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August 25th, 2024

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The AI Hype Cycle

Is the latest excitement around AI just another round of dot-com or crypto style hype? The Lightcone hosts discuss where AI might be if the hype cycle is real and what may remain once the buzz wears off.

How to Influence Decision Makers

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🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Openmart (W24) wants to make it easier for enterprises to sell to local businesses
TechCrunch
Kenyan HR and payroll startup Workpay (W20) lands Visa as investor in $5M round
TechCrunch
Apply to YC's new Fall batch by August 27th
Y Combinator
Depot (W23) raises $4.1M to help developers speed up software builds by 40X or more
VentureBeat

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Tivara 🏥💰 — Automating insurance approval workflows for doctors
See patients faster by automating your prior authorization requests.
S2024
Miru - Deployment infrastructure for Robotics and IoT 🦾
Deploy software updates over the air to fleets of devices
S2024
Drillbit 🧰 Handling office work for residential contractors
Your contractor's AI-powered back office.
S2024
Spherecast – Inventory copilot for multi-channel brands
Always know when and how much to re-order
S2024
🏢 RetroFix AI - Turbo Tax for building rebates
Automatically apply for and maximize government subsidies for energy efficient equipment.
S2024
Stack Auth — Open-source user authentication that doesn't suck
The open-source alternative to Auth0, Clerk, and Firebase Auth. Fully managed & supports authorization.
S2024
Tandem - Marketplace for flexible office leasing
Tandem is a marketplace that uses AI to make the office leasing process less tedious.
S2024
Usul - AI for defense contractors 🇺🇸
Win more DoD contracts with policy, budgetary, and contract intelligence.
S2024
TradeFlow: AI software to automate stock trade settlement
Automating post-trade operations with the power of AI
S2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it (switowski.com)
    1468 points by switowski | 414 comments

  2. Did you lose your AirPods? (alexyancey.com)
    1037 points by RockRobotRock | 372 comments

  3. Toasts are bad UX (maxschmitt.me)
    698 points by Mackser | 380 comments

  4. Calling All Hackers (phrack.org)
    652 points by picture | 246 comments

  5. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract (sparcopen.org)
    583 points by nabla9 | 217 comments

  6. You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites (lelouch.dev)
    534 points by JustinSkycak | 310 comments

  7. Markov chains are funnier than LLMs (emnudge.dev)
    524 points by todsacerdoti | 233 comments

  8. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud (berthub.eu)
    453 points by ahubert | 250 comments

  9. The semantic web is now widely adopted (csvbase.com)
    449 points by todsacerdoti | 258 comments

  10. How to build a 50k ton forging press (www.construction-physics.com)
    442 points by chmaynard | 181 comments
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