Hacker News with Generative AI: Strategy

Rickover's Lessons (chinatalk.media)
Strategic competition demands more than technological innovation — it requires building industrial power.

Strategy, Industry, Technology, Competition

122 points by pepys 11 days ago | 99 comments

Apple does AI as Microsoft did mobile (world.hey.com)
When the iPhone first appeared in 2007, Microsoft was sitting pretty with their mobile strategy. They'd been early to the market with Windows CE, they were fast-following the iPod with their Zune. They also had the dominant operating system, the dominant office package, and control of the enterprise. The future on mobile must have looked so bright!

Mobile, AI, Apple, Microsoft, Strategy

7 points by janandonly 22 days ago | 0 comments

Superintelligence Strategy (nationalsecurity.ai)
Rapid advances in AI are beginning to reshape national security.

Artificial Intelligence, National Security, Strategy

33 points by stygiansonic 28 days ago | 62 comments

Startups, Strategy, and Algorithms (substack.com)

Startups, Strategy, Algorithms

13 points by alitovsky 32 days ago | 4 comments

For military staff across Europe, wargaming is all the rage (france24.com)
Once dismissed as frivolous, wargames have emerged as crucial strategic tools amid rising global tensions. A recent simulation at Paris's École Militaire, where 500 participants played out high-intensity conflict scenarios, reflects a growing international trend toward gamified military preparedness.

Military, Strategy, Simulation, Europe, Global Security

15 points by smgit 33 days ago | 0 comments

On Zero Sum Games (The Informational Meta-Game) (rohan.ga)
Zero-sum games are fundamentally informational contests.

Game Theory, Information Theory, Strategy

43 points by ocean_moist 40 days ago | 25 comments

Find Your 2%Ers (2023) (joyarbitrage.substack.com)

Business, Marketing, Strategy

148 points by sebg 44 days ago | 40 comments

Coursera's 2025 Strategy: Focusing on Campus, Scaling Back Degrees (classcentral.com)
As revealed in a recent earnings call, Coursera’s strategy is to integrate into existing university curricula, prioritizing ‘Coursera for Campus’ over its own online degree programs.

Education, Online Learning, Coursera, Higher Education, Strategy

4 points by raybb 51 days ago | 0 comments

Shades of Blunders (lichess.org)
A post about why blunders happen to all of us, even though they shouldn't.

Chess, Mistakes, Strategy

45 points by fzliu 61 days ago | 9 comments

Mastering the Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) (lichess.org)
The Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP) is one of the most dynamic and intriguing pawn structures in chess.

Chess, Strategy, Tactics

26 points by fzliu 80 days ago | 15 comments

Core Principles for Productivity (daniel.pub)
Productivity is built on five fundamental pillars: clear strategy, effective planning, focused execution, continuous growth, and strong support systems. This guide explores each of these areas, breaking down the key principles that enable sustainable, high-quality work.

Productivity, Strategy, Planning, Execution, Growth

17 points by publicdaniel 93 days ago | 0 comments

How can NBA address 3-point boom? Ranking 12 potential solutions (cbssports.com)

NBA, Basketball, Analytics, Strategy, Sports

21 points by amichail 95 days ago | 38 comments

$250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on? (ycombinator.com)
Currently learning basic SQL (for free on Code Academy), already have a Coursera subscription for business courses. Interested in different forms of learning (MOOCs don't really engage me that well).<p>My background is in finance and I would like to learn more about product development and strategy.

Learning, Finance, Product Development, Strategy

29 points by czatt 97 days ago | 21 comments

Kelly Can't Fail (win-vector.com)
You may have heard of the Kelly bet allocation strategy. It is a system for correctly exploiting information or bias in a gambling situation. It is also known as a maximally aggressive or high variance strategy, in that betting more than the Kelly selection can be quite ruinous.

Gambling, Finance, Strategy, Statistics

393 points by jmount 104 days ago | 120 comments

The One Hundred Pages Strategy (thelampmagazine.com)
Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.”

Reading, Strategy, Writing

54 points by keiferski 106 days ago | 13 comments

The One Hundred Pages Strategy (thelampmagazine.com)
Almost nothing I have written in the last few years has given rise to more correspondence than a throwaway column about reading, in which I alluded to what I call the “hundred pages strategy.”

Reading, Writing, Strategy, Personal Development

3 points by samclemens 113 days ago | 1 comments

The Two Big Games (overcomingbias.com)
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it. There are two games that folks in this business might play re this meeting.

Business, Strategy, Decision Making, Meetings

11 points by jger15 121 days ago | 2 comments

Generative AI Is Still Just a Prediction Machine (hbr.org)
Artificial intelligence tools can now write, code, draw, summarize, and brainstorm. The proliferation of generative AI tools poses serious questions for managers, such as: What tasks can be done by AI, what will humans still need to do, and what are the sustainable sources of competitive advantage as AI continues to improve? To understand the strategic implications of these new capabilities, managers need a framework for when AI will be helpful and when it might fail.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Management, Strategy

3 points by naves 133 days ago | 0 comments

The Early Christian Strategy (astralcodexten.com)
In 1980, game theorist Robert Axelrod ran a famous Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Tournament.

History, Strategy, Game Theory

16 points by feross 138 days ago | 8 comments

MOATs Aren't Useful (rohan.ga)
What I mean is that, conceptually, “MOATs” are not a useful abstraction. There is a saying that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” and I am saying that, as a model, MOATs are not useful. I think that asking a founder “what their MOAT is” will not offer useful information about their project.

Business, Startups, Strategy

6 points by ocean_moist 148 days ago | 4 comments

Crokinole (pudding.cool)
Technically speaking, they each flicked a 3.2cm disc 30cm across a board into a 3.5cm hole (just 9% wider than the disc itself) eight times in a row. In game terms, they made eight open 20s each.

Games, Sports, Strategy

621 points by Tomte 167 days ago | 166 comments

The Greatest Checkmate Ever Given (youtube.com)

Chess, Youtube, Strategy

9 points by mellosouls 171 days ago | 1 comments

How to Beat Online Poker: Russian Group Won Big with AI (bloomberg.com)

Online Poker, AI, Russia, Gambling, Strategy

12 points by alexey-salmin 193 days ago | 1 comments

Starbucks' new CEO wants to make Starbucks a coffee shop again (cnn.com)

Starbucks, Coffee, Business, CEO, Strategy

12 points by RyeCombinator 204 days ago | 9 comments

The CIA's 8 steps to wreck organizations (youtube.com)

Intelligence, Organizations, Management, Strategy, CIA

11 points by TotalCrackpot 205 days ago | 0 comments

A game theory behind the dark forest strategy? (wikipedia.org)

Game Theory, Strategy, Science Fiction

9 points by dgregd 206 days ago | 13 comments

AMD deprioritizing flagship gaming GPUs: Jack Hyunh on New Strategy vs. Nvidia (tomshardware.com)
AMD's plans for high-end GPUs with its upcoming Radeon RX 8000-series have been cast into doubt by several hardware leakers who assert that AMD has canceled its upper-tier RX 8000 cards. However, the company hasn't officially commented on the matter before.

AMD, GPUs, Hardware, Gaming, Strategy

22 points by pella 206 days ago | 16 comments

The expected value of the game is positive regardless of Ballmer’s strategy (gukov.dev)
A few days ago John Graham-Cumming posted about “Steve Ballmer’s incorrect binary search interview question” which drew a lot of attention on Hacker News.

Game Theory, Strategy, Mathematics

193 points by gukoff 209 days ago | 160 comments

How to convert a concept into a managerial instrument of competitive power (hbr.org)