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Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:57PM (#45086516)
I just wanted to follow up and say I was confidently wrong previously. Thanks for posting, and for the idea.
Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:47PM (#45056269)
Hey, thanks for this! Prompted me to take a look at the HN guidelines :).
Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:45PM (#45056250)
One hack to find a lot of these SPV as a service filings is to search "a series of". They do have a formulaic filing process, but from looking into it, adding "fund I" is not part of that. It usually does indicate that its the first syndicate of the parent promoter, but they don't do it for every filing. Here is a search query where you can kind of see the variance: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/search/#/q=a%2520series%2520of&cat...
Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:29PM (#45055380)
On the topic of "logical markets", it's not so much how logical a market is and more how much liquidity and available funds exist in the market. It doesn't matter if the market is logical or not, if there is a relative scarcity of funds there is bound to be a contraction.
Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:00PM (#45055078)
Form ADV is the form used to register an investment advisor, which is fundamentally different than disclosing a fundraising event. It could definitely be interested to look into. The SEC presents its data in a relatively simple format. Here is the link for Form ADV historical filing data: https://www.sec.gov/foia-services/frequently-requested-docum...
Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Thursday August 28, 2025 @12:30PM (#45054126)
You were actually right. I went and checked to see that some (not all) values were double counted. I've updated the graph to reflect this, and added a note. The trend remains identical, despite this change. Thanks for inspiring me to double check.
Re:The startup bubble that no one is talking about on Thursday August 28, 2025 @12:00PM (#45053827)
Great points! Obviously this analysis is not unconfounded as the methodology is pretty scrappy.

On point 3, I think both large and small investment groups saw large growth. This is lightly supported by the spike in filings related to SPV as a service companies like Angellist.

Re:Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:32PM (#43325739)
Another great resource on RL is Mykel Kochenderfer's suite of textbooks: https://algorithmsbook.com/
Re:Show HN: PyKidos, Teach Your Kid Python in the Browser on Thursday March 14, 2024 @01:33PM (#39706749)
Additionally, Stanford's Code in Place has open accessed all of their python materials https://codeinplace.stanford.edu
This is impressive, so congratulations. I also think that this is a great example of how open source can simply lead to faster and better acceleration.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:20AM (#36599347)
https://whir.tech/ It's a bit silly but I'm enjoying it so far.
I suppose the difference here is that the content will look different unique enough to fool these tools. Bots copy and paste stuff all the time, but now it seems it would be easier to fake an a surge of unique human responses.
Interesting case and I appreciate you raising the point. I definitely see what you mean, however, I could see the quality going from trying to spam a post with irrelevant content to spamming with relevant but incorrect content. Again though, you're right that many current systems do seem to work to a reasonable extent.
As the content becomes even more indistinguishable from human written content, wouldn't it be valuable to bad actors who wish to perpetrate heaps of unique writing representing their perspective? Not trying to fear monger (although I may sound like it) but while I agree 99.9% of people will stop posting "AI wrote this blog post" etc blogs, there are bound to be parties that begin mass producing content and infiltrating the non tech savvy person's timeline?

Ask HN: What will stop AI generated content from flooding the internet?

Recently got into a discussion with a friend about how AI generated content allows for the mass production of unique lengthy content that is being and will be used to disseminate misinformation and advertisements.My question is what protections are in place to stop people from using a mix of SEO and AI generation to flood the internet and our search results with machine produced content...

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