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Tarka Labs Blogs
Company blog · blog.tarkalabs.comprogrammingstartups
Tarka Labs Blogs is the company blog at blog.tarkalabs.com, writing about programming and startups. Since 2014, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
One commenter links a Tarka Labs Medium post listing what a CTO does: build/buy decisions, hiring, a learning culture, tech and product balance, delivery processes, and architecture.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I had written about it a few months back. https://blog.tarkalabs.com/what-does-a-cto-do-67c26d34ae7a As I see it, CTOs are responsible for - Making Build/Buy decisions - Hiring - Setting up a culture of learning - Balancing tech and product priorities - Setting up delivery processes that work for the team - And finally for architecture and system design I feel in that order of priority.
Comment linking /what-does-a-cto-do-67c26d34ae7a
on “A CTO should be technical”Submitted Digital Audio 101: Playing Audio from a Microcontroller as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSubmitted Managing almost big data in Postgres with partitioning as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: What I learnt refactoring a monolith into microservices as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting started with Quantum Computing (4 min read) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Typesense as an Alternative to Algolia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Introductory Guide to Functional Programming Concepts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Experience Report – Introducing an Experienced Ruby Developer to Clojure as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up a HTTPS dev workflow on OS X as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rate Limiting the right way as a story · 1 points
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