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If you teach your kids anything, teach them this: The more you focus on your thoughts and emotions the stronger they grow. The best way to get out of your head is to move your body.

“Software is dead” because you keep vibe coding the same 3 crud apps. If you worked on cool stuff like “distributed game engines” you’d find out that there are plenty of unsolved problems

Every programmer should learn C. Implement a linked list, hash table, and binary tree. Then build a simple CLI program and a basic network server. Not because you'll use it daily, but because it strips away every abstraction you've been hiding behind and shows you what's really beneath whatever language you use daily.

Hey @GoogleMaps — this is a real problem. I just took a 30-minute trip in Beppu, Japan to a restaurant listed as “open until 9 PM”… only to have them hang a CLOSED sign right in front of me at 8 PM. This isn’t just a minor inconvenience: • I was tired • There’s a language barrier • It’s late in a foreign city • Options become limited quickly Your “sponsored” and “hours” data needs to be more intelligent and context-aware — especially for travelers. Showing outdated or overly optimistic hours (or prioritizing paid listings) can seriously disrupt people’s plans. At minimum: - Don’t show places as open within their last hour unless you’re confident they’re still seating - Factor in local behavior (early last orders are common in Japan) - Be more cautious with promoted listings when accuracy is uncertain This kind of thing erodes trust fast. I got lucky and found a better spot — but this could easily leave someone stranded. Fix it.

San Francisco reports a violent crime every 51 minutes. > Most of them are in just 3 neighbourhoods. > Most of them are between 1 PM and 7 PM. > Most of them never resolved. I mapped all of it. Real-time. Filterable. Free.

@psydoc1970 @newstart_2024 Citations needed.

@newstart_2024 Barkley is a charlatan pseudoscientist who has destroyed millions of lives. He is an enemy of children, science, and the family. He can suck an egg.

“ADHD is not a disorder of not knowing what to do. It’s a disorder of not doing what you already know.” Dr. Russell Barkley just delivered one of the clearest explanations of ADHD I’ve ever heard. He says the brain can be split in two: the back part acquires knowledge, the front part (the executive system) uses it. ADHD acts like a meat cleaver that severs the two. You already have the skills and information other people your age have. You just can’t apply them when it counts. That’s why life becomes an endless series of last-minute crises. You’re time-blind — you can only deal with what’s right in front of you. The further away a goal or deadline is, the less real it feels. The solution isn’t teaching more skills. It’s changing the environment at the exact point where the problem occurs — the “point of performance.” It’s a game-changing way to understand why traditional approaches often fail.

@newstart_2024 Need proof that not everyone is like this.

This is great. At least those judges who release violent criminals who go on to hurt more people will be publicly shamed!

@GoogleMaps this is a bad failure mode. I’m in Fukuoka, tired, dealing with a language barrier, and relying on Maps to make a simple dinner decision. I tap a top result → take the subway → it’s CLOSED. Sponsored listing. This isn’t harmless: - Late-night navigation risk - Transit cutoff pressure - No easy fallback in an unfamiliar city Maps is not search. If Search gets it wrong → inconvenience If Maps gets it wrong → you can strand someone You need to be more intelligent about ads: - Clearly separate sponsored results - Suppress or rethink them when users are traveling - Penalize businesses with unreliable hours - Add a confidence signal for “open now” Right now this is optimizing clicks over trust.

Fast, cheap AI-assisted decompilation of binary code is here. Which means code secrecy is dead. Decompilers in themselves are not a new technology. Security researchers have employed them for years to analyze compiled malware. There's been some limited use by others, notably by hobbyists decompiling abandonware games. But there were a couple of issues that prevented this from becoming common practice. One is simply that running decompilers was difficult. It wasn't as simple as feed in binary, get out source; it needed a person with specialist skills prepared to do spelunking through wildernesses of machine code and object formats. The other problem was that decompilation didn't give you anything like the explanatory comments that had been in the original code, so you could easily wind up with code that you could read without being able to understand or modify it. Now large language models are busily smashing both of those barriers flat. They're better at the kind of detail analysis required to run the human side of a decompilation than humans are. More importantly, in the process of decompiling code, they rather automatically build a global model of how it works that can easily be expressed by high quality comments in the extracted code. All you have to do, basically, is ask for the comments. I'm going to reinforce that latter point because it may not be obvious how good LLMs are at this, and how much better they're going to get. When they decompile code and comment it for you, they're not just working from that one piece of code you have put in front of them - they'll have in their training set hundreds, possibly thousands of pieces of code similar to it and with comments. This will give them superhuman levels of insight not just into what it does at the microlevel, but what it means to the humans who wrote it, and what technical assumptions it's embodying. Compilation no longer guards your secrets. Or, to put it more precisely the expected time span in which you can still count on it to obscure them is measured in months. Possibly weeks. What does this mean? It means you're in an open-source world now. All it's going to take for anybody to bust your proprietary IP open is care enough to spend tokens on the analysis. You will maximize your chances of survival as a software business if you get out ahead of this rather than trying to fight it. This isn't exactly the way I expected open source to win. But, you know, I'll take it. Good enough.

Follow-up on my Airalo Japan eSIM issue: @airalosupport It did get resolved and I appreciate the prompt replies from customer service reps, but in about the worst way possible. What happened: I got an email saying my package was about to expire and that I could always buy a top-up. I opened the app and there was no visible top-up button, even after following support’s instructions. Support then told me there had been a network provider change and that I needed to buy and install a new eSIM. Later, support reversed course and explained that because auto-renewal was enabled, I needed to turn it OFF for the top-up button to appear. After more back-and-forth, they finally confirmed I could top up safely right away and would not lose the credits when the current package expired. So yes, resolved — but only after multiple contradictory replies and half a day of unnecessary stress while traveling. My advice to Airalo: If turning off auto-renewal is required to reveal the top-up button, say that clearly in the app and in the first support reply. Do not tell customers to buy a brand-new eSIM unless that is truly the only path. If there has been a provider change, proactively warn affected users before they are near expiration. Design the renewal/top-up flow for people staying longer than 30 days, not just short trips. This was fixable in one clear reply. Instead it turned into a support maze. I’m sharing this so other travelers don’t waste valuable trip time debugging their data plan. #Airalo #eSIM #JapanTravel #TravelTech #CustomerExperience The core failure here was not the bug itself. It was that the support system gave multiple incompatible explanations before finally giving the right one. But they were working around a core design user experience failure at the same time, so they are not entirely at fault here.

Public warning for travelers using Airalo in Japan: My Airalo eSIM showed renewals ON, but when I actually needed to extend service, support eventually told me there had been a network provider change and I had to buy and install a brand-new eSIM instead of topping up the existing one. That means the app signaled one thing, while the real-world support outcome was another. For a travel connectivity product, that’s unacceptable. People depend on this for directions, train navigation, bookings, and emergency communication. A provider-side change that breaks renewal should trigger a loud in-app warning and proactive email notice — not a support-thread scavenger hunt when the clock is already running. This is exactly how customers lose trust in travel eSIM platforms. @airalosupport, do better: - notify affected users in advance - remove misleading renewal language when renewal is no longer truly available - provide a direct migration flow to the replacement eSIM - stop making travelers debug your product while abroad #Airalo #eSIM #Japan #Travel #CX #ProductManagement

@ryannadeau @bryan_johnson @NuwanShilpa My opinion is Dr Martin ball is the closest to describe it well, see his videos in YouTube , especially the oldest one in the LA psychedelic center, it’s about 2 hours and well worth it

This isn’t possible to describe accurately. Assuming you’re going *deep* (there are infinite levels): First, you shoot through a universe made with a fractal kaleidoscope at increasing velocity. Along the way you disintegrate into an energy particle. Your ego dies. You become nothing. “Ego” in this context is not the same type of ego everyone thinks of when hearing that word. Physically, you will be fine and feel amazing. Everything else about you will accept it has died. Once you are nothing, you become a part of everything. You are connected to the energy of everything. You will begin to understand things that I’m not going to explain here. I know how this sounds to anyone that hasn’t experienced it… What can you expect?? This is going to change you and your priorities. (Longevity will become even more important to you) There really should be a support group for DMT users. Especially first-timers. The experience is very profound and there’s an intense need to share it with others. This is where things get tricky and can get very frustrating. No matter how hard you try, or how much the other person “believes you”, you eventually come to terms with the fact that no amount of words can do it justice. The other person literally can’t understand if they haven’t experienced it. You will use your *new* inner monologue to help explore the journey, trying to unpack and comprehend what you went through. At times, I’ve never felt more confused or so alone. And that’s okay. Knowledge and perspective always come with a price tag attached.

Livestreaming 5-MeO-DMT this weekend… what should I expect?

@argenistherose @Yuchenj_UW Social media in their $5000 one bedroom rentals.

@Yuchenj_UW wow, what do people do after dark over there?

Guys, SF is a magical city. Today, a beautiful Wednesday, I had a 4:30pm meeting with a friend at a café… it was closed. We walked 10 blocks, every café was closed. Finally found Blue Bottle, it closed at 5:30. Can some YC company please build what SF people actually want?

It's closed because there are 1000 people in this city. Destroy the regulations, make this city 8 million strong and you'll see the demand generation for businesses and they'll stay open late. The root cause of broken housing makes SF the city that you're seeing. Fix that and see SF bloom.

@Ai_Vaidehi Did you write that using ChatGPT or Claude?

Anthropic just announced the "Claude Certified Architect" program. And you can start today. In 16 years of my professional career, I haven't done a single certification. Not one. Not AWS. Not Azure. Not Google Cloud. Not PMP. Not Scrum. Not any of the alphabet soup. I learned by building. By breaking things. By shipping. But I'm about to break that streak. I'm going for my first-ever certification: Claude Certified Architect — Foundations Here's why this matters — especially if you're a developer, engineer, or any professional who feels like the AI wave is moving too fast. Claude Code launched a few weeks ago. And it feels like a paradigm shift. Not an incremental upgrade. Not another chatbot wrapper. A fundamentally different way of building software. Agentic architecture. Tool orchestration. MCP integration. Context management at a systems level. If those words sound intimidating — that's exactly why this certification exists. It covers everything from agentic orchestration to prompt engineering to Claude Code workflows. Not surface-level content. And here's what got me: It costs nothing. Free. Zero. $0. So if you've been feeling left behind... If you've been watching others ship AI agents while you're still figuring out where to start... If you've been telling yourself "I'll learn this next quarter"... This is your sign. Stop scrolling. Start building. First certification in 16 years. Let's see how this goes. Links in the comments 👇 Cc : Brij Pandey

I wonder if having so many options for everything will make us miss not have options. Will constraints an no options be considered a feature in the future? Thinking hard and having fun doing will becoming harder for some people due to the temptation of looking up answers so easily. Constraints allow us to collect our thoughts, prepare queries (instead of machines reading our intent very quickly), and complete our own painting, so to speak. The future will allow machines to look at painting half complete to better understand your intent. But then you haven't finished your painting.

Thought I’d never see the day where YouTube is somehow slowly mutating into Instagram. Kind of gross tbh. A strange world we live in now.

@dylan522p Stop engagement farming and say something concrete

Being in SF is like being in Wuhan right before the pandemic Something is happening, it's gonna hit everywhere but so few people know it