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  1. Jeff Dean's 1% Rule: How to Choose What to Build in the Age of Frontier AI

    Google's Chief Scientist Jeff Dean gave founders a brutally simple framework at YC Startup School 2026: build only where frontier models succeed 0-1% of the time, never …

    AI

  2. AMD Acquires Taalas: Etching LLM Weights Into Silicon at 17,000 Tokens/Second

    AMD is acquiring Taalas, the Toronto startup that etches model weights directly into silicon — its HC1 chip serves Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens/sec, 48-73x faster than …

    AI

  3. System Design Primer: The 362K-Star Free Curriculum for System Design Interviews (2026 Guide)

    The System Design Primer is GitHub's most-starred study resource (362K stars) for learning large-scale system design. Here's how it's structured, an 8-week study plan, …

    Developer Tools

  4. Pi Coding Agent: The Minimalist Harness That's 2x Cheaper Than Claude Code (Databricks Benchmark)

    Pi is the terminal-first coding agent with only 4 tools and a 200-token system prompt. Databricks found simple harnesses like Pi cut cost-per-task by 2x at equal quality …

    AI

  5. Seedance 2.5: ByteDance's 30-Second AI Video Model That Accepts 50 References

    Seedance 2.5 generates native 30-second video in one pass, accepts up to 50 multimodal references, and adds region-level editing. Here's how it compares to Veo 3.1 and …

    AI

  6. QM: YC's Open-Source Multiplayer Agent Harness for Slack and Web

    QM is Y Combinator's open-source multiplayer agent harness that gives every employee an isolated workspace while letting teams collaborate with AI in Slack channels. …

    Open Source