Articles by zuhayeer
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[flagged] The Prison of Financial Mediocrity (twitter.com/systematicls)

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Geographic shapes and flags via simple URLs (borderly.dev)

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2025 End of Year Pay Report (levels.fyi)

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US Software Engineer Compensation Trends: Continued Growth (2024–2025) (devnavigator.com)

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2025: The Year of Front-Loaded Vesting Schedules (levels.fyi)

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How much were product managers paid in 2025? (mindtheproduct.com)

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End of Year Pay Report 2025 – Levels.fyi (levels.fyi)

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Show HN: Instantly embed SVG shapes of any location (borderly.dev)

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Mag 7 Senior Software Engineer Pay Distributions (reddit.com)

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Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site (josh.mn)

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Most Job Seekers Skip Negotiation and Pay a High Price (ucla.edu)

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Imagined Unrealities (zuhayeer.com)

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Front-Loaded Vesting: Why Your Tech Offer Looks Different Now (levels.fyi)

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The Rise of Front-Loaded Vesting (levels.fyi)

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OpenAI August 2025 Retention Bonuses (levels.fyi)

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Tech Workers Take Much Lower Pay to Ditch the Office (ucla.edu)

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Pushing the Envelope: The Effects of Salary Negotiation (hks.harvard.edu)

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Levels.fyi's Over-the-Air Updates on Mobile App (levels.fyi)

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Taxes.fyi – Add an After-Tax Column to Levels.fyi Data (github.com/gsoni1)

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Show HN: OpenTariffs – Tariff Percentages by Country (opentariffs.fyi)

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Make Something Heavy (workingtheorys.com)

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Levels.fyi Top Pay by Level (chriscarini.github.io)

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Green House by Schwartz and Architecture (saasf.com)

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The Hottest AI Companies Are "Apps" (bloomberg.com)

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How to Make Something Great (ryolu.notion.site)

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Return to office: CEOs are ignoring the math (salon.com)

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Software Engineer Salary Bubble Plot Map for Europe (levels.fyi)

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Create Logo in Liquid Metal (paper.design)

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The Value of Remote Work (cepr.org)

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Index Companies (eladgil.com)

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[dupe] T-Mobile Starlink Satellite Service Beta (t-mobile.com)

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Tech workers would take a pay cut for remote jobs (bizjournals.com)

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Home Sweet Home: How Much Do Employees Value Remote Work? (nber.org)

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The Strategic Mind: Mastering the Art of High-Impact Startup Opportunities (doxnewsletter.com)

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Generate CAD with AI (makewithadam.com)

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Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe (levels.fyi)

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Top Paying Companies 2024 (levels.fyi)

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Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting [pdf] (2021) (scrtwpns.com)

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Steve Jobs Calculator Construction Set (1982) (folklore.org)

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H1B Reported Salaries, Accurate or Not? (levels.fyi)

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Software Engineer Pay Heatmap with Cost of Living (levels.fyi)

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Product Manager Hiring and Compensation Trends 2022-2024 (creatoreconomy.so)

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OpenMPTCProuter: Stack Multiple Internet Connections (openmptcprouter.com)

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A Map of Emoji Similarity (erdavis.com)

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Software Engineer Pay Heatmap Across the US (levels.fyi)

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Software Engineer Pay Distributions in the US (levels.fyi)

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Someday (shaanpuri.com)

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Pursuits That Can't Scale (workingtheorys.com)

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TV Measurement: Past, Present, and Future (tvscientific.com)

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Unique New Vesting Schedules (levels.fyi)

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Family Values (benji.org)

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Divorce Never Ends (thespectator.com)

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Nvidia Employees Are Now Multi-Millionaires in 'Semi-Retirement' (msn.com)

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Slashing $10k+ on our AWS Bill at Levels.fyi (levels.fyi)

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Why do banks like Goldman Sachs call L5 engineers VPs? (levels.fyi)

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The End of Software (docs.google.com)

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AI software engineers make $100k more than their colleagues (qz.com)

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Vehicle Motion Cues to reduce motion sickness (twitter.com/frederikriedel)

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AI Engineer Compensation Trends Q1 2024 (levels.fyi)

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The Day Wise Created 250K Variants of a Calculator (failory.com)

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DJI Agras T50, agriculture drone (dji.com)

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USC Commencement Update, April 25, 2024 (usc.edu)

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Gender Pay Gap Report Q1 2024 (levels.fyi)

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AI has a talent shortage – meaning $1M job offers even amidst tech layoffs (qz.com)

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A Few Thoughts on Intensity (tylerhogge.com)

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It Just Doesn't Matter (2006) (signalvnoise.com)

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Microsoft surpasses Apple's market cap (macrumors.com)

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Top Paying Companies and Locations of 2023 (levels.fyi)

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Top Paying Companies of 2023 by Software Engineer Level (drive.google.com)

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Small subgroups of the population seem much larger to many Americans (yougov.com)

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Pain is not the unit of Effort (lesswrong.com)

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Don't listen to feedback from VCS who pass on investing (opencoreventures.com)

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Keeping Up with AGI (docs.google.com)

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AI Technology Diagnoses Autism in Children Under Two with 98.5% Accuracy (scitechdaily.com)

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Content Is King (1996) [pdf] (unfpa.org)

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Shopify Live Dashboard on the Sphere in Vegas (twitter.com/tobi)

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OpenAI engineers earning $800k a year turn rare skillset into leverage (bloomberg.com)

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Jack Dorsey ends PIPs / performance reviews at Block (businessinsider.com)

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Ilya had 60 hours to provide evidence of safety concerns (twitter.com/shengjia_zhao)

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OpenAI PPUs – How OpenAI's unique equity compensation works (levels.fyi)

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Founder Control (2010) (paulgraham.com)

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Simple Legacy (2008) (johndcook.com)

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OpenAI Custom GPTs leak knowledge source files (twitter.com/kanateven)

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Daryl Davis Befriends KKK Members and Gets Them to Quit (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Levels.fyi's Unique TLD became its Brand [pdf] (website-files.com)

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Stack Overflow Architecture (techworld-with-milan.com)

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AI Emojis (alexandru.so)

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Trends in Remote Employee Salaries (levels.fyi)

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OpenAI's Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally (github.com/killianlucas)

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Beware the Metagame (2018) (amasad.me)

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Hitting the 10M cell limit on Google Sheets with Levels.fyi (levels.fyi)

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Meta Is Researching Turning Any Flat Surface into a Virtual Keyboard (uploadvr.com)

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Parts of Great Barrier Reef show highest coral cover seen in 36 years (cnbc.com)

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The dark side of using AI to design drugs (ft.com)

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What to do when product growth stalls (andrewchen.com)

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Nike.com Robots.txt (nike.com)

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It's all about liquidity, baby (levels.fyi)

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Uber makes first operating profit (ft.com)

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Rise of the AI Hacker (medium.com/hellyeah)

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Turning the iPhone 6S into a digital scale (2015) (medium.com/swlh)