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Yevgeniy Brikman
Personal blog · ybrikman.com/writing · on HN as brikis98programmingstartups
Yevgeniy Brikman's personal blog at ybrikman.com covers programming and startups. Since 2015, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 25 times, most often “The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Yevgeniy Brikman's blog for its 10x developer essay, which one cites to explain the claim's origin, and for his tech talk lists. Also cited: his Terraform book appendix on CTO reading and startup posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The home page of Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, co-founder of Gruntwork, author of "Hello, Startup" and "Terraform: Up & Running", and software engineer at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial.
Most-linked posts?
- The 10x developer is not a myth (2013)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-01-23
- Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-26
- Must see Tech Talks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-23
- Esoteric programming paradigms2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-05
- “The best minds of my generation are thinking how to make people click ads”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-13
What Hacker News says?
I’m reading the O’Reilly book on terraform. The end appendix has a great list of books to read for a CTO. Also planning to check the author other book, “Hello, startup” (see [1]). 1: https://www.ybrikman.com
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on “Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?”Submitted Esoteric programming paradigms as a story · 397 points
HN discussionNice. It really seems like static typing and functional programming are winning [1]. For the most part, I think that's very a good thing, and may help move the software industry forward. [1] http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2015/02/06/are-static-typing...
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on “PEP 0484 – Type Hints is accepted”Submitted The 10:1 rule of writing and programming as a story · 380 points
HN discussionAs I've written before [1], I find it confusing that some people believe "10x" or "rockstar developers" are a myth. Are star athletes, artists, writers, and, uh, rock stars, a myth? Why would the programming profession be the only one where there are no major differences in performance? [1] http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2013/09/29/the-10x-developer...
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on “I believe in the 10x engineer, but”Submitted The 10x developer is not a myth (2013) as a story · 229 points
HN discussionInfrastructure as code. Terraform provisions servers and infrastructure based on yaml config files that you can do things like commit to source control and see a diff of changes to your cloud provider. It's really fun but very tied into each specific service providers' nomenclature and services, I wish it was higher level. It provides backends for all the major players but I think there is (was?) some large variatio…
Comment linking /writing/2016/03/31/infrastructure-as-code-microservices-aws-docker-terraform-ecs/
on “Terraform Module Registry”Submitted Programming paradigms that change how people think about coding (2014) as a story · 128 points
HN discussionKind of—I have several lists, compiled by others. Here's some: - http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/05/29/must-see-tech-tal... - https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1198/what-video... - https://github.com/JanVanRyswyck/awesome-talks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511466 - https://github.com/hellerve/programming-talks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239 Plenty of material. ;)
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on “Rich Hickey's Greatest Hits (2013)”Submitted Must-See Tech Talks for Every Programmer (2014) as a story · 80 points
HN discussionIt's 10x more productive than the least productive, which means about 3x more productive than average. http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2013/09/29/the-10x-developer...
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on “10x engineers take long naps”Submitted “The best minds of my generation are thinking how to make people click ads” as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThe best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads—and that's ok: https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2014/08/10/the-best-minds-o... Also relevant: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-04-14/this-tech...
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on “Disqus Ads Are No Longer Free to Disable”Submitted GenAI, the Snake Eating Its Own Tail as a story · 31 points
HN discussion>I always saw 10x average, not worst. See: http://antirez.com/news/112 (first result on google after writing "10x developer") It's a pity that's the first result, because it's flat wrong. This article actually talks about the origin of the claim: https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2013/09/29/the-10x-develope... I believe in 10x programmers, because I have known many programmers over the years, and I can think of many…
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on “Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk?”Submitted Programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding (2014) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck out the talk Startup Ideas and Validation [1]. The key insights are: * Innovative ideas are rarely, if ever, eureka moments. They usually evolve after spending a huge amount of time thinking about a specific problem. * Ideas do not form out of nothing. You are not creating new knowledge so much as finding new ways to connect knowledge that you already have. So the more you know, the more ideas you can have. *…
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on “Ask HN: What are good ways to find startup problems to solve?”Submitted A productive development environment with Docker on OS X as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBlog post introducing the service: http://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2015/09/21/introducing-atomi... Link to startup ideas, referenced in the site: http://www.hello-startup.net/resources/startup-ideas/
Comment linking /writing/2015/09/21/introducing-atomic-squirrel-startup-checklist/
on “Co-founder as a service”Submitted Must see Tech Talks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Crash Course on Design for Developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech Talks for Every Programmer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Talks for Every Programmer as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding (2014) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bitcoin by analogy (2014) as a story · 1 points
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