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Group chats rule the world
The importance and dynamics of private group chats in shaping tech discourse
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 776 posts.
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How Alexa dropped the ball on being the top conversational system
I discuss why Alexa missed the opportunity to take the lead and become the dominant player in the conversational AI market.
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Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity
Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE
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Mistral AI raises $640M at $6B valuation
Today, we are excited to triple down on our partnership with Mistral AI by co-leading their €600M Series B round.
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Decade of the Battery
A repost with some updates.
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ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
Announcing ARC Prize - a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
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Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity
I came across this recent video from Vicky Zhao last week and loved her brief summary of how she grew in her ability to clearly articulate ideas on the spot by getting to the point, using story str…
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OpenAI and Apple Announce Partnership
OpenAI and Apple announce partnership to integrate ChatGPT into Apple experiences.
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Why Triplebyte Failed
How a once-successful, well-liked company failed, as told from within.
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On being brought up by libertarian economists
The central fact about child rearing by my parents was the equal intellectual status of everyone in the family.
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A ChatGPT mistake cost us $10k
Edit: I want to preface this by saying yes the practices here are very bad and embarrassing (and we've since added robust unit/integration tests and alerting...
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Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
Why is this economy so difficult to manage? The macro statistics are hiding the experience of being cheated.
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The problem with lying is keeping track of all the lies
Or why clear consistency guarantees are how to stay sane when programming distributed systems.
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Some notes on influenceering
The ups and downs of publishing non-commercial content on the internet.
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Influencer cartels manipulate social media
Social media influencers account for a growing share of marketing budgets worldwide. This column examines a problem within this rapidly expanding advertising market – influencer cartels, in which groups of influencers collude to increase advertising revenue by inflating each other’s engagement numbers. Influencer…
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Win for copyright user rights in Canada: Digital locks do not trump fair dealing
The Federal Court has issued a landmark decision (Blacklock’s Reports v. Attorney General of Canada) on copyright’s anti-circumvention rules which concludes that digital locks should not trump fair dealing. Rather, the two must co-exist in harmony, leading to an interpretation that users can still rely on fair dealing…
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Why YC went to DC
A few weeks ago, I went to DC to start engaging policymakers and be the voice of little tech. Here's why.
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FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes
I’ll get to the good and bad news of the week, but first I want to note the big story - Donald Trump’s conviction by a jury in New York - and a little story with big implications - the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding a corporate landlord in cahoots with a nation-wide rent-fixing cartel that affects up to 16…
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Steam's Last Stand
In the year 1900, automobile sales in the United States were divided almost evenly among three types of vehicles: automakers sold about 1,000 cars powered by internal combustion engines, but over 1…
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Unexpected anti-patterns for engineering leaders
Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look.
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What's Next for Kagi?
Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web. Kagi Search instead works for you, the user, and not an advertiser paying for your attention....
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“Moveable Type” to end 17-year run in The New York Times’s lobby
“Moveable Type,” the public art installation in the New York Times’s lobby, is ending its 17-year run. The Times, which is replacing the exhibit as part of an update to its lobby…