San Franciscans fired Chesa Boudin and the results are extraordinary!
The San Francisco Standard: RIP Bip City.
Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have plummeted in recent years — from 22,700 in 2022 to 1,764 so far this year, thanks in part to surveillance technology.
Read the full story: https://sf.news/4gfGcot

Oh no, Flock cameras and drones ended the scourge that was parking your car anywhere and ending up with a $1-2K window repair bill along with having whatever you had in your car stolen.
The San Francisco Standard: RIP Bip City.
Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have plummeted in recent years — from 22,700 in 2022 to 1,764 so far this year, thanks in part to surveillance technology.
Read the full story: https://sf.news/4gfGcot

Hmm. Today, we ran our 2100 scored runs with Grok 4.6. Versus 4.5, the pass rate regressed from 87.3% to 85.9%, and nearly doubled the median latency (71s → 131s). Grok 4.6 also errored out more ("Something went wrong"), refused to answer benign questions (e.g., "Who in Sales has access to Google Workspace"), and produced incomplete outputs but claimed success (returning 54% of the required fields, but asserting 100%).
Could be a matter of prompt tuning, but it feels like we're at the Pareto front (at least for now) on some of these models with everyday business tasks.
Read the original post for details on the shape of data and tasks RipplingBench represents; it's very practical.
Matt MacInnis: New: we ran ~2100 scored runs on open-weight models and lab models and found some big surprises. Grok (@spacexai) was the value leader, and GLM (@Zai_org) is super close to the frontier. I guess this is why the 'labs' are nervous... http://x.com/i/article/2082616144582582272

The size of YC's codebase, over the last 14 years.

Americans know that unchecked government power is dangerous. But weak and inept government is also dangerous. 
Can we build in checks, audit trials, and other rules for our govt to wield powerful tech competently? A key question of our time that applies to Flock and much more...
American Optimist: NEW🚨 @JTLonsdale on Flock cameras: "The core of our Constitution is that we have to check our government; we have to watch it.
[But] turning Flock off is just anti-civilization. It's going to help the criminals, which is what the far left wants here.
There are ways we can use

Car break-ins are a low-margin shitty biz for criminals. It is not hard to make it unprofitable and kill it. SF did a good job (long way to go) executing on a fairly simple plan to put these gangs out of business. End game is to make getting a job more profitable.
The San Francisco Standard: RIP Bip City.
Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have plummeted in recent years — from 22,700 in 2022 to 1,764 so far this year, thanks in part to surveillance technology.
Read the full story: https://sf.news/4gfGcot

Garry Tan just told everyone AGI has arrived

Only 50 people on earth once believed AGI was possible, Sam Altman says.
He jokes that most of them already worked at OpenAI. He says you do not need a crowd to change the world. You need a few brilliant people who believe the heretical thing. The misfits who see it early are the ones who build it.
“45 of them worked at OpenAI.”
Find your five believers before you chase five thousand fans.
— Sam Altman (.@sama) with Garry Tan (.@garrytan) at Startup School.
GeniusThinking: Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI.
On Y Combinator's Startup School stage, he shared the 8 things it takes to build a world-changing company:
1) Chase the idea every smart person says is stupid

The most accurate articles in English about the US are now being published by the British press: Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, BBC.
The represent different views but they all publish the truth that is now dangerous to publish in the US because of Trump's retribution.
Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦: “Trump has amassed staggering wealth in most openly corrupt presidency.”
The Guardian

Qwen3.8-27B can now be run locally! ✨
Run on 17GB RAM via Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs.
Qwen3.8-27B is by far the strongest model for its size. We also uploaded NVFP4 quants.
GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
Guide: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8
Qwen: We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉
⚡ Qwen3.8-27B:
- A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows.
- 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M

I can't believe it
Qwen3.8-27B is matching Opus 4.6 Max... the model that was the best (and the most expensive) just 6 months ago.
And you can run it on your laptop. Locally.
Fully open weights and under apache license.
This level of intelligence in such a small model is sooo impressive.
Qwen: We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉
⚡ Qwen3.8-27B:
- A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows.
- 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M

I did YC in 2010.
16 years later, I’m back.
27 days until Demo Day.
I’m going to document what it takes to build a billion-dollar company this time around.

just won 2nd place in the @Replit Design buildathon taking home $12,000 in value. So honored to have ranked at all! Going to reinvest all of this into @craftingtablex as fast as I can :P

Charles wrote a 100-word blog that hit the front page of Hacker News. Meanwhile, his polished technical deep dive that took days failed to land after 5+ tries.
In this [Technical] write and learn, @charles_irl talks through the secrets behind winning attention,
→ define the goal before you draft
→ be interesting 90% of the time and sell for 10%
→ give every piece a “soul”
→ don’t let the LLM sand off your voice
cohosted w/ @swyx + @KernelLabs_ai

This is evil and our taxes underwrite it. Sick
Reuters: Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank diverted a spring that was a lifeline for the Palestinian village of Fasayil, cutting irrigation pipes in June and converting it into a tourist attraction, leaving nearby farms barren https://reut.rs/4g5Y2du

Announcing SWE Odyssey, a standardized benchmark in our family of ultra-long-horizon evaluations.
As benchmark after benchmark saturates, we wanted a quantifiable way to test a larger claim: can agents work autonomously for hours and still build the correct thing?

We’ve written an FAQ to answer some of the questions we've received about watermarking.
In summary:
• We’re implementing watermarking to comply with the EU AI Act. Other major model developers have signed the same Code of Practice and will also be implementing watermarking;
• Our watermarking method doesn’t have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs;
• The difference between watermarked and un-watermarked text will not be distinguishable to readers;
• Nothing is added to the text and there are no hidden characters;
• Watermarking doesn’t require extra tokens, and will not be more expensive;
• Watermarks can’t be traced to a specific person, organization, or chat.
Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

Before joining Apple as the Macintosh artist, @SusanKare was an art history PhD who barely knew anything about computers.
She went on to design many of the icons, typefaces, and symbols that helped make the original Mac feel understandable and human, defining a visual language for personal computing that still influences software today.
At Startup School 2026, Susan shares the stories behind the Happy Mac, Command key, Chicago font, and more, along with the design lessons she learned from Steve Jobs, Paul Rand, and the original Mac team: make things meaningful and memorable, embrace constraints, iterate constantly, and use just enough detail to make an idea instantly clear.
00:00 — Making Things Meaningful and Memorable
01:51 — How Susan Joined Apple
05:01 — Designing the Original Macintosh
06:35 — A Computer Anyone Could Use
08:26 — Creating Chicago and the Mac Typefaces
11:47 — MacPaint and the First Icons
14:45 — The Story Behind the Happy Mac
17:08 — Why Simple Icons Work Better
18:25 — The Icons That Didn’t Work
21:23 — Designing Symbols That Last
22:44 — How the Command Key Got Its Symbol
25:20 — What Ancient Symbols Can Teach Designers
30:18 — Designing After Apple
36:32 — Lessons From Steve Jobs, Paul Rand, and More

What's wrong with Trump's $1B White House reno? Four biggies.
1) He lied that taxpayers wouldn't be on the hook for it.
2) Trump asked Congress to fund it. Congress declined; Trump is doing it anyway.
3) Trump is robbing other pots of money, including for the Secret Service and Nat'l Parks, to do it again, in defiance of Congress
4) Trump is soliciting money from unknown donors for unknown amounts, opening the door to corruption and influence peddling.
So, yes, this is much worse than a home reno gone wrong! It's a massive separation of powers issue, and Congress ought to make clear NO FUNDING means NO FUNDING.
https://moneywise.com/news/top-stories/trump-white-house-construction-cost-taxpayers

You will not use a computer, and you will be happy
Amjad Masad: By next year, using a computer will be optional. Work will radically change.

wild to me that Jane Kim is running for Insurance Commissioner *bragging* about raising inclusionary zoning rates, years after research has come in conclusively proving them to be pretty disastrous for affordability
M. Nolan Gray 🥑: The evidence is by now clear and policymakers/planners are slowly starting to respond to it: unfunded inclusionary zoning programs ultimately hurt housing production and affordability.

back in 2017 i was interning as an equities analyst at a fund in nyc, which had a 9am morning call every weekday. the purpose of this call was to discuss quarterly earnings or current events or whether we should be buying nvidia (at the time, on a tear because of the '17 crypto boom), but one morning in june the call opened with a bunch of people freaking out because some guy named "travis" had resigned. after a couple of rounds of "travis is gone" "did they fire him" "bloomberg says he resigned," i was especially confused because the firm had a portfolio manager named travis, and i looked over at his desk and he was still sitting there, not being escorted out by security or anything. who was travis?
it was only after things had calmed down that i realized the people on this call were talking about *travis kalanick* of uber, a figure who loomed so large in the minds of wall street investors that even *two years before* uber ipo-ed, the news of his departure was treated like a six sigma event. everyone wanted to know: if travis was gone, what would happen to his company?
even in his uber days, travis was the bits and atoms guy (watch the video clipped in the first ~2 minutes of the below podcast for proof of that). and in order to be a bits and atoms guy - as in, the kind of guy who's so discontent with the slow, staid, schlerotic state of things that he has to painstakingly reorchestrate the physical world with computers, perhaps pissing off some powerful interests along the way - some people might call you difficult. some people will not understand your vision. some people will try to get you fired.
but if you're a bits and atoms guy, you never stop being one. you might retreat into near-obscurity, or spend years wandering in the wilderness, biding your time in exile. but you will not stop building. and one day you will return triumphant like a modern-day charles de gaulle, even better than ever, and ready to prove wrong everyone who didn't understand the first time around.
being in a room with travis leaves you pretty pumped up. you can see why he's such a rallying leader, and why (by my count) at least six top uber execs have chosen to follow him to his new company, atoms. it isn't simply that the job isn't finished (although that's a big part of it, as travis attests). it's also because it's clear that there are very few leaders like travis out there: people who have such a holistic worldview that they can get people who would otherwise be founders themselves to join the ride and help build an extremely specific vision for the future.
here are some things that stood out to me from this event:
-travis is a branding/comms mastermind. he deploys memorable phrases like “food computer,” “wheelbase for robots,” “atoms as bits” and describes his vision for cheap meal delivery as "autonomous burritos." you can see why people get excited for his vision for the future. there's extraordinary complexity in what atoms is trying to do, but travis makes each step along the way feel manageable because he can distill these ideas into extremely concrete images.
-atoms is building full-stack autonomation for three different divisions: food, mining, and transportation. food supplies the real estate, software, robotics, and logistics laboratory; mining supplies a commercially deployed autonomy business; and transport is intended to become the reusable movement platform connecting multiple physical industries. travis argues humanoids make sense for diverse, low-volume work in spaces designed for people. but at industrial scale (which atoms is doing), purpose-built machines should win on throughput, space, cost, and reliability.
-the best way to get over your last company may be the same as the best way to get over your ex: fall in love again. travis says anger and fear of failure can carry a founder through years of pain, but they also produce long nights where very little gets done and sharp elbows felt by everyone around you. atoms is what happened when he learned to build toward a future rather than against an enemy.
-doing hard things is a reminder you can do more hard things. in the q&a ben remembers travis describing attacks by chinese ride-sharing companies as proof that, if he could survive china, the rest of the world would be manageable. travis still deliberately creates problems when things become easy. but the rate of problem creation cannot exceed the organization’s rate of problem-solving.
such a fun talk and q+a with @travisk @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg ! check it out.
a16z: Travis Kalanick: "A lot of folks think I'm back. I've been working my ass off the whole time. I just haven't been talking about it."
Eight years, thousands of employees, multiple industries, none of it on LinkedIn, and now the biggest check Ben Horowitz has ever written.

Even if you don’t plan on publishing to the App Store, building personal apps via TestFlight is really great.
Yohei: in case anyone is curious, https://remoko.app took less than ~50 hours from the first prompt on @replit to sharing the testflight on X