🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In yesterday’s mailbag post, Matthew Yglesias responded to a question about why commercial spaces sometimes sit vacant for years at a time. Matthew’s answer started off on the right track, then veered off course. So, as one does, I quickly fired off a note in response.That note went (and is still going) more viral than anything else I’ve written this year. Fun! There were a lot of questions for clarification, and a few asks for me to expand this into a post.So here’s an expanded…
✨ Explore this trending post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: GM's Energy Demonstration is on display at the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2025.Danielle Defries | CNBCGM It is expanding its efforts to capitalize on expected growth in energy storage and data centers by promoting different battery cell chemistries, while offering more support to electric vehicle owners to combat rising energy costs.The Detroit automaker detailed plans Tuesday to increase its grid-connecting capabilities — where a vehicle can provide power to the electric grid — for its electric vehicle customers and to develop…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AI is reshaping how startups are being built. Founders who've never written a line of code before are shipping production applications, reaching revenue before scaling headcount, and building tools to automate their most tedious workflows. The founder's role is shifting from individual contributor to orchestrator, allowing them to focus on the work only they can do. We put together a practical playbook for building an AI-native startup. It remaps the four core stages of the startup lifecycle—Idea, MVP, Launch, and Scale—for what's possible in 2026,…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neill told CNBC on Tuesday that with the financing cliff looming, the organization has to have confidence that the Saudi Public Investment Fund will support the golf project through the rest of the season as promised. “I can say they have been great partners so far, and a great organization like PIF should take them at their word,” O'Neill said. “They were very public about our funding during the season, so we are going full steam ahead.” The PIF is scheduled…
🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: On 16 June 2026, the full attendance list for Peter Thiel's private society, "Dialog," was leaked. The attendance list was discovered hard-coded in the HTML of the official dialog.org website. The leak was subsequently fixed by the website owners. I captured the website's HTML at the time of the leak, which included the names of the club's members. I am unaware of any nefarious activity by the organisation but find it interesting how many influential individuals were part of the society and would simply like…
đź’Ą Explore this insightful post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The shockwaves from the Covid-19 pandemic are still hitting the US auto market and pushing prices up, even for exceptionally old cars. The epidemic dealt a severe blow to the total supply of new cars, which extended to the used market.About 8 million vehicles that were slated to be built for American buyers during those years were never made, largely because production was halted and supply shortages, said Jeremy Robb, chief economist at Cox Automotive. Automakers faced production cuts and weighted their lineups toward high-end,…
✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It’s been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value. 🌴 * * * My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire. A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes. People were asking for features, but the foundation needed a ton of work…
✨ Explore this awesome post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The 2026 midterm election cycle could surpass the 2024 presidential cycle to reach record ad spending for any U.S. election, according to a new report from ad intelligence firm AdImpact. This year's races are expected to reach $11.6 billion in ad spending, making them the most expensive cycle on record and surpassing the $11.2 billion spent on ads for the 2024 election between incumbent President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to AdImpact estimates. The new forecast represents an increase of $795…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Sam Altman (@sama)'s OpenAI lost $38.53 billion attributable to the company in 2025, according to audited financial documents viewed by Ed Zitron and independently verified by the Financial Times, a set of figures that an Ars Technica story pushed into broader circulation Tuesday. The documents themselves are not public. But the reported figures are specific enough to cut through the abstraction that has defined the AI financing cycle: OpenAI generated $13.07 billion in revenue in 2025, incurred $34 billion in total costs and expenses,…
🚀 Read this trending post from Business News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: The 2026 World Cup is expected to bring a wave of global soccer fans to North America. But the travel boom is shaping up to look less like one uniform boom and more like a test of pricing power from one city to another, one match to another.“Demand is real and positive, but it is not evenly distributed across host cities,” said Jay Wardle, president of travel data intelligence company Sogern. New flight booking data from Sojern shows that most host cities in the U.S.…
