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This Week at YC

December 29th, 2024

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Happy holidays from the YC team!

How To Focus On The Right Problems

When it comes to building a startup, focus is critical. But how do you know if you’re spending time on the right things? In this episode, Dalton and Michael talk about how to figure out which problems matter most, and how best to spend your time.

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🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
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Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Ghostty 1.0 (ghostty.org)
    2220 points by matrixhelix | 653 comments

  2. Cognitive load is what matters (minds.md)
    1727 points by zdw | 710 comments

  3. macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time (github.com)
    1118 points by ajdude | 254 comments

  4. Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus (fishshell.com)
    732 points by jdxcode | 138 comments

  5. What happened to the world's largest tube TV? [video] (www.youtube.com)
    678 points by ecliptik | 293 comments

  6. Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server (github.com)
    671 points by nateb2022 | 293 comments

  7. They have not been trained for this (www.ccc.de)
    594 points by hacka22 | 149 comments

  8. Should more of us be moving to live near friends? (www.architecturaldigest.com)
    582 points by Geekette | 440 comments

  9. My Colleague Julius (ploum.net)
    579 points by dabacaba | 128 comments

  10. The number pi has an evil twin (mathstodon.xyz)
    571 points by pkaeding | 207 comments

  11. That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection (fhur.me)
    566 points by fagnerbrack | 218 comments
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