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Packy McCormick
Personal blog · notboring.costartupsbusinesseconomics
Packy McCormick's personal blog at notboring.co covers startups, business and economics. Since 2021, 135 different Hacker News readers have linked it 208 times, most often “The Great Online Game”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 10 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Packy McCormick's Not Boring newsletter for its takes on crypto, Web3, Solana, Axie Infinity and the electric and battery supply chain. Many comments are job posts that mention it only in passing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tech strategy, analysis, and philosophy, but not boring.
Most-linked posts?
- The Great Online Game12 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2021-05-10
- Infinity Revenue, Infinity Possibilities7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-07-19
- Excel Never Dies7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-03-08
- Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-05-17
- The Electric Slide5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-08-27
- Astro Mechanica (2024)4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-04-02
- The Third Browser War4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-03-06
- A16Z: The Power Brokers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-09
- Own the Internet: A Bull Case for Ethereum4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-05-24
- Idea Legos3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-11-22
What Hacker News says?
Ramp | Full-Time | Senior+ Front-End Engineer | Remote Anywhere (NYC offices) | $250k+ TC Ramp is looking for experienced front-end folks who live and breathe UX Our front-end stack is React, TypeScript, and a shiny component library. Email your resume to nico@ramp.com. See the job posting at https://boards.greenhouse.io/ramp/jobs/5646274002 We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at https://ramp.com/car…
Comment linking /p/ramping-up
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Excel Never Dies as a story · 429 points
HN discussionRamp | Full-Time | Senior+ Front-End Engineer | Remote Anywhere (NYC offices) | $250k+ TC Ramp is looking for experienced front-end folks who live and breathe UX Our front-end stack is React, TypeScript, and a shiny component library. Email your resume to nico@ramp.com. See the job posting at https://boards.greenhouse.io/ramp/jobs/5646274002 We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at https://ramp.com/car…
Comment linking /p/ramping-up
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted Excel never dies (2021) as a story · 217 points
HN discussionRamp | Full-Time | Senior+ Front-End Engineer | Remote Anywhere (NYC offices) | $250k+ TC Ramp is looking for experienced front-end folks who live and breathe UX Our front-end stack is React, TypeScript, rest-hooks, and a shiny component library. Email your resume to nico@ramp.com. See the job posting at https://boards.greenhouse.io/ramp/jobs/5646274002 We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at https://…
Comment linking /p/ramping-up
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Zero Knowledge as a story · 55 points
HN discussionHey! Your words echo this IMO! If not, strongly recommended :) https://www.notboring.co/p/the-electric-slide
Comment linking /p/the-electric-slide
on “Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war”Submitted The Dao of DAOs as a story · 42 points
HN discussionYup - love how easy it is to login to web3 projects! Have you also looked into Zero Knowledge? It lets someone prove that they know or have something without giving up any information about what they know or have. Not Boring did a good piece on it. https://www.notboring.co/p/zero-knowledge
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on “Notes on Web3”Submitted Hyperlegibility as a story · 20 points
HN discussionYou might like Packy M's "The Great Online Game: How to Win the Internet." https://www.notboring.co/p/the-great-online-game I think it captures a lot of the current culture with crypto and NFTs. A lot of it reminds me of when reality TV began. Suddenly we had a new class of celebrities who weren't singers or actors. Reality TV stars, famous people whose claim to fame was being famous. Circular logic. Positive fedbac…
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on “Notes on Web3”Submitted Excel Never Dies as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMainStreet | Full Stack, Back End, SRE, Quality Engineers | Fully Remote Company (US-only) | Full-time | http://mainstreet.com/careers Hi, I’m Eric, VP of Engineering at MainStreet. We are hiring across the board. We would love to have you help us build the next generation of our product and infrastructure. You’ll get to do this while serving a mission that leaves a positive-lasting impact on the world. Our Mission:…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Lithic's New Customer: Making issuing cards as easy as accepting payments as a story · 18 points
HN discussionAmbrook | US / Remote | Full time | Agtech x Fintech x Climate Tech | Frontend engineer Ambrook's helps farmers be more profitable and more sustainable, and we're hiring a frontend engineer to drive craft and performance in our product, design system, and website. We're a Series A startup backed by Thrive Capital, Homebrew, Designer Fund, BoxGroup, and others and have a team with experience in agtech, fintech, and c…
Comment linking /p/the-founders-letter-mackenzie-burnett
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”Submitted WTF Happened in 2023? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionRamp | Full-Time | Front-End Engineer (All Levels) | Remote Anywhere (NYC offices) | $250k+ TC Ramp is looking for talented front-end folks who live and breathe UX Our front-end stack is React, TypeScript, and a shiny component library. Email your resume to nico@ramp.com. See the job posting at https://boards.greenhouse.io/ramp/jobs/5646274002?t=660e10d8... We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at http…
Comment linking /p/ramping-up
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”Submitted Many Small Steps for Robots, One Giant Leap for Mankind as a story · 11 points
HN discussion> there is actually a supersonic jet startup. A16Z hasn't invested in Boom, though, near as I can tell. A quick review of their website and some cursory googling reveals that while boom is not in their portfolio they have invested in a company developing a super sonic jet engine technology (Astro Mechanica) [1] as well as a company producing precision machine parts for aerospace (Hadrian) [1] and various other compa…
Comment linking /p/astro-mechanica
on “A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing”Submitted Truework: A True Strategy Masterclass as a story · 8 points
HN discussionNexHealth | Multiple roles | Hybrid(SF/Seattle) | Full-time | https://www.nexhealth.com/ NexHealth is like Uber before ride sharing was a thing but for healthcare experiences Engineering at NexHealth boasts of high talent density with chapters in SF and Seattle. The company has created a market segment of its own, is on an amazing trajectory and needs sharp get-stuff-done engineers to retain its first mover advantag…
Comment linking /p/the-secret-3-step-master-plan-to
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)”Submitted The Electric Slide as a story · 7 points
HN discussionRamp | Full-Time | Senior+ Front-End Engineer | Remote Anywhere (NYC offices) | $250k+ TC Ramp is looking for experienced front-end folks who live and breathe UX Our front-end stack is React, TypeScript, rest-hooks, and a shiny component library. Email your resume to nico@ramp.com. See the job posting at https://boards.greenhouse.io/ramp/jobs/5646274002 We're also hiring for other roles, see all openings at https://…
Comment linking /p/ramping-up
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted Read More Books as a story · 7 points
HN discussionTotally, outside of people trying to make a "smarter" excel like Airtable or Rows, different business units will make some "template" that lets them run their orgs in excel. Those "templates" could certainly be better products. Packy talks more about how this is also a platform being unbundled: https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies?s=r
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on “Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity”Submitted The beginning of a new Techno-Economic Paradigm as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWhich means, the technical solutions to the questions raised in the original article this responds to, will probably not have time to be implemented before the rush is over. Especially since those solutions would reduce the influence and revenue of the biggest players. It's like trying to replace Facebook with Diaspora. It's technically possible, and going nowhere. The article lists success stories for NFTs: "Axie I…
Comment linking /p/infinity-revenue-infinity-possibilities
on “In Response to My first impressions of Web3”Submitted Scale: The Five-Year-Old, $7.3B Stripe for AI as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> “Axie Infinity and how it’s bringing entire nations out of poverty” https://www.notboring.co/p/infinity-revenue-infinity-possibi... No way I can take someone seriously if they think Axie Infinity is saving the Philippines/Vietnam from poverty. Edit: Crypto maximalists don’t understand history, economics, or globalism. All while claiming that crypto will solve for globalised economies and save people from poverty.…
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on “In Response to My first impressions of Web3”Submitted The Electric Slide as a story · 5 points
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