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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

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

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

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-05 19:11Z

The Bascule lounge chair by Studio Œ for Vitra Photography: Benjamin Lund

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 23:14Z

the graph-based context retrieval angle is underrated. most token waste in coding agents is from naive full-file dumps when you really only needed the call graph two hops out.

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 21:47Z

Florette, Paris, 1944

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In 250 years America produced artificial life

Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2026-07-05 19:36Z

It's surprisingly bad still. I just had a session with my son, asking it to say the same sentence in various languages and it was 1) wrong like a third of the time, literally confusing languages (!) and 2) horrible accent in most languages.

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-07-05 19:05Z

this onboarding idea from @ExaAILabs is brilliant, get the user to complete your setup via offering credits i generally skip onboardings but this worked on me

Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi 2026-07-05 22:45Z

One of the downsides to education is that because everyone has *experienced* it, they assume they also have *expertise* in it, in a way they would never assume for just about any other discipline. "shocking" ⭢ "unsurprising" would be rather more accurate. (Also, see MOOCs.)

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 21:44Z

Serra Pelada, state of Pará, Brazil, 1986

Cyrus @cyrusnewday 2026-07-05 22:01Z

hot take: the best agent users are going to look more like RTS players than prompt engineers scouting, task queues, map awareness, not over-microing, knowing when to expand if you can keep 6 half-dumb units productive at once you’re cracked

Guohao Li @guohao_li 2026-07-05 19:35Z

more neolabs are emerging in China, founded by solid researchers. congrats @YongchaoC !

Sólionath @Anarseldain 2026-07-05 20:57Z

I’m working on a new unified theory of American reality called “Everyone Is 40 Now.” “I’m scared of new things” of course you are. You’re 40. “I just don’t understand these weird youngsters” yeah dude, you’re 40. “You’re not a badass knight, grow up.” Oh you old fart, you’re 40.

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.

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

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

ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports 2026-07-05 22:46Z

Children's Games (detail), by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560, by @kgmadeit1

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

Phillip Yan @PhillipYan2 2026-07-05 23:14Z

context engineering > prompt engineering as a frame, but checklists for agentic systems make me nervous. the failure modes are usually in the handoffs, not the prompts.

Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn 2026-07-05 22:58Z

It's early; my personal prediction is that we'll get 90 people mentally stunted to hilarious degrees, 9 adapted to a new environment & trucking along vaguely as before, and 1 freak with freak parents who's tutored in the hills by MegaAristotle and that's when it gets real weird

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-07-05 19:33Z

As working with AI agents looks more like management, we may want to consider large-scale management training for the AI era. The US government actually did this once, & the WW2 Engineering, Science, and Management War Training program was a large reason for the post-war boom.

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

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?).

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

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

Rémi in @remilouf 2026-07-05 17:58Z

Accidental argument in favor of structured generation. (It doesn’t hurt generation quality unless poorly implemented btw)

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

hypr @hyprdude 2026-07-05 15:05Z

major progress on the emulated mt7622 project -- network transport, interrupts, DMA scatter, and a lil injector script to emulate a STA with real 80211 frames. good enough to trigger one of the over-the-air bugs in the wifi driver ;)

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-07-05 12:51Z

callout to robotics founders: if the robot needs a priest, a PhD, and the one technician named dave to recover after every jam, you built a very expensive hostage video.

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-05 21:41Z

Western Skies Motel, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1977

Max Leiter @maxleiter 2026-07-05 18:06Z

Ladybird running natively on iPadOS

Furong Huang @furongh 2026-07-05 10:08Z

Reward hacking is old news. The hard part: finding the judge’s blind spots before RL turns them into a strategy. Can a reward model improve itself? REFORM lets the judge red-team itself: discover responses itmis-scores, then train on those mistakes. #ACL2026 Oral

jeremy @landvaluetax 2026-07-05 17:54Z

Meanwhile, it is genuinely true that higher wages + mass consumerism increased the perceived opportunity cost of mentally healthy behaviors (coupling, family formation, investing in non-monetized community interactions). We underweight the benefits of family and friends

Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko 2026-07-05 17:13Z

I guess the argument against invite trees as practices on lobsters is the monoculture of opinion that comes from it. Good idea, but suboptimal outcomes in practice if you don't fully align with the vibes.

Alex @alstras 2026-07-05 16:55Z

Someone found a loophole in how Claude bills tokens. Render your text context as images and pay for pixels instead of characters. Real bills dropped 59-70%. Same answers. The repo is called pxpipe and it's the most OP hacks I've seen this year The trick: an image's token

Kane 謝凱堯 @kane 2026-07-05 06:06Z

The exceptional thing about slavery in the West is how early and unconditionally it was ended. The last countries to abolish it were all African or Arab: Mauritania '81, Oman '70, Dubai '63, Saudi & Yemen '62, Qatar '52, Kuwait '49, Ethiopia '42, Bahrain '37.

Binh Pham @pham_blnh 2026-07-05 13:40Z

does using subtask labeling actually help? this weekend I refined my dataset with @macrodata_labs , trained two SmolVLAs (coarse task labeling vs subtask labeling), and the subtask model won by 7.5% in task success rate write-up and caveats here: https:// garden.binhph.am/articles/a-coa rse-of-action …

Alex Cooper @alexgoughcooper 2026-07-05 18:47Z

Ad formats I’m seeing working currently as someone who can see across 500+ ad accounts: 1. Yapper ads. We’re getting more of these sourced through TikTok shop creators. Usually unscripted, performing very well across the board. 2. Avatar-specific ads. Call out persona through

HangukQuant @HangukQuant 2026-07-05 13:48Z

Internal quant system telemetry > trading instance generates logs using low overhead native logger > alloy fans out to trace compilers and log ingesters, loki cloud with write perm > analytics instance with read perm pulls log > configure layers for alert, notification and notif

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!

Martin Bauer @martinmbauer 2026-07-05 19:22Z

It’s a pity the Higgs boson’s deep impact hasn’t been communicated better. It wasn’t profound because it was unexpected, but because it gave overwhelming evidence that the vacuum of our Universe behaves, in a deep sense, like a superconductor. Permeated by a field that breaks a

clara the urbanist @SlopHq 2026-07-05 17:24Z

chicago spent over $200 million building a train station in a basement under a downtown mall for an express airport service that did not exist, had no funding, and had no trains. it was sealed in 2008 and sits empty today. a pharaoh’s tomb for a mayor’s press conference

Tapedrive @tapedrive_io 2026-07-05 17:07Z

Our competition is padding "gm" into multiple megabytes and charging for all of it. Tapedrive writes 2 bytes as 2 bytes

tommy naugle @themanifoldrob 2026-07-05 22:48Z

Not gonna address "a month" here, but broadly there is still a need for a push-button framework to sync one's working vocab with an SRS tool. If this db were auto-synced to a claude directory, then you could create an AI tutor to simulate convos restricted only to a vocab.

R.F. Kenmore @rfkenmore 2026-07-05 01:42Z

God thought I was bluffing

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

Austin Campbell @austincampbell 2026-07-05 13:59Z

They appear to be selling zero dollars for 55 cents.

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

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.));}

ben guo @0thernet 2026-07-05 18:09Z

i've accomplished an insane amount this week, most of it while on a plane ( JFK -> SFO -> JFK -> SJU) 154 PRs +131k -16k

Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature 2026-07-05 10:30Z

Spotted Flycatcher has spotted a fly and is off to catch it! Taken yesterday at the home of @SomersetCool

furkan @tfdogan 2026-07-05 13:07Z

2026'da mobil reklamcılıkta sessiz ama endüstriyi yeniden şekillendiren bir kırılma yaşanıyor: eMarketer ve Magna (IPG)'nın tahminine göre bu yıl ilk kez mobil video reklam harcaması, search reklam harcamasını geçecek. Sebep çok basit: kullanıcı davranışı değişti. İnsanlar

Matt Paulson @MediaKing 2026-07-05 17:00Z

Sweaty startups are mostly B.S. The idea that you can easily find brick and mortar businesses for sale, acquire them with little or no money out of pocket, hire a manager to run them, and operate them profitably isn’t a common thing. At all.

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