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Article URL: https://store.steampowered.com/app/911430/Good_Company/

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785031

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Article URL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7323825/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43785028

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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/magazine/crybercrime-crypto-minecraft.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784546

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Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-noaa-budget-cuts-climate-change-modeling-princeton-gfdl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784542

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Article URL: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/theanine-2

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Article URL: https://vaibhavjha.substack.com/p/understanding-why-count-can-be-slow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784522

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Article URL: https://michaelmallari.bitbucket.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784494

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Article URL: https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/06/hooded-pitohui-bird/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784489

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Article URL: https://www.prepperdisk.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784475

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Article URL: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/ai-voice-agent-building-experience-as-a-contractor-9ee96ec7ff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784471

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Article URL: https://blog.doceree.com/hcp-engagement-nudges

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784463

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Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/asus-releases-fix-for-ami-bug-that-lets-hackers-brick-servers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784460

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I'm exploring a learning system that addresses the dual challenge many of us face: remembering both technical concepts AND the business domain knowledge needed to apply them effectively. After years of coding in different industries, I've noticed that understanding the domain (finance, healthcare, e-commerce, etc.) is often as challenging as mastering the technical stack, yet most learning tools focus solely on the technical side. Some questions I'm curious about:

How do you currently capture and retain domain-specific knowledge alongside technical concepts? What's your biggest challenge when onboarding to a new codebase with an unfamiliar business domain? Have you tried using flash cards or spaced repetition for either technical or domain knowledge? What worked or didn't? Would you find value in a tool that could help teams build shared mental models of both their tech stack and business domain? How do you currently transfer domain knowledge between team members?

I'm in early validation stages and would appreciate your insights before building anything. If there's enough interest, I'll share what I learn from this thread.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784449

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Article URL: https://blog.owulveryck.info/2025/04/22/mcps-3-us-making-a-tool-useful-usable-and-used-by-and-for-an-llm.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784442

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Article URL: https://notforprivategain.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784434

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Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/google-teams-are-including-remote-workers-in-their-cuts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784427

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Article URL: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/33-cookiecrumbler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784418

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I've worked in edtech for almost 10 years now in B2B, B2C, and nonprofit contexts. I've seen real product market fit, and a lot of poor product market fit.

Edtech has been one of the largest tech disappointments of the internet era. The internet has transformed everything about how people learn. I always joke that Youtube is actually the best edtech product. And now, I guess chatGPT and other LLMs. But these products have a lot of problems, specifically around accuracy, pedagogy and lack of assessment. (Research shows low-stakes assessment is when the moment of learning often happens.)

Within the "Ed tech space", a lot of products have failed in my view. The best product I built was free online science simulations (virtual labs).

I've worked on products that were financially successful but its debatable if they helped helped users learn much.

Edtech companies that sell to parents are making a product for parents. The goal is often to make parents feel good about the choices they are making for their kids. For example, give your kids an ipad with Educational games, and now you're a better parent.

Edtech products that sell to business are making a product for employers. Much of these products end up being about tracking employees rather than real skill development.

The reason making a product for educators ends up being more effective in terms of learning outcomes is because most teachers have their incentives aligned - they want their students to learn more and be able to apply that learning.

Which leads me to this chicken and egg problem - because education is a system, technology either has to fit into that system or break the system. Breaking the system can be costly and have lots of undesirable side effects. I imagine this is a lot like healthcare / healthtech - you can't just move fast and break things.

Adoption of products in EdTech (via educators) is more involved than pure B2C but less profitable than B2B, making it costly and painful.

From both a product/context and business model perspective, it's hard. This is partly why I think the non profit model has worked the best in education (Khan academy, Phet, etc). Without having to optimize for profit, you have the freedom to build products that fit better into the existing system. You can serve people who can't afford to pay you, nor do they have the power to convince their administrations to pay you.

However - I still think we haven't done enough - what is the next step?

I think if someone asked me where the next 2B in edtech funding should go, I would suggest highly specialized nonprofits each with a focused goal like teaching meaningful reading skill at the late elementary level or getting kids excited about math at the middle school level. Focus these nonprofits to have educator obsession - the educators trying to solve these problems in the real world.

Ultimately, for real outcomes, all these products need to be free or sponsored. I do think paid products selling to school districts work (these businesses do exist) but this adds a lot of friction that slows product development down, and of course, mucks up the incentives. These paid products often want strong moats - so they lock districts into multi-year contracts and then stop improving the product. They generate metrics administrators like, with products educators are forced to use but aren't improving. Nonprofits have a magical freedom to be "moat-less."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784414

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Article URL: https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/mostly-true-naming-rule/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43784393

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