andygcook

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Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B(investors.bendingspoons.com)
104 points by andygcook 7d ago|77 comments
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Meta is killing off the Horizon Worlds metaverse. It lost $80B(qz.com)
7 points by andygcook 6mo ago|1 comments
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US Job Market Visualizer(karpathy.ai)
503 points by andygcook 6mo ago|359 comments
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Boston Cooked the Golden Goose(garryslist.org)
2 points by andygcook 7mo ago|3 comments
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by andygcook 1y ago
Congratulations on the launch! FYI there is a pretty well-known YC startup named Vanta that helps companies manage various security compliance certifications. Obviously, there are often different services that share the same name, but given
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AI Avatar of Slain Murder Victim Addresses Killer in Court(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by andygcook 1y ago|0 comments
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What If Studio Ghibli Directed Lord of the Rings?(twitter.com)
7 points by andygcook 1y ago|0 comments
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Trump expected to take control of USPS and fire postal board(washingtonpost.com)
68 points by andygcook 2y ago|20 comments
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Getaround abruptly shuts down US car-sharing operations(techcrunch.com)
2 points by andygcook 2y ago|0 comments
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by andygcook 2y ago
If you didn't make it to the end of the article, there's a GoFundMe to help with care for Jake and Bess's daughter, Athena: https://www.gofundme.com/f/secure-a-bright-future-for-bess-a...
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by andygcook 2y ago
Filestack was acquired by Scaleworks: https://www.scaleworks.com/companies It’s not really dead, but not really a “startup” in the traditional sense anymore either.
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by andygcook 2y ago
For context, Coda's last valuation was $1.4B in July 2021 and Grammarly's was $13B in November 2021. Grammarly's revenue is likely taking a hit with the rise of LLMs and they were always at risk of being a feature by not ow
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by andygcook 2y ago
I started a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones. If you have kids, it makes a good holid
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by andygcook 2y ago
According to Verisign, there’s over 1.5M domains registered on the .io TLD. According to this Wikipedia entry, there were 800 domains registered on the .an TLD the year it was phased out. Who knows what ICANN will do, but my guess is there
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by andygcook 2y ago
For context, Drew Houston's total compensation for the year in 2023 was $1.5M: > According to our data, Dropbox, Inc. ... paid its CEO total annual compensation worth US$1.5m over the year to December 2023. That's a notable inc
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Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy(techcrunch.com)
14 points by andygcook 2y ago|2 comments
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Amazon invests more than $500M to develop small modular nuclear reactors(cnbc.com)
5 points by andygcook 2y ago|1 comments
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United Airlines is adding free Starlink Wi-Fi to all of its planes(theverge.com)
9 points by andygcook 2y ago|0 comments
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I built an AI voice agent that called the DMV to schedule an appointment for me(twitter.com)
3 points by andygcook 2y ago|1 comments
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by andygcook 2y ago
The videos on the site didn’t work on mobile for me. Found this YouTube video with some footage of the electric giraffe and an explanation from the maker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfG2Ur5TGHQ
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Lokiceratops, a Horned Dinosaur, May Be a New Species(nytimes.com)
1 points by andygcook 2y ago|0 comments
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by andygcook 3y ago
Plugging the Pi Day Challenge, an online puzzle math quest all about pi created by my high school math teacher, Mr. Plummer (aka Plum). He’s been updating it with new puzzles for the past 15 years with the only goal of getting students exci
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Reddit Announces the The Directed Share Program For IPO(old.reddit.com)
5 points by andygcook 3y ago|0 comments
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NFL's Official YouTube Video Removes Alicia Key's Sour Note from Halftime Show(twitter.com)
10 points by andygcook 3y ago|2 comments
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NYC Parents Pay $120k per Year for Ivy League Admissions Consultants(nymag.com)
4 points by andygcook 3y ago|1 comments
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New App by Founder of Kayak for Reserving Cheetah Sightings on Safari(wsj.com)
1 points by andygcook 3y ago|0 comments
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Emergency-hired teachers without degrees as effective as licensed educators(the74million.org)
140 points by andygcook 3y ago|198 comments
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Open-relationship enthusiasts crash mainstream romance apps(wsj.com)
31 points by andygcook 3y ago|46 comments
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Welcome Back to the Unicorn Club, 10 Years Later(cowboy.vc)
2 points by andygcook 3y ago|0 comments
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by andygcook 3y ago
Top quote I say has to be, "Nice jorb, the Chort!" and top mental sound bite I play in my head is "404'd!" whenever a page throws a 404 error.

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