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the market cap of the world's most valuable public corp has grown at ~24% annually over the past decade (Apple @ 2016 vs Nvidia @ 2026)

in 2016, who would've thought this kind of growth...

so is it like CloudflareOS ? https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

seems every company that has spare engineering resource all builds such thing internally

They had a demo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101234

`ssh superlogical.jobs` gives me same vibe as telnet bbs when I was in college :)

I believe the competent people at Google did a ton of research before any M&A and private investments like SpaceX.

but I doubt they could have thought through every possible outcome or every direction a private investment might take

we humans have limitations. Oftentimes, good investing involves luck and intuition. It may still be far better than gambling, but it can’t be 100% data-driven or explained purely in scientific terms

Who knows? SpaceX could eventually launch something truly groundbreaking or something completely unexpected in the far future, and Google couldn’t have known that when they made the investment. We simply don’t know. Sometimes we just have to attribute it to luck, intuition, or something we can’t fully explain.

Alphabet is the modern day berkshire hathaway.

Alphabet’s investment holdings (eg, spacex, anthropic..) are worth in the same order of magnitude of BRK’s (~$300B)

The track record of google’s M&A is pretty good.

Except for search and cloud, many of Google’s important products were from M&A - Maps, Docs, android, doubleclick, youtube , deep mind, etc.

It’s a great way for developers or ai agents to test drive an API without creating and account and getting an API key from the api provider.

This could also make abusing use / DDoS attack very costly

If contents are generated instantly via llm and packaged as books, videos, podcasts, pull requests etc, then they don’t deserve human attention.

At listennotes.com , we have to delete tons of fake podcasts submitted to our site [1]

why do people create fake podcasts? they want to get backlinks from all podcast directories

podcasts are distributed via rss feed. and spammers/"growth hackers" put tons of links in the rss feed.

and podcast hosting services (especially those allow free trials, e.g., rss.com, ) could help them one-click to distribute to a bunch of podcast apps / websites. this is like one-click large scale spamming automation

any examples? here you go -

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=UU88%20

* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/search?term=%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89

* https://open.spotify.com/search/%E6%B6%A8%E7%B2%89/podcasts

most podcast websites / apps don't delete fake podcasts like we do at listennotes.com . so i guess the backlink hack w/ fake podcasts works. real human podcast listeners might suffer with spammy fake shows even on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

[1] https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

From our experience at listennotes.com over past ~10 years - people do click share buttons. For us, it's still worth the screen real estate to place share buttons.

It’s basically bullshit jobs — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

The compensation can be high, but the psychological cost is real. Over time, that tradeoff isn’t always worth it: someone might earn more in the short term, yet pay for it with chronic stress, declining mental health, and even a shorter lifespan compared to a lower-paid role that’s more meaningful and less draining.

This is awesome!

Maybe google web search should automatically label ai-generated articles

dataset for ~40,000 ai slop podcasts - https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak...

And Listen Notes is removing 4000 to 8000 ai slop podcasts per month - https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

Similar stats for podcasts - https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/#growth

I’m building CurateKit.com - a lightweight content curation tool.

I always have growing lists of short texts, facts, and links that I wanted to host on a standalone site rather than burying them in a notes app. The workflow is simple: a browser extension to clip links with remarks, which then feeds into a public-facing list.

I’ve also added a "Substack-lite" feature. Instead of long-form writing, it lets you send simple roundup email digests (e.g., "Top 5 links this week") to opt-in subscribers.

My personal blog (wenbin.org) is currently powered by the tool.

CurateKit.com is in private beta while I'm fine-tuning a few things now, but I’m opening up invites to the waitlist over the next few days if anyone wants to give it a try.

“pessimists sound smart , but optimists make money”

Does this mean AWS's #1 position is safe?

Every big cloud provider has its share of UX/stability/customer support issues.

At this point, it feels less like AWS is the 'least bad' option because alternatives are even worse.