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History rhymes, same playbook as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc.

I smell a shareholders' class action lawsuit. Wait for it.

Clayton M. Christensen (The innovator's dilemma) would agree.

https://exifinfo.org/detail/RjJtDLtCfS5kpq0fM2e7yA

It all depends on the context: how does this affects you?

Is this something you can control or is this outside your control?

How Intelligent People Deal with Stupid People — Schopenhauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TspV1odsXo

https://archive.is/bK8xU

Google these:

1) "inbound marketing"

2) The lean startup / MVP

Your word choice, e.g. "bets", implies that your mental model for life is gambling.

While very popular today, it's a losing game that you are playing.

Read/study about better, more empowering mental models, for instance, check the writings of Shane Parrish.

Some people, but not everyone, are abdicating their agency. Period.

And that too is an expression of their own agency. #Laissez-faire

The Genie is now out of the bottle.

Chop Wood Carry Water.

A lot of startup advice is vague.

Sure, but in an ocean of quantity you need to know where to look for quality:

1. https://www.startupschool.org/

2. Book: The Lean Startup.

Those 2 resources address everything you need to know and then some, with concrete advice.

What channels worked?

You have it all wrong.

Same here (US East)

1) Blue Ocean Strategy (again)

2) Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

There is. You get to write it yourself; you get to be your own master/leader.

Critical thinking skills are the most essential tools, so is studying philosophy. You have agency, use it.

Of course you could always abdicate your agency to religion (pick one), or politicians, or influencers, or money/consumerism.

No matter how you dice it, the choice is always yours, and yours only,

1. Always negotiate

2. Read this book: Never Split the Difference

NOTE: Understand the difference between negotiations and bluffing.

When trying to access via the app or webapp I get the message: "We're improving your experience. Please log in later".

But I have received no emails regarding an upgrade or something to that effect, and their status site says: Our deliverables will be deployed during second weekend of every month. It may cause some latency in APIs during the deployment window.

No signs on x either: https://x.com/EmpowerToday

Something does not add up.

VS code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/intelligentapps/models

Models downloaded locally from repositories like Ollama and ONNX.

1) There are at least a couple YCcombinator startup that does collections: Domu and Respaid.

2) There was a time in a prior life when I did consulting, and of course I experienced the same issue. I re-wrote my contract to get paid in advance each and every week (seldom every month). If I had no payment in my bank, no work that week. Easy, simple, the client was always in control.

Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEa6PdOG2ts

I was also recently permanently banned by Reddit, the only reason why I can think of is because:

1. periodically like every 3-4 months I would be running a script to delete any and all posts and comments. Also every 1-2 years I would delete my account(s), and start brand-new with new accounts (to avoid doxxing).

2. I had 3 alt accounts, one for professional reasons (AI, coding, etc), one for local interests (NYC), and one for fun/shitposting. All three linked to the same email address.

3. I did not violate any rules (except for running a script), I did not upvoted/downvoted each other's posts or upvoted/downvoted the same post from different accounts, each accounts followed different subs.

IMO Reddit is cleaning up house and surely didn't like my deleting my history.

C'est la vie!

Do https://www.startupschool.org/ cost = $0.00.

And, you might get funded too.

When new capital is needed, the old investors (investors in the old company) are given the equivalent of cents on the dollar on the new company, while the new investors do the usual.

Old investors are welcome to put new money into the new venture, of course.

Very cool. A couple of weeks ago I vibe-coded something similar that works for a while and now it's broken.

Could you please add:

* Search for: past 24h / Past Week / Past month

* Sort by: Newest->Oldest / Oldest->Newest

* Results per page: 20 / 30 / 50 / 100

I'd be so grateful

Can someone help me make some sense of the 10 gigawatts of compute?

Colossus data has 230K GPUs (150,000 H100 GPUs, 50,000 H200 GPUs and 30,000 GB200 GPUs) [source https://x.ai/colossus]

Energy usage: up to 150 megawatts of electricity per day [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)]

So, when SamA talks about 10 gigawatts of compute does he mean per day or GWH (Gigawatts-hour)?

Depends on your definition of "coach".

If you're looking for the classic, time-tested definition, I strongly suggest you do https://www.startupschool.org/. There's nothing better IMO.

If you're looking the type of coaching pushed by social media's internet/gurus.... it's a waste of time, since none of them are good.

YMMV

LOL, well said.

I have been thinking along the same lines, but you said it better.

The AI effect: Cutting OpEx to fuel CapEx.

What do you think about anonymous publishing in 2025?

Craigslist's Rants & Raves started that in 1996 (almost 30 years ago), Reddit started in 2005 (about 20 years ago).

Would love feedback from the HN community.

What unserved or underserved needs does this address?

IMO it sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

Read this book: The Lean Startup.

Anyway, good luck to you.

1) You build a solution and now you're looking for the people who have the problem.

2) Read this book "The Lean Startup"