Aryan Mehra

@PalantirTech and @stanford

[Aryan Mehra @aryansfv]

So awesome being a part of this class. Cannot recommend applying enough!!!

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

"We think meritocracy is the key to American success."

Senior Counselor Jordan Hirsch and Meritocracy Fellow Aryan Mehra joined Fox News this morning to discuss higher education and Palantir's Meritocracy Fellowship.

[Sebastian Tan @sebonomics]

@aryansfv and I will be in Austin next week. Any offices we can visit? Would love anything @8vc-esque. Can anyone host? 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Soar @soarflights]

San Francisco to Barcelona $321

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

OpenAI promised not to retain data from businesses using its AI models while increasing the safety of its products, a bid to snatch customers from rival Anthropic. https://t.co/1XqpryjiAE

[Aryan Mehra @aryansfv]

@nickrubin The second point is so true

[Vivek Gopalan @vvkgopalan]

We're on the path

[Replit ⠕ @Replit]

Replit Free Mode, powered by @OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna.

Let’s make intelligence accessible to everyone.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Every idea you shelved as "too ambitious" is now back in play

[Sonith @_sonith]

!!

cc @ Carter, z fellows etc

[Shaurya Sinha @shaurya_sinha7]

This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"

$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.

Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.

[Sonith @_sonith]

Most young people aren’t aware of external vs internal validation.

They’re not cognizant of the difference, their underlying motivations, and what actually excites them.

Insecurity, ambition, fear, and competitiveness are great drivers. Yet they’re unsuitable in preventing burnout over many-decade long careers.

The best capitalists are deeply aware of this dance.

[danning @sui414]

San Francisco has amazing nature.

Founders, remember to live a life and optimize happiness. Take care of your body and mind, so to build sustainably.

Life is not a race or sprint but a marathon.

[connor ling @conconconling]

recent reflection:

a lot of ambitious young people give up their fleeting privilege of being whimsical too early to pursue the abstract concept of 'greatness' -- to get ahead, stay relevant, and be legible

but just because you can accelerate doesn’t mean you always should

the feeling of professional growth can masquerade as personal growth -- constant progress could make it harder to recognize that taking a step back may help you see the world & yourself a bit differently

[Aryan Mehra @aryansfv]

@andruyeung https://t.co/MTqfUTUPic

[Konstantine Buhler @Konstantine]

Should you chase hype or ignore it? The tech industry has been debating this for decades. So at @Sequoia, we dug into 20 years of hype data.

This summer, I worked with Sequoia intern @ochonaut to measure hype over the past 2 decades. The chart below ranks the most hyped topics on Hacker News for every year since 2007. Under each year sits the most valuable company founded that year.

Here are a few observations:
1/ The top company founded in a given year is rarely related to the hype of that period. Airbnb was founded in 2008, when the top topic was Google. Uber arrived in 2009, while the conversation revolved around low-level programming. Anthropic came in 2021, while the internet was consumed by crypto. Chasing hype rarely leads to enduring outcomes. The top companies of recent years have yet to be decided.

2/ New trends announce themselves five to six years early. LLMs first cracked the top 15 in 2016 and took until 2022 to hit #1. AI coding entered at #12 in 2021 and tops the list in 2026. Crypto entered in 2011 before 2017 and 2021 peaks. “New” trends don’t appear out of nowhere, and internet subcommunities are often the first to know where the puck is headed.

3/ Long-term “hype” is a durable signal. The “Musk-Verse” has been a top 15 topic for every one of the past 14 years. Sustained attention on the internet is rare and tends to mark something real.

Next up, we want to run the same analysis with sources like X and LinkedIn. If that's of interest, give us some encouragement and we'll share the results.

[Soar @soarflights]

Speed booking comparison of Soar vs Google Flights:

[Kevin Hartz @kevinhartz]

Our biggest investment ever at A*. Excited to back @travisk and the team at Atoms.

[connor ling @conconconling]

surplus of VC dollars has turned entrepreneurship into a contest of who can put on a performance most convincingly.

raising a lot of money at rich valuations now feels like a more effective strategy than actually building something people want.

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

(1) Today we're releasing Muse Spark 1.1 -- a strong agentic and coding model at a very low price. It's available through our new Meta Model API and in Meta AI.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon.

We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude Tag is available in beta today on Slack for Claude Enterprise and Team plans. We plan to expand it more widely in the future.

Read more: https://t.co/MGV30Ml8mL