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Ambrook
Company blog · ambrook.com/offrangebusinessculture
Ambrook is the company blog at ambrook.com, writing about business and culture. Since 2021, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Ambrook's posts as sources on farm finance, farm assistance programs, child labor cases in agriculture, and wind turbine income for farmers. Ambrook also appears in hiring threads.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Ambrook | Engineering | Full-time / remote (US) Ambrook ( https://ambrook.com ) is helping farmers become more profitable and more sustainable, building a financial management platform for agriculture, starting with tools that help farmers and ranchers automatically discover and apply to farm assistance (e.g. disaster relief, conservation programs, and climate incentives). They’re hiring their first engineers (more…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up as a story · 126 points
HN discussionI've been consulting with Ambrook ( https://ambrook.com/ ) who are working on this problem. Great team and worth checking out if you're looking at the space.
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on “Ask HN: Working in tech for climate?”Submitted Lithium vs. Lettuce as a story · 46 points
HN discussionI reread the above and realized that TACF isn’t as clear as they should/could be: they are supporting a newer strain, win3.12 [0], which, as alluded to above, expresses the OxO gene only when infected. This is metabolically less expensive. Thus there is no reason to spend effort looking for the Darling 58. I also gather from other sources that the TACF want to downplay that they are switching to this new strain, tha…
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on “The problem with the Darling 58 genetically modified chestnut tree”Submitted Southern Olive Oil as a story · 31 points
HN discussionAlready have. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/03/child-labor-... https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/02/23/feds-allege-child... https://ambrook.com/research/labor/child-labor-Iowa-Arkansas...
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on “Republican Congressman Introduces Bill Seeking Abolishment of OSHA”Submitted Rapid Loads for Country Roads: Making Ambrook 30% Faster with OpenTelemetry as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWe have tried locally, with huge government backing, but that failed. But since it was an Obama initiative, a new attempt will never be tried. Farmers make more money from wind turbines on their land than their crop. https://ambrook.com/offrange/farm-finance/there-will-be-wind And that is stable money, works without rain, which crops don't.
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on “A power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia's rise”Submitted Why Teams of Generalists Win in the Age of AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cringe and Corny as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Miso That Went to Space as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Garlic Nerds" Building a Better Allium as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poor Broadband Access Linked to Less Farm Funding as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Complicated: Japan's Love for American Corn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted It's Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Season as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Octopus Conundrum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Your Own Microforest as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Do Sheep Under Solar Panels Count as Clean Energy? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Have You Heard of Wendell Berry? – Ambrook Research as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moose Tracks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Alternative Medicine for Chickens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Dad Helped Build North America's Oat Supply Chain: Can It Be Remade? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Don't You Beaverslide? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rapid Growth of America's Truffle Industry as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Farmers Are Tentatively Embracing AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We’re Losing Our Seed Breeders as a story · 1 points
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