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Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998

January 2012A few hours before the Yahoo acquisition was...

2026 customer service planning series: Vol. 03

AI doesn’t fail because the model is bad, it...

Second IC 🙂 – Sam Zeloof

Homemade 1000+ transistor array chip  In 2018 I made the first...

@bfeld v60.0 – Feld Thoughts

My father Stan and I in our default states.lsof...

Book: Echoes of October – Feld Thoughts

I approached Echoes of October with trepidation. A graphic novel about violence and grief isn’t easy terrain. But it succeeds in a haunting, urgent way. The creators have chosen...

How You Know

December 2014I've read Villehardouin's chronicle of the Fourth Crusade at least two times, maybe three. And yet if I had to write down everything I remember from it, I doubt...

What’s new with Fin 3: The best AI Agent for complex queries across every channel

At Pioneer 2025, our Chief Product Officer Paul Adams announced Fin 3: the best AI Agent for resolving deep, complex queries across every channel. Our goal is to give customer...

GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back

Calvin Wankhede / Android AuthorityTL;DR The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the privacy-focused Android fork to Snapdragon-powered smartphones. The project has...

Leveling Up in the Vibe Coding Video Game

While “vibe coding” was a catchy phrase when I first heard it, something about it felt like a head fake to me. And, now that I’ve leveled up to...

How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

December 2014If the world were static, we could have monotonically increasing confidence in our beliefs. The more (and more varied) experience a belief survived, the less likely it would be...

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It's the start of December, which means one thing: Holiday dressing is officially on everyone's mind. As the calendar fills with parties, dinners, and...

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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

March 2012One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this...