In light of recent Figma news, lemme reiterate that of all the goods that can happen to the web, 90% of them can't happen due to not having access to font rendering & metrics in JS

Lina Khan deciding if you should be permitted to sell your startup or be forced to deliver additional shareholder value.

entering the fast fashion era of SaaS very soon

congrats on the great work simon! this is a really cool project. lots more to do here

when simon accidentally makes VCs obsolete with a new benchmark

it's pretty lame cursor uses the dark pattern "I'm fine with Cursor learning form my code or I'll turn it off in Settings". If you unclick it, you can't continue. They know that the added friction from this will mean a portion of users never turn it off in Settings. That's the

me: hey whats up? gpt-5:

How @MSCHF literally stole a sink from the Met: We spoke with Gabe Whaley (Founder & CEO) about one of their wildest projects: He first described the Ship of Theseus Paradox: “Imagine you have a large wooden ship and every day for seven years, swap each piece out with an

MEME-NET: a meme-based benchmark for models as a test of their cultural literacy currently pitching to Duncan Wilson & lucas gelfond in our 25 person AI slop groupchat

A core concept in UI design is"progressive disclosure": default hiding unnecessary UI reduces cognitive overhead for users and makes UIs easier to use. Unfortunately, there are many ways to use an app or website, so it's essentially impossible to correctly implement progressive

balancing structured memories (eg tool to write to SQL table) and unstructured memories (eg tool to write to no-SQL document) is an interesting technical problem. the more opinions you have about user journeys, the more you can lean on structured memories. the downside of

when you can dress up content however you want, the value of content goes up (**content==the "substance" of a piece of media)

the "forum" hypothesis of HCI: proliferation of different AIs will win over a single AI (eg ChatGPT) because consumers want different perspectives

Nathan Covey missing phone OTP which is easily S tier

Instead of using Exa as my go to search API, I’m finding myself using o3+search. It is just soooooo much better. Makes me wonder how Exa’s team think about strategic differentiation against o3+search

the "grunt test" for chatbots (courtesy of brian wagner): if a user grunts the AI should probably keep talking about stuff of relevance

Watching my 5-year-old read a text and then dictate her reply with zero patience for the keyboard. It's dawning on me that Gen Alpha is just going to opt out of all the tedious UI we normalized. We spent years perfecting typing on glass. They're just going to talk to the robot.

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