Startups

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc — via Hacker News.

Buckminster Fuller: everything I know — via Hacker News.

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

James McArthur on what AI changes in quote-to-cash, live at SaaStr AI Day James McArthur, VP of Product Advocacy at Nue.io, ran a live demo at SaaStr AI Day this week and let the agent hit its limits on screen, on conference Wi-Fi, in front of everyone. That made it more useful than most vendor... C

Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" is set today (2026-08-04) — via Hacker News.

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X — via Hacker News.

Telkom Group, South Africa's legacy telecom operator, has data now accounting for nearly two-thirds of its operating revenue.

Co-creation HUB (CcHUB) has selected 12 Nigerian startups for the fourth cohort of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship.

In today's edition: Nigeria issues crypto tax rules || South Africa’s new rules for spam callers || South Africa’s capital-control rules for crypto || DR Congo walks back on digital tax proposal

LLMs reward expertise — via Hacker News.

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actually go.

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.