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August 4th, 2024

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Tarpit Ideas: The Sequel

Following up on their original tarpit ideas video, Dalton and Michael dispel some misconceptions about what a tarpit idea actually is and how it applies to current technology trends like artificial intelligence.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Female Invest (S21) raises $11.2M to empower women to manage their money and start investing
Business Insider
Perceptive (W20) completes the first fully automated dental procedure
STAT
Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups
TechCrunch 
Transforming SME health insurance in the Philippines
Hive Health (S21)

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Ionworks - Build and run battery simulations at scale
Digitize your battery experiments to accelerate R&D.
S2024
Formula Insight: Search & analyze complex spreadsheets using plain English
Building a central repository for hedge funds to store their most valuable Excel data, accessible through conversational search.
S2024
Overlap - Curating the best podcast moments for you
Overlap is a new podcast app that uses LLMs to curate personalized playlists about anything you're interested in ✨
S2024
Synnax - The software infrastructure for operating & observing complex hardware
Detect anomalies, build mission control interfaces, and automate at scale.
S2024
🌿 Thyme: meeting intelligence for financial advisors
Run 10x better meetings as a financial advisor.
S2024
Comfy Deploy - ComfyUI for product teams
The best way for product teams to build and tailor AI video and image workflows using ComfyUI, then instantly deploy those workflows as APIs.
S2024
Modern Realty - The AI real estate agent
A self-service home buying experience
S2024
Intryc - AI quality assurance for customer support
Sample tickets, evaluate human and AI agents, and unlock customer insights across all your customer interactions
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. "We ran out of columns" (jimmyhmiller.github.io)
    1390 points by poidos | 496 comments

  2. FastHTML – Modern web applications in pure Python (fastht.ml)
    858 points by bpierre | 208 comments

  3. One-man SaaS, 9 Years In (blog.healthchecks.io)
    821 points by km | 213 comments

  4. SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos (github.com)
    818 points by xenova | 147 comments

  5. How I got my laser eye injury (www.funraniumlabs.com)
    781 points by omnibrain | 358 comments

  6. The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community (www.afterbabel.com)
    748 points by throwup238 | 739 comments

  7. Flux: Open-source text-to-image model with 12B parameters (blog.fal.ai)
    667 points by CuriouslyC | 218 comments

  8. If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity (www.strongtowns.org)
    562 points by philips | 638 comments

  9. How to build quickly (learnhowtolearn.org)
    543 points by fagnerbrack | 114 comments

  10. Open Source Farming Robot (farm.bot)
    537 points by pedrodelfino | 273 comments

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