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A game studio turned it's last $6M into Slack

https://twitter.com/a16z/status/2085518489700421954
3•tosh•1d ago

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benoau•1d ago
Calling them a "game studio" is cute, three years before this Butterfield and Fake had sold Yahoo their previous startup Flickr. Although not a huge financial success it was one of the most popular websites on the internet at that time.

Email Is Easy

https://e-mail.wtf/#repost
1•semiquaver•1m ago•0 comments

Writing with AI Is Stupid

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-08-07-ai-writing-stupid/
2•ashton314•2m ago•0 comments

Europe readies for solar eclipse dip in power generation

https://www.thelocal.com/20260808/europe-readies-for-solar-eclipse-dip-in-power-generation
1•geox•8m ago•0 comments

Steve Yegge's Google Platform rant (2011)

https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
2•simonebrunozzi•10m ago•1 comments

A live tracker of Seattle's ~1,400 buses, trains, and ferries

https://charm.ing/michael-magan/seattle-transit-live
1•grouchy•10m ago•0 comments

Why Are Women Leaving Computer Science?

https://cacm.acm.org/news/why-are-women-leaving-computer-science/
1•visha1v•11m ago•2 comments

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/08/06/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-ai-edition
1•andsoitis•12m ago•0 comments

Feedback required – New Word game on the block Wordfighter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fintasticapps.wordfighter&hl=en_US
1•AbhinavDAIICT•13m ago•0 comments

Experiments with Isolation on Blue Pill

https://l0puh.github.io/log/2026/08/04/experiments_with_isolation/
1•lopuh•16m ago•0 comments

Woman Pulled from Car at Gunpoint by Police After Mistaken Flock Alert – Twice

https://m.slashdot.org/story/456862
1•MilnerRoute•16m ago•0 comments

A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/cambridge-plagiarism-arday-higher-education.html
1•Michelangelo11•24m ago•0 comments

Bastrop's City Council Holds Meetings over 100 Miles Away

https://texasscorecard.com/local/bastrops-city-council-holds-meetings-over-100-miles-away/
1•bob1029•25m ago•0 comments

'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' — What Does That Actually Mean?

https://unpredictabletokens.substack.com/p/ai-escaped-its-sandbox-what-that
1•jac08h•25m ago•1 comments

Show HN: A probabilistic programming language with exact inference and loops

https://github.com/kccqzy/probabilistic-program-inference/blob/master/README.md
1•kccqzy•25m ago•0 comments

The Cosplay Economy

https://www.rosshartshorn.net/stuffrossthinksabout/cosplay/
2•rossdavidh•26m ago•0 comments

Pick

1•ronniojunior•28m ago•1 comments

My MacBook Aged Three Years in Three Months of Vibe Coding

https://generativeai.pub/my-macbook-aged-three-years-in-three-months-of-vibe-coding-64e7ab92123d
1•ako•29m ago•2 comments

Shared Intentionality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_intentionality
1•binyu•30m ago•0 comments

Servitor – Simplest way to run local dev containers

https://servitorapp.live/
1•havu12•32m ago•0 comments

A device finds encrypted DNS by itself

https://blog.dundns.eu/posts/ddr-encrypted-dns-discovery/
1•olexsmir•32m ago•0 comments

"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers

https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers
2•senko•32m ago•1 comments

AI Leaders Say the Singularity Has Begun

https://ai-updates.net/ai-leaders-say-the-singularity-has-already-begun/
2•ashurandi•33m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gram, a vector search engine I built in C++

https://github.com/sverp/gram
1•sverp•33m ago•0 comments

My Own GitHub: Git, CRDT, Markdown

https://replicated.live/blog/crdt
1•gritzko•34m ago•0 comments

Glycogen Body

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycogen_body
1•binyu•34m ago•0 comments

Engineering Metrics for GitHub

https://gitdailies.com/
1•andreigaspar•37m ago•0 comments

Can you hack your gut microbiome?

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/08/07/can-you-hack-your-gut-microbiome
1•andsoitis•38m ago•0 comments

Canon-A controlled English for model prompting and agent-to-agent communication

https://github.com/sanshagn/Canon/tree/main
1•sanshagn•39m ago•0 comments

Sit through 15 hours of opera

https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/08/05/why-you-should-sit-through-15-hours-of-opera
1•andsoitis•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RankParse – An SEO and backlink data API built from Common Crawl

https://rankparse.com
1•abhibavishi•40m ago•0 comments