You probably LOVE Hacker News as much as we do. It’s the best online community for people building technology products and it works so well because of their scoring system that floats the most important news to the top.

Have you ever wondered what are the words that make the community tick? Which news and companies are making the headlines?

We dugg into it and created this infographic to visualize some answers. How did we get all those Hacker News data?

Well… we mainly hacked

Enjoy:

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As a Founder Institute mentor, I had the privilege to give this presentation to a group of entrepreneurs at the Chicago program last week. The presentation focused on how to make the right product decisions on day 1 as well as post launch.

If you are a designer, or worked with designers, then you probably heard about Paul Rand. Many people consider him the most important graphic designer of all time. Even if you didn’t hear about him, you’d have to live under a rock to not interact with one of his designs. Rand is the designer behind the timeless IBM logo, ABC’s logo, UPS’s previous logo and Steve Jobs’s NeXT logo.

More than being a great designer, Rand was a phenomenal thinker. I’ve had a chance to put my hands on an out of print copy of “Paul Rand – A Designer’s Art”. In this book he shares his thoughts on what the design process should look like, giving examples from various projects he worked on. It’s a masterpiece.

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We love Dropbox. We really do. Everyone on our team is using it and we think that they solved a big problem in a beautiful and elegant way.

We are now working on a *mind-blowing* integration between Base and Dropbox so we were very happy to hear about the recent updates to their API.

Excited and happy, we started working on the integration only to find out that the Dropbox API Ruby SDK is, well, let’s call it “not cool”. We love Ruby, but the SDK does not take advantage of this beautiful language!

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Many of you have already tried PipeJump and fell in love (thanks for all the gushing love letters!). In our continuous efforts to make PipeJump the best and fastest growing CRM and Sales Tracking tool in the universe, we are announcing today a new name, an exciting new pricing structure and a sweet referral program.

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Forget about Jonathan Ives and Philippe Starck. Dieter Rams is THE father of modern design. The German-born designer studied architecture at Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden and, after a short stint as an architect, joined Braun in 1955. Six years later, he became Braun’s chief of design and for the next 34 years (!!), almost single-handedly, changed the history of product design. He has had a profound impact on the way his company, and the world, think about designing great products.

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