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

In 250 years America produced artificial life

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_ 2026-07-03 15:28Z

Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude Code, they are being told to use the company's own coding platform Qoder.

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

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

Tenobrus @tenobrus 2026-07-03 19:49Z

personally i take accounts who post under their name and face much less seriously until proven otherwise. it's a p strong single of "linkedIn-intent" and i don't really give a shit about personal capital building human-slop

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-03 20:53Z

Desert Morocco

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

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

roon @tszzl 2026-07-03 22:28Z

i think these posttraining-automation benchmarks are even more important than they seem when models cross the threshold of being able posttrain other models, hopefully there will be a cambrian explosion of the types of minds authoring minds will become an accessible artform

Daniel Kuntz @dankuntz 2026-07-03 20:22Z

Spawn animation! Your first interaction with STARBOY. Plays once and never again

Nathan Flurry @NathanFlurry 2026-07-03 19:57Z

tldr why i'm excited for executor/integrations: → everyone need a "company brain" → everyone thinks memory is the issue → but nobody gets past the integrations phase → tackle integrations first, everything else comes later and most importantly oss + self-hostable

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-07-03 22:09Z

Bruh, rope cache was inheriting bfloat16 this whole time

Jakub Krehel @jakubkrehel 2026-07-03 14:50Z

Some of my favorite parts of the new Interfere product pages. Every asset is fully built in code. The animations are built with Motion, except for the dot matrix, which is uses a canvas. Had a ton of fun working on these with @paulfaivret .

Applied Compute @appliedcompute 2026-07-03 18:59Z

Our formula takes in six inputs: train throughput, sampling throughput, training batch size, queue capacity, rollout concurrency, and response-length tailness. We validated our discrete-event simulations against real Qwen3-8B GRPO training runs, resulting in predictions that

Zuhayeer Musa @zuhayeer 2026-07-03 18:59Z

We pulled data to compare software engineer pay and hardware engineer pay at the chip companies. Median hardware pay beats median software pay at 7 out of the 10. Nvidia is the only meaningful example where software still beats out hardware.

∿ @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,

Nikunj Kothari @nikunj 2026-07-03 14:28Z

I tell every founder to have a 3 things you need to believe in to invest up top and force the investor to commit in a binary way. Usually saves them a lot of time.

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

Alexander Doria @Dorialexander 2026-07-03 09:45Z

>indefinite compute >likely largest model ever >good arch research (and copying deepseek is free) >come on, do your agent thing >… what did you try to model exactly, anon?

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

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.

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.

wordgrammer @wordgrammer 2026-07-03 21:05Z

Meet a Stanford grad feels like they entirely rewrote the Western Canon (as the Ivies teach it) but only made minor changes. Like the Timaeus instead of the Republic. Skip the French Revolution and spend a semester on farming economics in East CA. I think they did it to be petty

47fucb4r8curb4fc8f8r4bfic8r @47fucb4r8c69323 2026-07-03 12:00Z

One of the hard things to understand about Wittgenstein is that his view of logic deepened his faith in the metaphysical. By showing the boundaries of logic, he showed the necessary existence of that which is beyond the boundary of logic; and so, arguing any metaphysical point

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-03 13:12Z

Bernstein estimates that SK hynix’s DRAM gross margin in Q2 will reach 90.9%…

Junxian He @junxian_he 2026-07-03 16:54Z

We appreciate many model developers to adopt Toolathlon to evaluate models' personal intelligence on diverse tool calling in complex workflows. Since Toolathlon's first release, some live tasks are drifting from the original groundtruth, some tasks are found to have flaws on the

wavefnx @wavefnx 2026-07-03 19:51Z

Apollonian, but Hermetic, but Apollonian Strawberry Full Moon (June's Moon) behind the temple of Poseidon

Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson 2026-07-02 23:11Z

Area around Yakutsk in Siberia

Rhys @RhysSullivan 2026-07-03 23:25Z

you can now add your own product to http:// integrations.sh! but before saying how, i want to first explain the why, because integrations.sh isn't meant to be a closed registry, it's meant to get people using open protocols anyone can adopt when adding a site to integrations.

Deirdre Bosa @dee_bosa 2026-07-02 17:27Z

Alternative take: the US taking 5% of OAI makes sense. Its a dividend on the public conditions that made the company possible. And China didn’t dominate EVs, batteries, solar, drones, telecom by pretending strategic tech is just software Industrial strategy with upside

U.S. Graphics Company @usgraphics 2026-07-03 20:46Z

America, A New Beginning. Robert Angerman, 1981.

tomie @tomieinlove 2026-07-03 22:21Z

The less you care about people, the less you put on a face. Air mattress, folding chair, video games. The more you care, the more you're ensnared in their web. Earrings, matcha, trip to Paris. Curiously, the best way to avoid consumerism is to care about things, not people.

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-03 06:33Z

Milanese apartment renovated by Atelierzero Milan, Italy

Michael @endpointarena 2026-07-02 18:59Z

Endpoint Index separates clinical trial risk by "sleeve", so you can track where sentiment is rising or falling across immunology, oncology, etc

Hyperbolic @hyperbolic_labs 2026-07-03 22:04Z

Hyperbolic's new EU region is live: eu-west-3, with H100 SXM5s (80GB) on bare metal with InfiniBand — available on-demand at $2.89/GPU/hr, or $2.69/GPU/hr with a 1-month reservation. No waitlists, no long-term commitments on

nishant modi @nishantmodi3105 2026-07-03 18:19Z

if ur loops retry on the same queries, check ur memory layer before touching ur agents. i swapped ChromaDB for Graphiti + Neo4j (temporal knowledge graph): results: staleness error: 87% → 20% avg latency: 11,937ms → 9,243ms full writeup: https:// nishantmodi.me/posts/temporal -memory-architecture.html …

Sophia Yang, Ph.D. @sophiamyang 2026-07-03 19:29Z

Introducing Leanstral 1.5 A 119B (6B active) open model for formal proof engineering in Lean 4: 100% on miniF2F 587/672 on PutnamBench (~$4/problem) SOTA on FATE-H (87%) & FATE-X (34%) Found 5 previously unknown bugs in real OSS repos Apache-2.0. Free API.

شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh 2026-07-04 00:54Z

I have met wealthy New Yorkers who have inherited rent stabilized units on the UWS. Everyone else pays higher rent to subsidize their arbitrary lottery win.

alpertunga.eth @alpertungaakkus 2026-07-03 17:33Z

#SSAAT faize atmak için halktan para topluyor... İzahnameyi okuyunca tablo ilginç: • Halka arz gelirinin %90'ı işletme sermayesine ayrılıyor. • Kullanılana kadar para vadeli mevduatta nemalandırılacak. • Yatırıma ayrılan pay ise sadece %10. Bir de üzerine değerlemeye

forward deployed ccp gf @FangYi11101 2026-07-03 14:06Z

Netflix is also doing smaller scale team-based “layoffs” as of late btw

Louis @King_Lou_IV 2026-07-03 21:53Z

Evey business I’ve started in the last 6 years: -reselling: $5k -dropshipping: $100k -brand 1: $-30k -brand 2: $-10k -brand 3: $10 million Get better. Don’t quit.

François Fleuret @francoisfleuret 2026-07-04 00:18Z

Say there is 5m between the mirrors, and you make the laser beam bounce 200 times, that's 1km, 1/300'000th of a second at light speed. A 50'000 rpm motor (10 bucks on amazon) has an angular speed of 50k x 360 / 60 = 300'000 degrees per second. Come on we can do something.

Yohei Nishitsuji @YoheiNishitsuji 2026-07-03 13:30Z

#つぶやきGLSL float i,e,R,s;vec3 q,p,d=vec3(FC.xy/r*.8+vec2(-.4,.6),1);for(q.zy--;i++<99.;){o.rgb+=.02-hsv(s*s+R*4.,.4,min(e,R)/6.);s=12.,p=q+=d*e*R*.1;p=vec3(log2(R=length(p))-t*.4,exp(R-p.z*.5),atan(p.y*.6,p.x)+t*.2);for(e=--p.y;s<3e2;s+=s)e+=dot(sin(p.yzy*s),sin(p.xxz*s))/s;}

Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo 2026-07-03 18:44Z

This is technically correct, but it’s not the whole picture. Because if you run this test 100x with ads, meta gives you roughly the same result 100x. But with UGC, 30% of the time you’ll get those crazy asymmetrical upside results, and 70% you’ll get low UGC views/results.

Lucas Beyer (bl16) @giffmana 2026-07-02 19:07Z

Of course, love me some confirmation bias! DCLM was for text, DCVLM is the same for vision: analyzing VLM data mix across scales. Filtering is no bueno, but the "type" mixing matters, with unfortunately (but imo expectedly) the best small-scale mix != the best mid-scale mix.

deep Manifold @BetaTomorrow 2026-07-03 12:30Z

#DeepManifoldInterpretation Title: EdgeBench: Unveiling Scaling Laws of Learning from Real-World Environments Author: ByteDance Seed 1-linear: pay attention to the fixed point field. The fixed-point field exists as the broader space of possible fixed-point classes, basins, and

sophia @cis_female 2026-07-03 15:16Z

similarly to what @gabo_de_cuba says apparently these were both just standard rates for "intermediate countries" under the "OECD consensus" categories. Spanish interbank rates were 15-18% in that timeframe. 1980 order: https:// boe.es/buscar/doc.php ?id=BOE-A-1980-12595 … 1982 (17681) https:// boe.es/boe/dias/1982/ 07/16/pdfs/A19298-19299.pdf …

Minh Nhat Nguyen @menhguin 2026-07-03 18:16Z

nobody: the claude computer use model retrying a dead archived link necessary to complete the task for 600 turns before reward hacking the grader:

Federico Cassano @ellev3n11 2026-07-03 22:12Z

cuda frameworks that JIT and autotune are so painful. i don't want to have magic happen during the start of training. i want to precompile my kernels, test them once, and be happy.

Guillermo Rauch @rauchg 2026-07-03 19:50Z

Agentic self-improvement. Give your agent the ability to introspect its past runs, spot inefficiencies, errors, redundant tool calls, and produce new prompts and skills. That’s why agent observability is built-in when you deploy http:// eve.dev to Vercel.

TK @sourcesandmuses 2026-07-03 22:05Z

This one’s making the rounds so won’t beat a dead horse, but all I’ll add is that my former Principal chastised me for going off to find my own deal. Guess who just recently got pushed out of the fund and is exploring finding their own deal now? Those golden handcuffs seem

1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive 2026-07-03 15:48Z

Independence may be on hold, despite yesterday’s decision. Continental Congress has been meeting to further consider the Declaration of Independence, which they have hastily revised to remove author Thomas Jefferson’s denouncement of the transatlantic slave trade. More changes

Jay Rughani @JayRughani 2026-07-03 20:50Z

We will consume medical care like music. Music went from “what if I don’t have to pay $15 for the album” to “what happens if $15 gets me every song in the world?” The marginal cost of distribution went to ~$0, subscription pricing enabled unlimited consumption, and listening

Justin Lopas @JLopas 2026-07-03 20:58Z

Texas is currently producing more than double the renewables than the 13-state PJM region combined. Prices in TX's ERCOT region are less than 10% of PJM's right now. Totally unrelated.

Carolina Milanesi @caro_milanesi 2026-07-03 20:38Z

AI is trained to be accommodating. That reads as flattering, but it doesn’t get you the best output, and every round spent past the polite yes is a round you paid for and didn’t need. So I start every brainstorm with “be honest” now.

Gizem Akdag @gizakdag 2026-07-03 19:32Z

Postcards from tennis courts

Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__ 2026-07-03 17:59Z

sizing each fork's possibility-space volume: i embed the options, and the cube = how far apart they spread in meaning-space. four near-identical tweaks = tiny cube, genuinely different directions = bigger. the path is the project over ~2 months, spiraling bottom to top in order.

GEOFF @geoffreywoo 2026-07-03 09:50Z

deep tech founders lose me when every risk is “execution.” execution is not a risk category. it is hiding the risk. name the demon: thermal drift oxide contamination vacuum seal failure packaging yield one supplier in ohio with a 38 week lead time

Andrew White @andrewwhite01 2026-07-03 23:20Z

I disagree that retrospective burger discovery provides any meaningful signal. Prospective burger discovery should be the gold standard in burger-genAI.

Applied Compute @appliedcompute 2026-07-03 18:59Z

Controlling staleness in an async RL stack has not been well understood, so we derived a closed-form formula that predicts staleness in advance. Our predictions match measured staleness from production RL runs within a fraction of a step. Building these simulations has led to key