From Hookswitch to Grave
2026-06-14 Through decades of consolidation, reorganization, and divestiture, AT&T left a famously complicated corporate history. One of the greatest enterprises in American history, arguably the greatest enterprise, AT&T has often rivaled the federal government in the size of its budget and workforce. One of the reasons, as we well know today, was monopolization and its […]
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.) In December 2024 during a visit to San Francisco, I was lucky enough to be invited at the last minute to a party that could […]
GLP-1s Are Being Linked to Fewer Serious Infections, Including TB
The positive reputation of GLP-1 medications like semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) continues to get bolstered. These drugs might even help keep some infectious diseases at bay. Two studies in recent weeks have found a link between GLP-1 use and a reduced risk of diseases like tuberculosis or infections serious enough to send people to […]
Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
How did we run all these experiments concretely? Our panel of repositories We started by running an analysis over thousands of public GitHub repositories from which we extracted statistics about programming languages & frameworks, third-party services, deployment platform, team sizes, and codebase age. Since Tech startups are more likely to have open-source repositories than large […]
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3
Summary GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% for $26K on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private with our Standard harnessStandard harness enables a model to carry forward notes it chooses to keep with it throughout the environment., and 99.9% for $19K with a Provider Adapter harnessThe Provider Adapter harness preserves opaque reasoning state between requests and uses compaction for longer conversations, […]
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Founding Creative Engineer – Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring
Growth = your taste * a fleet of video agents * lots of experiment. We want someone who can own this. About GooseWorks Distribution is the hardest problem every company has. Getting a product in front of people, over and over, in a way that works. Today that means an army of humans making creative, […]
Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents
What does Mireye actually do? Mireye is the physical-world layer for AI agents: sourced data, enrichment, and the tools on top of them. Ask a question in natural language, resolve an address to its canonical parcel, or fetch cited fields at any US coordinate — one API and one MCP server, with a citation attached […]
Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
It’s well known that beaver dams transform landscapes. In their absence, artificial versions were built in northern California to recreate lost wetlands – boosting the survival of threatened coho salmon. The findings are published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Fish biologist Michael Pollock of NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center called the results “mind blowing”. The Scott […]
Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
Sony would like you to know that any reasonable gamer would know that purchasing a game is just licensing a game (Video Games Chronicle), not owning it. And there is truth mixed in with a bold-faced lie in that statement. There is also a comically bad argument about ownership mixed in there that I am […]