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Sid Sijbrandij
Personal blog · sytse.com · on HN as sytsestartupsbusiness
Sid Sijbrandij writes Sytse.com, a personal blog at sytse.com about startups and business. Since 2012, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-01-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Sid Sijbrandij's blog for posts on founder-led cancer treatment and AI in medicine, plus older GitLab-era posts such as the 2016 Adyen-for-payrolling post. Comments only link these posts.
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.
I love to build things-from code to companies—and support innovative projects that have the potential to improve the world around us.
Most-linked posts?
- Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-28
- /2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-12-28
What Hacker News says?
The trials process is the moat. There's already founders using AI to treat their cancers, and it's all about skipping trials and jumping straight to "I consent, I'll fund it, let's try it". The general public might get access to this in 10 years, but employees at AI companies will have access much much sooner. https://sytse.com/cancer/
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on “Sharing AI progress in mathematics”Submitted Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies as a story · 34 points
HN discussionCool! I've had the same need since 2016 https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html
Comment linking /2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html
on “Products I Wish Existed”Submitted Wordpress for Food and Beverage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThey are who you're replying to > I'm the CEO of GitLab https://about.gitlab.com/ More information about me is on http://sytse.com
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on “Data Loss at GitLab”Submitted A lightweight document signing service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOf course not, http://sytse.com/ has my personal email.
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on “GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable”Submitted The complexity of storage and caching layers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA good idea. Also non-trivial to do, which would give a moat if executed well. Btw. This seems to be a more readable version of the URL, one that you posted linked to git commit https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html
Comment linking /2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html
on “Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?”For sure that is a big problem. I blogged about it in 2016 https://sytse.com/2016/12/28/adyen-for-payrolling.html and I'm excited to be an investor in Remote.com that tries to solve that problem. It is started by our old VP of Product Job van der Voort.
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on “$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)”Good insight about the functions of a web front-end. I totally agree. And I think the first two are a priority before slapping features on top. Gitlab is build on top of Gitolite so setting granular permissions should be doable. I worry that the combination of groups and branch settings will be hard to maintain unless you name your branches consistently. I'm very interested in talking to you to learn from your think…
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on “Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo”It's great to see money made in one of the few remaining unregulated fields like math and software applied to problems in the heavily regulated healthcare industry. There is an asymmetry in healthcare innovation that nobody ever got fired for blocking a good thing, but you can lose your job for approving a bad one. I'm also following the very inspirational journey of the former Gitlab CEO who battles cancer by found…
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on “Midjourney Medical”https://sytse.com/cancer
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on “Going Founder Mode on Cancer”
