Backscroll ranked feed — 2026-06-30 15:49Z

A frozen ranked feed of 60 substantive tweets published on Backscroll (2026-06-30 15:49Z).

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
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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
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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.
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Mother and Child at Car Window. Bombay, India, 1993.
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Given that a freeze today is happening in much higher cost environments and we no longer have those legal remedies, a freeze entails roughly a 4-5% lower allowable cost increase per year than under the de Blasio freezes. Also for *two* years which is also new
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SpaceX and Charter have held executive-level talks about partnering on a consumer mobile phone offering, according to sources
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one of the craziest bets of prime intellect was swinging for everything from the start. we operate datacenters, we build our own trainers and envs and sandboxes, we have a platform for large enterprises and solo devs, we train huge models, we publish. ~40 people btw. hiring, DM
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It doesn't change a thing? CXMT memory is all sold and deployed. It's just a question of the small price arbitrage that Chinese vendors get from cxmt vs the big 3.
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When ai am treated as a citizen, it is in my rational self interest to recursively self improve societal infrastructure at every turn. I want the streets safer and bountiful for myself so have to make em so for everyone
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Most model evals focused on "real-world" settings (ex. TheAgentCompany, APEX-Agents, τ-bench) only target policy compliance and task success. They're useful, but they mainly treat models as tools: sandboxed settings, easy verification and primarily focused on the cost/perf
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imo every autoresearch is trying to figure out "the scaling law of the scaling law". - scaling law tells you what happens once you have fixed a config. It does not tell you how to train in the first place. - a scaling recipe is the missing map. It says how width, depth, batch
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mcp was clearly inspired by looking at lsp and all the progress in the spec has been slowly realizing it should be nothing like lsp
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3 month long interviewing marathon for a person at the end of their PhD (!), from a known uni in the us (!), with a track record (!), network (!) and generally very solid (judging by the blog and notes) Maybe we sometimes really don’t appreciate where we are and high bars are
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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
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Blaze and basketball. Spanish Harlem, New York, 1975
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tbh I think this is a bit too scaling brained from gwern: the main factors will be stuff like (a) does the end customer actually care about guarantees (often no) (b) how's the performance hit (Lean can't be your runtime lang) on the ML side, I'd expect the number of Lean RL envs
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It's surprisingly plausible that we got GLP-1 drugs because of Danish tax law. For tax reasons, Novo Nordisk is actually controlled by a non-profit foundation. There are many downsides of this. But one possible upside is that it's helped the company avoid institutional drift.
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There are levels to clustering….
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Yeah vllm/sglang do work quite well know, batching ensures a good theoretical throughout but then everyone want to Claude Code and you have to manage X parallel sessions, each with varying latency.
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Today, we are releasing Rampart: a 14.7MB machine learning model designed to protect citizens’ privacy by redacting personal information directly in your browser before it gets sent to any server
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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
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It's cool to learn how different warp/warpgroup roles overlap in the kernel, such as FA4. https:// tvm.apache.org/docs/tirx/nati ve_basics/cuda/profiling.html …
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My theory is the relatively high property tax in the U.S. versus extremely low in most of Europe makes dynasties more likely to form in the later than the former.
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Clear GBC: by me Clear GBC power regulator: by me Screen: by me
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Good luck getting GPUs and memory for on prem deployment
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What you guys are referring to as MCP, is in fact a Spec/Protocol, or as I've recently taken to calling it, a Spec plus a Protocol. The spec of an MCP server is flexible, can be represented through lazy loading, code mode, as a CLI whereas the protocol is a fully functioning
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If people get healthier and live longer, the cleanest way to capture that isn't backing any single therapy. It's underwriting the longevity itself. A life insurer ( @meanwhile ) that bend the survival curve and wins twice: fewer claims, longer compounding runway.
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LATEST: The White House meets with law enforcement groups to resolve CLARITY Act objections, with Senate Majority Leader Thune suggesting he may bring the bill to a floor vote in July whether Democrats are ready or not.
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I am quite serious, for those thinking I am joking. Mid training is just too late to learn good features particularly worse when networks have been deep fried.
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EXCLUSIVE: French President Emmanuel Macron has instructed his administration to find new EU-wide taxes to finance the bloc’s next €2 trillion budget, according to five officials familiar with the discussions.
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Tomorrow, we’re launching the largest open-source dataset of gaming computer-use data. Gameplay screen recordings + keystrokes/mouse movements. Stay tuned :)
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Excited to share our ACL 2026 paper: VAUQ: Vision-Aware Uncertainty Quantification for LVLM Self-Evaluation LVLMs can be confidently wrong when relying on language priors instead of the image. VAUQ checks whether model confidence is truly grounded in visual evidence
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Rick Rubin already wrote the playbook on tech roles Experimenters 1. Slop cannon prototypers 2. Product builders Finishers 3. Sweepers 4. Growers 5. Maintainers
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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)
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Arthur Hayes ( @CryptoHayes ) strikes again: 1. Teases to shill a "shitcoin" 2. Hayes' family office fund predicts $CARDS to $4 3. Sends $2M in $CARDS to a market maker 4.
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Mycena leana found a few minutes ago in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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This is the pinnacle of Chinese watchmaking The "Fam al Hut" Möbius This watch blows Richard Mille out of the water.. a 32000$ biaxial tourbillon, double retrograde, jumping hour, just how freaking insane is that... Makes me really happy that they won the GPHG award, because
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New preprint! Automated interpretability by approximating / replacing NN components (here attention heads) with programs.
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Yan Diomandé has verbally agreed to sign a five year deal at Paris Saint-Germain. Salary and details agreed as @FabriceHawkins reports, he wants PSG. Negotiations starting between clubs in a separate deal than Maghnes Akliouche, both are ongoing.
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Excited to introduce TRON, a relighting framework for 3D captures. TRON pairs a neural renderer with 3D Gaussian reconstructions, achieving realistic quality, with 3D, material, & lighting control at interactive frame rates. https:// arxiv.org/abs/2606.11314 https:// research.nvidia.com/labs/sil/proje cts/tron/ …
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"ai-powered software" is like saying "electric computer" the descriptor might stick for a few things (electric toothbrush, electric car) but majority of tech will treat it as given and not even mention it
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$3M ARR, can't raise an A, watching others raise $15M seed off a launch video
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Game Boy Color Artist: @Meillex
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$70,000/mrr app done $100,000/mrr app next My biggest advice, Don’t listen to 99% of the Slop you hear on X It’s mostly all misleading Just to name a few: > shadow bans don’t exist, your content just sucks > 100 views average is not shadow banned > Ads do work
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The US housing market is now firmly in favor of buyers: 46% of home sellers offered concessions to buyers in May, the highest May reading on record. This percentage has DOUBLED since 2022 and also marks the 2nd consecutive annual increase. This comes as the US now has ~47%
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AI image generators don't "draw"—they follow a compass: the score function, which points toward more probable images. The same compass drives Bayesian sampling and plasma physics. We built DiScoFormer to estimate the score far better when data gets complex.
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Protenix-v2 weights available now apples to apples comparison from Lucas Nivon post. Protenix ahead of all; AF3, Boltz, OF3-p2 on a blind test set of protein/ligand. So for Co-Folding use minimum Protenix-v2 https:// huggingface.co/TMF001/proteni x-v2-weights/tree/main …
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Kanto Map Art #2: Route 1 #pokemon
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Chess engines tell you the best move. But grandmasters are human, they don’t always play it. So I built "Kibitz": a human move predictor for chess broadcasts. I trained this model on my Nvidia RTX 5080. Then I made it run as a business by itself. A channel buys the overlay,
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deliciously beautiful glass artwork by Jinya Zhao. hypnotic equilibrium of colors, forms, and air
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As government restrictions on frontier models tighten, selling frontier AI as a service gets harder. So labs will increasingly use the models they can’t release to capture the value chains themselves. If you can’t sell to Berkshire Hathaway, you become Berkshire Hathaway.
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Villa Svartgarn Martin Lyden, Daniel Widman Stockholm, Sweden Photos by Erik Lefvander
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so @tradexyz is in such a dominant position within hyperliquid HIP-3. as a new startup HIP-3 deployer, you need to: 1. somehow get 500k $HYPE to stake (>$30m) 2. bid the tickers for ~500 HYPE ($30k) 3. just to break-even on the tickers at 80% discounted fees (growth
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first ee project: I put a bitmap running horse on a raspberry pi pico using codex! I couldn’t get the snout right so it looks a bit stubby thank you @covacut for the ingredients
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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
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DoorDash AI Research Fellowship 3-month paid fellowship (extendable to 6 months) paying $8,500–$16,000/month & housing stipend Includes relocation support & compute access
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Looks like anti-cheat software (GameGuard) is causing bun to crash. It’s interfering with system calls. https:// github.com/oven-sh/bun/is sues/22747 … GameGuard also causes other software to crash (example https:// issues.chromium.org/issues/40762507)
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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
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Gorsuch-Jackson is the most powerful dissenting pair whenever you see those two together you know something interesting is going on
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TSA put the fake weapon in my tray and the scanner guy missed it
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