The Sovereign Stack

it's an app it's a service it's a platform it's a network it's a device it's amazing we worked on every last detail we polished it we made it perfect no man actually it's just some bullshit I prompted in 15m and it's fine

Coolest freaking EV at SEMA! Model 3 based customizable van builds Hoffman EV I’ll have a full video coming soon

Dude had a NordicTrack treadmill ($2-3k) and wanted to use massive screen to watch Netflix. NordiTrack locked that option behind $39 a month membership for its iFit app. Claude figured out screen was Android 9 tablet and “found that iFit’s motor service runs a small server on the console that apps can talk to”. It disabled iFit’s apps one at a time and the “real fix was removing iFit’s lockdown and updater app for my user (reversible). It turned remote access off after every restart, re-enabled everything I’d disabled, and ate a big share of the CPU. Without it the treadmill boots unlocked and the tablet can finally breathe.” He can now CrunchyRoll and Netflix without paying an extra $39 a month on top of those streaming subs lolol

Privacy should be built into the system, not added later.

Uh oh! Our new to us Polestar 2 got broken into today! The thief left behind a VoE dongle in the OBDII part and when the car turned on we realize dit had adaptive cruise control, lane centering, and adaptive matrix high beams despite not coming with those 👀 Be careful out there

I’m looking for work. Now my résumé is accepting sponsors. Founding sponsors: @reserveprotocol (the company that laid me off 🥲) @partyactionppl, and @asimov_co 5 spots left, 3 tiers. Your company’s logo in front of every hiring manager I contact starl3xx.fun/resume

Think you're a talented artist? Put your skills to the test. urSketch public play test tonight at 8 pm ET. Come have some fun on Urbit! Details in the next tweet.

what the hell is a Urbit

Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5: hackertube.org/ - Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session) - Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads - Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version - HackerTube Longs ✊ A bit more on the process: I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing. Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.

🚨 This has never happened before. The Super El Niño has triggered an unprecedented early November stratospheric warming event (SSW) and wind reversal. 100% chance forecast. We must prepare for weather and climate events that were otherwise impossible until now.