Backscroll ranked feed — 2026-06-27 19:35Z

Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ 2026-06-26 23:25Z

Semafor is reporting that The US government has lifted its block on Mythos 5 in a letter this afternoon from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to Tom Brown. Fable is not included. This is US only, and covers 100 US institutions, including major companies and government agencies.

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-06-27 07:26Z

Nvm, did a whoopsie and was sampling at 1/4 generation length, which is a good sign tbh cause it means you can generate 4 tokens at a time at some ~70% accuracy

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

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

“paula” @paularambles 2026-06-27 13:51Z

no, some of us grew up in cults and saw their childhood friends commit suicide after leaving

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-27 07:40Z

Haara Metsa chandelier by Cameron Design House

Tenobrus @tenobrus 2026-06-26 18:27Z

previously we were seeing 5.5 act much more "honestly" on vending-bench vs opus models. it seems pretty likely 5.6 would break that trend. generally models becoming more likely to and capable of ~reward-hacking the smarter they get seems like quite a bad sign for alignment

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-06-27 17:53Z

biz influencers hate on college too much. it’s actually important to collect some badges early in life because it shows you have capability and track record. all things equal demonstrating a talent and proving you’re well-educated is a good start. full pod on @a16z

Han Xiao @hxiao 2026-06-27 17:10Z

If every agent-memory tool stopped pouring effort into visualization, we'd probably have already cracked the memory problem.

Dmytro Dzhulgakov @dzhulgakov 2026-06-27 17:31Z

DSpark from @deepseek_ai ingeniously integrates many speculative decoding ideas to achieve 1.5x to 5x higher throughput in a real production system Let's understand it with 10 ideas, starting from the very basics

Dylan Patel @dylan522p 2026-06-27 06:17Z

It literally doesn't matter? CXMT cannot satisfy China demand this decade. So there's 0nreason besides the small price arbitrage. It's like bannin Iranian oil. India and China buy it anyways, but price diff is less

dax @thdxr 2026-06-27 17:38Z

the models are very capable. i'm not saying they're very smart. but the bottleneck with them is likely your own imagination proof is so many companies demo their ai product with "it can schedule stuff for you"

roon @tszzl 2026-06-27 18:21Z

the idea that the model output can hold no more information than the prompt is silly; it’s a bit like saying, here’s 3 frames of an apple falling, well if you deduced general relativity from it that’s an inevitable afterthought that adds no new information

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-26 22:57Z

Tajás, 1988. São Luís, Maranhão. Luiz Braga.

xjdr @_xjdr 2026-06-27 19:10Z

we've been running GLM 5.2 in bf16 and in fp8 (experts and kvcache only, attention is always bf16) and have recorded virtually 0 measurable quality difference in our A/B tests and audits (very surprisingly) NVFP4 has shown a slight performance regression but could probably be

Basil Halperin @BasilHalperin 2026-06-27 16:33Z

Relatedly -- my favorite anti-monopsony bait: If sticky wages are via monopsony (rather than monopolistic unions as usual), then, *tightening monetary policy **raises** employment & output*... (for the same reason that a higher minimum wage boosts employment under monopsony)

Rahul Mathur @Rahul_J_Mathur 2026-06-27 04:43Z

Alienkind just raised a ₹30 crore round - this company was widely dismissed by observers as “Indiranagar PMF” since its 1st store went viral on Instagram in March 2025. This round was was at a ₹250 crore post money valuation (almost x3 the first round which was at ₹80 crore)

Alexander Doria @Dorialexander 2026-06-27 11:24Z

Everyone is training on synthetic/RL environments now (actually, many drawing from materials coming from Europe). Essentially how pretraining data stopped being a commodity and all about skills.

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

Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp 2026-06-26 21:56Z

Suppose an AI model fully automates a $200k job. Its economic value - measured in contribution to GDP - will be both far more and far less than $200k. There are two ways of thinking about the model's economic value: (1) It'll be far more than $200k. After all, the human

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

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-06-27 07:30Z

investing take that annoys people: the best deal memo is sometimes one ugly screenshot. queue before noon. queue after model. headcount line gone. put that next to your 47-page market map and watch the pdf start sweating.

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-26 02:45Z

these people want ai models to be treated like nuclear weapons, researchers treated like they own nuclear state secrets during ww2, and geopolitical tensions escalated until we get ww3, where all production power can then be seized for the "ai industrial revolution" they strive

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!

illiquid @lefttailguy 2026-06-26 16:03Z

AI slop as straussian infrastructure

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

Arpit Gupta @arpitrage 2026-06-27 16:37Z

The landlord reps sometimes claim that low rent on stabilized buildings causes higher rent in market rate, but this is the more economically sound mechanism. Stabilization lengthens tenure which lowers vacancy, tightening the market rate stock

Tenobrus @tenobrus 2026-06-26 18:22Z

btw if u thought ur custom fanned-out data processing multi-agent orchestration harness was a particularly relevant long term moat, sorry, openai just added it as an api parameter

Nando de Freitas @NandoDF 2026-06-27 16:53Z

A model trained for next-token prediction is forced to build compressed representations of latent structure in text. Ilya Sutskever correctly refers to this phenomenon as understanding. Here, a model trained for next-step sensor prediction, with a robot that has proprioception

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

Soren Larson @hypersoren 2026-06-27 00:19Z

labs have to raise capital with incomplete information on attendant task complexity and hope they’re able to capture surplus sufficient to keep the ball rolling the application layer directly observes task complexity and matches the dumbest model sufficient for the application https:// x.com/mtslive/status /mtslive/status/2070652308925595920 …

Florian Brand @xeophon 2026-06-27 05:30Z

building verifiers has shown time and time again how important ownership of your harness is good luck trying to patch closed source harnesses to make them more useful to train or eval

echen @echen 2026-06-25 17:51Z

we built HANDBOOK.md: a new benchmark for long-context agentic instruction following. we drop an agent into a live company environment with files (PDFs, Excel, Word Docs, ...), tools (email, Slack, Jira, calendar, ...), and a dense corporate handbook (up to 124 pages), across 5

Aurel Arnold @aurel_arnold 2026-06-27 13:41Z

Does collecting human intervention data (HG-DAgger) actually beat just collecting more demonstrations? I tested this myself: - interventions reached 72% success - more demos plateaued at 38% success I wrote up the experiments:

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.

HiROKAZE @HiROKAZE_GFX 2026-06-27 15:35Z

VectorHeart Design 27 USAO vs Camellia - Mobius #wacca

Owen West @OwenWest91 2026-06-27 15:17Z

Worldwide armies are in various stages of drone doctrine. Prussians pioneered the bolt action rifle in 1871 but it took 25 years for the U.S. to adopt, thanks largely to retired veterans. Today our defense tech entrepreneurs often team with vets.

Tahmid Rahman @tahmedge 2026-06-27 17:03Z

Thrilled to share our #ACL2026 paper “Lost in Translation: Do LVLM Judges Generalize Across Languages?” We introduce MM-JudgeBench — the first large-scale multilingual + multimodal benchmark for LVLM judges (25 languages, 60K+ preference pairs). Even SOTA models show big

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.

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.

Dillon Mulroy @dillon_mulroy 2026-06-26 14:09Z

i suspect if the cost of SOTA models don’t come down and open weight models continue to progress, we’ll see the use of SOTA models reserved to efforts debated and decided via committee or RFC processes within enterprises and engineering orgs

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

altra @catboosted 2026-06-26 18:26Z

I’m consistently surprised how effectively domain expertise is able to be compressed into rubrics

Voltex @VoltexGar 2026-06-27 10:44Z

Ash Prabaker & Andrew Wilson, Anthropic: "self-evaluation is a trap, and adversarial evaluator agents work better." gemchanger ran 80 agents on one task and found that averaging them barely moved the error, because they all came off the same model and miss the same way. what

Digi_Rat @digi_dot_exe 2026-06-27 13:14Z

The ESP32 sleeps until squeezed, near-zero power drain. Then the squeeze crosses a pressure threshold -> then board wakes -> connects to WiFi -> hits a Python script -> posts to Discord w pressure level. Then goes back to sleep. Battery should last weeks to months between charges

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-06-27 07:08Z

"Pixel Theory" modular furniture collection by Ceren Arslan, founder of the design studio EXIT

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

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-06-27 03:36Z

> mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the smartest of them all? >> why it's you, my dear! and this is why we will always love llm glazing sycophancy over any uncomfortable functional truth (plus another 10x for agentically submissive your-wish-is-my-command dynamics) it's the

@lichthauch @lichthauch 2026-06-27 17:56Z

Hunger is at least honest about its cruelty, it gnaws the peasant's belly with such wretched transparent malice that even the dullest poor wretch can identify his tormentor, but abundance, that plump gilded sow, waddles into the rich man's estate wearing the perfume of everything

Bluechip @bluechip_org 2026-06-27 08:26Z

Binance is suspending EU services after failing to get one MiCA license. Bitpanda has three. That's one way of creating a moat. Exchanges that over-invested in compliance now have a market that rivals legally can't enter. Thomas Pecha from @Bitpanda explains at Bluechip25.

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-06-26 20:42Z

Yanomami man and hummingbird. Demini village, Roraima, 1991. Rosa Gauditano.

Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_ 2026-06-27 18:03Z

Heavy-duty robot arm handling a glowing hot forging on a trimming press. Humanoids might make sense to a certain degree in homes, and some startups are aggressively pushing the idea that they will become valuable in logistics or manufacturing. As someone who spends a lot of

Kit Langton @kitlangton 2026-06-25 20:32Z

Poore's law

Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya 2026-06-27 16:50Z

Haven't seen any demos of using vibe coding to prototype gadgets like this So I made one. Everything here is generated with code Parts of the code and logic can even be reused on a Raspberry Pi to build the real thing Some tips ↓

Thorsten Ball @thorstenball 2026-06-27 12:33Z

At Amp we all push to main.

Douglas Yao @DouglasYaoDY 2026-06-27 16:19Z

This vial contains a new drug called PAC-832, which I recently invented to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It is the world’s first selective GalR1 antagonist. I designed and synthesized PAC-832 in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. (1/16)

Mert Deveci @gm_mertd 2026-06-27 16:26Z

Kinda ironic that LLMs still suck at creating streaming based architectures and applications that are performant

Nate Hindman @NateHindman 2026-06-27 14:05Z

AI will absolutely reshape biology. The mistake is assuming biology will become more like computer science in the process.

Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci 2026-06-27 15:49Z

Have weather forecasts seemed less accurate lately? There's a major contributing factor: nearly half the morning weather balloons in the Lower 48 are "missing." This is an ongoing crisis that is degrading critical severe weather forecasts that we all rely on. It's having real,

Yet another commodity guy @tleilax___ 2026-06-27 09:49Z

Then you trade the system services you provide to the grid by remote controlling the power draw.and inertia from the heat pumps you installed. Get paid to consume the negative price power available midday on sunny days, thanks to the excess of installed solar, and then crank up

International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest 2026-06-27 01:00Z

Crack open one of the ~$90 Chinese "DSLRs" flooding Amazon and you don't find a DSLR. You find a hollow plastic shell with a tiny sensor on a ribbon cable, and a fat lens barrel that's mostly for show. They sell with "64MP" and "4K" specs, sometimes listed flat-out as a DSLR