Paul Graham
@paulg
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Selling stolen oil and putting billions of dollars in a bank in Qatar to be spent without Congressional approval is not Constitutional. Only Congress can appropriate money. The President can’t legally create a second Treasury overseas for his own piggy bank. Wake up Congress.
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visits to the @supabase troubleshooting guides last week: Humans = 10,370 Bots = 28,720
last month, 48% of all docs visitors across all sites powered by mintlify are from AI agents plan accordingly
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Always curious and full of energy, Beagles turn every walk into an adventure 🐾🎉.
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Someone associated with a brand selling cookies, for example, can't publicly attack things that dumb people like. Dumb people buy lots of cookies. But it's safe for me to. If I offend dumb people and they don't apply to YC, that's actually good for YC.
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The reason I can speak out against dumb things isn't so much that I have more insight or moral courage. It's more because I happen to be uniquely insulated from the danger of offending stupid people.
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"We don't do attorney visitation" isn't how the Constitution works. The federal government is blatantly denying people their basic rights under the law after an arrest.
Our new reporting from Minneapolis: Multiple attorneys tell ABC News their clients, including one U.S. Citizen, are being denied their constitutional right to see an attorney while detained by DHS at the Whipple building.
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In case you missed it: Auditions to join the next unit of ChromaSHIFT are officially open! No matter how big or small, if you've got talent then we want to hear from you. Check the threaded tweet for details on how to submit your audition!
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Going Founder Mode On Cancer https://t.co/pGxM34IrC3 Sid Sijbrandij is a generational founder. He founded and led GitLab, one of the largest remote companies in the world, from idea-stage startup to NASDAQ-listed software giant. But in 2022, a six centimeter mass growing from
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“Put differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776”
I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and
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20 January 1974. First 'accidental' flight of the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, US multirole jet fighter aircraft. During high-speed taxi test, the GD test pilot, Phil Oestricher, decided to lift off to avoid crashing the machine, and safely landed it six minutes later.
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Neither I nor the founder I met with today had eaten yet, so I did office hours in the kitchen while making us lunch. It was just like old times, chopping onions while trying to figure out what their fundraising strategy should be.
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In a letter to multiple European ambassadors today, President Trump says that because Norway failed to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, “I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace” The letter goes on to demand “complete and total control of Greenland.”
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Many argue that protecting ‘infant industries’ with tariffs and quotas is essential to the story of how Britain (and the West) got rich. The most famous ‘evidence’ for this claim is Henry VII’s protectionism. Britain’s best economic historian (@antonhowes) demolishes that
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Reporting from the WSJ covers the ICE incentive structure: -ICE agents get additional rewards based on their arrests -Those rewards count even if the person is RELEASED without charges https://t.co/YwbTZlSmRx
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ICE agents with arrest quotas are colliding with angry residents, a compact city and a relatively small proportion of immigrants here illegally.
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European Colonial Shipping Lanes (1700‒1850). Work & Credit: PythonMaps
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"If we allow Russia to succeed in Ukraine, no country is safe." What happens in Ukraine will shape Europe for generations." - Kaja Kallas I agree with her...
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Do you realize we're going to have an endless series of distracting, pointless fights like this until those files are released? Which they never will be as long as the whole administration's jobs depend on them not being.
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A trade war over Greenland? Greenland? It would be funny if it weren't tragic. But I suppose it keeps the Epstein files out of the news. Man the stuff about Trump in there must be bad...
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YC is partnering with over a dozen companies to offer students attending YC events free credits for AI developer tools! The YC AI Student Starter Pack includes over $20k in Azure & AWS credits, $5k+ in ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok credits, and more! https://t.co/0QEerEDoqf
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Prescient from Yuri in 2024
Something I've been thinking about a lot lately: Code gen tools will have a ton of impact over what dev tools (libraries, APIs, BaaS, IaaS, etc) thrive and suffer. IMO one potential artifact of code gen is that the quality of the dev tool experience matters less, because the
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