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RT by @paulg: A few years ago, nobody would have believed it. But this is Moscow today.

RT by @paulg: My OpenClaw booked a car service to take me to the opening England World Cup game today.

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I just came across this essay I wrote in 2012 predicting that hard tech startups would become a big thing. Not for the last time, YC applications turned out to ...

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When you hear "founders in the current YC batch swear by it," that is a serious predictor of success. They are sophisticated judges of technology, and they won'...

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"Half-Wits are Fleas; so little and so light;

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A large percent of Jessica's conversation consists of worrying about how things are going for people. It starts with our kids and extends outward to hundreds of...

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It sounds like we lost by the Iran war, in the sense that the deal we're getting now is worse than they were offering before we attacked. And if we lost by the ...

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Apparently this revenue graph is from the company I was talking about here.

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Something I told 14 yo: Once you've prepared sufficiently for exams, switch your focus to "game management." Get enough sleep, keep calm, watch the time, check ...

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RT by @paulg: Exo 0.14.0 is out today with Day-0 support for GLM 5.2 (from @Zai_org) and @opencode harness support. GLM is the first open model that achieves co...

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RT by @paulg: We registered the AI agent itself with the SEC as an investment advisor.

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You know stuff is happening for real when you start hearing about boring things like licenses.

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This may be the first funding announcement that I actually rewatched.

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One thing you don't realize till you have haters is that haters are also stalkers. They're obsessed with you, and in practice this obsessiveness is more disturb...

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This is a difference between problems on tests and problems in the real world. It's unfair for a teacher to give you a problem too hard to solve, so if a proble...

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Something I told 14 yo: Good math tests have some problems to test whether you truly understand the subject. Often they'd take impossibly long to solve mechanic...

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If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work...

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This is the best explanation I've seen of how mechanical watches work. https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

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On the other hand, I will say that the hard tech founders are generally more committed. Building nuclear reactors is not the sort of thing you do on a whim. And...

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I was talking to a YC partner about how well all the hard tech startups are doing. He said investors are hot to fund them because they're afraid AI will eat all...

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