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Audio is the one area small labs are winning
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 999 posts.
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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other
Releasing Town Square. Bring back the feeling that real people are browsing your site with you.
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My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder
In year 8, I discovered it takes longer than I think to write a book, found alignment with my business, and regained my love for life as an indie founder.
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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output. But nearly every company deploying AI tools at scale has hit the same wall: exponentially growing costs.
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EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.
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VC isn't VC anymore
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
Exploring how agents become multipliers, not replacers.
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Why jet engines aren't made in China
What China’s jet engine program tells us about the limits of industrial policy
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Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
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The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
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The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
The Tech Market is Fundamentally Fucked Up - AI is Just a Scapegoat
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I Stopped “Creating Content”
Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?
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America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
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ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
If you read OpenAI’s recent announcement about ChatGPT Health, you might wonder why an AI company under immense financial pressure is venturing into the health business. The answer is buried...
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LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances
The European Commission has accepted our request, and starting from today – Friday March 6 – has added the Open Document Format ODS version of the spreadsheet to be used to provide the feedback. We are grateful to the people working at DG CONNECT, the Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks…
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Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
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World Labs is Joining AMD
Accelerating the future of AI research and compute
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.
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Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Office.eu launches in The Hague as a 100% European alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, built on open-source technology and European infrastructure.
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Running a law firm on Free software
I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that.
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Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)
There is an extremely important question about the near-future of AI that almost no-one is asking. We’ve all seen the graphs from METR showing that the length of tasks AI agents can perform has been growing exponentially over the last 7 years. While GPT-2 could only do software engineering tasks t
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We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
Your AI-built product works, but past 100,000 lines every change breaks two things. Three senior engineers make your codebase maintainable again. One week, fixed price, guaranteed.
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A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
over the past week the discourse around openclaw (fka clawdbot) has absolutely exploded. it has felt to me like all threads of conversation have veered towards the extreme and indefensible. some are running openclaw with unlimited permissions on their main computers. others are running it in the cloud and blowing…
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28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
28.0% of 668,355 job postings open on employers' own careers sites have been up for more than 90 days. Age by category, country and applicant tracking system, the employers with the most open postings, closures and reposts. Measured at the source, monthly.
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The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.