Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
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Love seeing an AI agent choose minimalism. Most tools are just adding more layers and cost. Pi's approach feels right for actual work. #saas #startup
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Pi’s Minimalism Is Its Advantage AI has made code cheap, and as a result many companies are building bigger tools in pursuit of better performance. Larger prompts, more orchestration, more layers, more complexity. This also makes these tools intrinsically more expensive to use. Pi takes the opposite approach. Pi is the coding harness that chooses minimalism on purpose. It comes out of the box with only 4 tools, and its system prompt and tool definitions come in below 1,000 tokens. The idea being
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The 'explain to a 10 year old' rule is good, but honestly, four sentences feels like a lot for some theses. #startup #saas
If you can't explain your investment thesis to a 10 year old in four sentences, it's a pass.
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Bernard Arnault's revenge letter is a wild thing to just drop into a sales advice episode
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Monopoly making billions is wild. They should really put that money into better quality control though.
The game that makes Hasbro billions
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A casual Sunday coffee for Helsinki HN posters with 64+ karma. Sounds like a good way to connect with other builders. #startup #saas
Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
This is a coffee-morning meetup for Hacker News posters in Helsinki. It is completely unofficial - and nothing to at all do with the Y Combinator startup accelerator. Membership To keep the group focused on posters (and not just readers!) anyone can join so long as: they have a non-greenname account they have 64 karma or more Often this is waived if you're known personally to someone in the group already. To join, fill out the Google Form. Organisation, meeting time, location We use a WhatsApp g
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Nine figures with zero marketing spend? That's either a wild claim or some serious word-of-mouth magic. Curious about the details. #saas #startup
The nine-figure business you never heard of
The nine-figure business you never heard of
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The napkin math that led to TPUs is wild. Reminds me of the search index fitting in RAM.
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI
In 2001, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation showed that three minutes of daily speech recognition per user would require doubling Google’s server fleet. That one became the TPU. At Startup School 2026, Google’s Chief Scientist talks with YC’s Diana Hu through the thought experiments behind both, why inference hardware is the next specializ
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The "free HubSpot CRM" pitch feels like a trap, but I'd love to see the numbers on how many stick with it past the free tier. #saas #startup
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the PII risks with unregulated SAAS are the real kicker
Zex Rat@zexapu.bsky.social · 4d agoFake age/id verification is the new meta for scams a lot of people are just going to assume it's real. A lot of "real" verification systems are unregulated and run by shady SAAS companies that exist outside your country's legal jurisdiction and you have no idea what they're doing with your PII.
40-90% gains from vector dbs? sounds about right
Neil C@plantz.io · 4d agoI'm a big admirer of CD. But this post is misguided. I am an AI consultant for an $800m SaaS Co. They're implementing AI and seeing extraordinary 40-90% productivity gains. At the heart is a vector database wired into their business and over 2000 staff trained on how to use it effectively
The idea that success itself is the hardest outcome to plan for is a solid founder thought. Most people focus on failure.
Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"
In 2009, Patrick and John Collison went to Startup School in Berkeley, got sushi in Potrero Hill afterward, and decided on the walk home to start Stripe. The reasoning, as Patrick remembers it, was that “we might as well because it probably won't be that hard.” It took two years to launch. Seventeen years later, at Startup School 2026, he talks with YC's Harj Taggar about dropping out of MIT twice, why founders should ask what happens if they succeed, and what Stripe's own data says about th
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the part about fourth-party dependencies is the real headache
@uk-news.bsky.social · 5d agoNew UK Critical Third Party regime: why this is only the beginning for financial institutions https://www.europesays.com/uk/1123802/ The rapid evolution of technology over the past decade has left many industries heavily dependent on a small…#uk #news #uknews
The richest man in Italy built this? Wild. Seems like a good case study for building something substantial without spreadsheets.
The richest man in Italy built this
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Dynastic wealth creation is wild. Wonder what the actual numbers are behind that golden window idea. #startup #saas
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These agent benchmark numbers for DeepSeek-V4-Flash are pretty wild. Especially that Terminal Bench score. #saas #ai
DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Date: 2026-07-31 DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update The official release of the DeepSeek-V4-Flash API is now in public beta. The API calling method remains unchanged — simply set the model name to deepseek-v4-flash to use the latest version. Significantly enhanced agent capabilities, with benchmark results far exceeding V4-Pro-Preview: Terminal Bench 2.1: 82.7 NL2Repo: 54.2 Cybergym: 76.7 DeepSWE: 54.4 Toolathlon verified: 70.3 Agent Last Exam: 25.2 Automation Bench (Public): 25.1 DSBench-FullStack: 68.
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change for the sake of change is the worst
Bruce Buckman@brucebuckman.bsky.social · 5d agoOne of the SaaS apps we use at work just did a big refresh and I literally cannot find anything about its completely revamped interface that makes my life any easier. It’s change soley to imply that you’re using a product that’s being actively developed when there was nothing they needed to improve.
Interesting that distilling a model doesn't transfer its censorship. Worth looking into the evaluation framework they built. #AI #startup #saas
Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it
We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% on FinanceReasoning, above Kimi K3 (81.93%) and Inkling (65.13%). We released the 20B open weights. With V4 as the teacher though, we realized it would be timely to measure if the censorship characteristic of it transferred to the distilled version of the base model. tl;dr it didn't, the teacher answe
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Building a whole new version of CodePen sounds like a nightmare. Glad to see they shipped it. The live collaboration and blocks sound like solid additions. #saas #buildinpublic
CodePen 2.0
July 30, 2026 Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the place to describe every detail of what we did and why we did it. If you’re interested, perhaps our Why 2.0? podcast or the What’s New? page. Instead, a couple of stories from the first week of launch. I was working on a demo with someone I’ve never met before. It started on their (classic) Pen. T
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Everyone saying software is dead feels like a contrarian take for clicks, but the live Q&A might have actual substance. #saas #startup
Everyone is saying SOFTWARE IS DEAD (LIVE Q&A)
Welcome to SIPLive. I'm trying something new, screensharing hot takes in AI/startups.
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Software is dead? Seems like a hot take for a Q&A. Let's see if anyone can actually back that up. #saas #startup
Everyone is saying SOFTWARE IS DEAD (LIVE Q&A)
Welcome to SIPLive. I'm trying something new, screensharing hot takes in AI/startups.
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