Hasnain says:

I thought this was going to be a light human interest story without much financial advice.

Boy, I was wrong. Not only does it contain lots of info on poker, strategy, and finances, it has a bunch of solid stuff on general life advice. Choice quotes:

"One of the things I think is really important is “trust but verify.” Whenever something sounds exactly on point, exactly right, and you really want to believe it — that’s the moment when you need to verify the most. It runs very counter to human psychology. Here’s the thing: When it comes to you, nothing is too good to be true. It’s too good to be true for someone else. But you always think, “Oh, I deserve this. This is evidence of how smart I was in making this decision.” Poker forces you to let go of that very, very quickly. Because if you think that way you’re going to lose a lot of money."

Hasnain says:

Author goes into their experience on Spotify (and Apple music); with some hard hitting numbers on the financial and how to best effective utilize various ways of exposure.

"Artists should be truth tellers not hustling entrepreneurs. But in todays world that's not even close to possible.

To be a full-time artist you have to hustle and grind. Your Instagram has to be on point. You have to tour constantly. You have to sell merch. You gotta start a Patreon. Anything to support the art."

Hasnain says:

An interesting read on launching new projects with a tangent on how discussion becomes poor quality on the internet.

"However, there might be another reason why you didn’t get relevant feedback.

We tend to discuss things that are easy to talk about."

Hasnain says:

Great technical read on what the internet backbone is optimized for and now it’s not great for games.

I also learnt that Riot built out its own private network to make its games faster. Whoa!

“(Not many people know this, but this “shadow” private internet is actually growing at a faster rate than the public internet…)”

Hasnain says:

:( I am so glad no one was hurt.

Hasnain says:

HN commenter sums this up better than I can:

"When I started my SaaS two years ago, I also found it hard to get concrete info about how to design my database scheme to handle multi-tenancy, plans, and billing.

In hindsight, it all seems quite straightforward, but I was sometimes quite lost at the time. Posts like yours would have helped!"

Hasnain says:

Overseen buried in github comments is this gem of a performance optimization lesson.

"If I had to take an educated guess as to what is making us faster than pretty much any other application on Windows at putting your text on the screen... I would say it is because that is literally our only job! Also probably because we are using darn near the oldest and lowest level APIs that Windows has to accomplish this work."

Hasnain says:

This was great. It doesn't just cover the political aspects; it also goes a lot into the economic theory behind it and why "more supply = lower prices" is perhaps an overly simplistic way of thinking about it.

The best takeaway for me though was this bit, which applies beyond the confines of this article:

"It seems to me that if we want to convince people, we ought to stop yelling and start listening."

Hasnain says:

This was an amazing read. I first thought it was just going to be another one of those articles just blaming baby boomers without having any more substance; but I was glad to be proven wrong.

Read on if you want a history lesson; an intro to how legal compensation got so high; learn about social inequality, and what people are doing to stop this madness.

"That, rather than a split between Democrats and Republicans, is the real polarization that has broken America since the 1960s. It’s the protected vs. the unprotected, the common good vs. maximizing and protecting the elite winners’ winnings."

Hasnain says:

:(