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RT @JamesTobyne: If you vote on one thing in CA this election season, vote against prop 33, and for prop 34 so the slumlord in LA is preven…

RT @moseskagan: California voters: Vote *No* on *Prop 33* (yet another asinine attempt to rent control new construction and thereby shut d…

Partner effects are negligible 🤯 We truly need to be the change we want to see in the world

RT @SpaceGrenadier: San Francisco politics - Fund out of town junkies and criminals. Defund our own children. 🤡🤦🏽‍♀️

RT @emissionite: Last year when my local activism awakened, my first question was: how can we reform gov't so it doesn't fail us so absurdl…

RT @annimaniac: SUHSD’s goal of eliminating Honors/AS classes was to increase later enrollment of underrepresented students in advanced cla…

RT @rohindhar: Apparently *every single* member of the Board of Supervisors voted to expand rent control in San Francisco if Prop 33 passes…

RT @chafkin: Lina Khan is….based? https://t.co/QCZIC0usrh

RT @bilalmahmood: Dean Preston says he’s “for the people, not the powerful.” He poses as a socialist and complains about capitalism and te…

RT @terronk: Encouraging people to take a closer look at Mark Farrell. The most entrenched interests in San Francisco’s status quo, from f…

RT @adampnathan: San Francisco has 130 commissions while Los Angeles has 49. Why do we have elected officials if everything from new housin…

These people literally destroyed San Francisco and created the doom loop “Pissed off Voters” = ruined SF

RT @scheiner_esty: Here at @ycombinator with @sama for the OpenAI x yc O1 hackathon and the energy is unreal!!! Lets GOOO 🚀🚀 https://t.co/…

The nonprofit grift machine that ruined BART and made the Bay Area unsafe is deeply associated with Lurie and Tipping Point. Lateefah Simon is literally on Tipping Point’s board https://t.co/XTFYF3oFt2

Szabo is an operative who has destroyed this city and will only gain more power with a well meaning rich guy who isn’t in the weeds at the top

Let me be totally frank: you don’t want Daniel Lurie as mayor of San Francisco The Chesa-loving useful idiots and the nonprofit swamp people are going to run this town if you vote this guy in https://t.co/9s1wStynVI

RT @Twolfrecovery: Mark is a decent guy. And while I don't have a pony in the race for mayor of San Francisco, it's clear the dirty campaig…

RT @AravSrinivas: nothing explains the difference better than this

RT @Overlap_Tech: Trae Stephens on the early days of Palantir “It was a much slower start than people remember … it was a long, hard slog.…

RT @Techweek_: Tuesday night of #SFTechWeek heats up with a fireside chat ft. @snowmaker from @YCombinator with @AMasad and @pirroh from @R…

I love @X but I’m also on @tik I will often post stuff on there that I have not put on X because each social platform has different advantages and disadvantages . Please take a look and give me a follow! #TikTok https://t.co/CyI9WnUE1b

I’ve done extensive independent journalism the last year with my good friend and photo journalist @tarafaul503. We have been on many crazy adventures and have recorded incredible events. I do the video interviews and she takes all the photos. She’s well worth a follow! https://t.co/8YuLO8UzMN

RT @alexandr_wang: At the YC Alumni Reunion, I got lots of questions from new founders about how to build a successful company, but realize…

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RT @CorinneMRiley: "Omg did you see what this AI sai-" You bolt awake in your SoMA apartment. It is 2024. Your X feed is all Braintrust Se…

RT @howietl: @braintrustdata @martin_casado @a16z Nice job @ankrgyl and team! Airtable is a happy customer : ).

RT @DefiantLs: Trump: "Where's Gays For Trump?" Supporter: "We're over here!" Trump: "You don't look gay." https://t.co/HGqAGkJ8XE

RT @TVietor08: Listened to @KamalaHarris on @callherdaddy. @alexandracooper covers Kamala's upbringing, values, and an in-depth conversatio…

#WTFSummit outtake: DEI realtalk with these Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging trailblazers. Thank you for sharing your wisdom Jennifer Sutton, Head of DEB @Instacart, @joelle_emerson, CEO & Founder, Paradigm and Traci Mack, Head of DEI @DoorDash. #DEI #visionaries https://t.co/ZMNEmBF8Nh

🎥 WATCH: Liz Reid, VP & Head of Search, @Google joined us today at #WTFSummit, where she emphasized the importance “Good SEO requires good content, not just recycling what 100 people said. They would actually rather hear a unique perspective, if you can share something that's https://t.co/Am8cH3Duj3

RT @kane: San Francisco is a geographically blessed city w a $14B budget for 800k people. That's the highest in the entire USA other than D…

RT @t_blom: ‘Founder Mode’ — does it even exist? The real secret to building a great company isn't the title, it's about staying in the d…

RT @agarwal: San Francisco is not far-left, but our politicians are. The average San Franciscan wants to arrest criminals, teach kids alge…

Defund SF Bike Coalition

RT @agarwal: The League of Pissed Off Voters just endorsed the worst politicians in SF: Dean Preston, Connie Chan, and Aaron Peskin. If yo…

Evals are important! https://t.co/4cAtNCUrs8

"Don't rawdog your prompts" is an entire AI infra category tbh

RT @chrysb: Had a great chat with @m2jr last week about the importance of a good onboarding. On @joinrosebud, 95% of people complete onboa…

RT @Overlap_Tech: Brian Chesky on what it takes to be a founder "The world doesn't just change. It doesn't just transform to our dreams, i…

Say it. Do it. Repeat. Some people won’t say it. Many people won’t do it. And even more people won’t make it a habit. It = your dream.

RT @signulll: the gap between the very rich & everyone else is actually shrinking drastically over time due to hyper capitalism + tech. -…

RT @traestephens: Having a hard time coming up with a cope more lame than this one from @abebrown716 in @theinformation over the weekend.…

RT @snowmaker: Heard from a startup today that o1-preview made their product work overnight. "Many use cases we struggled to get above 80%…

RT @KonstantinKisin: Having listened to the arguments of both sides over the last year, I'm no longer on the fence about Israel's war. Here…

Interesting to see Trump surging ahead of Kamala today in the prediction markets (e.g. Polymarket, below) -- which tend to be more accurate than conventional polls, since real money is on the line. Wonder what changed? https://t.co/boV1LVkKTV

RT @dflieb: @AmanGotchu Android developers are too often overlooked. Not anymore! Congrats on the launch, guys.

RT @vchennai2: Seen these guys grind for 10+ hours min every single day

RT @RealRichomie: 🚀 How to become the next "DoorDash" when expanding to SMB: Key tips for selling 🤫 1️⃣ Reverse-engineer signals Search fo…

RT @UbicloudHQ: Today, we're excited to announce managed @paradedb on Ubicloud! https://t.co/j8stJKpew1 Here's what you get: * Easy to u…

RT @AmanGotchu: Excited to publicly launch Firebender, the most powerful AI assistant for Android Studio. This is how we got here 🔥🧵 https…

RT @GrowSF: The Richmond needs a Supervisor who will prioritize public safety. We need to fully staff our police department, arrest fentany…

RT @t_blom: What is "founder mode"? 🤔 Leaders must stay connected to the details of their product, have an incredibly high bar for quality…

RT @vincentchu: I got to chat with @brettdg about how AI/ML is transforming a whole host of industries, including mortgage underwriting.…

When I reflect on the 16 years since becoming a YC alum, I will say that I did become a very different person than the person I was at the start of the program I learned how to become a founder

RT @alexandr_wang: At the YC Alumni Reunion, I got lots of questions from new founders about how to build a successful company, but realize…

RT @kane: this is the nonprofit that @DeanPreston and staffer @irockgnomes sent tax money and dozens of san francisco businesses that had b…

RT @VoteYesProp36: A recent @BerkeleyIGS/@LAtimes poll shows that 73% of Latinos support Prop 36, alongside 60% of likely voters overall.…

RT @Trevor4SF: This afternoon masked cowards vandalized Manny’s with antisemitic graffiti. Let’s be clear: Manny’s was targeted because he…

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RT @ulricmusset: Getting into @ycombinator will change your life Some reasons to go to YC:

Founder Mode was a hot topic everywhere I went. The attitude felt more “no bs” than I can remember. Lots of talk around being hands-on and deeply invested in every aspect of your company—without crossing into micromanagement. Frustrations with and talk of ending remote work

While much of the world has ignored or even tried to kill crypto, its future is quietly being built by a small group of heads-down, laser-focused YC alum. I caught up with several teams, including @jpren and @brianli101, who were crystal clear on their KPIs, had bold goals, and

RT @Bible365_: Pray. 🙏 https://t.co/oQoA3WpsYD

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Nobody wants to switch their HCM system (or any system really) 2x in 12 or even 24 months, so important to make sure you think about where your vendors are going vs just where they are today. Low R&D investment = same legacy product for years to come.

just integrated my EchoSign eSignature account with Twitter https://t.co/zAS2T1Z9Xp

One thing I noticed in the most recent @ycombinator batch is how many of the fastest-growing companies sold AI agents. They’re going to be huge. Jared’s tweet thread is a phenomenal breakdown of how they’re made, and what sets the best ones apart.

I was pondering this morning how OpenAI's $6.5b raise is pretty incredible -- and also less than California has already spent on a high-speed train to nowhere. It's actually a little crazy that government capital is so misallocated in the US. Not sure why it happens.

I think I might rank Safai over him https://t.co/spoJwjyuhV

RT @kane: “I was just noting what people were chanting” > couldn’t be bothered to note the targeting and vandalization of Jewish businesse…

RT @kane: people in masks and keffiyehs are defacing Jewish businesses in the San Francisco Mission and the Mission Local blog @MLNow is ch…

RT @terronk: Outrageous. Hillary Ronen, what are you doing about blatant antisemitic hate against local businesses in your district? Manny…

RT @jasonlk: .@Rippling CRO @mdplank came to SaaStr Annual 2024 with ex-@brexHQ CRO @samdblond to go an incredible deep dive on "Rippling’s…

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On prompt engineering: think of an educated lay person who has no specific information. Fun hack: show your prompt to a real human being. If they don’t understand, speak to them until they do. Then anything you needed to tell them verbally, add it to the prompt. https://t.co/rkERI82n7S

RT @alittlemorewine: This talk by @snowmaker and @alexandr_wang was probably my favorite of the @ycombinator alumni weekend reunion, and pr…

RT @leilavclark: One thing I noticed in the most recent @ycombinator batch is how many of the fastest-growing companies sold AI agents. The…

RT @snowmaker: Most prompts will start around 60% accuracy on a battery of 100+ tests. You have to keep iterating on the prompt until it p…

RT @micsolana: tag yourself i’m billionaire extremism https://t.co/wM59hHUwZt

RT @rohanpaul_ai: One of the great problems of this decade - "How do you get LLMs to hit 100% accuracy?" 01-preview shows us one great sol…

“There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals for government control in their ideal form, as they might work if run by able, disinterested men free from the pressure of

RT @snowmaker: CaseText is one of the first vertical AI agents to be deployed at scale. It's an AI legal analyst used by thousands of lawye…

RT @samsinger: It takes brave souls, like Brenda Grisham, to stand up the the tyranny of @AlamedaCountyDA Pam Price, who has physically thr…

RT @ekzhang1: did you know that most programming languages are just "C wrappers" https://t.co/kLW5a82MCy

RT @yanatweets: The Founder Mode Academy 🧡 I had some amazing interactions with fellow YC founders this week. Grateful to @ycombinator fo…

RT @hellosimar: When the founder of @webflow gives you insights at @ycombinator alumni reunion. The power of YC is 🔥🔥 https://t.co/jlitCf…

Vannevar Bush describing the Memex in 1945: “Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, ‘memex’ will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, https://t.co/f723cVF8Mw

RT @Noahpinion: YIMBYs are focused on housing and transit, which are extremely important. But to get walkable, livable cities like this, yo…