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Very worth looking at this in the context of https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreess... (Summary: AH doesn't like how the media has become critical of tech, would like to present its own narratives by going direct)

A great read. Discussed at the time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25841263

If you're looking for more information on what this is about than the landing page provides, the "Pitch Us" page expands on their editorial vision: https://future.a16z.com/pitch-us/

Lists don't make great HN submissions because there's little to discuss other than the lowest common denominator of the items of the list items, and that's too generic. It's also too much indirection since HN is already a list of articles. It's better to post the most interesting specific item from the list.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Someone already had posted an article from this site (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27515120), so I put that in the second-chance pool instead (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.

the thing being discussed here is not specific linked articles, but the mere existence of this website.

Yes, that's the lowest common denominator I'm talking about. We have lots of experience with this sort of thread and they rarely amount to much.

The backstory behind a website can be interesting, of course, but we don't have that here.

There are amazing posts but this one has a lot of confirmation bias: https://future.a16z.com/cohort-based-courses/

The article is promoting the idea of cohort-based courses written by Wes Kao (who is the co-founder of Maven, the first platform for cohort-based courses. She is also co-founder of the altMBA. )

Some of these headlines and ledes read like a parody of silicon valley gobbledygook.

The quality of content is incredible. I've read 3 blog posts so far and found this particularly relevant for Budibase: https://future.a16z.com/north-star-metrics

> Well-Behaved Bubbles Often Make History

Oh my, it is hilarious. Great content. Very self-satisfying. I'm glad these people think this way, more opportunities for the rest of us.

This would be cool if they added a prediction market on top of this. It doesn't necessarily need to be a market, but I would love to track falsifiable predictions that journalists make so I know which ones have a track record of being correct.

MacRumors does this for Apple predictions.

I believe you're thinking of AppleTrack.

https://appletrack.com/appletrack/

Speak of the devil (just found this site earlier this morning), but I really think what metaculus has built could be what you're looking for.

https://www.metaculus.com/

Not the rapper.

Thanks, I was confused as well. Wouldn’t be that crazy considering their investment in RapGenius.

Agreed - Ben Horowitz, A16Z Founder, loves the Rap genre of music.

https://www.businessinsider.com/why-ben-horowitz-loves-rap-2...

Headlines need statements. If you disagree, consider if I'd written: Headlines that assert a statement grab readers, you probably wouldn't care enough to still be reading.

Write the headline just as you think it with all its logic and reason, and then conjugate it into an assertion with a begged question.

Maybe they're going for a more quiet experience than clickbait, but since people read for sensation, and the more people that read something the more they will have in common, I'd say conjugate your headlines.

People Overlook Subtractive Changes. https://future.a16z.com/the-untapped-potential-of-subtractio...

Low Switching Costs are Driving DeFi. https://future.a16z.com/cryptos-fourth-wave-defi-poised-for-...

Nobody Knows Where Their Stuff Is. https://future.a16z.com/beyond-the-meme-ever-given-supply-ch...

Bubbles Are Statistical Time Travel. https://future.a16z.com/well-behaved-bubbles-history-innovat...

etc.

Needs a search feature, unless I’m not seeing it.

Future Publishing is a company. I thought for a moment they'd invested in Future Publishing and was wondering why. (They're in the magazine / print industry.)

https://www.futureplc.com

Edit: Any chance Future Plc won't like this name?

Edit 2: I could have sworn Future PLC owned "future.com", but maybe it has new owners (or renters)? Archive.org is down for a planned power outage, so I can't check right now.

So the contributors are paid in “exposure” or am I missing something?

I mostly enjoy A16Z and @pmarca in particular but they’re pretty hostile to contradictory ideas. Like if I pitch GDPR compliance for Substack I don’t think they’ll be super amused.

Still curious if this will rise to the quality of their podcast, which I find has a signal:pr:bs ratio of about 4:3:2, which is an excellent score for a corporate podcast!

[edit: not that exposure isn’t a valid currency here! For probably anyone who even knows who A16Z is.]

Do they have an RSS feed? Is rss even used anymore for stuff like this or should I give up?

https://future.a16z.com/feed/

Thanks!

I hope they create a competitor to HN next. That would siphon away most of the people who create throwaway accounts here to complain about HN's 'liberal bias' and 'cancel culture'

What other sites are at least as good or better than HN? HN is very much past its prime, but I haven't found many alternatives.

https://lobste.rs is okay.

Well, I want strong moderation, and I don't believe so-called 'filter bubbles' are inherently evil. HN suits me better than any other place online. I'm not even convinced that most people who complain about HN's restrictions and bias would, in reality, enjoy a similar site that didn't have them. But if they would enjoy one, Andreessen Horowitz strikes me as having a sensibility (which I dislike, tbh) that would match such a site.

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