“A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.” ~Daniel Kahneman (thank you for everything you contributed to our understanding of the mind, RIP)

I wrote love letters to First Republic. They were a humanizing force in an industry of impersonal automatons Alas, post JPM acqusition, it has degraded Fortunately, Mercury (immad, Max Tagher, Jason Zhang & co) have built a banking experience that is :chefs kiss: Thank you!

Just tag a field in your database and it'll index it for embedding look up. Pretty cool EdgeDB, pretty cool edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-5-…

Oh Google. $23.7B in profit on $80.5B in revenue in Q1. Up 15% YoY. And also doing unceremonious and poorly thought out lay-offs. Perhaps take a lesson from OpenAI and realize you’re nothing without your people?

Software engineers are expensive. Will we be augmented or displaced? Both? Jonas and the Nustom team have a prototype taking a spec in English and outputting a working product. It (Garple.com) made $4,200 over the weekend.

Hi, hello, we don’t have evidence of extant vulnerabilities, and haven’t been notified of anything. We follow responsible disclosure practices, and closely monitor [email protected] + respond & fix any valid issues quickly. So if you do have more info hit us up! But beyond

Firebase now supports SQL 💥 Kudos to Michael Bleigh and the whole team for shipping it today!

Incredible! 97-year-old WW2 paratrooper vet returns to Normandy to recreate his D-Day jump. 🫡🫡

The Shortwave assistant & Perplexity are the two AI tools I use daily. It's gotten really good. 'write my investor update this month', when you need help doing research + composition 'improve this draft', when you're writing an important email 'what's the airbnb address?' etc

today we're launching @dawnanalytics -- the first product analytics platform built for ai products. with daily slack digests, automatic topic detection, powerful filtering, and semantic redaction rules, we're making it easier than ever to keep a pulse on your ai product.

One month ago we open sourced Instant and had one of the largest Show HN’s for a YC company. Today we're announcing a $3.4M seed round. We're backed by YC, SV Angel, James Tamplin, Paul Graham, Greg Brockman, Jeff Dean, and over 50 technical angels.

Hot take: AI Assistants are failing us Despite the buzz, closed-domain AI assistants are falling short. Without reliable, context-aware responses, they’re not ready for serious business use. Where AI Assistants Fail Here’s a scenario from a well known sales assistant that’s

Steve Jobs on the most important job of a CEO “The greatest people are self-managing. They don’t need to be managed. Once they know what to do, they’ll go figure out how to do it… What they need is a common vision, and that’s what leadership is. Leadership is having a vision,

I’m launching Topology, an early-stage venture firm dedicated to frontier technology. We've raised an oversubscribed $75M Fund 1. Topology backs founders who put everything on the line to bend the arc of human progress. Meet us at the edge. Topology Ventures

I'm observing that my critical thinking is degrading when coding with AI. I'm just throwing the errors at Claude and expecting it/he/they to fix them.

📬NEW – Mac + Windows native desktop apps Shortwave’s native apps for @windows & @apple’s macOS bring you a seamless desktop experience with: ⏺ Links opened in your default browser ⏺ Blazing fast performance ⏺ Better OS integrations Download here → shortwave.com/download

I've been hacking on a project lately with one of the other early Firebasers. We spend a comical amount of time figuring out how Firebase/Google Cloud works now.

Just updated my Firestore security rules for my new app.

Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we

AI products fail constantly—in ways both hilarious and terrifying. Regular software throws exceptions. But AI products fail silently. Meet Raindrop : the first Sentry-like monitoring platform for AI products.