Every show about a brainiac is in want of a eureka moment. On last night's season finale of Silicon Valley, the lightbulb turned on thanks to an elaborate riff on manually pleasuring the mostly male audience at TechCrunch Disrupt—all in order to win the conference's startup competition.

Dan Lyons, former Newsweek writer and real person behind the Fake Steve Jobs phenomenon blog, will help tackle a new generation of still-living tech despots as a writer for HBO's startup comedy series.

Let's talk about last night's episode of Silicon Valley, which was staged at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. In real life, the annual conference is an island of lost startups where aspirants scramble for attention while the anointed tell tales of world change and global impact, signifying nothing (because they're told by the makers of project management software).

In the most recent episode of Startup Asperger's Action Squad, the boys of Pied Piper face a big problem: TechCrunch Disrupt is around the corner, and their software doesn't work. It also included some of the most true to life moments in the series so far

For me, the turning point in watching HBO's Silicon Valley can be traced back to the Burger King subplot in the third episode.

HBO's Silicon Valley has been renewed for a second season, Variety reports.

Perhaps realizing that everyone is just going to use their former roommate's pilfered HBO Go password anyway, the series premiere of the (hugely smart and funny) Silicon Valley is now available on YouTube.

The general consensus ahead of Sunday's big HBO debut is positive: geeks and geek detractors are both excited for Silicon Valley. But Recode's Nellie Bowles attended the show's San Francisco premiere, and tech's favorite billionaire electric car baron has nothing nice to say. He also seems like sort of a prick!

Until now, no one adequately embarrassed Silicon Valley on TV. All prior attempts either embarrassed themselves, or fell just short. But Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's HBO foray into the sociopathic pit of Northern California's tech scene is beyond adequate: It gives the fuckers the graceful slap across the face they need.

"You remind me of my son. He's got Asperger's too." It looks like Mike Judge has another fine piece of bleak capitalist dramedy prepared for the show's premiere on April 6th. What could be better than "Office Space" in 2014?

There have been two shots at bringing startups to television: Bravo's catastrophe, and Amazon's mixed bag. Now the legendary Mike Judge is taking a stab with HBO, and based on a couple preliminary dick jokes and Judge's cachet, it could actually be terrific.