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Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry
Transcript of Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk at Y Combinator on June 17th, 2024.
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Timescale Is Now TigerData
Cofounders of Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman discuss the company’s new name, showing how it reflects the company’s.
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The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.
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College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
My son is a college baseball player. One of the singular aspects of having kids is that they open your eyes to facets of humanity that you might not have seen otherwise. I was not a college athlete (and knew little of even baseball until he got the bug at age seven), so I have learned much along the way. You — perhaps…
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Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.
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AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'
Key Announcements from AMD Advancing AI 2025
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The Tech Job Meltdown
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.
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Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
Why Apple Just Killed the iPhone Interface (And What Comes Next)
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I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it
The systematic thinking errors that kill breakthrough technology and the decision framework that prevents these disasters
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When random people give money to random other people (2017)
A post on Decision Science about a problem of Uri Wilensky’s has been making the rounds: Imagine a room full of 100 people with 100 dollars each. With every tick of the clock, every person wi…
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A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs
Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout…
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NASA Is Worth Saving
Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government supported space exploration and technology devel…
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The international standard for identifying postal items
The Universal Postal Union's S10 standard, in all its glory
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Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express
What Dollywood says about the state of America's Transit
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AI at Amazon: A case study of brittleness
A year ago, Mihail Eric wrote a blog post detailing his experiences working on AI inside Amazon: How Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet. It’s a great …
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WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
Something jumped out at me in the macOS Tahoe segment of the WWDC keynote today: the Finder icon is reversed. You can see that in the image below. On the left is macOS Sequoia, and on the right is macOS Tahoe: I know I am going to sound old and fussy, but Apple needs to roll this back. Some History The Finder logo has…
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Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
In the EU, digital sovereignty is trending. Businesses and authorities are starting to adopt sovereign solutions from Europe.
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Why quadratic funding is not optimal
Introduction Quadratic funding has received a lot of attention recently as a mechanism for funding public goods. The Gitcoin grants program alone has distributed over $59M through QF funding rounds as of January 20241.\nQF is appealing because it is theoretically optimal under certain assumptions2. The problem is that…
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LLMs are cheap
A lot of people think LLMs are expensive to operate. That was true a couple of years ago, but these people haven't updated their views after an approximately 1000x reduction in prices over two years.
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Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work
Lessons on maintaining a hobby Android app
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What “working” means in the era of AI apps
New revenue benchmarks for gen AI startups in year one, based on dozens of enterprise and consumer AI companies we’ve spent significant time with.
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I read all of Cloudflare's Claude-generated commits
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.
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Online sports betting: As you do well, they cut you off
A few decades back my teenage son and I approached Las Vegas at night while traveling south on Interstate 15. When the skyline of the city began sparkling into view, the kid said, “Wow. Think…
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A year of funded FreeBSD development
For several years leading up to this point I had been talking to Amazonians on and off about the possibility of Amazon sponsoring my FreeBSD/EC2 work; rather predictably, most of those conversation ended up with my contacts at Amazon rhyming with "Amazon should definitely sponsor the work you're doing... but I don't…
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Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Open source LLMs now outperform closed alternatives at 90% lower cost for workhorse tasks. We compare benchmarks, pricing, and real-world performance.
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SaaS is just vendor lock-in with better branding
The pitch of modern SaaS is "don't reinvent the wheel." But every wheel you bolt on comes with some friction.
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Dystopian tales of that time when I sold out to Google
I will do something I normally never do here, and make my first ever blog post on the topic of, long sigh: tech. I’ve already talked abou...
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Startup Equity 101
Startup Equity 101 I am writing this essay because I believe that money is both useful and worth thinking as little as possible about. No one I know joins a...
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We are no longer a serious country
And the world is starting to notice