TLDR 2025-02-13

Spencer Rascoff co-founded Zillow. Austin Allison sold his company to Zillow for $125M. Now they've teamed up with investors like SoftBank and Maveron to transform the $1.3T vacation home market – and you can join them for just $2.70 a share.

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Sam Altman published OpenAI's GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 roadmap on X on Wednesday. Altman acknowledges that OpenAI's product lineup has gotten complicated and that the company wants to simplify its offerings. GPT-4.5, which was internally called Orion, will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model. GPT-5 will integrate a lot of OpenAI's technology, including o3. Free ChatGPT users will get unlimited GPT-5 chat access at the standard intelligence setting - Plus and Pro subscribers will have access to higher levels of intelligence. It is unknown when the models will be released.

Apple is reportedly exploring both humanoid and non-humanoid robotic form factors. The company is still in an early proof-of-concept stage. 2028 would be an optimistic timeline for mass production. The robot would be part of a future smart home ecosystem.

Google DeepMind has published a video demonstration of miniature humanoid robots playing a one-on-one game of soccer. The robots are able to understand the rules of the game and can anticipate where the ball is going or when to block shots from an opponent. The 15-second video is available in the article.

A team building a detector on the Mediterranean Sea got extremely lucky recently when it picked up the most energetic neutrino ever detected. The detector was only 10% of the size it will be on completion. The neutrino originated outside of our galaxy. Once completed, the detector will be able to help scientists detect where sources of neutrinos reside.

These days, a cheap NVME SSD can supply data much faster than a query interpreter can process it. Depending on the query, removing the interpreter bottleneck can yield several orders of magnitude speedup. The article looks at different options for compiling queries and their pros and cons. Queries might only be run once, so it's only worth spending time on optimization at compile-time if doing so will save even more time at runtime.

This article explores the benefits and trade-offs of building web pages with Tailwind. Tailwind is a CSS framework that uses a utility-first approach that involves styling elements directly without needing to leave HTML. It promises developers the ability to build modern web pages quickly and simply, but there can be significant impacts on maintenance and scaling. Tailwind's utility-first approach can work well for small-to-medium projects where speed and cost-efficiency are top priorities, but for larger projects or teams with established CSS practices, it introduces challenges around readability, maintainability, and scalability.

Working at a large technology company has been an excellent financial decision for technically capable people over the last few years. Joining a rocketship startup - at the right time - can also be an excellent decision. Early-career cash pay at YC startups is often similar to big tech firms. Founding engineers can receive equity that, vested over four years, could potentially be not too different from an offer from Facebook. The median startup fails, making the equity worthless, but there is the potential for extraordinary returns. Being a founding engineer essentially means taking a pay cut and accepting illiquid equity in exchange for a lottery ticket - it's a high-stakes game of calculated risk-taking where due diligence can help tilt the odds in your favor.

Micro LED, one of the most anticipated display technologies, is still years away from being suitable for the mass production of consumer products. The industry is struggling to manage obstacles Luke manufacturing costs and competition from other advanced display technologies. It will probably still be another five years before consumer products are available.

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Netflix Bites has opened at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino - it will operate for a year, offering breakfast, lunch, and dinner options inspired by Netflix series.

FullSoak is a no-build TypeScript full-stack framework for building fast web applications.

It was possible to leak a Google account identifier by blocking them on YouTube - the exploit has been fixed.

Anduril Industries will take over Microsoft's augmented reality headset program with the US Army, pending approval from the Department of Defense.

It is possible to encode data in any Unicode character.

It is possible that data speeds are approaching 'fast enough' for most people for most purposes.