JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
https://www.infoworld.com/article/4029053/jetbrains-working-on-higher-abstraction-programming-language.html
#ycombinator
On a mission to ‘kill Google Chrome,’ UW students join Y Combinator to launch AI-powered browser - Meteor co-founders and Farhan Khan, left, and Pranav Madhukar during a Y Combinat... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/on-a-mission-to-kill-google-chrome-uw-students-join-y-combinator-to-launch-ai-powered-browser/ #pranavmadhukar #googlechrome #ycombinator #farhankhan #webbrowser #startups #meteor #ai
Your occasional #reminder that "Hacker" "News" is neither.
Stop reading it, and you will get smarter. Stop posting links to it, and your readers do.
Supreme Court Prepares to End Voting Rights as We Know Them
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-2/
#ycombinator
OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/5/gpt-oss/
#ycombinator
Candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot
https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/
#ycombinator
The Insider’s Guide to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom - The city is the tech industry’s hub for artificial intelligence, 30 miles north of the ho... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai-boom-san-francisco.html #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #sanfrancisco(calif) #vis-multimedia #ycombinator #openailabs #vis-photo #vis-video
Wife of ICEBlock app founder speaks out after DOJ fires her
https://www.newsweek.com/iceblock-app-founder-wife-fired-doj-carolyn-feinstein-2102214
#ycombinator
https://www.europesays.com/2207756/ Tailor, a ‘headless’ ERP startup, raises $22M Series A #ANRI #business #Entrepreneurship #ERP #ERPSoftware #JICVentureGrowthInvestments #NewEnterpriseAssociates #Startup #tailor #YCombinator
IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000
#ycombinator #Gaza_war #Palestinians #Israel_war_crimes #Gaza_aid #Hamas #West_Bank #IDF #Gaza #Israel_Palestine #Human_rights
NYC's Upset Election Was Drawn Along an Odd Line: Car Ownership
https://www.jalopnik.com/1895759/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-won-non-car-owners/
#ycombinator
https://www.europesays.com/2162901/ Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from BPC, YC, Insight Partners #business #canary #Entrepreneurship #InsightPartners #YCombinator
"Hamish McKenzie, a former Lead Writer at Tesla, co-founded Substack, a platform that allows independent writers to publish subscription-based newsletters. With $82.4 million raised from Y Combinator, Substack has become a significant player in digital publishing, enabling writers to monetize their content directly."
https://www.everythingstartups.com/article/the-11-tech-mafias-ruling-silicon-valley
McKenzie is described on that site as part of the Tesla mafia. Hmmmmm ...
Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station
https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/12/caltrain-employee-secret-apartment-burlingame-station-photos/
#ycombinator
Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/anne-wojcicki-to-buy-back-23andme-and-its-data-for-305-million.html
#ycombinator #Enterprise #Media #Breaking_News_Business #Health_care_industry #Technology #Breaking_News_Technology #Regeneron_Pharmaceuticals_Inc #business_news
Implementing DOES> in Forth, the entire reason I started this mess
https://boston.conman.org/2025/06/09.1
#ycombinator #Forth #ANS_Forth #implementing_Forth #DOES #assembly #6809
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