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5 Interesting Learnings from Palantir at $7.7 Billion ARR: 93% Growth (!), 157% NRR, and a Rule of 40 Score of 155%
Palantir just posted the quarter that breaks whatever mental model you still had about how B2B companies behave at scale. It already had re-accelerated at a rate we’ve never seen before. An…
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AI agents can create database sprawl issues. YugabyteDB’s solution is more agents!
YugabyteDB AMP uses serverless PostgreSQL and four AI agents to manage database fleets, scale idle workloads to zero and support scaling without migration.
Hey Noah
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Astro’s GitHub issue backlog is heading to zero for the first time in 5 years. Now Cloudflare is open-sourcing the tool that did it.
6 months after Cloudflare acquired the team behind Astro, co-founder Fred Schott explains how an AI agent is emptying the project's issue tracker -- and why the hardest part is still left to a human
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As the box office heats up this summer, The Verge reflects on the magic of theaters
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
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Preference falsification
People lie. They lie in focus groups, they lie on surveys and they lie to themselves. Culture can be seen as an organized lying function. Be aware of what other people are thinking and make choices…
Nvidia’s NOOA makes an agent one Python class
Experts say NOOA, the open-source Python framework, could make agents easier to test and inspect but raises new questions about review and security.
That time when I failed the Microsoft interview
The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft? Microsoft, of all places, might sound like a weird company to target in 2026. Back then, however, they were cool (in my book at least). I was impressed by their work on Typescript, and also by their open source rewrite of the C# compiler.
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