Stories by theorchid

Derek Sivers: Why I gave my company to a charitable trust

Startups only remember backups after the crash

I work 10 hours daily without deadlines or schedules

Anatomy of a Throttler

Stripe: Analyzing first-party fraud trends

Real-time speech-to-speech translation

How Meta used AI to map tribal knowledge in large-scale data pipelines

AI cannot plan

Show HN: LoreData – generate lore-accurate personas from pop culture universes

Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system

DrP: Meta's Root Cause Analysis Platform at Scale

Jailbreaking a robot vacuum to run Tailscale and Valetudo

Google Research: A new light on neural connections

Spotify: The archive – the tech behind your 2025 wrapped highlights

The operating cost of adult and gambling startups

Show HN: Ungate – use Claude and GPT subscriptions in Cursor without API costs

Netflix Was Held Together with Duct Tape

Anthropic: Using large language models to scale scalable oversight

Anthropic: Long-running Claude for scientific computing

Technical, cognitive, and intent debt

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