How is possible investors got that money without employees getting it? If Google paid Windsurf the entity, then surely Windsurf must have had to equally distribute the 1.2B. And there's no way investors had 100x liquidation preferences or whatever.
Did Google just directly pay the VCs? Or purchase only the VC shares?
Here is a quick list of submissions that are currently on the top 10 of /active that are not on the default front page at all.
“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43714203
-flagged- US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715022
Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43711706
This 'College Protester' Isn't Real. It's an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716939
Encryption Is Not a Crime - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43716138
These submissions are interesting to me and IMO are all related to tech/science (yes, even the Harvard one - fewer talented foreign students leads to less innovation). I understand the reasoning for hiding these - most are political or opinionated and lead to possibly inflammatory debate. But I trust my own best judgement for what is worth consuming and personally don't want any algorithm deciding for me (other than a simple function of f(upvotes, time_elapsed)).
It supports pre-rendered 3d content such as memories or recordings through special devices - however neither the presentation nor the press release have examples of creating these on the fly or interacting with 3D content.
Given what we know from the presentation:
- that there's a separate real time subsystem running on the R1 chip which actually renders the environment (which presumably developers will not be allowed access to)
- that there is an M2 chip but no dedicated graphics card
- and that in general it is incredibly expensive to dynamically render anything at 2x 5k resolution
apps like static overlays over environments seem feasible to me, but not necessarily the mixed-reality app where (as a paltry example), you play an FPS inside your home or something. Or even something less demanding where you practice as a surgeon in 3d and slice open a realistic body.
Not very familiar with VR - is this a solvable problem with the current generation of hardware we have?
