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Turner Novak
Personal blog · turner.substack.comstartupsbusiness
Turner Novak writes The Split, a personal blog at turner.substack.com about startups and business. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Turner Novak's Substack for its reporting on ByteDance's infrastructure, including its data centres, its 2019 acquisition of Terark and possible plans for a cloud hosting service. The post was cited in discussion of Oracle's bid for TikTok.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-05-21
- Pinduoduo and Vertically Integrated Social Commerce4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-06
What Hacker News says?
Oracle becomes a trusted tech partner of Bytedance: “ByteDance started opening data centers in India and the US in 2019. This may be strictly for internal purposes, but its possible they plan to launch a cloud hosting service. ByteDance acquired Terark in 2019 which allows databases to run 200x faster by reading compressed data at 50% of the cost. If they launch an external service, the selling point could be faster…
Comment linking /p/the-rise-of-tiktok-and-understanding
on “Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.”Submitted The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinduoduo and Vertically Integrated Social Commerce as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company ByteDance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinduoduo and Vertically Integrated Social Commerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of TikTok as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinduoduo and Vertically Integrated Social Commerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pinduoduo and Vertically Integrated Social Commerce as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of TikTok and Understanding Its Parent Company, ByteDance as a story · 1 points
HN discussion