Y Combinator is arguably the most successful early-stage VC fund or accelerator ever. The issue, however, is that they never truly grasped the factors behind their success, which is why YC's peak is already behind them—it’s likely all downhill from here. In particular, Sam Altman didn’t grasp what…

Hursh here, CTO and Cofounder of The Browser Company. We want to let all Arc users know that a security vulnerability existed in Arc prior to 8/25/24. We were made aware of a vulnerability on 8/25, it was fixed on 8/26. This issue allowed the possibility of remote code execution on users’ computers.…

Sept. 13, 2024 9:00 pm ET AI’s boosters have billed it as a technology so revolutionary that it could become the dominant intelligence on Earth. In reality it is shaping up as more a product feature than a new product category. As recent announcements from Apple and Google show, it is proving most…

The former Scotto Funeral Home, a landmark of bygone Brooklyn, is reopening after a multiyear renovation and Catholic blessing — as a boutique gym. Listen · 7:18 min The former Scotto Funeral Home, a mainstay in Carroll Gardens for nearly a century, is reopening on Friday the 13th as District, a…

I don’t really love you anymore That gold mine changed you Manchester Orchestra I am no longer investing in new companies. This isn’t an indictment of investing now, it’s just that my strategy has run its course. I started angel investing to help out a few friends while I thought of an idea for my…

Terror on repeat A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings Editor’s note: The photos, videos and personal accounts below are extremely…

Nick Chirls is the Founder of Asylum Ventures, a new venture firm dedicated to the creative act of building companies; treating founders like artists, not assets. Asylum raised $55 million to invest $1-2 million in early-stage founders practising the art of making startups. Prior to Asylum, Nick…

Larry David is a writer, actor and television producer. “It must be remembered that the Democrats are the radical ones on this position because they support abortion up to and even beyond the ninth mo

You don’t even have to watch Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist to consider it a conversation-starter: The debate begins with that title, a bold, unlikely statement that may feel at odds with most experiences of the world. Watching the movie complicates that response even further, given some of…

With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta on Monday, Google suffered a historic antitrust case loss at the hands of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mehta, the judge presiding over

Listen to this story AI Narrated Editor’s note: On July 21st President Joe Biden said that he would not stand as the Democratic Party’s candidate in November’s election, and endorsed Kamala Harris, his vice-president, to be his successor. Within 24 hours, all nine other contenders listed here had…

In the early days of high-performance computing, the major tech companies of the day each invested heavily in developing their own closed source versions of Unix. It was hard to imagine at the time that any other approach could develop such advanced software. Eventually though, open source Linux…

Winston Nguyen, a Saint Ann’s teacher charged with preying on students, during his arraignment last week. Photo: Alex Kent This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The texts started coming in right after the arrest, a…

Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times OpinionGuest Essay Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times By Mr. Sanders is the senior senator from Vermont. July 13, 2024 Update: This guest essay was published before the assassination attempt on former President Trump and has been updated by the author…

Tech Fix Putting Mobile Ad Blockers to the Test To block ads or not to block ads on your mobile device? That’s the philosophical dilemma facing consumers since Apple added support for ad blockers to i

Nivi: We spoke earlier about picking a business model that has leverage from scale economies, network effects and zero marginal cost of replication. There were a few other ideas on the cutting-room fl

The documents, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission at the end of March, say that the fund will be called a16z Perennial Private Equity Fund, and that it will “invest in the private equit

The Brookings Institution did a fascinating survey series over the last five years. I have two takeways from this: The first is that focused and persistent propaganda is able to shift public opinion a

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A round 8 a.m. on a cool, clear Monday in mid-November, James Cox Chambers Jr. is in Gresham Park, in southeast Atlanta, bouncing on the balls of his feet, shadowboxing the air in front of him. Dresse

Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line Posted 17 May 2024 Tagged with digital-preservation, safari, swift Recently I’ve been trying to create a local archive of my bookmarked web pages. I

Coconut-Miso Salmon Curry Updated Oct. 2, 2024 Julia Gartland for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Liza Jernow. Total Time 25 minutes Rating 5(19,201) Comments This light, delicate weeknight curry comes together in less than 30 minutes and is defined by its deep miso flavor. Miso is typically…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sister has become the face of the Kennedy family effort to block his candidacy and re-elect President Biden. She has more at stake besides her relationship with her brother. Ke

Nicole Shanahan, a lawyer who was married to Sergey Brin, a Google founder, led a rarefied and sometimes turbulent life in Silicon Valley, according to a Times examination. Nicole Shanahan, a philanth

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Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Cloudflare Today, I’m talking with Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince. Cloudflare might be the most important internet company you’ve never heard of,

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the s

A pain point of the IndieWeb is that it's sometimes not as convenient to share content as it is on the common social media platforms. Posting a new short “note” on my site currently requires me to commit a new markdown file to the repository on Github. That’s doable (for a developer), but not really…

In most markets, the more time passes the clearer things become. In generative AI (“AI”), it has been the opposite. The more time passes, the less I think I actually understand. For each level of the

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I. Everyone knows politics makes people crazy. But what kind of crazy? Which page of the DSM is it on? I’m only half joking. Psychiatrists have spent decades developing a whole catalog of ways brains can go wrong. Politics makes people’s brains go wrong. Shouldn’t it be in the catalog? Wouldn’t it…

After much consideration, we have decided to move Platformer off of Substack. Over the next few days, the publication will migrate to a new website powered by the nonprofit, open-source publishing pla

It’s a dramatic, messy era on the internet. Everything is changing rapidly. There’s broad dissatisfaction with the dominant search engine, and activists are worried about the privacy implications of i

Posted on December 30, 2023 • 7 minutes • 1287 words This is not financial advice and I am not an expert. If you would like to listen to what happened in a podcast I did an interview for The Changelog