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Ian Betteridge
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Ian Betteridge's personal blog at ianbetteridge.com covers writing and business. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Invented Betteridge's Law of Headline, but I'm actually a writer, content strategist, technologist, and leadership mentor.
Most-linked posts?
- Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-06-22
What Hacker News says?
The author of the post, Ian Betteridge, makes this statement: "But the other reason why the whole founder mode is a hot mess is that Paul Graham is entirely wrong about management and leadership. Yeah, I know: Graham has been involved with building more companies than I have." However, the about page on his blog and his LinkedIn indicates he has zero experience running any companies, small or large. Am I missing som…
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on “Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech”Submitted Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech as a story · 385 points
HN discussion> The thinking seems entirely shallow, there isn't even any consideration for how these 3rd party stores will handle permission bits to protect the user's data. this is a feature for the companies pushing for it - this is literally the entire point, in fact! facebook wants to be able to use sideloading to push this stuff again: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-... for the consumers pushing…
Comment linking /2022/08/19/please-wont-someone-stop-the-bullshit-about-rcs/
on “EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals”Submitted What a difference four years makes as a story · 106 points
HN discussionThis cuts both ways too - "if facebook deploys their spyware build and requires you to sideload it, then just don't use facebook". But then you lose contact with friends/families/etc. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/facebook-and-google-... Also Google themselves currently don't actually use RCS either, but rather a proprietary fork of RCS which prevents interop, and already refuses access to third parties wh…
Comment linking /2022/08/19/please-wont-someone-stop-the-bullshit-about-rcs/
on “EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals”Submitted Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024 as a story · 75 points
HN discussionSubmitted DOJ, Nvidia, and why we restrict monopolies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted An M1 Mac vs. the Surface Pro X: How do ARM devices compare? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Oh Apple as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why do people get the history of Apple so wrong? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Delays AI in the EU. Maybe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Antitrust, Meta, Apple and More as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Worst of Us as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Freedom Stack as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zen Fascists Will Control You as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten Blue Links "what Jony did next" Edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meta and Mastodon – What’s on people’s minds? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Meta and Mastodon – What’s on people’s minds? as a story · 1 points
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