The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
Link: https://zaksa.zip/blog/silicon-valley-founder-meat-grinder/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138045
Weekend Reading — The elderly health category
https://labnotes.org/weekend-reading-the-elderly-health-category/
I'm not like a zoom arounder
DuckDuckGo won the internet today!
But don't forget that mere growth is so last year — grift is where the real money is
"In fact, the UT report found little evidence that alleged fraud prevents founders from raising funding for new startups, even when those fraud cases received major media attention."
If you raised but not posting insane growth metrics on LinkedIn what even are you?
"There are more funding opportunities than ever, regardless of age — accelerators, incubators, pre-seed funds. But that money comes with strings attached: Founders … flush with millions in cash, are expected to deliver growth in months, not years."
degr — screensaver that does one thing only — shows current time and the weather
Developers having unlimited AI tokens to use frontier models is like sales teams having unlimited business class flights.
It never made any sense and every company will eventually have AI token budgets. The question will be how much and what’s approved to use the budget on?
Opened the mail .. Derpy arrived early! SQUEE!
RE: https://dmv.community/@jcrabapple/117020731303583116
Can we have the murder hornets back please
This is #climatecollapse:
"Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking."
via Nahel Belgherze
Mine (1980):
- freewriting
- over-the top
- ungentrified
- one-trick-pony
Another reasons to tut at the Mercator Map projection - how a circle with a radius of 5,000km, centred on Paris, looks according the Mercator map
How to Exist
Link: https://www.raptitude.com/2026/07/how-to-exist/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49129990
My wife (who is on the BlueSky) told me that she assumes Mastodon is just people asking questions and everyone answering with Linux.
Q: "What's wrong w/my cucumbers?"
A: "Have you tried installing Linux?"
And I couldn't contest that, really, not one bit.
"residential proxy network" is what you call a botnet when it's run by a corporation that will never be prosecuted for doing something that would land a 13 year old in jail for the rest of their life
UPDATE: Solved
Hearing aid hacker needed! My father‘s hearing aids are being repaired, so the shop gave him a pair of Signia Motion C&G SP 1IX as temporary replacement. Nice. BUT. It seems they were configured as trial devices, this wasn’t mentioned to my father. The trial period has ended a few hours ago, so now they play an annoying melody every 2 minutes and we cannot stop this. The hearing aid specialist is on vacation until end next week. So. Anyone knows how to fix this?
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This NYT profile of David Ellison ends with something I've been wondering: Was he so willing to hold off on the Warner acquisition bc he can't afford it anymore.
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...