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Tanay Jaipuria
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Tanay Jaipuria writes Tanay’s Newsletter, a personal blog at tanay.substack.com about economics and business. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Understanding Twitter's Algorithm”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, 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 Tanay Jaipuria's Substack for analysis of tech and business topics: the Twitter/X recommendation algorithm, intangible assets in tech valuations, dark stores for grocery delivery, and fintech debit card economics.
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.
Musings about tech and business.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding Twitter's Algorithm2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-27
- Employee compensation and one-year equity grants2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-04
- A Roundup of Big Tech's Generative AI Plans from Q2 Earnings2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-10
- Customer-Based Valuation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-22
What Hacker News says?
Small grocery warehouses used by Instant delivery companies. From this post[1] by Tanay J A. Dark Stores / Fulfillment Centers Instant-Delivery Apps operate their own dark stores / fulfillment centers, typically one per neighborhood they operate in. Since these are not meant for consumers, space can be used more efficiently and typically the cost to operate these (at scale) as a percent of revenue is lower than rent…
Comment linking /p/understanding-the-instant-delivery
on “Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores”Submitted Lies, Damned Lies, and Stock-Based Compensation as a story · 170 points
HN discussionAs a consumer they're hoping to interest you with better technology, usually a better mobile app experience. The business model is to partner with a smaller bank and earn credit card like interchange income on debit card transactions due to the Durbin amendment. No other business model needed if you can get a bunch of consumers using a debit card. This applies to U.S. fintech's offering debit cards anyway. https://t…
Comment linking /p/fintech-and-regulatory-arbitrage
on “Andy Bromberg, CEO of Eco, details how Pebble (YC W22) copied them word for word”Submitted Employee compensation and one-year equity grants as a story · 42 points
HN discussionI came across an article recently which talked about how current accounting standards don't portray an accurate picture of many tech companies due to "intangible assets". I wonder if or how much this shows up in the current feeling of many tech stocks bring overpriced? https://tanay.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-intangibles-and-the... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556726
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on “Ask HN: Are we in tech-stock bubble?”Submitted The rise of intangibles and the demise of accounting as a story · 24 points
HN discussionOpening the algorithm might have caused influencers understand better what drives enagagement https://tanay.substack.com/p/understanding-twitters-algorith... . Apparently a reply to a retweet gets a weight of 27, a retweet only 1, a like 0.5 (higher number is better).
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on “Ask HN: Have you noticed X/Twitter is filling up with people asking questions?”Submitted Tech Startup IPO Candidates Following ARM's Filing as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://tanay.substack.com/p/understanding-twitters-algorith... https://archive.ph/71TWz#selection-685.0-685.91 While the general workings were well-known beforehand, there were quite a few surprises here. Especially the out-of-network penalty.
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on “Ask HN: With FAANG turnover-why don't we know about actual recommendation algos?”Submitted A Roundup of Big Tech's Generative AI Plans from Q2 Earnings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Disrupting Google Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Twitter's Algorithm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stripe and Adyen's Financials Compared as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talent, Compensation and Remote Work as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding the Modern Data Stack as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Employee compensation and one-year equity grants as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The rise of intangibles and the demise of accounting as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Big Tech X Generative AI Q2 Update as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Can Help Save the Open Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Startups Advantages vs. Incumbents in Building with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An explanation of Stripe's latest $6.5B fundraise as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Owns the Web? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer-Based Valuation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer-Based Valuation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Passion Investing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marketplace Take Rates Factors as a story · 1 points
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