How Universities Should Prepare Founders
August 2026 How should universities prepare students to start startups? Y Combinator is in the perfect position to answer this question, because we get them next. We’re like grad school. And because YC has had 20 years to refine its model of what a promising founder looks like, you probably won’t find a better target. What […]
Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
A self-hosted library for the ebooks you already own. One server-rendered page lists them, filters them with a search box, serves downloads, and reads them in the browser — EPUB and PDF, each with its own reader — as a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or as a Node server over a directory on disk. Everything […]
iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
Starting later this year, new Sign in with Apple addresses, previously issued on privaterelay.appleid.com, will be issued on private.icloud.com. Existing addresses on privaterelay.appleid.com will continue to work and forward mail to users without interruption. After further consideration and reviewing community feedback, iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com. What you need to do Developers with apps […]
One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed
Hong Kong — Something weird has been happening on China’s internet. One small and vocal corner has been claiming the country’s most famous historical dynasty never existed. That’s the Tang, which ruled China from 618 AD to 907 AD, a period that saw huge territorial expansion, booming international trade and the flourishing of a high culture […]
Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works. We have the ground-breaking appearance of Rossum’s Universal Robots (or Tik-Tok, the Royal Army of Oz), through countless […]
A Claude Code skill that recovers export-blocked Kindle highlights
A personal collection of Claude Code skills, published as a single plugin under the l3a0 namespace. This repo is both the plugin and its own marketplace. I write about how these tools get built — and about technology, business, and finance — at baowebdev.substack.com. claude plugin marketplace add l3a0/claude-plugins claude plugin install l3a0@l3a0 Skills are […]
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
| Read on LessWrong | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access. Could a malicious LLM gain control of the host machine where its weights are loaded? […]
Anger, Anxiety and Agency
written on August 24, 2026 Sean Goedecke wrote a post arguing that you should never be angry at work — a post with which I strongly agree. Anger can be a useful signal, but being angry at work rarely improves the situation. More often, it makes life worse for the people around you, many of […]
Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff
Autostep, a desktop app that finds repetitive tasks across your company, shows what each one costs, and recommends the highest-leverage fixes. It learns what your teams do and surfaces where you’re bleeding money nobody could see. As bottlenecks appear, Autostep helps eliminate that waste through automatically built AI agents, process changes, better use of existing […]
Where did all the public bathrooms go?
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Here’s a pop quiz for you: What purpose did this little kiosk serve? via Wikimedia Commons It’s quite a pretty little building—note the delicate grilles, the ornately etched glass, and the little bouquet of metal flowers bursting from the roof. But of course, there […]