Paul HowardSoftware @PHowardsoftware

NEW: Amazon just achieved a significant breakthrough in data center networking. This is an extremely nerdy story (based on a very technical paper) but I dove into the details. And, while data centers are a big point of contention for *reasons* these days, this new approach to networking does appear to save energy wired.com/story/amazon-t…

The best thing about this angle? When it’s complete, the “Sponsored By Brawndo” banner will look like it’s hanging over the White House.

Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep

2 weeks ago

This is the most useful angle to show the scale.

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@gajesh Periodic physical exercise, then sleep. Quiet.

On one hand, you'd think it's better for time invested and for my "mental health" (as in less distractions, I used to have to scramble to make up for time wasted with the refactor) But there's less professional pride, my refactoring muscles are unused and eroding... and yeah, just less pride/care about the code, even if I tell myself I care about the architecture

That feeling of: "I'm in the middle of the code... oh, this is such a nasty hack. OK, let me clean it up as I go. [2 hours pass] OK, it's done, now let me get back to where I was." It just never happens as organically as I use AI agents. I no longer spot stuff as I don't "live in" the code...

.@PalmerLuckey: "Patents are Chinese instruction manuals" and we need to reinvent the US patent system: "Stop patenting everything." "The Founding Fathers never predicted a world where you'd have a globalized economy, and the entire patent office could be downloaded every single morning, ripped off, and then used to fight a war against you." " We need to really fundamentally revisit the patent system." "I think we need to massively expand the national security patent process. You can obtain a classified patent. You can get a patent on something that you are not allowed to disclose to anyone, but you still maintain the exclusivity on those rights." " We need to massively expand that program." Via @HooverInst

At the @thealliance_ai kickoff meeting of the Project Tapestry, we aim to build an OSS AI LLM for the world -- with frontier capabilities and sovereign alignment. @ylecun is the Chief Scientific Advisor for the project. As he is famously the leader of the world models approach, having recently founded @amilabs, I've asked him what LLMs are good for. The full interview is coming out next week! Hint: PhD students are encouraged to watch for great thesis ideas.

"It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand." At last, the ballroom we've all been praying for lo these many years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

3 weeks ago

checking in for a brief moment on the Rededicate 250 blasphemy fest and yep, it's beyond parody

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i don't talk about this enough. your private git server is not just version control. it's your agent's memory system. your local ai can search, reference, and learn from without sending a single byte to someone else's server. if you're running local agents and your code lives on github, your memory lives on microsoft's servers. think about that. i'll stitch together some resources on setting up private git for local ai workflows. this matters more than most people realize.

Paul Graham (@paulg) whether founders should move to Silicon Valley, and what it takes to build a startup hub anywhere else. Live from our YC | Stockholm event on April 29, 2026. 01:01 – Why the Big Center Matters 02:45 – The Power of Serendipitous Meetings 04:36 – Investors Move Faster in the Valley 06:03 – Respect Follows the Move 07:59 – The Dropbox Story 09:10 – Measuring Yourself Against Big Fish 12:21 – Silicon Valley's Pay-It-Forward Culture 15:36 – How to Help Stockholm Thrive 17:24 – YC as the Optimal Path 19:54 – Could Stockholm Become The Silicon Valley of Europe?

Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

Our Ivy League universities would be so much better if instead of encouraging nonsensical extra-curricular activities for admission like "starting a non-profit," they required students to take and excel on a test of cultural literacy. The best students at these colleges are abandoning the liberal arts for STEM, and the worst students are majoring in "studies" and spouting nonsense, in part because there no one comes in knowing anything about anything, so the path of least resistance is politicized classes that appeal to the students' (and more importantly faculty's) pre-existing prejudices.

Marc Thiessen @marcthiessen

4 weeks ago

How do you get into Princeton and not know what the 10 Commandments are?!

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@eladgil BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ESMFold in NYC Llama 1 in Paris. Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV DeepSeek in Hangzhou Plus: DINO in Paris JEPA in Montréal+Paris+NYC SV is 3 mos ahead on topics SV is singularly obsessed with.

So now that everyone has seen the disappointment of attempts to squeeze out a bit more federal power and the risk that it might be used against you... can we all agree we should give federalism a shot and limit the federal government to just its specifically enumerated powers?

I will never forgive HBO/BBC for cancelling this prematurely and rushing the final episodes to wrap it up. They built these amazing sets which they could have used for 10 more seasons and then just scrapped them. And it’s not like they lacked for storylines.

cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic

4 weeks ago

Rome (2005–2007) genuinely looked bigger and richer than most movies airing at the time. The sets, costumes, crowd scenes, political drama …every episode felt like HBO accidentally dropped a full historical epic onto television every week.

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Hormuz is being modeled by consensus as an oil shock. It is not. It is an input layer reset of the global manufacturing economy. The crude price move is the loudest signal but not the most consequential. The most consequential transmission is the slow repricing of the chemical, metal, and specialty input layer that sits underneath every physical product made on Earth. Each cascade has its own time signature. Oil moves in days. Fertilizer in weeks. Specialty chemicals in months. Capital goods and consumer durables in quarters. Sovereign wealth flows and reinsurance capital in years. So the impact rolls through markets in waves rather than a single shock. This is what makes it harder to model than a typical commodity event.

@whignewtons Double or triple the size of the house! Districts of ~200k people instead of 700k+