15 stories tagged silicon-valley, newest first.
74 points by geox | 29 comments
El País English profile of Peter Thiel covering his political influence, Palantir, backing of J.D. Vance and Trump, and his religious rhetoric about the Antichrist.
12 points by ripe | 6 comments
A New York Times Magazine piece arguing that gambling logic underpins Silicon Valley products, including prediction markets; the capture shows a bot-block page.
131 points by bookofjoe | 39 comments
New York Times obituary of venture capitalist William (Bill) Draper; the captured page is a bot-detection block screen.
49 points by danielmorozoff | 17 comments
A Wired Big Story profile of writer Paulina Borsook, the tech critic and Cyberselfish author, examining what derailed her career.
49 points by Anon84 | 28 comments
New York Post article reporting on a circulated list of over 100 alleged sexual predators in Silicon Valley meant to warn female tech workers.
1286 points by minimaxir | 159 comments
Death announcement on Om Malik's blog stating he passed away June 24, 2026 at Stanford Hospital after a long heart illness, inviting remembrances.
649 points by vrnvu | 439 comments
Blog essay arguing the tech industry traded its trusted, boring nerd reputation for attention via self-promoting founders and executives online.
318 points by surprisetalk | 308 comments
An essay by Joan Westenberg arguing that Marc Andreessen's dismissive views on introspection are mistaken.
339 points by ramimac | 211 comments
Harper's Magazine essay by Sam Kriss, a letter from San Francisco about tech's new generation of AI startup founders and 'the end of thinking'.
337 points by Amorymeltzer | 254 comments
Dan Wang's 2025 annual letter, a year-in-review essay comparing Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party, among other reflections.
654 points by echollama | 404 comments
A Substack essay on how Silicon Valley companies engineer addictive products that monetize users' attention and relationships.
364 points by 005vc16607 | 382 comments
Financial Times article about the factory-building game Factorio and its popularity among Silicon Valley tech workers, shown behind a subscription paywall.
319 points by rpgbr | 173 comments
Blog post by Ian Betteridge on Silicon Valley's founder cult, contrasting Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman, and growing boredom with tech.
1631 points by mooreds | 764 comments
Blog post by Stefan Theard about founder liquidity, the practice of startup founders selling shares in secondary transactions during funding rounds.
897 points by CartyBoston | 680 comments
Washington Post article reporting that Sam Altman was pushed out of Y Combinator by mentor Paul Graham before his OpenAI ouster.