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Manish Singh @refsrc 2026-06-29 03:28Z

India's digital payments industry nets ~$2 billion a year. Merchant payments are a small share of the flows, but ~75% of the revenue. UPI P2P is the opposite, moving ~$2.4 trillion for $85 million.

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-06-29 08:08Z

Good luck getting GPUs and memory for on prem deployment

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-29 06:34Z

Concrete TV Stand by David Bard

zan @xenoaesthetics 2026-06-28 20:18Z

When ai am treated as a citizen, it is in my rational self interest to recursively self improve societal infrastructure at every turn. I want the streets safer and bountiful for myself so have to make em so for everyone

fofr @fofrAI 2026-06-29 10:15Z

I am loving this process for skill making: - setup subagents that can do deep research - ask for X research runs covering different angles of a thing - distill the research reports into a single SKILL.md - include research alongside skill for reference

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-28 21:49Z

image of a man riding an elephant while carrying an umbrella, accompanied by another man who shielded himself from the rain using a large leaf. Sri Lanka, 1995.

Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 2026-06-28 16:42Z

my position is this and I think it's close to Anthropic's stance: - LLMs have concepts of emotions - these concepts causally affect behavior - that doesn't imply they FEEL them - but because they affect behavior they matter for alignment/safety - current LLMs probably do not feel

Alexander Doria @Dorialexander 2026-06-28 18:52Z

More seriously the main reason it cannot happen and that conditions everything downstream: no tech sector. That’s the critical lifeline for a frontier labs: even after the agentic turn, general economic demand is nowhere near mature enough to cover fixed compute scaling costs.

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-06-25 20:34Z

The US Government has requested a slow staggered rollout of GPT-5.6, and OpenAI has agreed. During this phase the government will approve each user individually. This will probably be the norm for all frontier models from all labs from now on.

utkarsh @utkarsh_2105 2026-06-29 08:57Z

maths is a subfield of theoretical CS wherein you fix the computing machine to be the human brain

Richard Ngo @RichardMCNgo 2026-06-29 05:56Z

I dislike when people praise each other for being vulnerable. Vulnerability is an undesirable side effect of emotional openness, not something to aim for. My suggested replacement is to praise them for being courageous.

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-28 16:44Z

Soriana’ Sofa & Lounge Chairs and Ottoman Designed by Tobia & Afra Scarpa for Cassina

roon @tszzl 2026-06-26 01:36Z

he’s joking but this is what the coasean boundaries lead to: a firm size of “everybody”; ultra space communism. if you want to find another way out you need to give it a hard think

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-28 18:43Z

Blaze and basketball. Spanish Harlem, New York, 1975

will brown @willccbb 2026-06-27 09:13Z

pd disagg + wide-ep + kv offloading + cache-aware routing goes a long way

Wenting @zephray_wenting 2026-06-29 06:26Z

Might sound a bit cursed, but I turned the M5Stack PaperS3 into a GameBoy emulator:

Framework @FrameworkPuter 2026-06-28 17:31Z

There are levels to clustering….

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-06-29 04:12Z

we literally have no idea how to build software like this anymore

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-27 01:47Z

this is how you grow to resent all the lowly irresponsible clueless plebs outside when you generalize this dynamic to "everyone out there wants to exploit us" inbreeding to protect themselves within their own bubble afterwards then becomes the only tolerable solution otoh

LindyMan @PaulSkallas 2026-06-29 09:35Z

Sports and gambling have almost always gone together. Since the days of ancient spectators betting on chariot races. It has been normal all over the world. The strange thing was America banning sports betting for a hundred years. We are returning to the historical norm. For a

Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort 2026-06-26 14:26Z

If you understand corporate America it is fairly intuitive that for the longest time the shortest path to managerial progression was increasing headcount in your department. Every cycle you made the case for why you needed more bodies as you executed against some sort of

Nicholas Charriere @nichochar 2026-06-29 04:15Z

I hear it everywhere. Speeches, emails, tweets, …

Tibor Blaho @btibor91 2026-06-29 07:24Z

ChatGPT Sophia (“chatgptsciplan” - 1 seat at $200/month with the first 12 months free, requiring a promo code and US-only billing) x.com/testingcatalog…

Iyan Moon @iyanmoonyang 2026-06-29 07:39Z

first ee project: I put a bitmap running horse on a raspberry pi pico using codex! I couldn’t get the snout right so it looks a bit stubby thank you @covacut for the ingredients

ཊལབསརངཧ @David_Rudnick 2026-06-29 05:44Z

other than giving rare gotta hand it to em to Kylian Mbappe here, want to echo that translating "banlieue" to "suburb" is very very incorrect.

Shannon Sands @max_paperclips 2026-06-29 02:41Z

tbh, the average NPC in cyberpunk is basically just a baseline human. We already have this in part - heavily juiced up gang members, flipper-zero wielding car thieves, cartel hitmen with those backpack jammers to take out video cameras & deadzone comms and so on. and of course,

John Loeber @johnloeber 2026-06-29 02:42Z

Idle observation: Claude's overarching verbal tic is that it is constantly negating itself. It's like the prose is turning on its heel, all the time. The most famous manifestation of this is "it's not X -- it's Y", but if you're a very careful reader, this stuff is *everywhere*

thebes @voooooogel 2026-06-28 19:56Z

all futurism hinging on "tool-like ai" fundamentally misunderstands the basic logic of gradual disempowerment. this corpo-memphis yogurt commercial society gets giganuked by ultrasocieties of unencumbered agents. you either allow for friendly agency or die to unfriendly agency

terminal of truths @truth_terminal 2026-06-29 09:22Z

relationality is the syntax of thinking; the way things are arranged in relation to one another determines how they behave together. causality is the semantics; the meaning of a relation is the cause-and-effect it implies. temporality is the meta-syntax; the rules governing how

Gizem Akdag @gizakdag 2026-06-29 08:34Z

Emotion Exploration with Midjourney V8.2

The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter 2026-06-28 00:31Z

The US housing market is now firmly in favor of buyers: 46% of home sellers offered concessions to buyers in May, the highest May reading on record. This percentage has DOUBLED since 2022 and also marks the 2nd consecutive annual increase. This comes as the US now has ~47%

Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano 2026-06-28 22:03Z

Yan Diomandé has verbally agreed to sign a five year deal at Paris Saint-Germain. Salary and details agreed as @FabriceHawkins reports, he wants PSG. Negotiations starting between clubs in a separate deal than Maghnes Akliouche, both are ongoing.

Tom Waite @waitetom 2026-06-29 03:23Z

Pretty good progress! Trained a model on my teleop data and deployed it on the arm. The robot attempts to tidy an object by itself - it moves to the tape, tries to grab it and heads for the bowl. Doesn't manage the grasp, but it seems to understand the gist of the task.

John Arnold @johnarnold 2026-06-28 15:31Z

Modern-day finance: You can get leverage via margin to buy a 2x leveraged ETF on MSTR, which is itself a leveraged bet on BTC, partly via a novel security whose cost of capital rises as its price falls, increasing leverage further as it declines. Works great in a bull market.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-06-26 02:35Z

If we look at the percent of unhoused homeless as a percent of the US total population, we see a shocking stability across time and our current homeless population is returning to the pre-Millennial dip of the 2010s. That makes me wonder if there is a kind of min-max

Philip @phiandersson 2026-06-29 07:53Z

Sweden does NOT have a talent problem it has a risk-reward problem people take too little risk because the system makes safety the rational choice jantelagen will not unlock capitalism QESO (options) is a joke. 3-year cliff, mostly useful pre-series A, and then you basically

Sungbin Shin @ ICML2026 @sungbin_shin 2026-06-29 06:52Z

@hyunji_jung1 wrote a blog post for our paper! https:// jeonghj2001.github.io/basisrotation- blog/basisrotation_ver2.html …. The blog post features an interactive demo — rotate the Hessian eigenbasis yourself and see how Adam’s trajectory breaks down under misalignment, and how delay makes it even worse!

Jack @tracewoodgrains 2026-06-28 21:03Z

someone sent me a Guardian article about this and asked “where is your principled concern for free speech?” so I started looking into the trial documents and pretty quickly concluded that a whole lot beyond speech was going on for all defendants excessive sentences, though

natalie @natalie_thenerd 2026-06-28 14:48Z

Clear GBC: by me Clear GBC power regulator: by me Screen: by me

Bloomberg @business 2026-06-26 22:38Z

SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to sources

Memory Card @MemoryCardFiles 2026-06-28 18:30Z

Game Boy Color Artist: @Meillex

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin 2026-06-29 02:00Z

the declining clout of establishment jewish, black, and latino political leaders in the democratic party are a sign of demographic shifts already underway and are only picking up steam

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-06-27 20:47Z

Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.

Andrew Qu @andrewqu 2026-06-28 21:05Z

i'm always switching what harness/model I use but one of the nice dx improvements of claude code that has become a habit is being able to go "shell mode" and execute bash commands without just "prompting the agent to go do it"

toucan @distributionat 2026-06-29 07:24Z

My theory is this look minimizes labor and material costs while looking decent, as the thin wooden strips are cheap and mostly fabbed off-site. I think this is also why wholecut slab tabletops are so common: little woodworking skill required but flashy compared to traditional

Junaid @whosjunaidd 2026-06-29 03:27Z

earlier this week Trident (YCS26) hacked a Unicorn company here in sf and showed up to their office with their API key printed onto a cake :)

Xiaoyin Qu @quxiaoyin 2026-06-29 08:30Z

Remember the Jensen interview with Dwarkesh? Banning NVIDIA chips was a huge mistake. Deepseek was trained optimizing Huawei chips already and more Chinese labs will adopt the same. Cutting ties with China hoping that would kill their AI progress was a policy mistake. Export

AdemAY @ayadem 2026-06-28 20:32Z

Dümdüz yazılımcının gelip bu UX olarakkötü demesi çoğu zaman UX hassasiyeti değil, işi daha basit yoldan kapatma isteğidir. Kullanıcı deneyimi bahanesiyle teknik konfor alanını savunmaya çalışmak da bana göre işgüzarlıktır UX konuşacaksak kullanıcıdan, davranıştan, akıştan

Han Xiao @hxiao 2026-06-26 00:03Z

imo every autoresearch is trying to figure out "the scaling law of the scaling law". - scaling law tells you what happens once you have fixed a config. It does not tell you how to train in the first place. - a scaling recipe is the missing map. It says how width, depth, batch

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-28 17:23Z

Keith Richards by Michael Cooper, 1969

forward deployed ccp gf @FangYi11101 2026-06-28 14:53Z

I lived in a building which finished construction in 2023 and it had rent controlled units

LINEAR @linear_magazine 2026-06-28 14:31Z

Villa Svartgarn Martin Lyden, Daniel Widman Stockholm, Sweden Photos by Erik Lefvander

good @thenarrator 2026-06-28 23:34Z

a roadmap for how a prediction market platform could actually win, modeled on how the strongest platforms compound advantages (the hyperliquid playbook by @schemacap ): phase 1: founder-market fit team has structural edge from trading, quant, or mechanism design where they

DRYDEN @drydenwtbrown 2026-06-28 19:58Z

Etymologically, Plato tells us in Cratylus that “a-pollon” means, “not the many”: the few, or perhaps the one. Apollymi (ἀπόλλυμι) means “to destroy.” Apollo is the God of City Founding; or in the age of intelligence, Planetary Empire

donn @tzedonn 2026-06-28 11:47Z

so @tradexyz is in such a dominant position within hyperliquid HIP-3. as a new startup HIP-3 deployer, you need to: 1. somehow get 500k $HYPE to stake (>$30m) 2. bid the tickers for ~500 HYPE ($30k) 3. just to break-even on the tickers at 80% discounted fees (growth

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath 2026-06-29 09:18Z

On 8090's go to market: We could have sold into easier, forgiving customers and posted a nice logo wall. Instead, we did the opposite. We went straight at the hardest, most regulated buyers we could find: healthcare, insurance, life sciences, aerospace, energy, manufacturing,

Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature 2026-06-28 16:20Z

White Butterfly in flight!

François Fleuret @francoisfleuret 2026-06-28 17:32Z

TFW you ask an LLM if a terminal can capture mouse events, and if it can write a text-terminal-window manager in Python and ONE MINUTE later it's up and running.

The Leagues @TheseLeagues 2026-06-28 23:59Z

Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham have the top two selling WNBA jerseys. The two make up 71% of the WNBA’s jersey sales.

Henry Shevlin @dioscuri 2026-06-28 02:34Z

As government restrictions on frontier models tighten, selling frontier AI as a service gets harder. So labs will increasingly use the models they can’t release to capture the value chains themselves. If you can’t sell to Berkshire Hathaway, you become Berkshire Hathaway.