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AppLovin, after failing to acquire TikTok, has quietly launched a new social media app called Gist, which blends features of TikTok, Lemon8, and RedNote, including photo carousels, videos, and mini-games. The app require…
After failing to acquire TikTok, adtech company AppLovin has quietly launched a new social media app called Gist, which blends features from TikTok, Lemon8, and RedNote. The app requires a referral code for access and of…
The article argues that the primary threat to software developers is not advanced AI that outperforms them, but rather mediocre AI that is "good enough" for cost-cutting executives to justify reducing headcount. It expla…
Anthropic is hiring a copy lead with a salary range of $255,000 to $320,000, as well as a head of copy and content role paying up to $400,000, to help translate complex AI products for enterprise audiences. Despite the h…
Movix has developed one of the first agentic AI solutions for dental appliance manufacturers, using custom AI models and Google Cloud infrastructure to automate quality control and reduce errors in aligner production. Th…
The article argues that the software industry's long-standing prioritization of speed over all else has normalized dangerous shortcuts, turning temporary fixes into permanent operational debt. This "move fast and break t…
A 16-year-old developer created an open-source AI tool called Tech Debt Agent that scans code repositories to identify and quantify technical debt, then refactors problematic files in a separate sandbox folder without al…
Based on a scan of 200 buyer conversations across four AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini), a study found that eight B2B SaaS companies were mentioned in fewer than two out of every ten high-intent buy…
The article advises tech professionals to create an open-source software project, termed an "Artifact," as a dynamic marketing tool to demonstrate their skills and signal elite status to the job market. This artifact, wh…
The article explains that software products with fewer features often win in crowded markets because they focus on delivering a specific user experience or "fantasy," such as competence, control, or belonging. Drawing fr…
Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple, stated that his motivation for starting the company was not to make money but to gain the admiration of fellow engineers by bringing his personal computer idea to life. He founded Apple…
Superset (YC P26) is a desktop application that orchestrates multiple CLI-based coding agents, such as Claude Code and Codex, across isolated git worktrees to enable parallel task execution without context switching. It …
This article compares scheduling and calendar APIs for developers in 2026, categorizing options from pure infrastructure platforms to full-featured scheduling software with API access. It evaluates tools based on core te…
Robert X. Cringely has resumed writing a column after a hiatus since 2022, thanking readers for their patience. During this time, he co-founded an AI company called 2Brains, where he continues to work on patented technol…
SpaceX has filed its S-1 for an initial public offering, revealing a $28 trillion total addressable market and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in U.S. history, alongside a compensation package tied …
Brandon Axelrod, a first-year oral and maxillofacial surgery resident in Manhattan, is using his childhood balloon twisting business to help pay down over $400,000 in student loan debt. He monetizes his balloon art on so…
The article describes the problem of "architectural drift" in AI-assisted coding, where AI agents forget past project decisions (like database choices or rejected libraries) with each new session, forcing developers to r…
According to the article, SpaceX's IPO filing centers on a plan to deploy "AI compute satellites" into orbit by 2028, arguing that terrestrial infrastructure cannot meet the exploding energy and cooling demands of AI. Th…
Egimuk, a developer from Rwanda, is building Vylo, a modern social platform designed to help people connect, share, and build communities in a fresh and meaningful way. The project, originally called Aura Lenz, is curren…
The article describes migrating the Brewly Store coffee subscription platform from a traditional AWS EKS setup to an edge-first architecture using Cloudflare Workers and the Hono framework. The migration aimed to reduce …