| 1 | Jun 21, '23 | Is anyone still convinced Twitter needed 8,000 employees to keep the lights on? | 141× | 8.9M | 27k | 1.9k | 390 |
| 2 | Jun 20, '24 | Can someone explain to me what's the rationale of having no speed limit on German highways? How is this not massively endangering others? Not even F1 allows cars to have a 100mph d | 129× | 8.2M | 14k | 484 | 3.4k |
| 3 | Apr 8, '24 | There's been big drama about this technology recently. Back in 1999, a man named Steve Gass invented a system that sensed flesh and allowed the blade to stop and retract before it | 95.4× | 6M | 41k | 5.8k | 8.7k |
| 4 | Jul 11, '24 | Took my 7yr old to his annual pediatric dentist appt last month (near Seattle) and the dentist found 4 cavities in his baby teeth, all needing filling and one needed a cap. The den | 72.3× | 4.6M | 22k | 1.6k | 3.6k |
| 5 | Mar 16, '24 | A quarter of Goldman Sachs employees are Vice Presidents | 59× | 3.7M | 17k | 1.2k | 1.8k |
| 6 | May 4, '24 | Here's what China banned. Google YouTube Twitter Facebook Wikipedia TikTok GitHub ChatGPT Reddit Instagram WhatsApp LinkedIn Signal Vimeo Discord Twitch Dropbox Medium DuckDuckGo H | 56.6× | 3.6M | 16k | 1.4k | 1.8k |
| 7 | Sep 9, '25 | iPhone 5s was the best design ergonomically. Perfect size to reach across the screen with one thumb, no camera bulge, fingerprint sensor, nice materials, and 33% lighter than the l | 54.8× | 3.5M | 67k | 3.6k | 3k |
| 8 | Nov 18, '23 | The pinnacle of engineering in one photo | 43.9× | 2.8M | 36k | 2.4k | 692 |
| 9 | Jun 1, '23 | Amazon: We want everyone back to the office! My office when I worked at Amazon: | 40.7× | 2.6M | 17k | 622 | 287 |
| 10 | Sep 17, '24 | Imagine commuting 45 minutes each way just to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day. | 37.2× | 2.4M | 36k | 2.4k | 1.8k |
| 11 | May 22, '23 | Hot take: Start a family. Your career will thank you. You’ll realize you’ve been working directionless until then. | 34.6× | 2.2M | 9.3k | 646 | 926 |
| 12 | Jan 5, '23 | My self-employment income progression so far: Revenue Profit 2019 $33,449 -$74,061 2020 $350,989 $209,912 2021 $336,706 $304,120 2022 $541,369 $436,752 | 31.3× | 2M | 7.1k | 338 | 3.6k |
| 13 | Sep 4, '23 | Believe it or not, house affordability hasn't changed much in the last 40 years. What got inflated was people's desire for bigger and more luxurious homes. The median new house tod | 30× | 1.9M | 4.4k | 531 | 1k |
| 14 | Dec 10, '24 | UnitedHealthcare has a profit margin of 3.63% and makes $32,500 per employee. If they are so greedy why does their business make so little money? | 29.9× | 1.9M | 4.9k | 193 | 1k |
| 15 | Sep 22, '23 | $3,000 on my front porch. The European mind cannot comprehend this: | 28.6× | 1.8M | 6.8k | 107 | 115 |
| 16 | May 23, '24 | Sometimes I buy a garden hose made in Germany, or some silly item like that, and it's like it was made by an advanced alien species. Why is Germany quality so good? | 25.9× | 1.6M | 5.9k | 159 | 841 |
| 17 | Mar 1, '23 | Things you absolutely don’t need to launch: - a favicon - unit tests - a logo - an LLC - tax compliance - VAT handling - a merchant of record - terms and conditions - a privacy pol | 25.9× | 1.6M | 4.9k | 433 | 2.6k |
| 18 | Aug 14, '24 | Why would my Mac be holding to 621GB of system data? That's the size of 6 wikipedias. | 25.5× | 1.6M | 15k | 174 | 1.1k |
| 19 | Jul 17, '23 | You only become an adult once you have kids. Until then, you're just a grown up child. | 25.1× | 1.6M | 7.2k | 453 | 185 |
| 20 | Jul 8, '23 | This is how meaningful Meta’s numbers are: | 24.9× | 1.6M | 15k | 1k | 210 |
| 21 | May 14, '24 | Nine women can make a baby in one month | 23.5× | 1.5M | 22k | 790 | 621 |
| 22 | May 7, '23 | Profile of a typical corporate drone: “Engineering leader, husband, dog parent. Likes coffee, travel, outdoors. he/him. ex: amazon, google, microsoft. Opinions me own.” Every inter | 23.2× | 1.5M | 3.6k | 231 | 553 |
| 23 | Sep 6, '23 | This is why my X bio says what it says :) | 22.1× | 1.4M | 3.6k | 263 | 504 |
| 24 | Mar 5, '25 | How it started / How it's going | 20.9× | 1.3M | 36k | 2.5k | 2.1k |
| 25 | Oct 26, '25 | Still enough time if you employ the 80/20 rule | 18.9× | 1.2M | 26k | 1.7k | 1.9k |
| 26 | Mar 9, '25 | How can web browsers render something like this at 60 FPS but if I add a few rows to an HTML table the page freezes for half a second while it repaints? | 17.5× | 1.1M | 12k | 425 | 2.5k |
| 27 | Nov 4, '25 | Accidentally opened LinkedIn today and saw a bunch of ex-colleagues got laid off. Not bloated middle managers, but purple badge senior engineers with 15+ years at the company. | 17.2× | 1.1M | 7.8k | 402 | 721 |
| 28 | Aug 21, '24 | The current generation of young developers has been brainwashed by tech influencers from overfunded platforms to see everything as too difficult for them to comprehend. Want to hos | 17.2× | 1.1M | 5.7k | 624 | 2.5k |
| 29 | Feb 12, '25 | Total comp $900,000, but at what cost? I got out of this rat race when I looked around me and realized that even the winners were miserable. | 16.3× | 1M | 7k | 225 | 1.7k |
| 30 | Jan 14, '24 | Node.js with Express.js can serve 15,000 requests per second (1.3 billion requests per day) on a single MacBook Pro. There are only 8 billion people in the world. You probably don’ | 15.7× | 997k | 3k | 279 | 1.3k |
| 31 | Sep 3, '24 | founder mode vs manager mode | 14.8× | 938k | 4.7k | 208 | 604 |
| 32 | Nov 25, '23 | “Open in App” is the worst iOS feature: | 14.7× | 928k | 5.6k | 203 | 124 |
| 33 | Dec 4, '24 | YC brainwashed a generation of smart people to think this is a glorious way to spend a decade of their lives. | 14.4× | 914k | 4.4k | 138 | 751 |
| 34 | Jun 15, '24 | The is embarrassing for America | 14.3× | 906k | 4.2k | 86 | 69 |
| 35 | Apr 27, '25 | 164,000 employees and this “this update introduces 8 new emojis” | 13.5× | 858k | 10k | 326 | 374 |
| 36 | Jun 11, '23 | ”Work hard, be bold, be willful, be over-confident…” and other BS nonsense. The best thing you can do to get ahead in life is to realize you’re not special and to learn how to deal | 12.9× | 815k | 2.3k | 251 | 550 |
| 37 | Jan 23, '24 | If hard work leads to success, the donkey would own the farm. - old rural saying | 12.3× | 777k | 9.8k | 1.5k | 2k |
| 38 | Jun 23, '25 | Breaking news: This happens at most tech companies. If an employee is about to get a $500K bonus and you’re not happy with them, it makes sense to let them go before their bonus ve | 11.8× | 749k | 3.9k | 131 | 797 |
| 39 | Dec 8, '23 | Asking for one-time payments is almost becoming an unfair advantage | 11.7× | 740k | 3k | 147 | 491 |
| 40 | Oct 17, '24 | Hetzner is offering an S3-compatible object store (currently Beta), and the pricing is insane compared to AWS. Storage: 4X cheaper — $4.9/TB-mo vs $21/TB-mo Traffic: 50X cheaper — | 11.6× | 734k | 3.2k | 243 | 1.8k |
| 41 | Apr 20, '25 | if (prompt.toLower() == “thank you”) return “You’re welcome” There, saved them millions of dollars! | 11.6× | 733k | 13k | 315 | 348 |
| 42 | May 21, '25 | Imagine releasing all this goodness and the company instantly loses $30 billion on announcement. Markets are so complex. | 11.5× | 731k | 3.8k | 75 | 368 |
| 43 | Dec 28, '22 | My 2023 goal continues to be avoiding this: | 11× | 697k | 4.2k | 381 | 155 |
| 44 | Feb 10, '25 | You should discover asap if you're a hunter type or a farmer type. Hunter type: work preference is bursts of high intensity with lots of idle wandering in between. Farmer type: wor | 10.9× | 688k | 5.9k | 340 | 3k |
| 45 | Dec 27, '24 | These VC-funded mfs charged me $5,000 for bookkeeping, made me categorize all my transactions, shutdown the business with zero notice 3 days before the end of the year, kept all th | 10.4× | 660k | 3.4k | 119 | 573 |
| 46 | Aug 10, '25 | A killer AI app would let me upload all my 66,000 photos and have the machine organize, enhance, select the best ones from dupes, etc. | 10.3× | 651k | 5.6k | 95 | 1.1k |
| 47 | Mar 15, '24 | We’re taking humanity to mars, but this is too hard | 10.1× | 637k | 3.7k | 134 | 144 |
| 48 | Jul 30, '24 | My 7yr old wants me to buy him a 1x1 rubik's cube. What's the point of this thing and what does he know that I don't? 😅 | 10.0× | 631k | 9.9k | 100 | 298 |
| 49 | Apr 15, '24 | I find it distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers. Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing | ⚡ 9.7× | 23M | 10k | 365 | 3.3k |
| 50 | Apr 23, '24 | DigitalOcean is how the cloud should have been. You choose a $64/mo server, and at the end of the month you get charged $64. No NAT_GATEWAY_EGRESS_INTER_REGION nonsense fees. | 9.3× | 592k | 3.3k | 201 | 715 |
| 51 | Apr 16, '25 | Small Bets is joining Gumroad! Yes, I sold Small Bets. I’m going to keep running it myself, but Gumroad is now the 100% owner. It’s a good deal for me, and it should only bring mor | 9.3× | 591k | 2.9k | 92 | 1.2k |
| 52 | Oct 13, '24 | Musk deserves respect but if his grandiose accomplishments inspire you to “dream big”, remember that he sacrificed everything: his life, his family, probably his sanity. And almost | 8.8× | 558k | 4k | 233 | 441 |
| 53 | Mar 8, '24 | Tech people making $100/hr+ who fantasize about working on a farm just need to work a bit less and grow some tomatoes as a hobby. | 8.7× | 553k | 4.1k | 179 | 224 |
| 54 | Jun 25, '25 | I can't think of a single thing that would induce this trend to reverse. It will probably have to be some Black Swan event. Something so unexpected that it lives beyond the limits | 8.7× | 549k | 4.5k | 139 | 647 |
| 55 | May 28, '25 | My “business plan” is to not let this get too low | 8.5× | 537k | 3k | 25 | 707 |
| 56 | Aug 25, '23 | More people should consider working with the seasons: High intensity for 3-4 months, and doing almost nothing for the rest of the year. | 8.5× | 535k | 2.3k | 170 | 341 |
| 57 | Jul 11, '24 | @PraveenPerera Haha, you might be onto the root cause! | 7.6× | 484k | 6.4k | 38 | 46 |
| 58 | Nov 5, '24 | This is my first presidential election as a US citizen. I dislike both candidates, but the country is asking me to make a choice. Today I voted for: - Stronger law enforcement - No | 7.6× | 480k | 13k | 689 | 457 |
| 59 | Jul 11, '24 | @BowTiedGatorDDS We’re back in Seattle in August and will likely get x -rays done from a different dentist to be sure. Thanks for replying. | 6.5× | 414k | 3.3k | 10 | 28 |
| 60 | Apr 19, '25 | Productivity is against nature. Our ancestors would go hunting because they didn’t like being hungry. They built houses because they didn’t like being cold. They didn’t try to be p | 6.2× | 394k | 4.5k | 393 | 1.3k |
| 61 | Dec 19, '24 | Let’s see what DocuSign’s 6,840 employees do about this | 5.7× | 363k | 4.2k | 109 | 608 |
| 62 | Nov 11, '21 | - You read 100 books. 99 are meh, 1 changes your life. - You try 100 things. 99 don't work, 1 changes your life. - You meet 100 people. 99 you never see again, 1 changes your life. | 5.3× | 0 | 9.7k | 4.1k | 552 |
| 63 | Sep 16, '24 | Amazon is becoming a dinosaur like IBM. | 4.4× | 282k | 2.8k | 123 | 155 |
| 64 | Jun 11, '25 | The art of twitter is repeating yourself over and over without anyone noticing | 3.9× | 248k | 2.8k | 53 | 215 |
| 65 | Sep 24, '24 | Maybe MKBHD is not a good judge of product quality after all. | 3.5× | 224k | 4.2k | 88 | 78 |
| 66 | Nov 20, '24 | Brutal 🌶️ | 3.5× | 224k | 8k | 158 | 141 |
| 67 | Apr 9, '25 | China doesn’t let these American businesses sell their digital services on the Chinese market. Google YouTube Twitter Facebook X GitHub ChatGPT Reddit Instagram WhatsApp LinkedIn S | 3.1× | 194k | 3.1k | 418 | 451 |
| 68 | Oct 31, '22 | When I worked at Amazon we used to make some software slow on purpose. Then when a problem caused real slowness, we’d remove the fake delays and things would feel normal. The fake | 3.1× | 0 | 7k | 728 | 1.1k |
| 69 | Dec 31, '19 | 2000 customers @ $39/month is almost $1M/year. - You don't need to dominate the market. - You don't need to disrupt anything. - You don't need to conquer the competition. You can a | 3.0× | 0 | 6.8k | 1k | 877 |
| 70 | Mar 27, '24 | @levelsio @Wayfair You should put “used by wayfair” on your landing page now! | 2.9× | 184k | 3.5k | 21 | 11 |
| 71 | Aug 5, '22 | My real business plan: Avoid going back to this | 2.9× | 0 | 8.2k | 609 | 268 |
| 72 | Jun 9, '25 | LinkedIn is such a deranged product. Not only they're not doing anything to fight the flood of AI slop comments, they built AI slop comments natively into the product: | 2.9× | 181k | 4.2k | 125 | 154 |
| 73 | Mar 31, '21 | - You read 100 books. 99 are meh, 1 changes your life. - You meet 100 people. 99 you never see again, 1 changes your life. - You try 100 things. 99 don't work, 1 changes your life. | 2.7× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.5k | 302 |
| 74 | Feb 24, '25 | POV: 5000ppm CO2 | 2.7× | 171k | 3.2k | 41 | 78 |
| 75 | Apr 8, '24 | @rockets4all2 The data is 40,000 ER visits for table saw injuries per year. | 2.7× | 170k | 3.3k | 31 | 20 |
| 76 | Nov 18, '20 | If we need to bail out 45 million student loan borrowers, maybe most degrees aren’t a very good investment. | 2.6× | 0 | 7.1k | 790 | 110 |
| 77 | Dec 6, '24 | If you’re truly ambitious you should want to have it all: lifestyle, family, work, health, hobbies. It’s not a pick one or two out of five. Pick all five. | 2.6× | 164k | 3.2k | 389 | 865 |
| 78 | Feb 8, '20 | If you’re a programmer, you can: - Make SaaS products - Write eBooks - Make apps - Create video courses - Do freelancing - Give live training - Do paid support - Publish a paid new | 2.5× | 0 | 5k | 914 | 1.1k |
| 79 | Jan 12, '20 | I've been in the self-published ebook business for 16 days now, and just crossed $40K in sales. I can't pretend I'm an expert in this profession, but here's everything I did so far | 2.2× | 0 | 3.4k | 445 | 1.8k |
| 80 | Dec 31, '20 | A few $100K/year revenue streams, for inspiration: - 300 customers @ $29/mo - 6 sales/day @ $45 each - 1 sale/day @ $270 each - 50 students/quarter @ $500 each - 15 hrs/week @ $125 | 2.2× | 0 | 4.2k | 400 | 1.4k |
| 81 | Jan 6, '22 | My 2021 income streams: • video course: $78,620 • cohort course: $79,285 • ebook: $16,952 • cutting boards: $4,495 • membership: $29,895 • freelancing: $120,000 • affiliate sales: | 2.0× | 0 | 4k | 196 | 1.3k |
| 82 | Apr 5, '20 | 2000 customers @ $39/month is almost $1M/year. If your software can handle 2000 customers, you can worry about scalability once the $1M/year is flowing in. Scalability doesn’t get | 1.9× | 0 | 4.6k | 804 | 354 |
| 83 | Mar 24, '25 | Something you never see in those viral morning routine videos is kids | 1.9× | 121k | 2.4k | 82 | 51 |
| 84 | Feb 3, '22 | Today is my 3yr anniversary since I started working for myself. I made $760K in revenue, and had a few realizations along the way. Here are some of them: | 1.8× | 0 | 2.9k | 309 | 1.5k |
| 85 | Feb 11, '19 | This is why I left #AWS: | 1.8× | 0 | 3.7k | 628 | 559 |
| 86 | Oct 9, '21 | A few $100,000/year revenue streams, for inspiration: - 300 customers @ $29/mo - 6 sales/day @ $45 each - 1 sale/day @ $270 each - 50 students/quarter @ $500 each - 15 hrs/week @ $ | 1.7× | 0 | 3.1k | 360 | 1.2k |
| 87 | Nov 13, '22 | Tech culture creates a bunch of grown-up babies. People earning $300K/yr complaining they don’t get free lunch. Bring your own lunch and have some dignity. | 1.6× | 0 | 4.6k | 337 | 121 |
| 88 | May 18, '20 | Forms of self-employment income for developers: 🔴 SaaS: Takes a long time for meaningful returns. 🟢 Info Products: High volatility, unpredictable, potential for extremely high RO | 1.4× | 0 | 2.4k | 317 | 936 |
| 89 | Sep 1, '20 | An email that worked. This is how it started: | 1.4× | 0 | 2.7k | 136 | 924 |
| 90 | Jun 17, '22 | Whatever you do, always keep this story in mind: | 1.3× | 0 | 2.6k | 421 | 578 |
| 91 | Mar 20, '22 | Best career advice? Start a family, and nothing else will matter. | 1.3× | 0 | 3.4k | 223 | 271 |
| 92 | Sep 18, '21 | The idea that anything is possible if you work hard enough is a dangerous delusion. Life is more random than it seems, and favorable payoffs are more often attributable to making g | 1.2× | 0 | 2.7k | 541 | 298 |
| 93 | Sep 1, '21 | Never set goals without cost constraints: - I want to start a business… without spending more than $10K - I want to make $100K… without working more than 2hrs/day - I want to get p | 1.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 388 | 453 |
| 94 | Jul 31, '20 | Break it down: $100K/year ... $8,300/month ... $270/day ... 7 sales of $39 ... 140 views @ 5% conversion Now your job is getting 140 daily views. | 1.2× | 0 | 2.4k | 222 | 634 |
| 95 | May 26, '21 | Oh look. A “fact” stopped being a fact. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 490 | 90 |
| 96 | Nov 30, '20 | - You read 100 books. 99 are meh, 1 changes your life. - You meet 100 people. 99 you never see again, 1 changes your life. - You try 100 things. 99 don't work, 1 changes your life. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 308 | 228 |
| 97 | Jun 13, '21 | Just spent $360,000 today. A 10 acre lot adjacent to our 2 acres just went on the market, and we snatched it. It comes with a gorgeous salmon-bearing stream in it. | 1.1× | 0 | 3.2k | 61 | 138 |
| 98 | Sep 26, '20 | Instead of studying how Bezos made his billions, it's much more useful to learn how someone like you is making $10K/mo. | 1.1× | 0 | 2.8k | 262 | 223 |
| 99 | Nov 22, '21 | After almost 10yrs of dealing with US immigration, I’m finally an American citizen. 🇺🇸 🦅 🗽 | 1.0× | 0 | 3.3k | 27 | 36 |
| 100 | Jul 7, '21 | I gave up a lot of money and career status to be able to do this on a weekday without asking anyone’s permission. | 0.8× | 0 | 2.4k | 73 | 77 |
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