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This is a tragic story. But it is also a story about the lengths that parents in China will go to improve the quality of life for their only child or to "save face" to their social…

Technically, a wikipedia page of a [living] person is an unauthorized biography! But we'd like to think the crowdsourced editing process gives it some more trustworthiness than a r…

Given that everything in the book is public information, it's hard to argue that any of this is strictly _illegal_, given the First Amendment. But it's definitely distasteful to wr…

I only went to Pangram because I read through the essay and could not help but notice the Claude-like sentence structure and AI-isms in it, which distracted me and completely made …

61% AI generated, according to Pangram https://www.pangram.com/history/e5a00ace-94cc-436e-b87b-a094... c'mon, you're Carlyle, a trusted institution for financial advice! How can I …

You can absolutely level this claim against Tesla too. When deliveries dropped a year ago, the stock price didn't go down. Tesla's stock is disconnected from the fundamentals and e…

Lots of critiques here! Something missing in this discussion is people asking _why_ it is that they're doing this. The people who work there aren't stupid! I think this is a discon…

Ben Thompson interviewed UA's CEO on Starlink a few months ago. Scott said: "It took time to negotiate, because we wanted to own the consumer data, and at the beginning, Starlink d…

I've definitely thought about substituting a nonstop flight for a 1-stop flight on UA regional jets just to get Starlink on the entire route. The annoying this is I live by a UA hu…

very fair! wild to think about though. It's both more human but also less. I would say this behavior now no longer passes the Turing test for me--if I asked a human a question abou…

if you want that kind of control i think you should just try buff or opencode instead of the native Claude Code. You're getting an Anthropic engineer's opinionated interface right …

Often times I'll say something like: "Can we make the change to change the button color from red to blue?" Literally, this is a yes or no question. But the AI will interpret this a…

I love this writeup--it's one of the refreshing looks into how startup innovation happens on-the-ground. We're inundated with new products and startups so often that it's easy to f…

If you know anything about tech, you will know that tech as an industry is highly deflationary--billionares use the same iPhones as you do! (in contrast, they don't drive the same …

I was a bit confused as to how everything works until I read it in detail. Really cool tools, but I think one thing that would help in the introduction is: saying explicitly that t…

Oh this is smart! Reading where Slack stores the local data in your filesystem instead of using their API/MCP (which they charge for). Very clever; similar to OpenAI launching Atla…

Water allocation in the American West has been a mess ever since the beginning, when Prior Appropriation was decided as the way to claim water rights. Essentially, the first person…

OpenAI needs to IPO because they want to access the public capital markets to fund their AI investments, more deep-pocketed investors are wary of investing in a LLC, and for liquid…

Not entirely by coincidence. Yes Shockley was from CA, but as late as the 1980, two places were competing to be the center: Boston's Route 128 ("America's Technology Highway") or S…

In any negotiation, you need to understand what leverage either side has. In this case, CA could block the conversion, and OpenAI could leave California. Both are possible but extr…

Everyone here seems to hate on the idea of seeing ads on an appliance you purchased. I hate ads too! But, let's consider the counterfactual. What if Samsung offered you a new fridg…

$500B current valuation (Sep 2025) Nonprofit equity stake will exceed $100B So the OpenAI nonprofit will control ~20% of the OpenAI PBC once the conversion is done. This says nothi…

As a regular UA flyer, I often need to figure out how many PQP/PQF a specific flight on a non-UA carrier results in. I built this calculator as part of Statusrope (my app to calcul…