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danieltenner.com
Personal blog · danieltenner.com · on HN as swombatstartupsaicareer
danieltenner.com is a personal blog at danieltenner.com about startups, ai and career. Since 2009, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 108 times, most often “How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Current status: AI, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Ruby on Rails, Omarchy
Most-linked posts?
- How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2010-06-21
- How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2009-03-24
- DHH is immortal, and costs $200M4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-12-27
- Starting up with a friend3 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2009-03-11
- What problems does Google Wave solve?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-10-15
- How to nap: Power napping without sleeping3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-03-23
- You can't hide from yourself3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-07-31
- GitHub: The quiet death of one man’s dream2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-08
- Counting hours doesn't make sense2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-02-25
- Starting up with a friend (2009)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-10-30
What Hacker News says?
I wrote an article on the topic back then: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0012-google-wave.html "What problems does Google Wave solve?" Wave solved many problems. Google are idiots to axe it after barely a year and a half.
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on “Google Kills Wave”Submitted Starting up with a friend as a story · 252 points
HN discussionHere's my angle on this: http://danieltenner.com/posts/0017-how-to-nap.html
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on “How to nap”Submitted What problems does Google Wave solve? as a story · 213 points
HN discussionMost of our hires are not developers. We're not building cutting edge tech. We have some internal tools but I don't believe they require "top developers" by whatever metrics Facebook might use. That said, I think the few developers we have are exceptionally good - versatile, multi-skilled, quick learners, broad experience, the ability to conceive, manage and run a whole software project without very little help... a…
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on “Salary Negotiation”Submitted There are no B players as a story · 211 points
HN discussionHave a look at the companies listed halfway down the page on http://danieltenner.com/open-cultures/ . Not all qualify as purposeful orgs, but quite a few do. Reinventing Organisations, mentioned on this page too, is a book that studies a dozen examples of purposeful, open culture organisations, if you're interested in learning more about this.
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on “Salary Negotiation”Submitted IPad: an Apple for Mom - The uncomputer for the people as a story · 197 points
HN discussionThis is a fantastic side-effect of transparent cultures and salary structure: people like you who, for reasons good or bad, do not want to work in this kind of environment, don't apply. You may believe that sets you apart as an "A player" and means we only hire B players. I believe the concept of A players and B players is false, and have discussed this here: http://danieltenner.com/2014/09/11/there-are-no-b-players…
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on “Salary Negotiation”Submitted How to get a merchant account - a series of hoops as a story · 190 points
HN discussionWe're really trying to nail a good way to deal with salary negotiations when onboarding people, at GrantTree - one that gets out of this "gotcha" approach to salary. So far the best we've figured out is to be the first ones to name a number, and be super-transparent about how we arrived at that number. The reasoning is that "in a salary negotiation the first person to quote a number loses", so since we (as the emplo…
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on “Salary Negotiation”Submitted How to nap: Power napping without sleeping as a story · 127 points
HN discussionTo me, this seems mostly a very justified criticism of many startup advice articles, and the reason why I wrote https://danieltenner.com/2017/03/16/how-to-write-good-startu... a good long while ago...
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on “Survivorship Bias”Submitted How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users as a story · 112 points
HN discussionHere's the completely opposite angle... http://danieltenner.com/2015/01/23/fake-transparency/ Complete salary transparency is what should be pursued, if at all possible.
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on “When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'”Submitted College vs Start-up - It's not about the job as a story · 104 points
HN discussionFYI, for the last 6 months I've cut out major sources of carbs. No rice, pasta, bread or potatoes, and no obviously super-sweet stuff (sugar, sodas, etc), and very sweet fruits (apples, cherries, pineapples, grapes...) only in moderation. I still drink beer. I make occasional exceptions (been eating some chocolate every couple of days recently since someone gifted me a whole damn box). I eat lots of veg (salads, spi…
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on “Please don't let gaming consume your life”Submitted Counting hours doesn't make sense as a story · 103 points
HN discussionI've made a timeline with the video of the original world-shattering announcement and demo of Wave at Google IO, and some of the Google Wave related submissions to HN. How pretentious and audacious it seems in retrospect! It’s hard to appreciate all the snarky jokes in the Pissed Off Wave Tutorial, if you don’t remember how, um, over-confident they were when they announced Wave. Google Wave Developer Preview at Goog…
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on “A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]”Submitted How to lose weight: What worked for me, with graphs as a story · 92 points
HN discussionTotally agree. This post by daniel tanner http://danieltenner.com/posts/0017-how-to-nap.html should be a practical complement to this.
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on “Why Companies Should Insist that Employees Take Naps”Submitted Learning from Wakemate - Smart announcements as a story · 90 points
HN discussionThis is exactly what I use for http://danieltenner.com (well, almost - I use Webby, not Jekyll). In fact, I've made the source code for that available here, if anyone's interested: http://github.com/swombat/danieltenner.com Deploying like this has another advantage: you can deploy to a subdirectory of an existing app. The benefit of that is simple: pagerank transfers better from mysite.com/blog to mysite.com (since…
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on “Why to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress”Submitted Dealing with impossible crises - Relentless resourcefulness at work as a story · 87 points
HN discussionBrilliant. I love the fact that it doesn't really change the look of my blog very much ( http://www.danieltenner.com - once you're inside an article, applying readability with medium margins, newspaper look, large font, only gets rid of the red background and the image, that's all)
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on “Readability”Submitted You can't hide from yourself as a story · 82 points
HN discussionNot sure why you're being downvoted. I am running one of those companies. Calling it structureless is as misleading as calling agile chaotic. The "Green" stage can feel a little like the tyranny this article describes, but the "Teal" stage is anything but. It's comparatively light on arbitrary rules compared to your traditional top down company, but it's certainly not unstructured. I have written a numbe of articles…
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on “The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1972)”Submitted The questionable value of the real-time web - Demand-side attention economics as a story · 52 points
HN discussionAnd Morning Star, Zappos, Stripe, Medium, Semco, W L Gore, Whole Foods, and others... http://danieltenner.com/open-cultures
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on “You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss”Submitted Why you should go to Geeknrolla (and other start-up conferences) as a story · 26 points
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