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Mozilla has had the unusual situation of having an enormous revenue stream from Google. It is reasonable in that situation to build some adjacent things that support the mission. M…

Like we always have. See https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing/review-p... for the basics; but it's all written down in ReadTheDocs. Like most large projects, we tria…

There's new long-lived connection support in Zulip 12.0 that will enable the mobile app to do a lot better for startup in organizations with multiple 10ks of users. I think it's ex…

As we do our best to explain in the post: The Zulip project is very much not being annihilated. There are 220 people from all over the world who have contributed 20 or more commits…

Yeah I've often had the same thought! Ideas are very much appreciated. I do like our current "organized team chat" quite a bit better than the original "group chat", which would of…

Historically, Zulip blog posts have actually gotten more engagement when they landed on the Hacker News homepage during off-peak times for regular news (After business hours and we…

For those looking for more context on Zulip, we did a major release a couple weeks ago: https://blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/ .

I think the author misunderstands what is good about Python. One of the big strengths of Python is legibility: most developers find it easy to read and understand. If you are plann…

It's interesting to me that the page doesn't describe the size of the rust binary (relevant for mobile app use cases where you would need to add the Rust binary to your app) or per…

Funding to pay the core team (via revenue/grants/VC) requires a lot of leadership attention for any independent company that is developing an open-source project as its main activi…

We can and should advocate for preserving sideloading. But boycotting a wonderful public-benefit program that Google has funded for 20 years over this sort of product policy issue …

To me, it seems like the Pro tier is priced for using Sonnet a lot or Opus a little, and Max for using Opus a lot. So that seems about what you should expect.

I find it interesting that folks are so focused on cost for AI models. Human time spent redirecting AI coding agents towards better strategies and reviewing work, remains dramatica…

The original blog post for Mythos did lay out this safeguard testing strategy as part of their plan.

If your revenue doubles every month, then in the first month where you make $2.5B, your total lifetime revenue has been $5B ($2.5B this month, $1.25B the month before, etc. is a si…

Just about every UI component has been redesigned over the last two years. So your experience may be different these days :).

I lead the Zulip project and I'm not aware of any common crash issues with either our server or any of our apps. Can you share details on what you're experiencing with us? https://…

I recommend that anyone who is responsible for maintaining the security of an open-source software project that they maintain ask Claude Code to do a security audit of it. I imagin…

What makes you want to believe the Trump Administration when it claims it doesn't want to do domestic mass surveillance?

An organization character really shows through when their values conflict with their self-interest. It's inspiring to see that Anthropic is capable of taking a principled stand, de…

It's an interesting idea. The current endowment size of less than $1M is immaterial; the question with a project like this will always be how it is able to raise capital. A way som…

I feel like the articles on this have been very negative ... but aren't the Anthropic promises on safety following this change still considerably stronger than those made by the co…

I encourage you to stop by and report things with screenshots/screencasts so we can get these fixed. We were able to reproduce the search icon centering issue in mobile web, which …

This article looks rather rushed -- the description of Zulip is not accurate, and I suspect that folks working on the other products may feel the same way about how their projects …