AI is collapsing the cost of building software so fast that a quarter of YC startups now have 95% of their code written by machines—and the bottleneck has shifted from engineering to taste, judgment, and physical infrastructure. The latest dispatches cover everything from open-source memory architecture for AI agents to the power grid crisis that could choke the whole boom. YC's Summer 2026 application window just closed, but a Product Hunt partnership is keeping a side door open through this Friday.
San Francisco is the only tech hub in America with growing startup formation—and city hall is doing everything it can to drive companies out.
Hard data proves the abundance machine is accelerating—while pessimists run scarcity scripts from an obsolete world.
A developer pointed an AI at 37-year-old C code. Today it's running in your browser. The old rules are dead.
Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions
The Robinhood CEO says he loves this state. That's why his warning should terrify Sacramento.
Joe Gebbia went from selling cereal to fund a startup to becoming the nation's first Chief Design Officer. Now he's fixing government.
A billionaire spending $27 million attacks a mayor for having tech support. The irony writes itself.
Flock Safety just 7x'd what even the best homicide detective in America can do. The technology works. The question is whether your city will use it.
San Jose built ZERO market rate homes in 2024. Then Matt Mahan cut the fees, and everything changed.
From the Panama Canal to parklet regulations—why it’s time for Americans to reclaim technology, growth, and the abundance that once defined it.