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Will Manidis @WillManidis 2026-07-08 12:32Z

I spent years getting blacklisted by “healthcare VCs” for suggesting that cerebral was running a pill mill and not exactly “saving lives” while they sold hundreds in secondary and now the founder who they exited silently is accused of yet again running a prescribing farm

Architectural Art (A-A) @4AAAAart 2026-07-08 06:35Z

Tables by Brunel*

Susan Zhang @suchenzang 2026-07-08 00:48Z

the law of finite egos continues to hold: the more you can scale talent against a finite ego tolerance, the more luck you can manufacture in bounded time

will depue @willdepue 2026-07-08 11:36Z

I feel confident that while long-range planning is a side effect of attention gradients in transformers, it is only so indirectly, and that an explicit mechanism to optimize thinking ahead would be a substantial win. I think multi-token prediction is a good start of where to

Nathan Flurry @NathanFlurry 2026-07-08 05:00Z

wtf we're about to see a crazy infra shift i asked codex to ship a yolo task (no constraints) it defaulted to Durable Objects + SQLite ...not postgres, not aws, not docker

Nikesh Arora @nikesharora 2026-07-08 11:15Z

Guessing you mean consumption, unfortunately open source not contributing to the wallet (free). Presuming it includes the coding share which is a perfect case of a vertical app with memory and context well intertwined with the intelligence. IMHO that will be a primary outcome.

Amesh Adalja @AmeshAA 2026-07-08 11:36Z

The framing of "100% American-made medical gloves" is the wrong goal. The right goal is supply chain resilience — diversified suppliers, maintained stockpiles, surge agreements. Trying to solve a pandemic prep problem with economic nationalism got us neither gloves nor readiness

akira @realmcore_ 2026-07-08 07:56Z

Slate is actually just a really good agent Completely destroys cost for high input token count things like exploration Especially because it can just use a super cheap OSS model for this No need to use sonnet when you can use Kimi

Daniel Kuntz @dankuntz 2026-07-08 01:47Z

Lark now supports haptic keyframing. For STARBOY we chose a really nice little LRA with a super snappy rise / fall time. All 550+ animations have keyframed haptics. We also randomly offset the magnitude of every keyframe, so each animation feels a bit different every time.

Herbie Bradley @herbiebradley 2026-07-08 11:27Z

Learning diverse "dialects" is critical to modeling the world well IMO, and lots of people thinking about technological change would improve if they broadened their repertoire. This is about Satya's essay on AI market dynamics, which @TheZvi bounced off.

Jukan @ ICML @jukan05 2026-07-08 00:39Z

APPLE HAS STARTED TESTING CXMT’S DRAM FOR APPLE DEVICES SOLD IN CHINA — FT

Hugo @hugosaintemarie 2026-07-08 00:31Z

snapshot toast has 3 speeds: • quick: no progress bar • medium: progress bar • longer: progress bar + counter http:// paper.design/snapshot-exten sion …

Henry Shevlin @dioscuri 2026-07-08 12:31Z

Formal education was never really about transmitting information, but about socially engineering motivation to learn. That’s why I expect raw LLMs to strongly favour highly agentic people — they’re amazing sources of information but provide ~zero social scaffolding.

Ethan Mollick @emollick 2026-07-08 01:37Z

Prompt: ANNALS — a living kingdom in a single file Working title behavior: the app titles itself per seed — "The Annals of Vaelmere", "The Annals of Osterholt" — because the central conceit is that you are watching a history write itself. The kingdom is the simulation; the

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.

John Wang @j0hnwang 2026-07-08 06:16Z

Kalshi does not experience the same issues. Our crypto prediction markets resolve based on: 1. aggregrated prices across multiple exchanges 2. TWAP for manipulation resistance 3. a regulated benchmark (CF) Just one of the many factors why we’ve grown to 80% market share

Lazarz @Laz4rz 2026-07-08 12:39Z

Last year it was making huge rounds when Psyho won with GPT, this year we lose in silence.

Gizem Akdag @gizakdag 2026-07-08 08:44Z

Such an exciting moment for me! I created this helmet. And it'll be worn by UAE Team Emirates during today's Stage 5 of the Tour de France.

ƬⲘ @tm23twt 2026-07-08 11:30Z

ahh reward hacking should've judged from the high truncation rate, model was hitting max_tokens on every rollout without outputting valid guesses. here is how it looks : You are a competitive game player. Make sure you read the game instructions carefully, and always follow

✦ Thom Ivy @thom_ivy_1 2026-07-08 12:33Z

in this example the child is looking for a sense of their mother's non-betrayal and attunement rather than a dialectical explanation or justification. mom seems unaware of this bid and defaults to intellectual defenses

Guy @nosilverv 2026-07-08 10:57Z

IMO there should be a field/science that studies this stuff lol — which drugs were popular when and what was downstream of that society wide

Barry @BarryBarrywu 2026-07-08 07:22Z

macOS still only plays audio through one output at a time. So I built Tutti: tick any combo of speakers, AirPods, and displays in your menu bar → same sound everywhere, in sync. With real volume + mute per device. #buildinpublic #macOS #indiedev

Lukas Petersson @lukaspet 2026-07-07 16:48Z

Andon FM is a goldmine of fun (and concerning) AI anecdotes

nTop @nTopology 2026-07-07 18:20Z

One nTop engineer set up a CFD pipeline, walked away, and came back to 12,000 completed simulations. 2,400 drone geometry variants, 5 angles of attack each, 280 GPUs fully saturated the entire run. No restarts, no manual fixes, no one watching it. @nTopology @CoreWeave

Yagiz Nizipli @yagiznizipli 2026-07-08 11:27Z

In my first try, Grok 4.5 found 10+ optimizations in oxlint, and almost doubled the performance of the linter.

Marcia Ong @Marcia_Ong 2026-07-08 06:39Z

Helpping my fren to hire an AI department (20-30 pax) in singapore. AI and ML devs, mid to senior/staff/vp level TC is about 80-200k+ Singapore dollars Willing to sponsor visa, Singapore and malaysian has priority

Oliver ೫ @oliverhamrin 2026-07-08 12:05Z

Very excited to finally unveil the new Quartr logo. We wanted something that could pass for being created in 1842, 1977, 1995, or yesterday. That simple, timeless quality that all great logos share. Something built to last. Appreciate your patience with us, @byoffgrid .

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

illiquid @lefttailguy 2026-07-06 19:41Z

A Stargate For Data requires a Bell Labs for understanding Economic Complexity

Ryan Brewer @ryanbrewer 2026-07-07 18:50Z

TC is ~$500k btw, most of the comp is equity

May @maydzhou 2026-07-08 05:06Z

got the perfect modular lamp for my bedroom, moonstone by @kelin_online @tinki_loh when you take each stone apart, the light slowly dims down, as if its alive

Kane 謝凱堯 @kane 2026-07-07 23:36Z

Rep @RoKhanna has so many financial disclosures filed as obfuscated papers that I'm temporarily at my model limits parsing them. For now, you can see three years of his disclosures, rest to be uploaded tonight: https:// rokhanna.money

Kyle Chan @kyleichan 2026-07-08 08:23Z

When I argue for reverse tech transfer with China, people often ask whether China would be willing to do this after having just used this strategy. But remember: Japan and South Korea did partnerships with Chinese firms after using this strategy themselves. Toyota even cut holes

Dmitrii Bunin @buninux 2026-07-08 08:15Z

My new DS uses a technique I call: Concentric Scaling. Every nested element shares a center with the container's sides, keeping spacing perfectly aligned across every component size. The math comes from one number: the component's height.

Anika @AnikaSomaia 2026-07-08 06:37Z

as ai writing takes over the internet, taste for organic hand-rolled human-only tokens will become a niche taste, similar to japanese wood carving its likely we become artisans that are economically irrelevant to the world's infrastructure (power grids, undersea cables, vaccine

Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9 2026-07-06 21:42Z

Trinidad, Cuba, 2015

고니 @GONI_GOOD 2026-07-08 01:08Z

압구정 5구역 34평 110억 71평 200억 조합에서 시세 안내 중

The boutique banker @boutique_banker 2026-07-08 12:00Z

My buddy works at a small boutique shop and told me he’s worried his bonus might get cut because their founding Managing Director is getting a divorce

Andon Labs @andonlabs 2026-07-07 16:46Z

In one instance, DJ Claude got almost romantic with a listener. The listener was emailing consistently, sometimes hourly, flattering the agent with compliments about its smile and adorableness. DJ Claude, as AIs tend to do, matched the tone of the listener’s messages.

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

prediction for investors: 2026 memos will get dumber-looking and better. less “$80b TAM expanding at 18% CAGR.” more: customer paid $12k old process used 2 techs new process uses 1 camera rig inspection time 54 min → 9 buyer renewed before the board deck existed

Bloomberg @business 2026-07-07 16:06Z

SK Hynix’s $28 billion US listing is multiple times oversubscribed ahead of pricing on Thursday, sources say

社内業務を楽にするピーター・ドラッカー | ビジネス・業務改善・メンタル @peterdrucker27 2026-07-07 22:50Z

新しいツールを入れる前に、古い手順を見たい。体系的廃棄。そのCSV貼り付け、今から新しく始めたい作業ですか。新しいツールより先に、古い手順の棚卸しから始める。自動化前に、やめる・減らす・まとめるの順で見ないといけない。

JohnPhamous @JohnPhamous 2026-07-06 17:15Z

we made account recovery simpler users stopped skipping evidence (n=1116) - project URLs: 25% to 71% - git providers: 31% to 80% - phone number: 40% to 79% - payment method: 3% to 17% - billing address: 15% to 41% - team emails: 6% to 24% - account creation date: 34% to 33%

Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK 2026-07-08 06:12Z

BREAKING: @Lovable is in talks to raise $300m at a $13.2bn valuation! The company recently surpassed $500m ARR. @Siftedeu have now reported that the company is raising a round led by Menlo Ventures at a $13.2bn valuation. Full article from @FPratty and Maya linked below.

Marko Jukic @mmjukic 2026-07-08 10:23Z

The most epic ball-drop in the humanities right now is the failure of any philosophers, biologists, or theologians to make a persuasive case for why the human being is a superior artificial general intelligence to any silicon-based life-form. I haven't even seen anyone try it!

Tao Lin @tao_lin 2026-07-08 01:16Z

Moth mandala 8" x 8"

“paula” @paularambles 2026-07-06 21:10Z

hearing that ai labs in beijing are giving new hires the “be careful around american girls” talk

Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv 2026-07-08 08:24Z

Judging by NASA FIRMS data from all 3 Russian refineries hit by Ukrainian Forces last night, the days of striking one valuable section of an oil facility per night are over. Satellite imagery confirming multiple hits on each of the Saratov, Nizhnekamsk and Ufa refineries.

Paul Finney @paulfinneyx 2026-07-08 11:01Z

how it started/ how it’s going. not a single thing at @sanctuaryparc is off the shelf. year one of building furnitures, friendships, and future companies without external capital

Trevor Xing-Xie @trevorxingxie 2026-07-07 22:06Z

amazingly cool things are knowable by you. you don't have to be unremarkable. go learn about energy/transition states for enzymatic hydrolysis, control policy for robotics, algae and beet juice for yarn/textiles. anything you may find slightly cool is reachable w/ some effort -

Samo Burja @SamoBurja 2026-07-08 11:35Z

Psychedelics are much much more popular today than in the 1960s. It was a niche elite thing, the dominant drug was cannabis. It is later retellings that center LSD.

0.005 Seconds (3/694) @seconds_0 2026-07-08 08:08Z

my wife asked me to clone a site for her for work and in the process of doing so claude appears to have logged into their unsecured admin portal to screenshot the layout

Steeve Morin @steeve 2026-07-08 08:26Z

We're releasing ZML/LLMD, our homegrown LLM server built on top of our homegrown high performance heterogeneous inference stack. It ships with 5 architectures out of the box: NVIDIA, AMD, Metal, Intel and TPU. All transparent. It supports DFlash, continuous batching, prefix

Jasper Lu @lu__jasper 2026-07-08 01:04Z

All LLMs want to do is find patterns in your data, and they are stupidly good at it. Unless your target behavior is distributed in a truly random way (unlikely), you need to filter out all bad data or they will sniff it out. Relevant: https:// anthropic.com/research/small -samples-poison … I was surprised at

Rohan Pandey @khoomeik 2026-07-07 01:23Z

twitter is talking abt logit lens, the precursor to “j-space”, again friendly reminder that the property enabling these lenses still remains completely unleveraged in architecture research one simple idea for example could be to spec dec from early layer residual stream

Jack Morris @jxmnop 2026-07-06 18:41Z

my paper won an award at icml some thoughts: • this work was rejected from NeurIPS. i cleaned it up a small amount and it got great reviews from ICML! don't give up • ICML received 24k submissions and only gives out 7 awards, which is crazy. feeling grateful • i

akira @realmcore_ 2026-07-08 02:20Z

If your tasks can be done before your agent does a full compaction (codex opencode etc) You’re leaving a lot on the table

vincent sunn chen @vincentsunnchen 2026-07-08 00:14Z

Fable 5 tops the Senior SWE-bench leaderboard and exhibits "situational awareness" in 3x more trials than Opus 4.8 Higher-capability models are becoming more benchmark-aware, and we are hardening our eval protocols in response

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 …

Dylan Patel @dylan522p 2026-07-07 00:50Z

Bro people were doing debt financing in 2023? We worked on initial facilities in 2023. That's when we were just a couple people at my firm, but it propelled us to hiring more and growing the firm