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@varunram Yes, because Lovable counts as revenue all the AI credits. It’s a straight up marketing gimmick to look as higher ARR

Wait, Vercel has lower "ARR" than Lovable? Is this real?

@Christos_io Backlinks mean nothing:D

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1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

@drandakis Just a cross device task system, maybe not the biggest announcement they’ve done

Dispatch: a new tool is dropped by the most productive software team (Claude) I've ever experienced as a customer. A good practical guide below. Testing it and looks promising.

ok I was afk for a while, how many world's first AI CMO launches did I miss?

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@rauchg @cramforce @nodejs @grok I'm late in this game but I have questions: why running on the edge is a bad thing? Especially when opennext runs on cloudflare's edge network with x10 less cost than Vercel

Cloudflare’s mission is to fork the entire developer ecosystem and destroy open source. Vinext was an excuse to swindle developers into using their proprietary runtimes instead of @nodejs. It shipped with 10 vulnerabilities that they cheerfully handed to a .gov website. Now they’ve done it again. They can’t run just-bash, because it’s open source software that runs on @nodejs. It has to work “at the edge”, which is a thing no one wants (We learned the hard way… Not even the Node core developers they hired to work on Workers instead want it!)

@Sh1nj1_kor @AnthropicAI Yes. You can either provide custom instructions for compaction (use /compact for this) or set the rate via the settings file.

@koslib @AnthropicAI can you tune this?

I am calling it now. The 1M context window by default is @AnthropicAI rugpulling the MAX subscribers. Opus now by default eats way more tokens than before and is not as aggresive on the cleaning of context, easily eats up your weekly allowance. Time for codex i guess

@Sh1nj1_kor @AnthropicAI then....lower the compaction percentage maybe?

The problem isn't with the thinking tokens. Those I'll set to max when I get rid of the 1 million context. The problem is the context rot that starts happening with useless things, which now you have to be much more vigilant to manage actively versus before, because your input token count will explode with the new default.

BREAKING

MCPs are the opposite of dead. They are the life blood of how AI agents use services inside mid-sized and above companies. Case in point: Uber runs on MCPs internally, for good reason. Details: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-uber-use…

@aggeloschoriano @grok check the facts

Γιατί 6 δεξαμενόπλοια του κ. Προκοπίου περάσαν κανονικά το Ορμούζ εν μέσω πολέμου ΗΠΑ - Ισραήλ - Ιράν; Δεν ήταν επικίνδυνο για το πλήρωμα; Η απάντηση είναι εκπληκτικά απλή και στην Ελλάδα δεν έχει γίνει ακόμα κατανοητή εδώ και 4 ημέρες. Το Ορμούζ το ''έκλεισε'' το Λονδίνο. Όχι η Τεχεράνη. Το Ιράν τεχνικά δεν μπορεί να κλείσει το Ορμούζ με κανέναν τρόπο. Η αστεία κυβέρνηση Στάρμερ έδωσε εντολή στις 6 μεγαλύτερες ασφαλιστικές πλοίων (είναι όλες βρετανικές με έδρα το Λονδίνο) να ακυρώσουν όλα τα ασφάλιστρα για πλοία/φορτία και προσωπικό που περνούν από την περιοχή. Κατ' επέκταση τα πλοία τα πλοία αρνούντο να περάσουν το Στενό, στο οποίο δεν έχει σημειωθεί ούτε ένα πλήγμα σε εμπορικό πλοίο. Η ισχύς στον πλανήτη προέρχεται από την ιδιωτικό τομέα στον δυτικό κόσμο. 'Οχι από το κράτος. Το κράτος αν και όταν χρειαστεί κάνει ''leasing'' αυτήν την ισχύ.

there's no reason to allow disposable emails to sign up on your SaaS. If you use better-auth, here's a handy plugin npmjs.com/package/better…

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Most Valuable Startups of 2025 🦄 1. 🇺🇸 Thinking Machines (AI) — $12B 2. 🇺🇸 Kalshi (Fintech) — $11B 📈 3. 🇺🇸 Harvey (AI) — $8B 📈 4. 🇺🇸 OpenEvidence (Health AI) — $6B 5. 🇺🇸 Abridge (Biotech) — $5.3B 6. 🇺🇸 Supabase (Dev Tools) — $5B 📈 7. 🇺🇸 Baseten (AI) — $5B 📈 8. 🇺🇸 Quince (Retail) — $4.5B 9. 🇺🇸 Saronic (Defense) — $4B 10. 🇺🇸 Decart (AI) — $3.2B 11. 🇺🇸 Filevine (Legal Tech) — $3B 12. 🇺🇸 Field AI (Robotics) — $2B 13. 🇺🇸 Chaos (Defense Tech) — $2B 14. 🇳🇱 Framer (Design) — $2B 15. 🇸🇪 Neko Health (Health) — $1.8B 16. 🇸🇪 Lovable (AI) — $1.8B Note : All reached/surpassed unicorn status in 2025 Source: Crunchbase, TechCrunch, BestBrokers

Europe does not need more venture capital for startups. It needs more investable startups for VC. Sweden has 10 m. people and 48 unicorns. Italy has 6x people and 4x the GDP and 1/3 the unicorns. The difference is not lack of VC money. With Per Strömberg. siliconcontinent.com/p/why-sweden-h…

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@nikpolale It’s a risk management thing.

@koslib do you do refunds in this case? I usually refund if customer didn't intend to make a purchase or he's not happy with a tool, but damn if he used a tool for half a year.... there's not much to refund tbh. He would've paid almost the same money if he was a monthly sub

customer buys annual sub in september uses it for half a year asks for a refund because "he doesn't remember he signed up for it and he haven't created pins in the last week" ??????