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I switched after running basic dev tools became genuinely unusable (randomly freezing for minutes, start menu just didn't work, crashes all the time) despite being on good, new har…

Sama liked YC some much that he wanted a mini-YC in OpenAI, maybe.

I'm kinda shocked by how people thought DuoLingo was ever going to be any different. They are a high-growth startup, through and through. The founder gets on podcasts and extolls t…

Hey everyone! I was browsing X and saw another startup get exposed for having their "AI" just be interns doing manual work. I thought that was pretty funny, so I made OpenII, or in…

VC-land is a strange place with strange laws. If you stay in it for too long, you forget that most of the world doesn't follow the power law, and that most of the VC-reasoning just…

Hi HN, I built Sophon, a chrome extension that allows you to chat with tabs. Here's a write up I did reflecting on my build process. https://open.substack.com/pub/retconnedone/p/my…