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We’ve decided to open-source a multi-agent harness we use internally at YC. We call it “QM” and it’s meant to be easy to customize, like Hermes or OpenClaw, but useful for a whole company. We use it across accounting, legal, events, and engineering (including building QM
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In 2009, @patrickc and @collision went to Startup School in Berkeley, got sushi in Potrero Hill afterward, and decided on the walk home to start @stripe. The reasoning, as Patrick remembers it, was that “we might as well because it probably won’t be that hard.” It took them two
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Jul 30
In 2001, @JeffDean and Sanjay Ghemawat did the math and realized Google’s entire search index would fit in RAM — then shipped it in a few days, and search got fast. In 2013, another napkin calculation showed that three minutes of daily speech recognition per user would require
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Jul 29
At our latest YC Paper Club, researchers and builders presented on multi-GPU kernels, intelligence per watt, heterogeneous inference, and more. Thank you to our presenters: 0:00 – @FrancoisChauba1: The case for chip and kernel specialization 7:16 – @stuart_sul: Parallel Kittens
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Jul 29
.@alexandr_wang's advice to his 18-year-old self: develop your own internal compass for how the future will unfold, and hold conviction in it against the noise. At Startup School 2026, the Scale AI (YC S16) founder — now leading @Meta’s Superintelligence Labs — talks with
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