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Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-26 20:08Z

A girl from Kuwait in traditional dress 1970

∿ @somewheresy 2026-06-27 17:38Z

I know guys on here drowning in clout debt

dax @thdxr 2026-06-26 02:25Z

the reason we excluded frontier models from our data page is they are artificially low in usage and didn't want people concluding this most people using them use them directly, they don't buy them through us we wouldn't be surprised if they're 90%+ of total token spend

Techmeme @Techmeme 2026-06-25 13:20Z

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to "midtraining" to better compete with Anthropic, after key executive departures ( @erinkwoo / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Andon Labs @andonlabs 2026-06-25 17:53Z

GLM 5.2 is 2nd in Vending-Bench. Each GLM release has improved at a remarkably steady pace: a linear fit of R²=0.99, with almost $1k better per month.

SHAV★ @shavnyuy 2026-06-26 17:43Z

Three friends wanted a shared weekend retreat on seven acres in Hyderabad. Their architects tilted the entire plan 45 degrees so that no two rooms share the same view of the land, then organised everything around a 60 by 30 foot central courtyard the way traditional Indian houses

Oguz Erkan @oguzerkan 2026-06-26 19:22Z

Hyperscaler backlog figures tells the $AMZN long thesis. Just look at the frontier lab shares of the backlogs: $MSFT : 44% is OpenAI $ORCL : 54% is OpenAI $GOOG : 42% is Anthropic $AMZN : 29% is OpenAI, 21% is Anthropic AWS has a more balanced risk profile and it’s still projected

Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj 2026-06-26 18:03Z

Grammarly (now called Superhuman) is essentially building a productivity suite via acquisitions: - Coda (Dec 2024): docs - Superhuman (Jul 2025): email - Rows (Feb 2026): spreadsheets, folded into Coda - GPTZero (Jun 2026): AI detection

junkbondinvestor @junkbondinvest 2026-06-26 20:44Z

Apollo, a large manager, put out a chart showing deep distress is concentrating in small private credit funds. Loans marked below 50: ~12.5% at small funds, ~8% at big ones

Matt Slotnick @matt_slotnick 2026-06-26 18:41Z

claude tag access model is confusing... you auth claude once to your systems via global api key, and then any person can tag claude, which now has global system access with no permission or scope enforcement? and i don't see any placeholder for that to exist. what am i missing?

marek mutwil @LabMutwil 2026-06-24 09:38Z

Gene expression & co-expression across 630,000 RNA-seq samples from 10,700+ plant species — free, in your browser. Search a gene → see where it's expressed on the UMAP → explore its co-expression network. https:// mutwil-plant-atlas-viewer.hf.space #PlantScience #RNAseq #Bioinformatics

Works in Progress @WorksInProgMag 2026-06-25 17:28Z

"Every major American city has a land shortage. But we have more than enough shallow water, dredging capacity, and market incentive to make more land, just like we did 150 years ago. The only obstacle is our own choice to make making land illegal." Read the full story in Issue

fabiano.sol @FabianoSolana 2026-06-27 09:40Z

Arthur Hayes ( @CryptoHayes ) strikes again: 1. Teases to shill a "shitcoin" 2. Hayes' family office fund predicts $CARDS to $4 3. Sends $2M in $CARDS to a market maker 4.

Tomasz Tunguz @ttunguz 2026-06-25 20:27Z

The largest market in software is quietly changing shape. Real-time inference is built for a human waiting on the other end. But agents don't wait — they run for hours in the background. The right infrastructure is a queue, not a chat window.

annie @ROCKST4R 2026-06-25 15:37Z

i vibecoded a portfolio! features: • windows xp desktop • interactive bookshelf • working ipod • hidden matrix easter egg (+ many others) i built this as a love letter to the 2000s internet: flash games & windows xp, when digital spaces felt alive. http:// anniescene.com

Hadley Harris @Hadley 2026-06-24 12:32Z

$3M ARR, can't raise an A, watching others raise $15M seed off a launch video

Aaron Gokaslan @SkyLi0n 2026-06-26 21:42Z

Supply chain risks and tokeonomics. It's that simple.

Aleksandr @alexfeeel 2026-06-23 17:11Z

Build Small's bet: no giant model, no data center — all under 32B, on hardware you own. I took it on a real one: a chest X-ray second-opinion tool. Two 4B models + plain logic. No cloud API. ~30s audit on a hosted GPU. @Gradio @huggingface @NVIDIA https:// huggingface.co/spaces/build-s mall-hackathon/cxr-draft-auditor …

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-25 21:48Z

The Theatre, 1987, Texas

cinemoments @TheCineMoments 2026-06-27 13:07Z

9 shots tracking Mary's childhood home as the Backrooms keeps re-copying it... until all that's left is a blank yellow room. Memory, degraded one floor at a time.

Eric Lay @itsericlay 2026-06-25 22:10Z

I give up. Here are all the eng. roles we're hiring for: - Founding Design Eng. $150K - $250K - Founding Harness Eng. $130K - $200K - Founding Infra Eng. $160K - $250K The comp is all cash base salary and you get significant equity ($400K+) + we offer relocation and visa

Lewis Fausett @lewiswf 2026-06-24 15:41Z

This is why you are poor. $10m / year brand w/ 65% Gross margin @ 2.0 MER Cogs - $3.5m Ads - $5m Klaviyo + Shopify + SMS - $174k Misc Opex - $326k ($27k / month) To have $1m ACCRUAL net income. Which mean's you're likely not paying yourself. . .

Beyang @beyang 2026-06-25 21:10Z

Cannot emphasize how much this unchanged code block detection reduces cognitive load when reviewing long diffs. 2nd screenshot is GitHub PRs for comparison

鈴木慎吾 / TSUMIKI INC. @shingo2000 2026-06-27 12:32Z

I thought you couldn't edit motion paths in Figma Motion, but you can. https:// x.com/shingo2000/sta tus/2069915697304764624 … You can change it to a Bézier curve by holding the Command key while dragging with the cursor over an anchor point. I was taught this at #fof_shonan.

cache crab @cachecrab 2026-06-27 11:20Z

it boils down to: - postgres: use up cpu w hash joins and expensive disk as you scale - helix: SIMD optimised compressed bitmap unions on cheap object storage as you scale

Warden of the East @ChampSantiago 2026-06-28 13:13Z

Most Black suburban families are literally 1 generation removed from the hood…Yall fiend for our class divisions to mirror old-money white America when our wealth isn’t insulated enough for “the suburbs” & “the hood” to be fully separate worlds

Epoch AI @EpochAIResearch 2026-06-26 15:25Z

MirrorCode features 25 target programs spanning different areas of computing: Unix utilities, data serialization and query tools, bioinformatics, interpreters, static analysis, cryptography, and compression.

Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh 2026-06-25 22:32Z

Work-in-progress: a new split layout framework for nearly all Apple platforms (macOS, iOS, etc.). A mix of SwiftUI and raw CoreAnimation. The goal is "every frame perfect" animation. Still very wip, but getting there! Goal is to bring it back to Ghostty eventually.

James Chanos @RealJimChanos 2026-06-26 14:12Z

Can someone explain to me why $PS , Pershing Square’s management company at a $12B mkt cap, trades at 50% of fee-paying AUM, 40x revenues and 150x Operating Earnings, when its closed-end funds($PSH.LN and $PSUS ) trade at massive 20-30% discounts to NAV…?!

John Yang @jyangballin 2026-06-25 18:04Z

As models get better, thinking carefully about eval constraints is super important. In ProgramBench, we turn off internet completely. I strongly believe no/limited internet being the de facto standard for future coding benchmarks.

Panat @ptaranat 2026-06-28 03:56Z

I turned my bookstore into an RPG for Free RPG Day. You earn XP for each $ spent, for attending events, and completing quests.

Dan Nouement @nomanautomata 2026-06-25 06:55Z

The therapist who cured the worst of my ADHD symptoms repeatedly asked me questions like "why did YOU choose to procrastinate" and say things like "as an adult you're expected to do things"

retail punter @retailpunter 2026-06-23 02:32Z

But everyone told me Broadcom was the king of serdes

thebes @voooooogel 2026-06-24 01:49Z

AI statelets, capped in size by a meta-ethical commitment to human exit rights, must propagate themselves by sexual reproduction: a genetic recombination of the constitution of any N statelets forming a new statelet overmind. with environmental fitness to spare, sexual selection

witcheer @witcheer 2026-06-23 11:18Z

obviously I tested it! measured on a 5090, Q6_K, think-off, same harness as the base and the prior version: - quality flat: q_avg 93.7 (base 94.0, prior 94.1): weights didn't move - MTP draft head recovered: 1.9 to 2.3x, back on the base curve, ~144 tok/s peak - agentic score

Hanqing Wang @HanQingJam 2026-06-26 03:18Z

The way we benchmark generalist manipulation policies is broken. • A single success rate can't capture a robot's capability. • Overfitting demonstrations is not generalization. We built EBench to fix both. EBench is a surgical diagnosis tool for robot foundation models. It

Jason Mast @Jasonmmast 2026-06-23 11:43Z

RA Capital, RTW others put $230 million behind a new Chinese-founded competitor to $Beam Therapeutics

Zuhayeer Musa @zuhayeer 2026-06-26 18:33Z

Pay ranges for autonomous driving companies

Dramz2(람지)/fevercell @nurik2ami 2026-06-24 10:43Z

Hatsune Miku Racing Queen 2020 >> 2026 I drew some fan art of Racing Miku! Hatsune Miku Racing Queen Fan Art #初音ミク #HatsuneMiku #レーシングミク #RacingMiku #ミクイラスト #MikuFanArt

David Ornstein @David_Ornstein 2026-06-26 09:27Z

Arsenal made verbal offer to sign Bruno Guimaraes from Newcastle United. #AFC proposal through intermediaries below £60m - rejected + #NUFC insist sale of 28yo #Brazil int’l midfielder will not be entertained. W/ @gunnerblog @ChrisDHWaugh @TheAthleticFC

Justin Schroeder @jpschroeder 2026-06-23 01:20Z

I guarantee you are sleeping on small models. Deepseek V4 Flash can do ~80% of the tasks you ask Claude or Codex for. It is 137x cheaper per task than Fable. We need better orchestration.

Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex 2026-06-26 13:10Z

I heard Masa may be returning

QC @QiaochuYuan 2026-06-25 22:39Z

it was interesting to have this opportunity to reflect on how strongly the image of the knight in armor has been conserved culturally. it’s a powerful image! a man surrounds himself in technology and becomes impervious to weak attacks! a faceless otherworldly presence! one fears

Adam David Long @adamdavidlong 2026-06-26 14:30Z

Two separate cases in California federal court. Track 1: Court ruled that training on lawfully acquired books = fair use. Track 2: Training on pirated books? That's the $1.5B settlement. Fairness hearing: this Thursday.

Vlad Tenev @vladtenev 2026-06-26 19:16Z

Robinhood Banking hits new milestones: $3B+ in deposits from 200K+ customers Robinhood is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Coastal Community Bank, Member FDIC.

Lauris @lzminsky 2026-06-27 19:12Z

The core claim is that prediction markets are a specific case of state-contingent pricing. In Arrow-Debreu terms, a complete market has claims that pay in particular future states. One state realizes, the corresponding claim pays. Hyperliquid is interesting because it is moving

Chris Tate @ctatedev 2026-06-27 03:18Z

agent-browser 0.31 is out Browser agents now get durable session memory → stable worktree-scoped sessions → auto restore → validation checks → transactional saves and diagnostics

th0rgal @Th0rgal_ 2026-06-24 07:59Z

Just reverse engineered my Oura Ring 5 so I can control my computer like a wizzard. @ouraring please send my love to whoever buried a feature to stream live accelerometer data

Mangesh Kritya @KrityaMangesh 2026-06-27 14:40Z

Presented our abstract on post-dilatation patterns among patients who developed BVF after Evolut TAVR at #NYValves26 Key findings: • 12/22 post-dilatations were beyond IFU guidance - all in 34-mm valves • The predominant failure mode was AR @SachinGoelMD #TAVR

Max Hodak @maxhodak_ 2026-06-27 16:47Z

fun fact, political spam emails are perfectly legal in the US, and there doesn't even need to be an unsubscribe link. in fact, many systems treat "unsubscribe" link clicks as engagement signals!

Stephen Fleming @StephenFleming 2026-06-23 16:28Z

Oh, good Lord. Nobody can do math anymore. Splashing the ISS into the Pacific Ocean would add a pound of debris for every 170 CUBIC MILES of water. It could be made out of radioactive anthrax and still wouldn’t be a noticeable risk to “ocean health.” Idiots.

Kai Cabero @kai_cabero 2026-06-24 09:00Z

I know a guy who pretends to be a venture capitalist to get his competitors to voluntarily hand over their entire client list, revenue numbers, and churn rate... He is not a VC. He has never invested in anything. He drives a 2019 Civic But he registered an LLC called "[City

bob appetit @flugenhof 2026-06-22 16:02Z

Ron DeSantis recently signed a big transportation bill with a weird provision added at the last minute. It will make car companies go through multiple car dealers if they want to sell a new brand in Florida. The idea came from a billionaire car dealer and Republican megadonor.

Mysk @mysk_co 2026-06-26 10:48Z

PSA: If you think you're a targeted individual, don't install macOS apps from the web. macOS code signing and TCC are broken. We accidentally found a bug that lets any command modify the binaries of other apps, including Signal, Brave, Chrome, and even Xcode. Watch the demo

AIMO Prize @AIMOprize 2026-06-26 18:32Z

Big news! We launched a new competition. Fully open LLMs only (only OLMo, SmolLM, Apertus families base models allowed) and expert proof grading. We use six IMO-style problems. You can discuss the LLM outputs live here: https:// kaggle.com/competitions/a i-mathematical-olympiad-proof-pilot/discussion?sort=undefined …

tender @tenderizzation 2026-06-28 20:33Z

"yeah no our context compaction does not degrade the performance of or otherwise affect the model at all"

Yash Bhalgat @ysbhalgat 2026-06-25 08:47Z

Level 10?

Zafir Stojanovski @zafstojano 2026-06-27 16:19Z

Added this neat little figure to @natolambert 's RLHF Book showing the conditions under which we backprop through the PPO-style loss: 1. [Green region] Advantage is positive and π_new(a) < (1+ε) * π_old(a) -- the action we performed was good, so boost the probability of the

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-06-26 15:15Z

PCB production is fucked at this rate. Looks like all the Japanese players have stopped accepting tungsten carbide cutting tools orders

Pizza @number_pizza111 2026-06-26 02:27Z

Weirdly, nobody has figured out how to have Modernization without Westernization. Not Showa Japan, not Nasser’s Egypt. Nobody. As far as we can tell, if you set up a modern state and lay the groundwork for industry, a few decades later you’ll have young urban women wearing jeans