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The scandals/year page has a little more umph to it than the main page https://ycombinator.fyi/timeline

Yeah... probably right. I do hold out hope that this is mostly a timeframe thing. Like, the library, printing press, etc. all had their moments of centralization. But eventually th…

fwiw - i think the design looks good.

I wonder if a popularization moment for local AI will ultimately be the pin-prick that pops the AI bubble. Like the deepseek or openclaw moments but bigger/next.

A non-profit to deconcentrate power over AI through better infrastructure for external auditing/oversight, and better infrastructure for local/federated inference/training https://…

i like your comment better than mine. more please.

i'm not sure it's productive to think this way. senators could be making more money on prediction markets. they took a nice step which will lead them to make no money on prediction…

Sometimes I find joy in noticing the importance of comma placement: Everything the incumbents ship, in an open codebase your firm owns. vs Everything the incumbents ship in an open…

<3 - have ambitious plans to release a new video/blogpost each week, but that's pretty ambitious we'll see

...with a price :)

"Conclusion Our monorepo isn't about following a trend. It's about removing friction between things that naturally belong together, something that is critical when related context …

tried searching for "noodlesUK" and didn't find anything meaningful

Nit: regarding (2), Phil Blunsom did (same Blunsom from the article, and who was leading language modeling at DeepMind for about 7-8 years). He would often opine at Oxford (where h…

"This is not the reason, the reason is that this data is private. LLMs do not just learn from data, they can often reproduce it verbatim, you cannot give medical records or bank re…