Articles by mmarian
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Abandoning the indie hacking dream for now (2022) (tinystruggles.com)

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Shutting down my startup (2025) (lachlangreen.substack.com)

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Tell HN: Listening to blog posts is a nice form of self-therapy

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UK to announce Australia-style social media ban for teenagers (ft.com)

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The temporarily embarrassed indie hacker (2024) (pooriajr.substack.com)

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What I'm up to as of October, 2025 (SaaS Pegasus founder) (coryzue.com)

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GMass CEO Ajay Goel grew to $8.6M revenue and 200K customers in 2024 (getlatka.com)

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Buying Britain: overseas buyers pile into UK companies (ft.com)

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I am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From 6&1/2 Failed Startup Attempts (2025) (rongarret.info)

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Artificial chocolate will show what shapes global trade (ft.com)

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Social media platforms warned over role in fuelling Belfast riots (ft.com)

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Searching for startup ideas on the Google Workspace Marketplace, pt 2 (2025) (developerwithacat.com)

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Not having an opinion on SpaceX is going to cost you (ft.com)

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Why are we still arguing about the industrial revolution? (ft.com)

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Is music a distraction for my teenager while they revise? (bbc.co.uk)

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Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO (reuters.com)

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OpenAI plots biggest ChatGPT overhaul since launch (ft.com)

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Dozzle: Real-time Docker logs, stats, and debugging – in the browser (dozzle.dev)

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Searching for startup opportunities on Google Workspace Marketplace, pt 1 (2025) (developerwithacat.com)

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Wasting China's solar panel surplus is madness (ft.com)

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AI is fueling Reddit's spam problem (mashable.com)

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OpenAI new privacy policy to include info about ads in ChatGPT

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Trying to get Claude to help me buy a car (developerwithacat.com)

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Cloudflare CTO enforcing usage limits (reddit.com)

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FTSE 100's likely new entrant puts a British spin on the AI boom (ft.com)

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Postmortem for my UK company database startup (2025) (developerwithacat.com)

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EU frets as China builds an industrial base in Morocco (ft.com)

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Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina (ft.com)

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Ask HN: Is it worth releasing another open-source test coverage aggregator?

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Why Britain's fintech stars faded (ft.com)

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Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores (ft.com)

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New Web and Mobile Strategy for LibreOffice (documentfoundation.org)

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Air France and Airbus found guilty of manslaughter over 2009 plane crash (bbc.co.uk)

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An Update from Cloudflare's Community Champions (Layoffs) (reddit.com)

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Am I part of the luckiest generation in history? (bbc.co.uk)

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U.K. Economy Accelerates to Outpace U.S. as War Headwinds Loom (wsj.com)

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Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once (ft.com)

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Self-hosted browser fingerprinting and bot detection with real-world constraints (github.com/antoinevastel)

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2ality blog: temporarily offline due to AI stealing work (2ality.com)

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Google developers significantly misstate CO2 emissions of UK datacentres (theguardian.com)

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Who is Louis Mosley, the man tasked with defending Palantir against its critics? (theguardian.com)

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Stop Begging Extension for LibreOffice (libreoffice.org)

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English councils to trial Google AI tool to speed up planning decisions (ft.com)

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Cost of smoking in England up 25% to and£21.8B (2024) (ash.org.uk)

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A free solution to the GitHub Actions supply chain crisis (developerwithacat.com)

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War disruption forces biggest condom maker to raise prices by up to 30% (ft.com)

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Show HN: LibreThinker, free AI assistant for LibreOffice Writer, 10k installs (librethinker.com)

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Meta to track workers' clicks and keystrokes to train AI (bbc.co.uk)

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2× – nine months later: We did it (Intercom) (fin.ai)

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Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans (bbc.co.uk)

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How Wales' most obese area is declaring war on junk food (bbc.co.uk)

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Runners vs. robots at China half marathon (bbc.co.uk)

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Singapore Tourism Board Launches AI-Powered Robodog Guides at Sentosa (stb.gov.sg)

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When career anxiety becomes gameplay: lessons in China 'young-faculty simulator'

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Developer Experience (leerob.com)

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OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents (amazon.com)

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UK Companies House security blunder leaves director data exposed (accountingweb.co.uk)

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Atlassian promotes and lays off someone in the same day (reddit.com)

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UK must build own nuclear missiles, say Lib Dems (bbc.co.uk)

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Revolut secures full UK banking licence after lengthy wait (yahoo.com)

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R/BotBouncer – Subreddit that posts about bot accounts (reddit.com)

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What I learned trying to block web scraping and bots (developerwithacat.com)

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Improving Antibot Biometric Protections: A Harsh Lesson from Akamai (2024) (mimic.sbs)

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Indonesia to ban social media and other online platforms for under 16s (bbc.co.uk)

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Video game Highguard axed weeks after release (bbc.co.uk)

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France to boost nuclear arsenal and extend deterrence to European allies (bbc.co.uk)

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The Armchair Historian: Retiring End of 2026 – My Last Year on YouTube [video] (youtube.com)

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UK media groups unite to tackle AI 'scraping' of journalism (bbc.co.uk)

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Wealthy spouses are hiding crypto assets in divorce cases, say lawyers (ft.com)

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HubSpot Acquires Starter Story (twitter.com/thepatwalls)

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Ukraine's 'Kill Zone' (ft.com)

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The Russian village that lost its men to war (bbc.co.uk)

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Kumo: Cloudflare's UI Component Library (kumo-ui.com)

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Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law (bbc.co.uk)

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As Trump retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower (bbc.co.uk)

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UK flat prices fall after sharp drop in London (ft.com)

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China's high-speed rail network accelerates largest human migration (ft.com)

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The tech bros might show more humility in Delhi – will they make AI any safer? (bbc.co.uk)

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KPMG partner fined over using AI to pass AI test (ft.com)

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Retrospective: Developing open source for 5 months full time (reddit.com)

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CIA releases new video in bid to lure Chinese military officers to spy for US (ft.com)

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We tested a transport app that cost the public £4M against Google Maps (bbc.co.uk)

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Takaichi leads LDP to crushing victory in Japan election (ft.com)

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A failed wantrepreneur's view on common startup advice (developerwithacat.com)

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BBC joins Colombian commandos fighting 'never-ending battle' against drug gangs (bbc.co.uk)

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A world without nuclear arms control begins on Thursday (ft.com)

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Questioning Putin: Steve Rosenberg on Tightrope of Reporting from Russia (bbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: Is it worth creating another open-source test coverage aggregator?

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My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs (simonwillison.net)

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Hacker stole my therapy notes – now my deepest secrets are online forever (bbc.co.uk)

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BentoPDF Urgent Security Notice (reddit.com)

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[flagged] US discussing options to get Greenland, incl use of military, says White House (bbc.co.uk)

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Nokia went from iPhone victim to $1B Nvidia deal (ft.com)

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University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk (UK) (bbc.co.uk)

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BBC replaced by TNT Sports as Commonwealth Games live broadcaster (bbc.co.uk)

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China blamed for UK government cyber attack (ft.com)

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React2Scan: Scan vulnerable Next.js instances across your infra (github.com/miggo-io)

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Show HN: AI Copilot for LibreOffice Writer (librethinker.com)

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'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs (ft.com)

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How this 31-year-old made $250M in 30 months (ft.com)