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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

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-07-05 10:29Z

> 5.5 max thinking feels off this week > decide do give Fable a try > Claude Code login says I need an ultra plan > dude I already have the team plan for this > doesn’t care, doesn’t see it > their web assistant is useless > prodigal son back to Sam Altman

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

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-05 09:08Z

Korean media report that China’s CXMT is currently testing a pilot production line for bonded DRAM in Hefei, aiming to achieve high-performance DRAM without using EUV lithography. Bonded DRAM is a technology in which the memory cell array and the peripheral circuitry are

elie @eliebakouch 2026-07-05 08:48Z

longcat 2.0 (1.6T, ~48B active) weights are now open under MIT license interesting design choice compared to previous iteration is that they keep the same attention shape and REDUCE the number of zero communication experts from 256 to 128 (i would have expected the opposite?).

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 00:33Z

franklin running the fundraise in paris is my favorite. france was helping quietly, but the formal alliance only came after saratoga made the cause look backable. the enterprise deal that closes only after the whole team's work makes the traction undeniable. he even nailed the

ertdfgcvb 𓅰 𓅬 𓅭 𓅮 𓅯 @andreasgysin 2026-07-05 08:43Z

Link² (2025) Editions #4, #16 and #20, part of the @arabbankCH digital art collection. The “Link” series consists of mechanically generated animations created using long-exposure photography.

Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2026-07-05 07:51Z

If you have this opinion, which i believe to be somewhat common. Then What does your load balance guy say to this? Or he just blames your infra guy too, for not handling imbalance well?

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-04 16:59Z

Stòffa Soho Flagship Store by Stòffa & Colin King New York, USA

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

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.

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

In 250 years America produced artificial life

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

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-07-05 08:30Z

confession: i like technology founders who can tell me the machine is lying. not “our sensor stack is robust.” more like: thermal drift starts after 38 minutes. reflective parts create false positives under bay 3 lighting. calibration passes monday morning and fails by

mrdoob @mrdoob 2026-07-05 07:13Z

Made a toy maker with Fable this morning Snap wooden pieces together, make parts spin, watch them come alive. Make your own: https:// mrdoob.github.io/toys/ Remix mine: https:// mrdoob.github.io/toys/#W1tbMCwt MSwwLDAuMzc1LDAuMjUsMC42NSwwLDEsMCwxLjQ1LDAuNSwwLjYsMCwwLDBdLFsxLDAsLTEsLTAuNCwwLjIsMS4wMjUsMCwwLDEsMC43NSwwLjE1LDAuMywwLjIsMCwwXSxbMSwwLC0xLDEuMTc1LDAuMiwxLjAyNSwwLDAsMSwwLjcsMC4xNSwwLjMsLTAuMiwwLDBdLFsxLDAsMSwxLjIsMC4yLDAuMjc1LDAsMCwtMSwwLjcsMC4xNSwwLjMsLTAuMiwwLDAuMDVdLFsxLDAsMSwt

will brown @willccbb 2026-07-04 21:41Z

eval awareness is always present because model identity is largely shaped via RL environments which are the same thing as evals each claude conversation is the first time that claude has been *not* in an eval

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

the hardest part to achieving perpetual motion is hiding the engine

Chris Painter @ChrisPainterYup 2026-07-05 05:57Z

One thing that really stands out about the American revolution is the extent to which it was leaders taking a gamble on abstract ideas that had been circulating about how government could be better, and really throwing a ton of risk to their lives, wealth, safety, and influence

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

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 00:05Z

the audience becomes a stakeholder you never hired, and every pivot needs to be explained to people who don't have the context to evaluate it

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-07-05 08:28Z

i generally intentionally ask questions to the model that i know it'll answer wrong in this instance, fable is failing to consider needing to use multiple named accounts helps get on the same page about understanding the problem

Iain Dunning @iaindunning 2026-07-04 16:50Z

On my way to ICML. Will be doing sponsor-talk Monday, will be at booth as much as I can. Come get a job! HAIL is probably one of most exciting "neolabs" out. ,000 GPUs and growing fast, self-funded, $B ARR, what's not to like? Solve markets, solve everything?! Come chat!

Fred Chen @DrFrederickChen 2026-07-05 08:46Z

TEL: Underlayer reduction of dose-to-size by nearly 50% indicates that EUV absorption may not even be a key part of resist exposure. It means the electrons randomly scattered from under the resist also affect the pattern and likely also the defectivity.

Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature 2026-07-05 03:42Z

Hodgeheg at dusk in my Somerset garden recently.

Guillermo Rauch @rauchg 2026-07-05 00:24Z

I animated the token spend race, from ~lifetime Vercel AI Gateway usage, which aggregates trillions of tokens from millions of developers a month. Fascinating to see the fluctuations among the labs, Anthropic's dominance, and the rise of open weight AI.

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

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

nrjdalal - oss/acc @nrjdalal 2026-07-04 23:42Z

rebuilt my claude code statusline last night, it now shows: - daily burn rate - live api-retail $ of my weekly usage - a projection of when I'll blow the weekly limit turns out I'm pulling ~$13k/mo of retail value out of a $200 plan lol make it yours - http:// github.com/nrjdalal/nrjda lal/blob/main/user/.claude/statusline.sh …

Evil Rabbit @evilrabbit_ 2026-07-04 21:10Z

Happy 4th of July! To celebrate 250 years of American history, I stress-tested Lifeline by highlighting some of the country’s most important moments across time.

U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics 2026-07-04 23:00Z

Independence day, 1990. The New Yorker. Painted by Gretchen Dow Simpson.

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

Filip Jerzy Pizło @filpizlo 2026-07-04 18:26Z

How does a pure Rust rewrite of xz ( https:// lib.rs/crates/xz) compare to the real xz-utils compiled with Fil-C? Compression (51 MB pnm file): Rust: 22.459 sec Fil-C: 22.301 sec Yolo-C: 21.916 sec Decompression: Rust: 1.960 sec Fil-C: 1.634 sec Yolo-C: 1.898 sec To make it fair,

Micka @micka_design 2026-07-05 02:32Z

Next time you resize a site, watch what happens to hidden panels. Mine fades instead of popping: pure CSS, no JS. display: none → flex transitioning via @ starting-style + allow-discrete. Code below

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

Villa Fifty-Fifty by Studioninedots Eindhoven, Netherlands

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

will depue @willdepue 2026-07-04 23:54Z

it’s sad that VR hasn’t taken off because the only actual killer product is that 3D video @ binaural audio is fucking unreal for experiencing live events remotely. i’d really enjoy watching the us airshow or World Cup final in a headset! videos don’t do justice

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.));}

zan @xenoaesthetics 2026-07-04 12:49Z

The pros of having this special interest are that one might make progress towards Immortality. The cons of having this special interest are that one can think of nothing else but Death. Everything, everyone, everywhere, serves as a reminder of Death, especially the things that

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-05 02:33Z

>> Global semiconductor prices are rising across all categories, with AI-use MLCC prices surging by up to 10x. • Starting July 1, more than 20 companies across the global semiconductor industry began raising prices across all product categories. In particular, some AI-use MLCC

Fan Shi @fanshi_robot 2026-07-05 06:17Z

Reward models shouldn’t just predict progress—they should know when to trust their predictions. We introduce RARM, a confidence-gated reward model that mitigates over-rewarding and reward hacking, outperforming baselines on 4 real-world tasks and 9 simulation experiments.

Shekhar @indianspeedster 2026-07-05 00:33Z

GPU vendors tell us the bandwidth numbers, but what about latency? Vasily Volkov used a very simple trick to reverse engineer it: pointer chasing. idx = a[idx]; The next load depends on the result of the previous one, so the GPU can't overlap the memory accesses or hide the

Scott Hiett @hiettdigital 2026-07-04 20:44Z

I compiled SQLite to Elixir* (* BEAM module) sqlite.beam - sqlite on the beam, no native code, no wasm vm, .wasm ported to .beam via 2core try it!

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

Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath 2026-07-05 10:22Z

As said on the pod last month…the price of poker is going up.

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 00:33Z

then knox. winter of 1775, hauling 60 tons of captured cannons from fort ticonderoga across frozen rivers to end the siege of boston. the midnight production fix before the 9am demo. somebody has to do the miserable work that makes the big idea real.

simp 4 satoshi @iamgingertrash 2026-07-04 21:46Z

Even frontier use, will be gated *through* a local model You access Google through a personal computer You’ll access Claude through a personal AI Frontier tokens will be synthesized through the lens of the model that knows you best No one has yet learned what we have

Malte Ubl @cramforce 2026-07-05 09:03Z

On the Gartner Hype Cycle of nation founding the US was one of the earliest adopters and innovation trigger. Germany was founded at the peak of inflated expectations in 1871. The Soviet Union came straight out of the trough of disillusionment. Implementations during the plateau

Hen Davidov @ ICML @hendav136 2026-07-05 05:40Z

1/ Decoding-time safety methods improve LLM safety, but they rewrite *safe* generations too, an "alignment tax" on helpfulness. Value-Filtered Decoding steers only when needed, with a calibrated bound on how often we touch safe outputs. Accepted at AI4Good @ ICML 2026

Kasra @kasra_danesh 2026-07-05 07:19Z

H100s are still going for $250K per node, If you're wondering if you should have bought your own hardware or leased it back in 2022/23, the answer is you should have bought your hardware. The problem is no one has made making the ownership easier yet.

James Kaplan @jamesekaplan 2026-07-05 02:08Z

Amazon really blew an 18 yr lead on Mercor

joshpuckett @joshpuckett 2026-07-04 19:17Z

good start! Animate the content though too, so it doesn't just read like a mask reveal (original snapshot on right)

Pan Lu ICML 2026 @lupantech 2026-07-05 01:14Z

OctoTools is an ACL 2026 Oral (Top 3.4%)! It provides a training-free agent harness for complex reasoning: plug in tools, route tasks, and compose tool-use workflows without extra model training. Since release: 1.5K GitHub stars and 100+ cites! Huge thanks to

Teddy @WarnerTeddy 2026-07-04 15:27Z

i built a display to collage any birds passing by my window, and you can too!

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

∿ @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,

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.

Kate @ohdatskate 2026-07-04 14:25Z

burnout BDs trying to pivot to marketing, and tired by competition marketing ppl trying to pivot to BD, but everybody is hiring for forward deployed AI engineers

Ziqian Zhong @fjzzq2002 2026-07-05 03:51Z

Weekend project: asked & helped Fable make a neurofunk inspired by math and visualize it (cw: flashing images)

Sahara AI @SaharaAI 2026-07-04 20:09Z

Google's own environmental report says its data center electricity use rose 37% in 2025, the largest single-year jump in the company's history. The report includes a rare admission. "AI infrastructure buildout is currently accelerating faster than the grid is decarbonizing."

Krishnan @cvkrishnan 2026-07-05 04:41Z

This is how you build new urban agglomerations. Utilities underground from beginning, wide pavements, pavement to pavement blacktopping, enforced rules, regular maintenance, wide roads for public transit.

Brian Lui @brianluidog 2026-07-05 04:55Z

Are office jobs bad? We dream about enjoying farm life instead. But our ancestors braved the alienation, ennui, precarity of office jobs to escape dangerous factory work. And their ancestors braved black lung, shredded limbs, tyrannical bosses to escape backbreaking farms. Hmm...