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by fra 1y ago
I'm the co-founder and CEO of Memfault. We were in the W19 YC batch. I never thought our news would make the front page of HN! This is a very exciting day for us (after a very intense few months). We've known the Nordic team for y
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by fra 1y ago
Litestream has seen very little development lately and I was worried it was dead. Very glad to see Ben Johnson is continuing to push the project forward with some exciting new plans.
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by fra 1y ago
[citation needed]
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by fra 2y ago
As someone who builds observability tools for embedded software, I am flabbergasted that you're finding a more tools-friendly culture in embedded than in distributed systems! Most hardware companies have zero observability, and haven&#
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet with reasoning model card on Anthropic docs(docs.anthropic.com)
1 points by fra 2y ago|1 comments
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by fra 2y ago
I think this is the reason in fewer 0.01% of cases. Languages are not in the top 10 things that make being an open source maintainer difficult.
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by fra 2y ago
You’d be surprised at how many hardware companies think this is a good idea! I’m the founder and CEO of a company called Memfault, we make observability SaaS for hardware companies. I constantly get asked if we could just offer a remote acc
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by fra 2y ago
With all due respect, I don't think you know what a CEO does day to day. Investor relations and PR is ~5% of the job at an early stage startup.
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by fra 2y ago
Because you won't find anyone competent to take on the terrible shit-shoveling gig that is being the CEO for an equal share in the business.
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by fra 2y ago
This is a glib, but important insight. If the split between founders and early employees is fundamentally off, then we should see many more early employee types start companies and take the other side of that bargain. In fact, they do not!
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by fra 2y ago
To be clear it was marketed as e-paper (e-ink is a trademark). Reflective LCD falls under that category: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper Disclaimer: former Pebble employee
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Memfault (YC W19) Is Hiring an Android System (AOSP) Engineer(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by fra 2y ago
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by fra 2y ago
This was a tip my hatn excellent to you
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by fra 2y ago
First: you've heard of at least one of these companies. Second: some of them are very well known in their vertical, just not yet household names. Third: you have no idea what you're talking about. E.g. Hubspot was founded in 2006,
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by fra 2y ago
This may be the first widely reported deadly hack of a connected device. Wild times we live in.
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Wireless Devices Explode Across Lebanon After Israel Warns Hezbollah(nytimes.com)
19 points by fra 2y ago|1 comments
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by fra 2y ago
That idea that only deep tech opportunities are left is false and IMO completely undermines the OP. Our batch (W19) has produced several great software companies that are growing incredibly fast, you just haven't heard of them ... yet!
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by fra 2y ago
This is a common technique in embedded software. A few other examples: 1. Thrice (already mentioned in the comments) https://github.com/rokath/trice 2. Pigweed's Tokenizer (from Google) https://pigweed.
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by fra 2y ago
Fair - the definition of "break" is a bit weak in this case. I'd argue that this caused real problems for many of these devices, but we did not share data that shows that.
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Solar storms break millions of smart devices(memfault.com)
17 points by fra 2y ago|4 comments
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by fra 2y ago
I see many people speculating in the comments about whether or not this may be true. Amy Chua wrote a book ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Empire ) which makes exactly that point and presents compelling evidence
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by fra 3y ago
Three points: 1. Dividends and share buybacks are the exact same thing, just with a different tax treatment. 2. A share buyback should not in itself produce an increase in share price. You decrease the $ of shares on the market by the exact
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by fra 3y ago
No contest here, but that is not the subject of the OP.
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by fra 3y ago
Why would anyone want to give you a return on capital if they are not able to use that capital to growth? The two are intimately linked.
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by fra 3y ago
We're talking about the growth of companies like Apple here, not the growth of the NASDAQ Index.
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by fra 3y ago
Ultimately this is about capital allocation and rates of return. Capital flows into the places where it can be best put to work. If you wish for your investments to yield above inflation, you're a card carrying member of the cult of gr
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by fra 3y ago
"politics" just means "large groups of people making decisions together". People love to complain about it, but in reality it is the one tool we have to steer large organizations.
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by fra 3y ago
I guarantee you that the total profit generated from selling XBOX controllers is immaterial to Microsoft. Anyone with an ounce of understanding of hardware business models will tell you that this has nothing to do with selling more controll
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by fra 3y ago
> I can understand sexual desire, but is there really a "desire to have kids"? Yes, unequivocally there is such a thing as a "desire to have kids". Speaking for myself and many others I know!
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Memfault (YC W19) Is Hiring a Product Manager in Berlin – DevOps for Hardware(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by fra 3y ago

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