<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sblank</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sblank</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:39:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sblank" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/">https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913</a></p>
<p>Points: 488</p>
<p># Comments: 505</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:09:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2026/10/24/europe-gets-a-wake-up-call/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50220913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What David Sachs Got Right About the Anthropic Resignation]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/follow-the-power-what-david-sacks">https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/follow-the-power-what-david-sacks</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686355">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686355</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:29:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://newsletter.amuseonx.com/p/follow-the-power-what-david-sacks</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49686355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental bootstrapping enables human-level learning in self-supervised deep models]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea7202">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea7202</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484824">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484824</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:08:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea7202</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Invisible Code in a Pitch Deck]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dpantuso_vcs-beware-i-just-noticed-invisible-activity-7496258599594151936-goDY">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dpantuso_vcs-beware-i-just-noticed-invisible-activity-7496258599594151936-goDY</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402245">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402245</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:15:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dpantuso_vcs-beware-i-just-noticed-invisible-activity-7496258599594151936-goDY</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incorruptible]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2026/06/09/incorruptible/">https://steveblank.com/2026/06/09/incorruptible/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461596">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461596</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:25:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2026/06/09/incorruptible/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2026/06/08/g-for-defense-stanford-2026-lessons-learned-presentations/">https://steveblank.com/2026/06/08/g-for-defense-stanford-2026-lessons-learned-presentations/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451789">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451789</a></p>
<p>Points: 80</p>
<p># Comments: 62</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:48:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2026/06/08/g-for-defense-stanford-2026-lessons-learned-presentations/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sblank in "Cleve Moler has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was honored to have worked with Cleve at Ardent Computer. He ran the benchmark and demo group squeezing performance out of thin air.<p>Great mathematician and a wonderful human being. I never stopped learning when I was around him. 
t<a href="https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/11/25/the-ardent-titan-part-1/" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.mathworks.com/cleve/2013/11/25/the-ardent-tita...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 06:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232805</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropic Mythos – We've Opened Pandora's Box]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2026/04/28/anthropic-mythos-weve-opened-pandoras-box/">https://steveblank.com/2026/04/28/anthropic-mythos-weve-opened-pandoras-box/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934595">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934595</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2026/04/28/anthropic-mythos-weve-opened-pandoras-box/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowhere is safe]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2026/04/09/nowhere-is-safe/">https://steveblank.com/2026/04/09/nowhere-is-safe/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722562">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722562</a></p>
<p>Points: 223</p>
<p># Comments: 298</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2026/04/09/nowhere-is-safe/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Startup Is Probably Dead on Arrival]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2026/03/17/your-startup-is-probably-dead-on-arrival/">https://steveblank.com/2026/03/17/your-startup-is-probably-dead-on-arrival/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412268">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412268</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:20:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2026/03/17/your-startup-is-probably-dead-on-arrival/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sblank in "Recoverable and Irrecoverable Decisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/402425.Steve_Blank#:~:text=161%20quotes%20from%20Steve%20Blank:%20'My%20advice,anyone%20left%20the%20meeting%20or%20the%20office." rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/402425.Steve_Blank#:...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:56:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997990</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Sell to the Dept of War – The 2025 PEO Directory]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2025/09/10/how-to-sell-to-the-dept-of-defense-the-2025-peo-directory/">https://steveblank.com/2025/09/10/how-to-sell-to-the-dept-of-defense-the-2025-peo-directory/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198126">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198126</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:21:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2025/09/10/how-to-sell-to-the-dept-of-defense-the-2025-peo-directory/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch, Our Most Complex Sense]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-most-complex-sense-is-a-landscape-of-cellular-sensors-20250416/">https://www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-most-complex-sense-is-a-landscape-of-cellular-sensors-20250416/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732321">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732321</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:17:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.quantamagazine.org/touch-our-most-complex-sense-is-a-landscape-of-cellular-sensors-20250416/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732321</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Path of Our Lives]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2014/07/08/the-path-of-our-lives/">https://steveblank.com/2014/07/08/the-path-of-our-lives/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699370">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699370</a></p>
<p>Points: 23</p>
<p># Comments: 8</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2014/07/08/the-path-of-our-lives/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum Computing – An Update]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2024/10/22/quantum-computing-an-update/">https://steveblank.com/2024/10/22/quantum-computing-an-update/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915011">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915011</a></p>
<p>Points: 26</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:05:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2024/10/22/quantum-computing-an-update/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41915011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does product market fit sound like? This]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.com/2024/10/05/what-does-product-market-fit-sound-like-this/">https://steveblank.com/2024/10/05/what-does-product-market-fit-sound-like-this/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753210">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753210</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:50:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.com/2024/10/05/what-does-product-market-fit-sound-like-this/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agile Opportunism – Entrepreneurial DNA]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://steveblank.substack.com/p/agile-opportunism-entrepreneurial">https://steveblank.substack.com/p/agile-opportunism-entrepreneurial</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732329">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732329</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:37:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://steveblank.substack.com/p/agile-opportunism-entrepreneurial</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum error correction below the surface code threshold]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687">https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652658">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652658</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:44:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.13687</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Need Mathematicians to Understand Space-Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://mailchi.mp/quantamagazine.org/why-colliding-particles-reveal-reality-2493205">https://mailchi.mp/quantamagazine.org/why-colliding-particles-reveal-reality-2493205</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630902">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630902</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:40:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://mailchi.mp/quantamagazine.org/why-colliding-particles-reveal-reality-2493205</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41630902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is a Particle? (2020)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/">https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612049">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612049</a></p>
<p>Points: 196</p>
<p># Comments: 185</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:20:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-a-particle-20201112/</link><dc:creator>sblank</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41612049</guid></item></channel></rss>