Hacker News
- Commoditize your complement (2019) https://www.gwern.net/Complement 80 comments
- Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (2018) https://www.gwern.net/Complement 35 comments
- Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement https://www.gwern.net/Complement#2 148 comments
- Ever wonder why Valve and so many other companies 'altruistically' give to free software? http://www.gwern.net/complement 57 comments linux
Linking pages
- Don’t forget Microsoft - by John Luttig https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-microsoft 454 comments
- OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment. The Billion Dollar Dataset Next Door | by Joe Morrison | Medium https://joemorrison.medium.com/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01 331 comments
- Tech things: OpenAI buys Windsurf, Google retains its lead, and where the hell is Apple? https://theahura.substack.com/p/tech-things-openai-buys-windsurf 220 comments
- WhatsApp and the domestication of users - Seirdy https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html 114 comments
- Why on Earth did Facebook Just Acquire Mapillary? | by Joe Morrison | Medium https://medium.com/@joemorrison/why-on-earth-did-facebook-just-acquire-mapillary-9838405272f8 30 comments
- OpenStreetMap is Having a Moment https://joemorrison.substack.com/p/openstreetmap-is-having-a-moment-dcc7eef1bb01 10 comments
- Rambling about Microsoft, and testing alternatives to Github Copilot. · PoignardAzur https://poignardazur.github.io/2023/06/04/microsoft-copilot-alternatives/ 4 comments
- GitHub - kdeldycke/awesome-engineering-team-management: 👔 How to transition from software development to engineering management https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-management 2 comments
- WhatsApp and the domestication of users - Seirdy https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users/ 1 comment
- The Developer-Led Landscape - by Tyler Jewell https://tylerjewell.substack.com/p/the-developer-led-landscape-20-08-28 1 comment
- AI #1: Sydney and Bing - by Zvi Mowshowitz https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-1-sydney-and-bing 1 comment
- Business Model Meta-Models - by Byrne Hobart - The Diff https://diff.substack.com/p/business-model-meta-models 0 comments
- The Uber Elevate Paradox - by Luke Metro - 10 Mohs Tech https://10mohtech.substack.com/p/the-uber-elevate-paradox 0 comments
- Chips for the Cloud - by John https://littlebitofeverything.substack.com/p/chips-for-the-cloud 0 comments
- Ideas not mattering is a psyop - Alexey Guzey https://guzey.com/ideas-not-mattering-is-a-psyop/ 0 comments
- The Quest for Monopoly - by Marc Rubinstein - Net Interest https://www.netinterest.co/p/the-quest-for-monopoly 0 comments
- Eponymous Laws https://www.swyx.io/writing/eponymous-laws/ 0 comments
- Open Source Sustainability - DEV Community https://dev.to/erikras/open-source-sustainability-3pjf 0 comments
- Five years of progress in GPTs - by Finbarr Timbers https://finbarrtimbers.substack.com/p/five-years-of-progress-in-gpts 0 comments
- Alternatives to Open Source - simonsafar.com https://simonsafar.com/2024/source_available/ 0 comments
Linked pages
- Stepping up for a truly open source Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/ 1306 comments
- Google announces official Android support for RISC-V | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/google-announces-official-android-support-for-risc-v/ 449 comments
- C (programming language) - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)#History 395 comments
- X Window System - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Principles 391 comments
- Alphabet Backs GitLab's Quest to Surpass Microsoft's GitHub - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/alphabet-backs-gitlab-s-quest-to-surpass-microsoft-s-github 383 comments
- The Case Against Google - The New York Times https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/magazine/the-case-against-google.html 314 comments
- Databases in 2024: A Year in Review // Blog // Andy Pavlo - Carnegie Mellon University https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html 295 comments
- Reddit - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/reddit 248 comments
- Two Years Ago, India Lacked Fast, Cheap Internet—One Billionaire Changed All That - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-years-ago-india-lacked-fast-cheap-internetone-billionaire-changed-all-that-1536159916 246 comments
- Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/linus_torvalds 166 comments
- Linux, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft want to break the Google Maps monopoly | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/linux-amazon-meta-and-microsoft-want-to-break-the-google-maps-monopoly/ 125 comments
- Who Controls Diners’ Data? OpenTable Moves to Assert Control - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-controls-diners-data-opentable-moves-to-assert-control-11552644121 122 comments
- Keeping Open Source Open – Open Distro for Elasticsearch | AWS Open Source Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-open-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/ 120 comments
- Lisp machine - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine 116 comments
- Linux - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?amp%3Bdiff=615120343&%3Boldid=615120301&title=linux 115 comments
- Hacker News - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News 102 comments
- Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said to Have Faltered on Tech Access - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-05/honda-waymo-talks-are-said-to-have-faltered-on-tech-access-evs 102 comments
- Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust? - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-detroit-become-a-software-business-1540008107 88 comments
- The Technium: Better Than Free https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/ 80 comments
- News - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS 78 comments
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