their job isn’t to “do” marketing as I had always known it; it’s to grow companies
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group of highly interested, loyal, and fanatical users. Then we grow with and because of them. If they are geeks, they are at TechCrunch or Hacker News or Reddit or attending a handful of conferences every year. If they are fashionistas, they are regularly checking a handful of fashion blogs like Lookbook
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who we are, this is what we’re doing, and this is why you should write about us.”* 2. You can upload a post to Hacker News, Quora, or Reddit yourself. 3. You can start writing blog posts about popular topics that get traffic and indirectly pimp your product. 4. You can
Growth Hacking Techniques, Disruptive Technology - How 40 Companies Made It BIG – Online Growth Hacker Marketing Strategy
by Robert Peters · 18 May 2014 · 125pp · 28,222 words
and simple with an easy, short domain name. The early marketing emphasis was on winning the approval of tech savvy reviewers from Tech Crunch and Hacker News who would tout the site’s security and utility, which helped Mint to “go viral.” In conjunction with the main site, Mint dispenses valuable information
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
by David Kadavy · 5 Sep 2011 · 276pp · 78,094 words
to achieve their visions. They’re entrepreneurial. They value skills and knowledge over titles and experience. At the forefront of the hacker movement is the Hacker News community (http://news.ycombinator.com), a news aggregation site contributed to by followers of Paul Graham’s Y Combinator entrepreneurial incubator program. The program tends
Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time
by Steven Osborn · 17 Sep 2013 · 310pp · 34,482 words
I build and where could I find them? What I was seeing was a lot of interesting projects pop up on web sites like Reddit, Hacker News, Hackaday. Basically, it would be a one-off project, where the maker would say, “Here’s the design. Here are the instructions. I’m done
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that was that. Fortunately, when I launched the site, I put it up on Reddit and I put it up on Hacker News. I think it went to number one on Hacker News. From basically that first day, there were ten thousand to twenty thousand people on the site. At that point, we had
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manufacturing process one-year anniversary open-source code outside VC/investment paraphrase patent/protection pick-and-place machine positive feedback product price RC planes Reddit, Hacker News, Hackaday self-taught web engineer site launching small run speed stock market symbiotic relationship trade tricks transparent marketplace Pettis, Bre amazing model Arduino-based hardware
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
Doctorow suggests in his 2023 book The Internet Con as a solution to the dominance of big data. Presser, posting as sillysaurusx on the forum Hacker News, wrote: ‘Dozens of people have told me I belong in prison for making books3. And as far as I can tell, it’s had zero
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), p. 104. 239 12.Will Douglas Heaven, ‘This Avocado Armchair Could Be the Future of AI’, MIT Technology Review, 5 January 2021. 13.sillysaurusx at Hacker News, 28 September 2023. 14.Melissa Heikkilä, ‘This New Data Poisoning Tool Lets Artists Fight Back Against Generative AI’, technologyreview.com, 23 October 2023. 15.Elaine
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
by Vikram Chandra · 7 Nov 2013 · 239pp · 64,812 words
must otherwise solve yourself, but each solution is a separate body of knowledge you must maintain. A user named jdietrich wrote in a discussion on Hacker News: My biggest gripe with modern programming is the sheer volume of arbitrary stuff I need to know. My current project has so far required me
Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code
by Jeff Atwood · 3 Jul 2012 · 270pp · 64,235 words
pique your intellectual curiosity), I know of two excellent programming specific link aggregation sites that can help you find them. The first is Hacker News, which I recommend highly. Hacker News is the brainchild of Paul Graham, so it partially reflects his interests in Y Combinator and entrepreneurial stuff like startups. Paul is serious
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the earth. It’s OK to be a little obsessed with sharpening your saw, if it means actively submitting and discussing programming articles on, say, Hacker News. What do you recommend for sharpening your saw as a programmer? Go That Way, Really Fast When it comes to running Stack Overflow, the company
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. I had a whole entry I was going to write about this, and then I discovered Brandon Bloom’s brilliant post on the topic at Hacker News. Read closely, because he explains the virtue of reading source, and in what context you need to read the source, far better than I could
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Overflow. In an email to me last year, Andy Baio — ironically, the very person being cited in the email — said: I very much enjoyed the Hacker News conversation about cloning the site in a weekend. My favorite comments were from the people that believe Stack Overflow is only successful because of the
Bitcoin: The Future of Money?
by Dominic Frisby · 1 Nov 2014 · 233pp · 66,446 words
of the eventual total Bitcoin supply – had been mined. The price had reached parity with the US dollar. There was more publicity at Slashdot and Hacker News, and a buzz on Twitter. The Bitcoin website was struggling to cope with the new traffic. And a new website had opened up by which
Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World
by Christopher Steiner · 29 Aug 2012 · 317pp · 84,400 words
working to spread their understanding through discussion and investigation. To see this in action, all one needs to do is head to Y Combinator’s Hacker News message board,1 which has grown into one of the more influential Web sites in the world. Here, hackers, math folk, entrepreneurs, Wall Street programmers
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writing, by algorithm, 218 Xerox, 189 X-rays, 152, 154 Yahoo!, 188, 213 chats on, 104–5 Yale University, 208 Y Combinator, 9–10, 207 Hacker News message board of, 53 Yelp!, 188 Yorktown Heights, N.Y., 127 You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Kills You, 87 YouTube, 188, 199 Zimbra, 200 Zuckerberg
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Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
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