Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Scale-emerging-business-investment-ebook/dp/B015FAOKJ6
https://andrewchen.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ColdStartProb_9780062969743_AS0928_cc20_Final.pdf
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/exclusive-canadian-teens-instagram-chats-reveal-playbook-for-recruiting-drug-mules/
https://www.davidsenra.com/episode/tony-xu
https://fontofweb.com
https://gomox.medium.com/i-have-a-marketplace-business-idea-a0feb1bbe6a0
https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/unfortunately-i-was-the-drug-mule-in-that-situation-drugs-transported-via-ride-share/3550184/
https://www.nfx.com/post/network-effects-bible
https://qz.com/1627572/drug-traffickers-favorite-way-to-move-fentanyl-is-fedex-and-usps
https://www.roadie.com/
https://www.traveltechnation.com/companies/piggybee
https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/interview-with-lugg-founders/
How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?
https://www.amazingcto.com
https://www.getibex.com
https://github.com/fredwu
https://lasse.sometechblog.com/
https://thebusinessofauthority.com/
https://theconsensus.dev/contribute.html
https://www.theforcingfunction.com/blog/service-business
Building a solo business is impossible?
https://longform.asmartbear.com
https://www.notion.so/notventurescale/Wild-Built-Incubator-2485300c2f5d801da630f6696560ef75?source=copy_link
Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars
https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/
Opus 4.7 vs. 4.6 after 3 days of real coding side by side from my actual session
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/claude-prompting-best-practices
What makes a good Product Manager
https://a16z.com/good-product-manager-bad-product-manager/
Tell HN: 48 absurd web projects – one every month
https://absurd.website/microtasks-for-meatbags/
Why don't we just ask AI to write assembler?
https://x.com/davepl1968/status/2044482592620351955
How did you get your first users with zero audience?
https://z2one.co
Anyone know of that "levels of AI programming" blog post?
https://www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/01/the-five-levels-from-spicy-autocomplete-to-the-software-factory/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47320614
Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
https://replacingguilt.com/toc/
I built a real-time AR plane spotter, here's the math that makes it work
https://dev.to/ananddhruv29/from-gps-coordinates-to-screen-pixels-the-full-ar-projection-math-4k7m
How do you maintain flow when vibe coding?
https://github.com/triblespace/faculties
https://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?
https://www.cosinuss.com/en/
https://share.google/aimode/Fhd3GapqYWJ5vBBXo
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/healthcare-nurses-gig-work-ai-apps
How are you using LLMs in production?
https://www.google.com/finance/beta
Advice for tracking down a listening device?
https://cryptomuseum.com/df/tscm.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable
Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen
https://todayinsci.com/M/Maudslay_Henry/MaudslayHenry-ToolBuilders(1916).htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6reLWfFNer0