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Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson 2026-07-02 23:11Z

Marc Andreessen @pmarca 2026-07-02 20:52Z

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit

zan @xenoaesthetics 2026-07-02 17:01Z

People really hate thinking, in fact the people who hate thinking the most are the people who are supposed to be thinkers, i.e. philosophers. Indeed they hate it so much that they shut down Future of Humanity Institute, which was a place for the asking of such questions. The

Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa 2026-07-02 17:27Z

Alternative take: the US taking 5% of OAI makes sense. Its a dividend on the public conditions that made the company possible. And China didn’t dominate EVs, batteries, solar, drones, telecom by pretending strategic tech is just software Industrial strategy with upside

∿ @somewheresy 2026-07-03 00:18Z

able: expect agency able + willing: expect action not able, willing: lend support not able, not willing: protect able, not willing: ignore or destroy

Super Dario @inductionheads 2026-07-02 23:40Z

It isn’t just that wang is a huckster It’s that he literally led them down exactly the wrong path (all this screen recording nonsense) to try to retcon his scale AI thesis into relevance Time to cut bait Mark (hire @willccbb instead)

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-02 16:20Z

Eave Collection by Ammunition Produced by Gantri*

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-07-02 20:54Z

On the heels of reports that META is exploring a move into compute-as-a-service like xAI, Mark Zuckerberg told an internal town hall that AI agent development over the last four months hasn’t accelerated 'in the way we expected'. The race continues to narrow.

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-07-02 17:01Z

Continual learning is probably the biggest barrier to explosive AI adoption (& may have big implications for recursive self-improvement as well) As long as you deal with amnesiac models that require humans to do the learning for them, adoption will be gated by human processes.

Anastasios Nikolas Angelopoulos @ml_angelopoulos 2026-07-03 00:33Z

Basically, the CIs overlap, it is not nerfed, so far looks like it’s the same model.

Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto 2026-07-02 23:50Z

This sow came in close, too close for me to stand up without scaring her.. luckily Tiff was able to grab my 50mm camera for me… tears were about to be shed!

Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2026-07-02 19:07Z

Of course, love me some confirmation bias! DCLM was for text, DCVLM is the same for vision: analyzing VLM data mix across scales. Filtering is no bueno, but the "type" mixing matters, with unfortunately (but imo expectedly) the best small-scale mix != the best mid-scale mix.

Guillermo Rauch @rauchg 2026-07-02 17:57Z

We've been explaining AI Gateway as a C̶o̶n̶t̶e̶n̶t̶ Token Delivery Network. Like a CDN for AI models. One great feature of CDNs is the ability to dynamically re-route or deny traffic without redeployment. When Fable was suddenly retired, we worried about production workloads

Hanchen Li @lihanc02 2026-07-02 18:52Z

lol

will depue @willdepue 2026-07-02 23:43Z

if i had a 6 year old son i'd start training him as a dune mentat to write fluent claudeslop, freehanding 100% pangram scores, in case the butlerian jihad kills claude and i need a replacement minion

Ben Clavié @bclavie 2026-07-02 20:24Z

TIL vLLM just nukes FlashAttention 3 FP8 performance (by 75%, i.e. 2x slower than bf16) to fix a bug that occurs only at 100k+ context, and you have to rebuild it from scratch to escape it

Bing Xu @bingxu_ 2026-07-02 18:51Z

云的目的不是赚钱，是用Market push infra现代化，参考火山引擎。你敢相信Meta多少年都不用Docker/k8s不

Kaylee George @krgeorge 2026-07-02 20:20Z

Kitty protocol terminals (e.g. Ghostty) can opt for hold to talk in /settings. That paired with Ctrl+Space keybinding has been a really nice flow.

tomie @tomieinlove 2026-07-02 18:58Z

The future will hold such a superabundance of machine intelligence that we’ll use quadrillion-parameter models just to stream out the tokens for digital rain effects on our desktop wallpapers.

Minh Nhat Nguyen @menhguin 2026-07-02 16:52Z

every now and then market does smth absolutely retarded to give u better entries last year it was selling off NVDA on Deepseek R1 then few months ago it was selling off Cloudflare after Mythos release then selling off Apple on price increase now $NBIS

Michael @endpointarena 2026-07-02 18:59Z

Endpoint Index also tracks clinical trial risk by phase, from early-stage trials to Phase 3

Tanay Jaipuria @tanayj 2026-07-03 01:59Z

The offside law hasn’t changed just that VAR now enforces it to a mm. I think laws should be changed to use feet to determine it since so imo too harsh to use the leaning shoulder

Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd 2026-07-02 19:52Z

Most career advice is inward facing: focused on identifying your interests, dreams and passions. It can often sound like psychotherapy. Better, I think, to turn your focus outwards: what do other people need, how can you help them, and how can you test different careers

Nicole @elocinationn 2026-07-03 01:23Z

Both not caring enough and caring too much as an employee are bad. If you don’t care enough you’ll produce shitty work and probably be pushed out. If you care too much, you’ll end up overstepping in some way as you ignore authority and politics in an attempt to reveal the truth

Thoughtful @thoughtfullab 2026-07-02 18:52Z

GLM 5.2 is 5x cheaper than Opus 4.8 and 11x than Fable 5, yet it tops PostTrainBench. That’s exciting because lower costs make personalized intelligence economically viable. Every company and country should be able to own models trained on its own data and have sovereignty over

Paul @arpeegee 2026-07-02 19:38Z

I've reconstructed the shot in blender for those who found it confusing The whole thing resides on the camera's focal length!

Josh @JoshPurtell 2026-07-02 18:26Z

Cool mental model

EV_Trapper @EV_Trapper 2026-07-02 22:29Z

You didn't design that in your dorm room, but you did copy the world record holder for fastest RC jet powered aircraft that made this specific jet back in 2017. The aircraft you show is literally a 1:1 replica of Niels Herbrich's world record setting jet out of Germany. Why lie

Michael Y. Li @michaelyli_ 2026-07-02 17:40Z

You're wasting FLOPs when scaling inference compute: by independently sampling parallel attempts, you burn compute rediscovering the same solutions. Introducing QuasiMoTTo: we scale parallel sampling with correlated samples instead! These samples have higher coverage, are

@lichthauch @lichthauch 2026-07-02 16:55Z

Everybody who tells you to trust the process and build systems and optimize your life is basically advising you to concrete over your own front yard. sure, now you've got a nice clean parking spot but nothing is growing there, nothing is going to grow there either. the most vivid

Azalia Mirhoseini @Azaliamirh 2026-07-02 23:06Z

Check out this new synthetic data / RL approach for writing AMD HIP (a low-resource language) kernels! Correctness went from 6% to 60% on KernelBench L2!

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-02 16:12Z

Cateto Club by Alejandro Cateto of Cateto Cateto Marbella, Spain

RSC @silver__tsuki 2026-07-02 18:21Z

Abundance libs are constantly looking for validation from leftists Rent freeze and more regulations are now part of abundance because they are too afraid to be seen as uncool by socialists

Kyle Vedder @KyleVedder 2026-07-02 17:55Z

“why doesn’t the pretrained robot learning model work on my hardware?” Check: - state definition matches exactly what the model expects (e.g. action norm stats) - cameras aren’t swapped - arms aren’t swapped - images arent bgr by accident (opencv ) - action space is correct

Karine Hsu @karine_hsu 2026-07-02 14:48Z

omg kpop marketing is on another level what a cool interactive ice cream generator to promo a new album (yeonjun's no labels pt 2) from HYBE choose the ice cream, add toppings, hear stripped-down instrumental teasers of different tracks and generate a custom ice cream combo WOW

Jakub Antalik @Jakubantalik 2026-07-02 15:42Z

Border beam effect somehow reached 180k+ installs New version is out: dynamic colors, 5 types, playground, dark & light mode, zero dependencies http:// beam.jakubantalik.com

Will Manidis @WillManidis 2026-07-02 18:23Z

pretty strong evidence the stagnation is over is that people believe in secret societies again. a world in which secret societies exist is a society where things actually happen that seem beyond the reach of any single individual. bullish.

Ashwin Ramaswami @AshwinRamaswami 2026-07-02 16:30Z

We just did something crazy at @corridor : we made human code review optional. We use an AI reviewer and @corridor 's own security checks. The results: Median merge time: 21hrs → <3hrs PRs shipped: 2-3x Reversion rate: 1.2% → 0.7%

Caleb (OSH Cut) @CalebChamberla6 2026-07-02 21:50Z

Will-call is now enabled at our Cincinnati facility! Yes, that's a sheet metal part for a total cost of... $5.82.

Ivonne Aldaz @ivonnealdazz 2026-07-02 19:52Z

Plitvice Lakes National Park // Croatia (2025)

Guanghan Ning @quietnning 2026-07-02 18:16Z

Tufa Labs won ARC-AGI-3 Milestone 1 with the Duck, and here is my take: The Duck is a pure externalized harness. A frozen, open-source Qwen3.6-27B in FP8 (running offline on one RTX Pro 6000 under a 9-hour cap for official Kaggle submission), driving a minimal Python REPL that

Alex Nichol @unixpickle 2026-07-02 21:19Z

It is working, but researchers are the current outer loop

derek guy @dieworkwear 2026-07-02 23:29Z

The women in this video are engaging in a process known as waulking, which was historically done by soaking tweed in stale urine, then beating it until it softened and shrank. As urine ferments, it breaks down into ammonia, which cuts through the lanolin (grease) inherent in wool

jess yin @itsjessyin 2026-07-02 23:46Z

hats are the new billboards

SIP @spottedinprod 2026-07-02 20:44Z

everyplace · onboarding by @subvolume

John Arnold @johnarnold 2026-07-03 00:02Z

Does "clinically-studied" just mean they ran a clinical trial, it failed, but they can still sell it as a dietary supplement? And that they think most consumers won't distinguish between "clinically-studied" and "clinically-proven"? That's pretty clever marketing.

shaur @xXshaurizardXx 2026-07-03 00:11Z

also, not is it the best on-device physically based film simulation for iOS (well, like the only one) you can take photos using indigo (or a similar raw app of choice) & emulate film from your phone, have fun! if u run into perf issues lmk, more fixes soon, too much foveon work

R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore 2026-07-02 19:03Z

Kenmore Effect continues

Judd Rosenblatt @juddrosenblatt 2026-07-02 15:03Z

The highest function of an intelligent mind may be to remain partially unoptimized—not to avoid excellence, but to preserve the capacity to generate futures whose value cannot yet be evaluated by today's objectives.

Tatta Bio @tatta_bio 2026-07-02 13:01Z

In SeqHub, you can now search a protein to find FlashPPI2-predicted interaction partners across all 400 million proteins and 132K microbial genomes in our database (OpenGenome). You can still upload full genomes to find interactions within and between genomes.

Natasha Mascarenhas @nmasc_ 2026-07-02 16:05Z

Scoop via @arroyanieto: Antonio Gracias is so bullish on SpaceX and its future that he told his LPs that he'd rather not sell SpaceX shares to pay them out, according to a recent investor call. Gracias instead plans to distribute the firm’s SpaceX investment “in kind,” meaning

Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov 2026-07-02 14:46Z

Crumple, an old-fashioned glass by Makoto Komatsu, 1980

Xavi @xavicfu 2026-07-02 21:10Z

PSA: memetics failed as an academic field because they couldn’t find a direct analogue to the gene. There was no replicating unit of thought. Calling ideas ‘memes’ had no predictive power and the only memetics journal shut down in 2005 for lack of good submissions.

archistar @archistar1 2026-07-02 14:44Z

House in Nishizaki, Okinawa, Japan 2023 #architects Studio Cochi Architects #architecture #design

Guy @nosilverv 2026-07-02 12:40Z

"Emotional Resolution" as how big an emotional experience needs to be for you to notice that it's happening

Ilya Sukhar @ilyasu 2026-07-02 16:20Z

Piedmont, CA housing prices now above 2022 peak

IC3 @initc3org 2026-07-02 13:26Z

Crypto is a "hard" technology: It is rigid, deterministic, and built on cryptographic primitives. It demands rigorous security properties and relies on programs that enforce unambiguous results. AI is a "soft" technology: It is probabilistic, fluid, and inherently a black box.

Vladimir Novakovski @vnovakovski 2026-07-03 00:48Z

That's the beauty of ZK proofs - only one correct proof is needed to be generated for a set of transactions, so if a cluster goes down, another can pick up the work and generate the proof.

Hamel Husain @HamelHusain 2026-07-02 22:47Z

prompt engineering harness engineering loop engineering ? recursion engineering pointer engineering stack engineering queue engineering tree engineering inheritance engineering abstraction engineering lambda engineering closure engineering async engineering

Haolun Yang @haolun_yang 2026-07-02 16:52Z

dynamic color wheel adjust film emulation with gestures