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dar @radbackwards 2026-07-03 21:38Z

In 250 years America produced artificial life

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-07-03 13:52Z

books3 was absolutely necessary for llama to happen back in the day. you can even find my pathetic cleanup code for it here: https:// github.com/facebookresear ch/metaseq/tree/main/preprocessing/books3 … it was also noted to be a critical datasource for mmlu in the llama1 report, though by now we know mmlu is useless and high

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-04 09:28Z

Villa Fifty-Fifty by Studioninedots Eindhoven, Netherlands

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.

“paula” @paularambles 2026-07-04 05:40Z

i will stop reading the code when git blame starts blaming the model instead of me

altra @catboosted 2026-07-03 22:33Z

YC advice is weird because it’s mostly unwritten and widely hallucinated

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-04 09:18Z

Jogak Light Collection 01 by Studio Booboon Photography: Yann Audic

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-04 02:23Z

Analog semiconductor lead times are now up to six months!!

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-07-04 09:40Z

a startup pitch got better the moment the founder stopped saying “platform.” he pulled up the customer math instead: 8 sites 3 compliance reviewers 27 min average review $41 fully loaded cost new run: 6 min, $7.80, cleaner audit trail suddenly the company made sense. founders

Yohei Nishitsuji @YoheiNishitsuji 2026-07-04 04:30Z

#つぶやきGLSL #Jomon for(float i,e,g,s,u;i++<1e2;){vec3 p=vec3((FC.xy*2.-r)/r.x*(.3+cos(t)*.02)+vec2(-1,0),g);e=s=2.;for(int j;j++<16;p.xy=1.14-abs(p.xy-p.z*cos(t*2.)*.2))s/=u=dot(p,p),p/=-u,p.y=-p.y,p.xy=abs(p.yx+.22),e=min(e,p.y/s+.08/s);g+=e;o.rgb+=hsv(p.y,.2,.02/exp(e*90.));}

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-03 19:36Z

Poetry is manipulating natural language to produce an experience. Coding is manipulating natural language to produce an experience. Obviously the skills and temperament to be good in one are different than those required for the other. But understood as ways people use

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-03 20:53Z

Desert Morocco

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-07-03 18:37Z

Uno Reverse! From the Midjourney motion: 'If Plaintiffs are developing image-generating AI models — trained on unlicensed, third-party copyrighted data — for internal use in storyboarding or ideating content for film or TV, that evidence would equally demonstrate that it is an

Daniel Kuntz @dankuntz 2026-07-03 20:22Z

Spawn animation! Your first interaction with STARBOY. Plays once and never again

roon @tszzl 2026-07-03 22:28Z

i think these posttraining-automation benchmarks are even more important than they seem when models cross the threshold of being able posttrain other models, hopefully there will be a cambrian explosion of the types of minds authoring minds will become an accessible artform

Nathan Flurry @NathanFlurry 2026-07-03 19:57Z

tldr why i'm excited for executor/integrations: → everyone need a "company brain" → everyone thinks memory is the issue → but nobody gets past the integrations phase → tackle integrations first, everything else comes later and most importantly oss + self-hostable

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-07-03 22:09Z

Bruh, rope cache was inheriting bfloat16 this whole time

∿ @somewheresy 2026-07-03 18:54Z

The datacenter backlash is best read as a land-use and fiscal-allocation conflict: affluent suburban and exurban homeowners (historically the net beneficiaries of a structural subsidy flowing from denser, more tax-productive land) are reacting to public investment (utility capex,

Jakub Krehel @jakubkrehel 2026-07-03 14:50Z

Some of my favorite parts of the new Interfere product pages. Every asset is fully built in code. The animations are built with Motion, except for the dot matrix, which is uses a canvas. Had a ton of fun working on these with @paulfaivret .

大月テル @Otsuki_Teru 2026-07-04 03:20Z

Just by placing the bottom of the pot on a matte cap, you can create an incredibly beautiful moon.

HuangMing @Zhm20220917 2026-07-04 05:41Z

今天看到千问和豆包都在下架智能体模块（或者说智能体商店的功能）。其实这件事从去年开始，尤其是以 opus4.6（此处指代模型能力跃迁节点）出现后就已经有了迹象。大家会发现，随着基础模型能力以及工具调用（Function Calling）理解能力的提升，那种仅靠 workflow 和 prompt

Applied Compute @appliedcompute 2026-07-03 18:59Z

Our formula takes in six inputs: train throughput, sampling throughput, training batch size, queue capacity, rollout concurrency, and response-length tailness. We validated our discrete-event simulations against real Qwen3-8B GRPO training runs, resulting in predictions that

Zuhayeer Musa @zuhayeer 2026-07-03 18:59Z

We pulled data to compare software engineer pay and hardware engineer pay at the chip companies. Median hardware pay beats median software pay at 7 out of the 10. Nvidia is the only meaningful example where software still beats out hardware.

Nikunj Kothari @nikunj 2026-07-03 14:28Z

I tell every founder to have a 3 things you need to believe in to invest up top and force the investor to commit in a binary way. Usually saves them a lot of time.

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-03 19:34Z

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-07-03 14:55Z

leaky paris-london office, apparently or at least whatever illusion of leaks there were to give the llama1 authors the audacity to write that

ICML toucan @distributionat 2026-07-04 07:07Z

When I go to other countries I like walking around parking lots and produce aisles. Tells you a lot.

Alexander Doria @Dorialexander 2026-07-03 09:45Z

>indefinite compute >likely largest model ever >good arch research (and copying deepseek is free) >come on, do your agent thing >… what did you try to model exactly, anon?

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-03 12:00Z

One of the hard things to understand about Wittgenstein is that his view of logic deepened his faith in the metaphysical. By showing the boundaries of logic, he showed the necessary existence of that which is beyond the boundary of logic; and so, arguing any metaphysical point

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

Adam Karvonen @a_karvonen 2026-07-03 14:38Z

Also, empirically today's open models dominate the cheaper side of the Pareto frontier. Qwen-3.6-35B-A3B is smarter than haiku 4.5 and 10x cheaper for example.

KaptanBaha @KaptanBaha747 2026-07-04 09:49Z

Dün uçağa gittik. Yakıtı aldık. Sonra? Sonrasında Chicagoya kalkışları durdurdular. Daha sonra “batıdan yaklaşırsanız daha uzun mesafe uçup oradan girebilirsiniz” dediler. Sonra? Kalkışları yine durdurdular. Ve altı saatin sonunda otele geri döndük. Kargo mağdur ama en azından

tomie @tomieinlove 2026-07-03 22:21Z

The less you care about people, the less you put on a face. Air mattress, folding chair, video games. The more you care, the more you're ensnared in their web. Earrings, matcha, trip to Paris. Curiously, the best way to avoid consumerism is to care about things, not people.

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

Endpoint Index separates clinical trial risk by "sleeve", so you can track where sentiment is rising or falling across immunology, oncology, etc

Ravid Shwartz Ziv @ziv_ravid 2026-07-04 04:39Z

Unbelievable

kash @kashdhanda 2026-07-04 10:01Z

possibly dumb question: why is everyone so excited about agentic payments as a growth vector for crypto? giving your agent delegated access to your Visa card seems to work just fine? (i do believe that all debit/credit cards will eventually settle using stablecoins, but

wordgrammer @wordgrammer 2026-07-03 21:05Z

Meet a Stanford grad feels like they entirely rewrote the Western Canon (as the Ivies teach it) but only made minor changes. Like the Timaeus instead of the Republic. Skip the French Revolution and spend a semester on farming economics in East CA. I think they did it to be petty

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

Area around Yakutsk in Siberia

U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics 2026-07-04 05:53Z

Japan Salutes America on its Bicentennial July 4, 1976

OS Dev @OSdev_ 2026-07-04 00:55Z

CVE-2021-36934 (HiveNightmare / SeriousSAM) is a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability caused by overly permissive ACLs, not memory corruption. A Windows update assigned incorrect permissions to the SAM, SYSTEM, and SECURITY registry hive files. By accessing copies of these

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.

Junxian He @junxian_he 2026-07-03 16:54Z

We appreciate many model developers to adopt Toolathlon to evaluate models' personal intelligence on diverse tool calling in complex workflows. Since Toolathlon's first release, some live tasks are drifting from the original groundtruth, some tasks are found to have flaws on the

derek guy @dieworkwear 2026-07-04 05:09Z

Astaire's tailoring is so good in Daddy Long Legs (1955). It's said that he used to dance, jump, and twirl in his tailor's fitting room to make sure the his jacket's collar never lifted off his neck. To me, he really embodied American elegance.

wavefnx @wavefnx 2026-07-03 19:51Z

Apollonian, but Hermetic, but Apollonian Strawberry Full Moon (June's Moon) behind the temple of Poseidon

deep Manifold @BetaTomorrow 2026-07-03 12:30Z

#DeepManifoldInterpretation Title: EdgeBench: Unveiling Scaling Laws of Learning from Real-World Environments Author: ByteDance Seed 1-linear: pay attention to the fixed point field. The fixed-point field exists as the broader space of possible fixed-point classes, basins, and

alpertunga.eth @alpertungaakkus 2026-07-03 17:33Z

#SSAAT faize atmak için halktan para topluyor... İzahnameyi okuyunca tablo ilginç: • Halka arz gelirinin %90'ı işletme sermayesine ayrılıyor. • Kullanılana kadar para vadeli mevduatta nemalandırılacak. • Yatırıma ayrılan pay ise sadece %10. Bir de üzerine değerlemeye

Johannes AckermannICML @johannesack 2026-07-04 04:19Z

What if reward hacking is mainly caused by flipped advantage signs? An incorrect sign will lead us to increase rather than decrease the likelihood of choosing a bad action! Shinnosuke shows that considering the reliability of the advantage sign allows us to downweight

Cabana Boy @Alkibiades_ 2026-07-04 03:11Z

McConaughey’s entire formula is to use White, Southern, right-wing-coded aesthetics to deliver Obama-style liberal sermons. It is unbelievably subversive, I am vomit. Like Obama, he does not attack his opponent as politically wrong, but as morally wrong. In the speech below,

nishant modi @nishantmodi3105 2026-07-03 18:19Z

if ur loops retry on the same queries, check ur memory layer before touching ur agents. i swapped ChromaDB for Graphiti + Neo4j (temporal knowledge graph): results: staleness error: 87% → 20% avg latency: 11,937ms → 9,243ms full writeup: https:// nishantmodi.me/posts/temporal -memory-architecture.html …

Andrew Acomb @AcombAndrew 2026-07-04 03:45Z

How to let your AI agent spend on your credit card 1. Make a Stripe account, get an sk_live_ key 2. Save your card to it and grab the pm_… ID 3. Write your own minimal version of mppx because the standard MPP client is hardcoded to reject sk_live keys. 4. Give your agent the

Gabriele Berton @gabriberton 2026-07-04 08:00Z

This is pretty crazy - comments in gibberish on HF repo - HF seems to use an old LLM to translate - gibberish detected as Polish - LLM translates to a weird sentence - old LLM still gets 1.7M downloads per month! I wonder how many businesses rely on that model

Federico Cassano @ellev3n11 2026-07-03 22:12Z

cuda frameworks that JIT and autotune are so painful. i don't want to have magic happen during the start of training. i want to precompile my kernels, test them once, and be happy.

𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚊𝚕𝚒 @alkalinesec 2026-07-04 03:16Z

my new symbolic execution tool bintx is coming along well, this challenge that took hours with angr+z3 takes less than 30 seconds with bintx+binbit. similar results with other long running challenges.

Tyler Brown @tbrownio 2026-07-04 01:36Z

I purchased 64GB of ram last year for $157. Today, it's listed on Amazon for $825. I'm not a fan of governemnt intervention. But seriously, something needs to be done...

Sophia Yang, Ph.D. @sophiamyang 2026-07-03 19:29Z

Introducing Leanstral 1.5 A 119B (6B active) open model for formal proof engineering in Lean 4: 100% on miniF2F 587/672 on PutnamBench (~$4/problem) SOTA on FATE-H (87%) & FATE-X (34%) Found 5 previously unknown bugs in real OSS repos Apache-2.0. Free API.

Sajith Pai @sajithpai 2026-07-04 07:47Z

The framework is here. TLDR; Founders building in the top right can launch with half-baked products (MVPs) but if you are in the bottom left, then you have to over-engineer to make it Delta2 to 4.

forward deployed ccp gf @FangYi11101 2026-07-03 14:06Z

Netflix is also doing smaller scale team-based “layoffs” as of late btw

Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature 2026-07-03 20:08Z

Choughing hell! An adult Chough feeding another adult Chough! This is called 'courtship feeding', where the male brings insects to the female to show he can provide for the family. Robins do it too, as do other birds. Filmed at Porthleven in Cornwall this April.

Ofek Shaked | AI Engineer @VibeCoderOfek 2026-07-04 08:57Z

Rotating between Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex is not indecision. It is the rational response when every vendor tries to own the full developer loop and the migration cost keeps rising.

شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh 2026-07-04 00:54Z

I have met wealthy New Yorkers who have inherited rent stabilized units on the UWS. Everyone else pays higher rent to subsidize their arbitrary lottery win.