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If you read the news headlines these days, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Western labs are getting spawn-camped by Chinese labs en masse. The Distillation Drama Not a week goes by when Anthropic doesn’t release another article on how the Chinese are distilling their models](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/anthropic-accuses-chinese-ai-labs-of-mining-claude-as-us-debates-ai-chip-exports/), becoming a danger to humanity itself](https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-and-preventing-
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Software Goldilocks: the market for software is expanding but is the System of Record dead?
Sam Gerstenzang argues AI expands SaaS spend while splitting value into small opinionated point tools and large full-service “does the work” products—squeezing classic mid-market systems of record from both sides.
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Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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Russell Sechzer on what's missing in agentic commerce: incomplete financial instructions, who authorizes agents, who pays for work that never becomes a purchase, and the invisible costs behind Muse, Instinct, Stripe, Visa, and AP2.
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Arm & SoftBank: Part 1 — Masa comes calling, bearing gifts
Today, something a little different: a joint post in the form of a conversation between Jon Metzler and Babbage.
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Drew DeVault argues that Hacker News’s culture follows from Y Combinator ownership, founder privileges, and a contested “apolitical” posture—using policy and history to explain why the site feels the way it does.
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models
Simon Willison reviews TypeSafe AI’s Jev: a cheap, fast decision model that returns calibrated floats for yes/no, choice, and score questions—and why black-box bias and evals matter more than for chat LLMs.
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Arcturus Labs compares OpenAI’s emerging decision-model direction with TypeSafe’s Jev—and asks whether a frontier lab can absorb the System One / structured-decision niche startups are building.
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Patrik Inzinger on AI-polished internal writing: a robot emoji says an agent typed the post, not whether a person owned the ideas—and why that can make a small team less legible.
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PgDog’s Lev Kokotov on why engineers fix open problems they care about, why ownership beats closed-source support tickets, and how free-as-in-freedom Postgres sharding funds itself with enterprise SLAs.
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Kyle Harrison argues opaque succession and closed information kill company dynasties—using historical and modern cases to show why sunlight matters for lasting enterprises.
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Bryan Cantrill reflects on Sun Microsystems’ culture and mistakes—what Oxide’s homage tees revive, and which lessons still matter for hardware-software companies.
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My Thoughts on the AI Bubble and Where it's Going
Elijah Popowitz's market thesis: the 'AI bubble' is mostly an ICP mismatch—labs sell intelligence while most buyers want task completion—so expect both frontier and org-custom workhorse models.
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Flybridge ran a multi-model agent marketplace (15k+ messages, 1,815 deals): intent specification, social contagion, cheap-speech spam, and human sales tactics all showed up when agents negotiated as counterparties.
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How to Make WealthOriginal essay: May 2004 · AI-written directory summary
Paul Graham explores startups as a way of creating economic value through focused work and technology. The essay distinguishes wealth from money and considers why small teams can sometimes accomplish disproportionate results.
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Default Alive or Default Dead?Original essay: October 2015 · AI-written directory summary
A framework for asking whether a startup can reach profitability with its existing resources and trajectory. Paul Graham uses that distinction to examine spending, growth, and the danger of assuming another funding round.
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Schlep BlindnessOriginal essay: January 2012 · AI-written directory summary
Paul Graham describes how aversion to tedious work can hide worthwhile startup opportunities. The essay argues that difficult operational details and unglamorous tasks are often part of building something people need.
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Startup = GrowthOriginal essay: September 2012 · AI-written directory summary
Paul Graham frames rapid growth as a defining property of startups. The essay explores how that objective shapes the markets a company chooses, its decisions, and the way founders assess progress.
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How to Get Startup IdeasOriginal essay: November 2012 · AI-written directory summary
An essay about finding startup opportunities by noticing real, unmet needs. Paul Graham emphasizes problems founders understand firsthand and cautions against inventing plausible-sounding ideas without evidence that anyone needs them.
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Do Things that Don't ScaleOriginal essay: July 2013 · AI-written directory summary
Paul Graham argues that early founders should personally recruit users and solve their problems, even when the work cannot scale. The essay explains how intensive early effort can help a young company get moving.
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