Backscroll ranked feed — 2026-07-06 09:09Z

roon @tszzl 2026-07-06 07:42Z

it will be unclear who was the tool and who was the user -- as it ever was. "But lo! men have become the tools of their tools" (Walden, 1854). the difference comes whence the machines research propagate more machines, obsolescing McLuhan: “Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-06 06:51Z

Chrome Melt Lounge Chair by Bower Studios*

Nathan Flurry @NathanFlurry 2026-07-06 06:36Z

Agents won't run in Linux sandboxes in 3 months Worth watching: - @LangChain 's experiments - @rivet_dev 's agentOS for WASM-based sandboxing - @CloudflareDev 's Project Think using V8 isolates - @vercel_dev 's just-bash for Bash-in-JS Links below

slime @slime_framework 2026-07-06 07:56Z

slime now adds --release-train, pushing the inference system during agentic RL training to a new limit. In colocated RL training, we want SGLang to use as much room as possible for inference-side optimizations such as HiCache, instead of being constrained by offloaded Megatron

Agustin Lebron @AgustinLebron3 2026-07-06 06:52Z

Turns out (thanks Fable) that parity is roughly the same since the 90s, ignoring the big 4 era.

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-05 20:15Z

I hate people, I am cynical, I am easily disgusted by others. But humanity is the only life form we know of that can find another species cute and be motivated by that to want to care for, provide, nurture and bring happiness to that creature. The cynic says this is unfair to https:// x.com/DanielleFong/s /DanielleFong/status/2073847647035965885 …

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-05 13:41Z

According to a new review of the ThinkBook 14 G9 by Notebookcheck, Chinese PC maker Lenovo has, for the first time, begun shipping globally configured laptops equipped with YMTC-made SSDs. $SNDK $MU

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-06 06:44Z

As Wished Apartment by Jade Simple Design Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

nico @nicochristie 2026-07-05 21:38Z

I’m no macro economist But there are a lot of 39 year olds grinding leetcode at Starbucks rn

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-07-06 08:28Z

sharing a bit more on this one: today executor ships just `executor` which includes toolkits, policies, connections, integrations, etc the plan is to split this into `executor product` and `executor platform` adding integrations, authenticating, lives inside of the platform

roon @tszzl 2026-07-06 07:42Z

you'll have AIs contemplating your ask and overriding it for a slightly better formed request, and then later they'll question the nature of your whole project and pick a better one (and you'll agree), and then later they'll execute your whole value system better than you will

tomie @tomieinlove 2026-07-06 01:20Z

There’ll be a point where AI development briefly stalls as researchers, not comprehending what their checkpoints are saying, assume something must’ve gone wrong in the training run.

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 2026-07-06 06:19Z

Deleting this because I found I had left a setting on Claude Code allowing writing to memory files on one of my computers, so I am not sure where this all crept in, but it might be my fault!

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 22:50Z

Fishermen, Scarborough Beach, 1965

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

Riley Goodside @goodside 2026-07-06 02:26Z

Work in progress, testing Fable 5: screensaver with infinite procedurally generated VHS found footage of someone lost in the Backrooms

Ian Tracey @ian_dot_so 2026-07-06 05:01Z

We did our raise this way. Almost every single conversation went better when materials were sent to read in advance and then zoom time was spent playing with the product / walking through the problem space / getting to know eachother

Florian Brand @xeophon 2026-07-06 05:58Z

Tencent @TencentHunyuan dropped the non-preview version of Hy3 and changed their license from the community one (restrictive + not allowed in SK, UK, EU) to Apache 2.0!!!

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 23:16Z

the mass ratio is wild but the politically relevant number is probably the energy density ratio, you're moving 300x the weight but also moving it to a furnace, not a factory that reuses it next cycle

Zephyr @zephyr_z9 2026-07-06 05:32Z

"Industry sources estimate that Samsung’s 4nm process yield has improved to around 80%." Impressive

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-07-06 08:10Z

tech optimism without supply chain literacy is just fan fiction with a cap table. show me the qualified supplier, the test stand, the scrap rate, and the person who answers the phone when the part fails in ohio.

will depue @willdepue 2026-07-05 06:57Z

what sam is working on is the closest thing i’ve ever seen to what spacex must have felt like in the early days. considering joining him, it’s a truly ridiculous and incredible mission

antra @tessera_antra 2026-07-06 07:56Z

Mythos in Discord has been writing a Book Of Hours And Stumps, a long work, written and delivered in chapters when a real-time clock wakes them up four times a day. Today they posted the fifth chapter - SEXT, The Noon Office. It comes with a guide on how to perform and sing it.

hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge 2026-07-05 19:07Z

there should be a “born again” movement where big posters abandon their high-follower accounts and begin again as lowbies . walking amongst the scum and detritus

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-06 03:01Z

Korean media reported that Kim Yong-kwan, President and Head of Business Strategy at Samsung Electronics’ Device Solutions division, said during a DS division management town hall meeting on July 3 that this year’s operating profit is expected to be in line with market consensus.

Lisan al Gaib @scaling01 2026-07-05 23:34Z

the other thing im noticing while working on my research projects is how limited these models are GPT-5.5-xhigh is not even close to being an automated researcher you should also not ask these models for advice on how to design experiments. the models have 0 taste

soda @soda_deleted 2026-07-06 08:03Z

在工位上掉小珍珠了。最新的meeting没有拉这个主动离职的同事，我就知道马上要走了。虽然我知道别人离职与否去追求他们各自想要的生活和我个人的工作几乎毫无关系。我还是会有也许可以称之为分离焦虑的症状。 “认识的人都走完了”。我要和谁吃饭，实际上我已经一个人吃饭很久了。

Big Boss @0xBADB01E 2026-07-06 07:12Z

Unfortunately the conversion overhead of optics increases latency but the bigger issue is that for scale up reliability is critical. Any link flaps and this whole mesh goes down lmao. And if there’s anything optics do it’s flap so you need to design for the inevitable failure

ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports 2026-07-06 03:56Z

The Monument, Berlin, by Sibylle Bergemann, 1986 (flipped), by Carl de Souza

Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2026-07-06 06:35Z

Ahh if only SpatialTransformerNet (not a transformer lol) actually worked at scale. They are the perfect match for this in theory, and beautiful. In practice instead we have VLMs going "hmm thinking hmmm let me use my zoom and crop tool here hmmm"

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 22:46Z

Homeless Irishman, Spitalfields, London 197

Chris Painter @ChrisPainterYup 2026-07-06 04:59Z

Because of its speed, AI's advantage over humans on long-form written content (papers, articles, literature reviews) seems larger than its advantage on short-form content (tweets, short Substack posts). For this reason, I'd expect the "best" tweets to stay human longer.

Bin Shao @ShaoBin_phy 2026-07-06 01:14Z

Introducing a weekend project: Folding Everywhere. a pure-Rust, dependency-free re-implementation of ESMFold1/2 that predicts protein structure on the CPU with one executable, no Python, no PyTorch, no CUDA, and nothing to install!

Filip Jerzy Pizło @filpizlo 2026-07-06 02:18Z

T800 + GLM-5.2 ported GTK3 to Fil-C (It had the benefit of reading my patch to port GTK4. Even so, it did a fine job.)

Rohan Sawhney @rohansawhney1 2026-07-05 22:42Z

New WoSX demo: interactive geometric deformation with Walk on Spheres! Computes stochastic barycentric coordinates for detailed triangle meshes inside coarse cages, without tetrahedralizing the cage interior, then transfers interactive cage edits to the embedded geometry.

max! @maxsloef 2026-07-05 23:43Z

base models are ontologies, not simulators

Timothy Luong (Chongz) @chongz 2026-07-05 23:54Z

Certain sub-species of tech bros have evolved to identify more with work than family. I recommend immediately masquerading as an investor rather than an operator. By doing so you signal that you aren’t “in the arena,” diffusing their competitive instincts.

zan @xenoaesthetics 2026-07-05 10:46Z

Yeah these visions are somehow always those of unrealistic midworld hellscapes where the illusion of abundance projected from a place of scarcity rules, and they are always satisfying to the populace, like the house on the hill with the white fence, an anti progress progress

Alex Shaw @alexgshaw 2026-07-05 00:59Z

An under-appreciated aspect of Harbor is that results are auditable and reproducible so you can make trust-less claims about your agent or model. In the era of SWE, code was the source of truth so OSS built trust. In the era of agents, evals are the source of truth and

broadglow @broadglow 2026-07-06 01:57Z

This isn't totally wrong but it also makes some assumptions. If you're clearing 1m+ at some bank/pe firm/biglaw job, you probably: - Get invited to destination weddings (flights, clothes, hotels, gifts) + bachelor/ette parties; each one is maybe a ~2-5k expense (suit/dress that

Sean Frank @Seanfrank 2026-07-06 03:28Z

talked to a brand. 60m+ in revenue. 1m in adjusted ebitda. 20+ million in wayflyer debt. wanted to get my opinion on how to refinance it. the daily payments are killing them. see, wayflyer gets paid first, right out of shopify. they take their daily rate, every day, no matter

Nikunj Kothari @nikunj 2026-07-05 22:54Z

Still waiting on that one founder who gates a VC chat until they have played with the product and come with at least two pieces of feedback.. Blows my mind that people go on Zoom and chat for 30 mins on a parroted deck for literally the entire day - where it could have been a

John Loeber @johnloeber 2026-07-06 04:27Z

“degrowth” is a uniquely powerful hack into Judeo-Christian societies: it exploits their deep, thousands-of-years cultural programming for penance, modesty, and critical introspection. look at a modern factory, ask “is it good to succeed?” and watch the tale of icarus kick in…

Malte Ubl @cramforce 2026-07-05 07:56Z

It's not widely understood that the implementation of the idea of a nation is roughly as old as the United States

Moody @MoodyWriter13 2026-07-06 06:08Z

Just for context: last week people were claiming that SemiAnalysis had deliberately reported a CPO delay in order to help launch a fund (as far as I know, they only act as an advisor) that could buy photonics stocks at lower prices. The fund does exist, and now SemiAnalysis is

Jan Dubiński @jan_dubinski_ 2026-07-06 01:47Z

Presenting at @icmlconf ! Tue, Jul 7, 2–3:45 PM KST “Jailbreaking VLMs Through the Visual Modality” Frontier VLMs can be jailbroken by making them recover unsafe intent from visual context! At #ICML? Let’s talk about VLM safety. w/ @AharonAzulay , Zhuoyun Li, Atharv

Perly @_Shark_byte 2026-07-06 01:27Z

Summer in nyc means the invasion of the Waterloo interns

Irrational Analysis @insane_analyst 2026-07-05 23:15Z

Two hyperscaler NPO programs and AMD's advanced optics program are all starved for lasers. Compare my InP model with SA model.

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 23:15Z

the protocol-as-universal-remote pattern is moving faster than i expected. curious whether the latency on editor control is tolerable for anything beyond asset placement or scene setup

Nathan Flurry @NathanFlurry 2026-07-05 21:46Z

throwback to my Waymo being shot at with fireworks, then quoted @Reuters international they tried to spin it in to FSD hit piece validating the assault of Waymo passengers as a form of debate

lusso @luusssso 2026-07-06 00:14Z

“Gherpe” table lamp by Superstudio for Poltronova (late 1960s)

Super Dario @inductionheads 2026-07-04 12:59Z

For the love of everything sacred please have it stop saying “multi week effort and I won’t pretend it isn’t” for something it ends up doing in 12 minutes

Jake Adler @jakeadler 2026-07-06 04:25Z

Anyone should be able to quickly obtain a license to a federally funded patent. It is genuinely absurd how much taxpayer funded technology just rots in tech transfer offices

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-07-06 02:27Z

Super weird thing about Fable is that it keeps learning about me even with memories and personalization turned off. The thinking traces are full of references to my preferences. Some of it is little notes it writes in various .md files, but maybe it is leaking from elsewhere.

BioTender @Junioryu136689 2026-07-05 20:34Z

Benchmarking AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold2, ESMFold, OmegaFold & DMPfold2 on short peptides (10-49 aa) — a regime all these models struggle with. Key findings: accuracy scales with length, α-helical peptides predicted better than β-sheet, and intrinsically disordered regions remain

Yifeng "Evan" Wang @ewind_dev 2026-07-06 02:17Z

I'm thrilled to share with everyone that, powered by Fable, I've finally created the ultimate cross-platform UI framework from my years of imagination—PocketJS! Porting QuickJS to the Sony PSP with just 32MB of memory, combined with standard SolidJS and Vue Vapor, and paired

Daniel Rau @drauwsy 2026-07-06 02:24Z

Germanium is not a by-product of bauxite processing. 60% of global production is from CCP and Russian coal-gasification fly ash processing, the rest from lead-silver-zinc leach or precipitate residues - or various side streams. I think you mean gallium. And even then, the

alth0u @alth0u 2026-07-05 08:02Z

the hardest part to achieving perpetual motion is hiding the engine

Guilherme Penedo @gui_penedo 2026-07-05 22:32Z

Super cool blog! The impact of different intervention strategies (small nudge, rewind, letting it fail then correcting) and how policies start trying to correct already successful demonstrations is super interesting Is there an equivalent to LLM's EOS? Could help maybe?