source Here are some of my super-secret winning strategies from 25 years of building startups. Stay in stealth mode until the last minute The last thing any startup needs is people finding out about it. You can get attention later—that’s easy. You don’t need the distraction of all those customers…

In November of 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies was published in London. That same month, Charles de Gaulle was elected to lead the provisional government in France, Indonesia proclaimed independence from the Netherlands, the Nuremberg trials began in Germany—and Karl and Hennie…

Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us wish we could leave them; and even those of us who’ve escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too. It’s lazy and easy to think that our…

TL;DR WarpStream is an Apache Kafka® protocol compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of S3. It's delivered as a single, stateless Go binary so there are no local disks to manage, no brokers to rebalance, and no ZooKeeper to operate. WarpStream is 5-10x cheaper than Kafka in the…

The devices humanity built for centuries reduced the effort required to do tasks otherwise difficult or impossible for our human bodies. Bows allowed humans to propel objects further, with more accuracy and strength, than humans could throw rocks. The interaction is simple: hold bow with one hand,…

ZDNET Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) has reached another milestone -- and the cost differences it represents could shake up the industry. On par with o1 On Monday, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek announced the release of R1, the full version of its newest open-source reasoning model, which the…

11 Jan, 2025 In 2020 when we were at the beginning of our startup journey I had a conversation with Erik Goldman where he shared this process, which we used to start Column Tax. I'll be forever grateful for Erik's time, and I thought it worthwhile to capture Erik's wisdom permanently online so…

I beseech you,” wrote Oliver Cromwell, in his letter to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, “in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.” Cromwell’s pungent entreaty is often cited in conversations about the importance of self‑enquiry and the perils of overconfidence.…

tales from the near future Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison "We’re going to have supervision," says billionaire Oracle co-founder Ellison. Benj Edwards – Sep 16, 2024 11:22 am | 478 Credit: Benj Edwards / Mike Kemp via Getty Images Credit: Benj Edwards / Mike Kemp…

Published inGruntwork · 6 min read·4 days ago -- Make the Switch to OpenTofu It’s been almost exactly a year since OpenTofu went GA. We’d like to step back and take a look at why we got here, how it’s going and what Gruntwork recommends going forward for people still using Terraform. When Terraform…

Note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on AI. Part 1 is here. PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) ___________ We have what may be an extremely difficult problem with an unknown time to solve it, on which quite possibly the…

PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) Note: The reason this post took three weeks to finish is that as I dug into research on Artificial Intelligence, I could not believe what I was reading. It hit me pretty quickly that what’s…

Lenovo’s iconic crimson red TrackPoint nub, which has been going strong for three decades, is a staple of ThinkPad laptops. However, this year at CES, Lenovo announced that it’s ditching the nub on the ThinkPad X9 Aura Edition laptops. It’s a surprising move and although Lenovo’s not removing the…

Before we begin, let me be clear: yes, this is a subjective list. It’s not meant to end the debate — but to start it. These seven papers (sorted by date) stand out to me mostly because of their impact in today’s world. Honestly, each one deserves a blog post (or even a book!) of its own — but let’s…

My inbox is full of messages from experts who cold email me asking to be a source for any stories I’m working on. So, at first, the one from Sophie Cress, which invited me to interview her for a future article, seemed typical. “I’ve got over 8 years of experience and qualifications in Psychology and…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Android 16’s first public beta will start rolling out later today, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride-sharing and food delivery, following yesterday’s reveal of a similar feature in Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones. The new beta also forces…

The race to replace us Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027 Amodei: "I think progress really is as fast as people think it is." Benj Edwards – Jan 22, 2025 3:33 pm | 35 A photo of co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, dated May…

Gwern is a pseudonymous researcher and writer. He was one of the first people to see LLM scaling coming. If you've read his blog, you know he's one of the most interesting polymathic thinkers alive. In order to protect Gwern's anonymity, I proposed interviewing him in person, and having my friend…

A new year is an opportunity for a reset, in which many of us resolve to be wiser than we were last year. So, to help you kickstart 2025 a little wiser, I’ve compiled 25 ideas I think will prove useful to you. The ideas come from many times, places, and disciplines; the only thing they have in…

Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away continues to attract audiences from all over the world, not only for its wonderful visuals and intriguing characters but also for its ability to incorporate complicated cultural nuances into a globally accessible plot. His masterpiece features several awe-inspiring…

Imagine a planet on the far side of the galaxy. We will never interact with it. We will never see it. What happens there is irrelevant to us, now and for the conceivable future. What would you hope this planet is like? Would you hope that it’s a sterile rock, as barren as our Moon? Or would you hope…

Introduction On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service that gave us unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan. Using the access provided by the…

In 1988, Bill Moyers produced a series of intelligent, inspiring, provocative conversations with a diverse set of cultural icons, ranging from Isaac Asimov to Noam Chomsky to Chinua Achebe. It was unlike any public discourse to have ever graced the national television airwaves before. The following…

Every so often, I come across a writer whose work compels me to read more of what they have to say – and quickly. Typically, this involves a sense of wishing to read more than just the particular book that’s gripped me: I tend to want to go beyond this with the aim of gaining access to the writer’s…

By | Jul 10, 2018 Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s complex prose doesn’t fit into Twitter’s 280-character format. Still, at a time when sound bites dominate political discourse, her work is improbably attracting the public’s attention. In addition to writing more than 25 books and editing another 21,…

At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is…

We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream: The costs of housing, healthcare, and education have soared far beyond the pace of inflation and wage growth.We are a democracy, but 144 million Americans – 42% of the adults who live…

Plenty of wealthy people plan to donate most of their fortunes to philanthropic causes. Jeff Atwood says he'll actually do it within the next five years. Atwood, the co-founder of computer programing platform Stack Overflow — which was acquired by global investment group Prosus for $1.8 billion in…

20th January 2025 DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning” model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole family of new models derived…

As Jack London’s most autobiographical novel begins, its hero, a poor young sailor named Martin Eden, has just gotten into a brawl. Noticing a gang of drunken hoodlums about to assault an upper-class young man, Martin scatters them with blows that leave his knuckles raw. To show his gratitude, the…

Categories Entrepreneurship January 21, 2025 by Vincent Schmalbach In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who you are." "Get back up and try again!" "This is valuable experience for next time."…

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Architects of the leading generative AI models are abuzz that a top company, possibly OpenAI, in coming weeks will announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes Ph.D.-level super-agents to do complex human tasks. We've learned that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — who in September dubbed this "The…