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  1. sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in

    sequoia put out a blog post called "services is the new software" look at this map of over $1T in services being replaced by AI agents https://t.co/aFmDGhysfl

    Mar 31, 2026
  2. Your brain is telling you there are more dots on the right side. The reality is that there are just

    Your brain is telling you there are more dots on the right side. The reality is that there are just as many dots on the left side. (The Extinction Illusion) https://t.co/V9u6DSQX3W

    Mar 30, 2026
  3. Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money

    Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the

    Mar 30, 2026
  4. this is what it looks like to traverse all the zip codes sequentially: https://t.co/PwhO3c7pin

    this is what it looks like to traverse all the zip codes sequentially: https://t.co/PwhO3c7pin

    Mar 28, 2026
  5. The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class

    The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class Comments

    Mar 27, 2026
  6. Last gasps of the rent seeking class? Comments

    Last gasps of the rent seeking class? Comments

    Mar 27, 2026
  7. In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It ha

    In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule fo

    Mar 27, 2026
  8. $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system github.com

    $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

    Mar 26, 2026
  9. $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

    $500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks using open-source AI system Comments

    Mar 26, 2026
  10. Great software engineers aren’t just hammering out code with AI anymore. They’re now building the s

    Great software engineers aren’t just hammering out code with AI anymore. They’re now building the systems to automatically write and review code.

    Mar 26, 2026
  11. 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼í µ

    𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀 Knuth is now 88 years old. He wrote The Art of Computer Programming start

    Mar 25, 2026
  12. When PCs started becoming ubiquitous, many futurists imagined that everyone would become a programme

    When PCs started becoming ubiquitous, many futurists imagined that everyone would become a programmer, programming their own custom software. Because why not? In principle they could, so why wouldn't

    Mar 24, 2026
  13. Asked the AI to make a fun slide about potential de-skilling from AI use. Need to specify more clear

    Asked the AI to make a fun slide about potential de-skilling from AI use. Need to specify more clearly what I mean by "fun". https://t.co/yA1vGZMfvk

    Mar 24, 2026
  14. decided to stop using modern Office and installed Office 2010 instead seeing these views make me so

    decided to stop using modern Office and installed Office 2010 instead seeing these views make me so sad everything is so clean, compact, efficient https://t.co/qNz4ID8dIV

    Mar 23, 2026
  15. The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie P

    The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia. Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist): “Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconveni

    Mar 22, 2026
  16. John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit an

    John Taylor Gatto was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Upon receiving the award, he quit and spent the rest of his life writing devastating critiques of the educational system he had mastered

    Mar 22, 2026
  17. possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo

    possibly the sharpest VC marketing move I've seen... @garrytan ships 15 claude code skills, the repo hits 37k stars and 4.6k forks, then -- only after delivering real value - drops the pitch, bravo 👏

    Mar 22, 2026
  18. Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times be

    Resolving boredom through our incessant attention to our devices has, according to New York Times bestselling author @arthurbrooks, also brought an end to our willingness to let our minds wander – inh

    Mar 22, 2026
  19. In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back t

    In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back then would completely choke on this math. so the developers of Quake III used this literal black magic

    Mar 21, 2026
  20. Happy “Agony of Defeat Guy” Day if you’re observing it. 56 years ago today, March 21, 1970, a 22-

    Happy “Agony of Defeat Guy” Day if you’re observing it. 56 years ago today, March 21, 1970, a 22-year old Slovenian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj took the iconic spill at the World Ski Jumping Championship

    Mar 21, 2026
  21. I ACCIDENTALLY OPENED MY CTO'S PERSONAL NOTION WORKSPACE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHIPS 5X FASTER

    I ACCIDENTALLY OPENED MY CTO'S PERSONAL NOTION WORKSPACE AND NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHIPS 5X FASTER THAN THE REST OF US. He is 48. I am 26. He manages 3 products and never works past 5 PM. I work 10

    Mar 20, 2026
  22. Descobri um site MUITO daora hoje! Ele permite criar posteres de mapas pra imprimir, olha que legal

    Descobri um site MUITO daora hoje! Ele permite criar posteres de mapas pra imprimir, olha que legal 100% client-side, open-source e gratuíto! https://t.co/XZJzLe1ZlA

    Mar 17, 2026
  23. I spent 5+ years curating The Book of Elon. The biggest unexpected outcome wasn’t an increase in kn

    I spent 5+ years curating The Book of Elon. The biggest unexpected outcome wasn’t an increase in knowledge, but an increase in my imagination. Studying Elon’s ideas, companies, and products revived my

    Mar 17, 2026
  24. if your specific niche is also "bizarre anecdotes about 1970s computer scientists" i have built your

    if your specific niche is also "bizarre anecdotes about 1970s computer scientists" i have built your holy grail: just took a thousand oral histories from the @computerhistory museum and made them full

    Mar 17, 2026
  25. 🚨Breaking: Someone just open sourced a database of 1,000+ free clones of your favorite classic game

    🚨Breaking: Someone just open sourced a database of 1,000+ free clones of your favorite classic games and it's wild. It's called OSGameClones. And it's not a piracy site. It's a fully searchable, comm

    Mar 16, 2026
  26. So many retro projects getting revived now with AI, which ones should I check out? I saw people rev

    So many retro projects getting revived now with AI, which ones should I check out? I saw people reverse engineering Gameboy games etc.

    Mar 15, 2026
  27. In my new quest to train as a plumber-one of the most coveted jobs now, I' m creating plumbing vide

    In my new quest to train as a plumber-one of the most coveted jobs now, I' m creating plumbing videos & lessons using @NotebookLM. Here is an amazing short video! Turns out to be more interesting than

    Mar 15, 2026
  28. You will make 10x more money if you present ideas like this to your clients or leaders. https://t.co

    You will make 10x more money if you present ideas like this to your clients or leaders. https://t.co/o0SRHOYCNP

    Mar 14, 2026
  29. Did you know your electric meter is broadcasting your live usage data right now?! I sent Claude a p

    Did you know your electric meter is broadcasting your live usage data right now?! I sent Claude a photo of my LADWP meter, bought the suggested $49 antenna off Amazon, and in 1 minute and 6 seconds of

    Mar 14, 2026
  30. “Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns. If you create more value than you con

    “Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns. If you create more value than you consume, you are welcome in any well operating community.” https://t.co/BSp1khDg2p

    Mar 12, 2026
  31. If you run a business and want to stay ahead of the curve over the next 6-12 months you need to read

    If you run a business and want to stay ahead of the curve over the next 6-12 months you need to read this 35 pages. Free. If you understand what's in here and act on it, the upside for you is seven fi

    Mar 11, 2026
  32. Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ) was right about software eating the world but only halfway. Strip any j

    Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ) was right about software eating the world but only halfway. Strip any job to its atoms (surgeon, lawyer, warehouse picker, CEO, developer, therapist etc.) and you will find

    Mar 11, 2026
  33. Somebody released a directory of 1,700+ dead startups (backed by YC) here is the link: https://t.co

    Somebody released a directory of 1,700+ dead startups (backed by YC) here is the link: https://t.co/URIxJVUtIb all of them have deep analysis of product inside and full funding story (in short, 100% p

    Mar 9, 2026
  34. 🚨 Someone built a full virtual computer that runs inside your browser. No downloads. No installs.

    🚨 Someone built a full virtual computer that runs inside your browser. No downloads. No installs. No VMs. Just a Docker command. It's called Neko. It runs a complete desktop environment inside a Dock

    Mar 8, 2026
  35. SERVICE-AS-A-SOFTWARE. That is the real opportunity for 90% of us. I keep watching smart people po

    SERVICE-AS-A-SOFTWARE. That is the real opportunity for 90% of us. I keep watching smart people pour months into building beautiful UI applications that Anthropic and OpenAI are going to absorb in a s

    Mar 7, 2026
  36. Blood pressure “normal” has been redefined dramatically in our lifetimes — and it raises real questi

    Blood pressure “normal” has been redefined dramatically in our lifetimes — and it raises real questions about who benefits. In this older clip, the doctor traces the shifting guidelines: - 1970s: Trea

    Mar 7, 2026
  37. Someone needs to vibe code a Quickbooks alternative ASAP If there was one piece of software that ne

    Someone needs to vibe code a Quickbooks alternative ASAP If there was one piece of software that needs to be disrupted, its quickbooks

    Mar 6, 2026
  38. The Cantillon effect is the most devastating—and deliberately ignored—mechanism by which the state p

    The Cantillon effect is the most devastating—and deliberately ignored—mechanism by which the state plunders the masses to enrich its cronies. When central banks create new money, it doesn't magically

    Mar 6, 2026
  39. Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is

    Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic ca

    Mar 5, 2026
  40. If you suck at multi-tasking (I do) and run a business, you should learn about the Theory of Constra

    If you suck at multi-tasking (I do) and run a business, you should learn about the Theory of Constraints. *There's a whole book on it but just watch a 10-minute Youtube video on it instead.

    Mar 5, 2026
  41. Fidelis: "We don't want to pay for this specialist care for this rare disease, because it's out of n

    Fidelis: "We don't want to pay for this specialist care for this rare disease, because it's out of network and you don't have out of network benefits." Me: "You want to send me that denial in writing,

    Mar 4, 2026
  42. @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest f...

    @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest for the trees. What we see popping up in states like Cali, Colorado, NY and in fact all over the worl

    Mar 4, 2026
  43. @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest f

    @peterrhague If you think this is a decision about which distro to use, you are missing the forest for the trees. What we see popping up in states like Cali, Colorado, NY and in fact all over the worl

    Mar 4, 2026
  44. Idea Every company wants you to log in to their website to see your bill. Energy. Phone. Insurance...

    Idea Every company wants you to log in to their website to see your bill. Energy. Phone. Insurance. Council tax. Water. Subscriptions. Sixteen passwords just to find out who’s taken your money. Turn i

    Mar 3, 2026
  45. Idea Every company wants you to log in to their website to see your bill. Energy. Phone. Insurance

    Idea Every company wants you to log in to their website to see your bill. Energy. Phone. Insurance. Council tax. Water. Subscriptions. Sixteen passwords just to find out who’s taken your money. Turn i

    Mar 3, 2026
  46. Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We li...

    Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and

    Mar 3, 2026
  47. Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We li

    Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and

    Mar 3, 2026
  48. Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We li...

    Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings. We live in a world of always-on listening devices. Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and

    Mar 3, 2026
  49. I told my therapist, "I have everything I thought I wanted, but I still don't feel happy." She did...

    I told my therapist, "I have everything I thought I wanted, but I still don't feel happy." She didn't give me comfort. Hearing her, my whole body went still. Here's what she just replied:

    Mar 3, 2026
  50. I told my therapist, "I have everything I thought I wanted, but I still don't feel happy." She did

    I told my therapist, "I have everything I thought I wanted, but I still don't feel happy." She didn't give me comfort. Hearing her, my whole body went still. Here's what she just replied:

    Mar 3, 2026

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