I was investing in 2000 (43 yo managing a $200m venture fund). I was investing in 2008 (51 yo managing a private hedge fund). I was investing in 2020 (63 yo managing a mining stock fund). Each represented the bursting of a bubble. Thursday, November 5, 2026 was deja vu for me. I have seen this movie three times.
Party is over. Consequences of ZIRP, and free money driven "Everything Bubble" are coming home. Persistent inflation is the pin. Stock bulls better rethink their buy the dip strategy IMO. It's a long way down.
Hey @grok, did F-35 military jets momentarily do a flyover of the Epstein press conference in DC and drown out the survivors and their supporters who were trying to speak?
Start-up founder Adam Robinson, who passed away in the Florida plane crash, wasn’t a programmer.
He was a credit default swap trader at Lehman Brothers. If you remember 2008, you know how that story ended.
When Lehman collapsed, Adam didn’t go back to Wall Street. He jumped into tech with no background. With a few co-founders, he started Robly, an email marketing company, in one of the oldest and most crowded spaces in software.
He got no big funding, no big investor, just the mind of a storyteller.
Robly grew to about $5 million in revenue. Then something interesting happened. One small feature inside Robly, a tool that helped businesses identify visitors on their websites, started getting more attention than the main product.
So he spun it out. It became GetEmails, later renamed https://t.co/KxPJRxdDEj, and launched in November 2019.
Robly sold for eight figures. And https://t.co/KxPJRxdDEj grew to over $20 million a year in revenue with around six employees, without raising a single dollar.
Then he did it again. He used Retention’s cash to build RB2B, which hit $4 million in annual revenue in record time.
His secret weapon wasn’t code. It was honesty. While everyone else on LinkedIn posted success stories, Adam posted the ugly parts: the mistakes, the real numbers, the struggles. People trusted him because he didn’t pretend to be who he wasn't.
Engineers might look at what he built and say there’s nothing technically impressive about it.
Maybe. But he shipped, he sold, and he built three companies from nothing.
On Sunday, he was flying to the Bahamas with his wife, Helen, their two little kids, and close friends.
He was 44.
Rest in peace, Adam.
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
https://t.co/JIhXN7OSh1
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.
the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.
잠깐 살펴봤는 데 역대급 보안 재앙이 터진 것 같습니다.
리눅스 커널의 TCP 연결 처리 코드에 있는 원격 메모리 버그(use-after-free)이고, 인증 없이 네트워크로 접근만 할 수 있으면 서버를 크래시시키거나, 조건이 맞으면 root 권한까지 탈취할 수 있는 문제라고 합니다.
CVSS 9.8(Critical)이고 커널 4.4부터 영향을 받습니다.
WSL2, DGX spark의 우분투 리눅스 모두 노출되어있는데, 아직 보안 패치가 없는 것 같습니다.
커널 업데이트나 보안 패치 전까지는
1. 공유기 포트포워딩이나 공인 IP로 추론 서버나 SSH 포트를 인터넷에 직접 열어둔 경우 당장 퍼지하십시오.
2. 사무실이나 연구실처럼 여러 사람과 기기가 섞인 네트워크에 있는 Spark. 같은 LAN의 감염된 PC 하나가 공격 출발점이 될 수 있습니다. 꼭 주의해주세요!
There’s nothing controversial about Nikita pointing out that Russian bots pretend to be MAGA on social media
I witnessed this first hand as Tucker Carlson leveraged these bots to make MAGA pro-Russia
It was a very embarrassing reality for MAGA