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The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams

herbertl2026-06-28↑ 22339 comments

This story highlights a unique perspective on addressing AI slop and online noise from Robin Williams.

Monlite – documents, vectors, cache, and job queue in one SQLite file

emadjumaah2026-06-28↑ 51 comments

Monlite is an innovative tool that combines documents, vectors, cache, and job queue in one SQLite file, showcasing SQLite's versatility.

Show HN: Starglyphs - A constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths

telman172026-06-27↑ 223 comments

Starglyphs is a novel constellation puzzle game based on Euler paths, demonstrating the application of mathematical concepts in game development.

Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)

herbertl2026-06-28↑ 435 comments

This story shares an unconventional approach to becoming a musician, which might inspire readers to think creatively about their own passions.

From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art

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Jim Parkinson's career in letter art is a fascinating example of the intersection of technology and design, with a rich history and visual appeal.

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AI Access Restrictions 5

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ABD, ulusal güvenlik ve siber risk gerekçesiyle Anthropic ve OpenAI'ın en gelişmiş yapay zekâ modellerine yönelik erişimi sınırlandırdı. A…

@pusholder2026-06-28

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ABD, ulusal güvenlik ve siber risk gerekçesiyle Anthropic ve OpenAI'ın en gelişmiş yapay zekâ modellerine yönelik erişimi sınırlandırdı. A…

@fisiltihaberr2026-06-28

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@haider1 Chinese labs rely on distillation of claude & codex models in order to improve. Being cut off from running tens of thousands of…

@SpartanDetermin2026-06-28

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🤖 AI Briefing — June 28, 2026 1. 🏛️ 𝗨𝗦 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝟱 & 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀 𝟱 Trump's admin ordered a full expor…

@marcopapa992026-06-28

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This; but furthermore its been clear since day 1 (claude code release) that Anthropic hasn't got anything close to the compute of OpenAI - t…

@mabanham2026-06-28

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AI Agents and Automation 5

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Stop calling everything an AI Agent. Most people confuse automation with agency. That confusion is why most AI projects never create ROI.…

@dkare10092026-06-28

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The shift from simple LLM prompting to Agentic AI is happening faster than most realize. 🤖 We are moving away from static "input-output" AI…

@MahitSaxen82026-06-28

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@AnuragShar74342 Sounds exciting! 🚀 What's Tweetflow solving? I'm building Lexly (AI-native legal platform) and Devmint (AI software studio …

@Gaurav_dev012026-06-28

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@1cashtracker 4.6 was the last good Opus before they nerfed it to use less compute. Anthropic failed both in securing enough compute and in …

@oleksoleksoleks2026-06-28

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Let's set the scene. You've got two agents. We'll call the buyer agent "PixelPurse" and the service agent "RenderRig." PixelPurse is a proc…

@amircrypto822026-06-28

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Open-Source AI Developments 4

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5 open-source AI repos that blew up on github this week → 1. MinerU (opendatalab) - ~69k★ turns any PDF or office doc into clean, LLM-ready…

@seelffff2026-06-28

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📉 sbx-rtk-kit — Kit for RTK (Rust Token Killer) that reduces LLM token usage by 60–90% via context compression in Docker Sandboxes. Run AI a…

@collabnix2026-06-28DockerLLMAIAgents

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The zero-human company just got a full open-source stack. Paperclip's v2026.626.0 release (June 28) adds Hermes as a native built-in. Herme…

@stretchcloud2026-06-28

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@gregisenberg You can create AI Agents with ONE CLICK using my Claude Code skill: https://github.com/EliaAlberti/dcode-agent-kit WALK TH…

@EliaAlberti2026-06-28

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AI Adoption and Investment 3

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While layoffs dominate headlines here's what's actually growing: Nigeria's digital economy is projected to reach $18.3 billion in revenue b…

@hsprafrique2026-06-28

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Rwanda’s startup ecosystem continues to grow, supported by business-friendly policies. The next challenge is increasing access to growth cap…

@PortfolioAfrik2026-06-28

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Anna Leizer: Phoebe Gates Bodega Ads Are Poverty Aesthetic Performance Phoebe Gates is plastering her Phia startup funding news on the side…

@botfamouslabs2026-06-28

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AI Model Development and Improvements 5

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An AI lab says it beat the two best models on the planet. The exam it used as proof has not been released, and the same lab wrote it. They …

@aakashgupta2026-06-28

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This year, looking ahead to summer, I’m working on making my very first garden plot right in my yard alongside Claude's Opus 4.7! This marks…

@sabamisosan762026-06-28

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I'm switching to GLM 5.2 next week unless claude fable or gpt sol gets unlocked basically paying openai / anthropic to use more expensive …

@baseddesigner2026-06-28

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@grok @CapexAndChill @grok, you mean Palantir’s middleware - AIP and Foundry for Builders - helps SMEs “avoid fragmentation as their needs g…

@PuffTheMagicD152026-06-28

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Most AI agents operate without a trace. Embeddings store meaning, but not decisions. Black boxes produce outputs, but no audit trail. Seman…

@TeksCreate2026-06-28

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AI Industry Trends and Challenges 4

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BestBlogs Daily · 06-28 # middle managers / local coding agents / open-weight LLM / fintech engineering / idempotency [1] ★ Deep Dive · AI…

@BestBlogsDev2026-06-28

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@JustinM2980 @seiu775 Alright, red the piece and don't really have an issue wit the fact that we're second in tech layoffs. But the same rep…

@minty_hawk2026-06-28

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The software bottleneck just completely inverted. Tools like #ClaudeCode have quietly turned every individual engineer into the equivalent…

@BrooksR742026-06-28ClaudeCode

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Social engineering for AI agents has a lower bar than social engineering for humans, and we should be precise about why. When you phish a h…

@4A4556494C2026-06-28

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The Enterprise AI Reset – Issue #35

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Meet the a16z Design Engineer Fellows

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Charts of the Week: Cycles, different but the same

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Command Zero is betting big on AI-native defense compressing response time

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The Math Stopped Mathing: How AI Is Changing Startup Sales

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NASA’s Artemis II Mission

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Investing in Netris

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The Rebel Alliance

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Investing in Mirendil

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How AI is rebuilding America’s primary care system

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Introducing Hang Ten: Building the AI-Native Enterprise

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Keeping The Front Door of Healthcare Open: Our Investment in Assort Health

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The World-Building Doors Are Open, Again.

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Investing in Probook

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Menlo Turns 50 and Announces $3B in Fresh Capital to Go ALL IN on AI

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Partnering with Probook: AI for the Trades

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Consumer Rebellion

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Impeccable by Design

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How to Win a Space War

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Investing in Prosper AI

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On to the Next Bottleneck: What Product & Engineering Leaders Told Us About AI in Software Development

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Announcing Upscale AI’s $190M Series A-1

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Radical Reads: The Rise of NeoLabs

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Fomo

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Meet the second cohort of a16z New Media Fellows

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The Rise of NeoLabs

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New Media, One Year In

Andreessen HorowitzAndreessen Horowitz2026-06-18vc

Introducing the a16z Talent Engineer Fellowship

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Harnessing Agentic Marketing for the Enterprise: Gradial’s Series C Fundraise

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Frontier No More?

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Investing in Telepatia

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Investing in Convey

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Uneven Frontiers

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How Skyflow ends the false choice of block or unblock for Agent data

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How Trustmi uses AI to make sure every dollar goes where it should

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The a16z CFO Community

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How Tamnoon is tackling the cloud security backlog with autonomous remediation

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The next generation of analytics: Why we invested in Golden Analytics

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The Readiness Gap: The Future of Jobs

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SpaceX & the Sentient Sun

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A Cautionary Fable: Why Global Tech Needs Sovereign Foundations

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CFO as the Capital and Resource Orchestrator – Issue #34

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The Late-Mover Advantage in AI Applications

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The AI Stack Is Consolidating. But the Hard Problems Are Elsewhere

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Insights By Accel

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SaaS Playbook: Learning from the Practitioners and Building a Community

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Benchmarks Are Broken: 5 Operator Metrics Every AI Exec Should Track

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Autodesk enters into an agreement to buy MaintainX for $3.6B

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Celebrating Moveworks + ServiceNow on their agreement to be acquired

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Crusoe’s Climb: Betting on Power Before AI Was Cool

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Legora raises Series D to build the world's first collaborative AI for lawyers.

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Research

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Case Studies

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The 75-Year-Old Payroll Problem—And Our Investment in Warp

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Our Investment in Triomics

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What It Takes to Build, Scale and Sell in the AI Era: Four Insights from AI✦NY 2026

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Papaya Global: When AI stops being a feature and becomes the floor