I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.

Imperial City

once again thinking about AI Grant - batch 1

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There’s a new genre of company that is Timeline Native. Timeline Native companies are birthed on the timeline and exist more so on social than in real life. The narrative around the construction of the business is the core product. The widget or service which they produce is

Naming a startup is way more important than most people think.

🚀 Cool new data series on Bloomberg Terminal: the Ramp AI Index shows how fast U.S. businesses are adopting AI—based on actual corporate spend, not surveys. Is the growth rate is slowing down? *Now live on the Terminal and in WSL ALTE<GO>.

The prediction market slugfest feels like Uber-Lyft in 2017. Unclear which one is Uber and which one is Lyft.

Student of the Game

I spent the last 60 days working at Cursor. It's been one of the most thrilling phases of my professional life. There's a lot of mystique around the company. Over the last two months, some things matched my expectations; many did not. I wrote an essay for Colossus

Autonomous delivery e-bikes: > 25x cheaper than autonomous car > 6x speed and throughput increase over sidewalk robots > favorable vehicle classification for regulatory / insurance > extremely low emissions

Today, we're launching the Parallel Monitor API. Define a query once and receive ongoing updates whenever new related information appears on the web. It's like a web search that's always on, or a webhook for the entire web. parallel.ai/blog/monitor-a…

November 19

Today, we’re launching Ramp Sheets, the AI spreadsheet editor built to 10x finance teams, operators, and founders. Ramp Sheets plans, executes, and formats automatically. It’s already being used to model budgets, forecast revenue, and reconcile financial statements.

Private equity firms have emerged as the newest distribution channel for AI startups. While public companies have decreased from 6,639 in 2000 to 3,550 in 2024, PE-owned companies in the US have grown from 1,950 to 14,300. The rate of growth continues to accelerate. The

2026 will be a year of scientific acceleration through AI. just released a benchmark to measure the capability of AI on expert-level scientific reasoning:

I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code.

People keep saying 2026 will be the year of continual learning. But there are still major technical challenges to making it a reality. Today we take the next step towards that goal — a new on-policy learning algorithm, suitable for continual learning! (1/n)

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We're watching the transition from: AI as tool → AI as actor API keys → Native machine payments Prompts → Sovereign agents Web 4.0 is the autonomous web- AI agents that read, write, own, earn, and transact without a human in the loop. Automatons acting on their own