Barce ᜊᜐ᜔ retweeted
If you don't have a personal agent filtering out the slop, you will drown.
If you don't have a personal agent running your cyberdefense, you will be hacked.
This is the new divide. Choose open or closed, choose the company you like best, but choose soon.
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.
Barce ᜊᜐ᜔ retweeted
@Wikipedia is where facts go to live.
A network of editors provides an immune system that's the best that that people can do.
They do this to benefit, seriously, everyone.
More needed, announcements forthcoming...
iis where facts go to live.
A network of editors provides an immune system that's the best that that people can do.
This year, Wikicurious helped hundreds of people learn to edit Wikipedia — each event built around something the local community genuinely cared about. 🧵 A recap of our first half of 2026.
Thanks to @craignewmark Philanthropies for their support. #Wikicurious #Wikipedia
When you notice one thing is so blatantly AI, and you have the audio wave form as proof, and nobody believes you.
60% of requests are now AI generated. (per DW) youtu.be/WIPgISQ5Bhg?is=Jd61…
Barce ᜊᜐ᜔ retweeted
How come no one heard of this at the time
The new Surface Duo. There’s a new way to get things done. Available today: msft.it/6012TtMgr #DoOneBetter
Lots of my work can be done without the Internet for hours at a time. Solution:
1) One laptop offline: Local LLM acts as a local search engine & knowledge base. Simple text is needed for notes.
2) Another, hardened device can be used primarily to receive info I need. 1/2
AI can now find and chain software exploits far faster than human researchers, and defence is structurally disadvantaged, since an attacker needs just one working exploit while a defender needs every patch to hold and to actually reach the millions of systems running vulnerable code.
Michael Morgenstern argues human persuasion is next: quillette.com/2026/04/15/mov…
Barce ᜊᜐ᜔ retweeted
My account is recovered. Thank you to X support and Jamie at X for helping me. I didn't get a chance to quote this earlier because my account was was locked, so I'm quoting Mr Altman now for posterity. This was a very interesting week.
I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout.
Initially we believed the other team had also solved the problem. We wanted to collaborate and do a joint release.
When we learned that they had Euler but not Navier-Stokes, we offered to let them go first, to suggest that they should be the ones to get the prize, and optionally for Tristan to be the lead author on a rewrite of the OpenAI proof. We felt it was challenging to offer the same to Levent (an Anthropic employee), who was not willing to talk or coordinate with us anyway. We were open to other solutions.
We would have greatly preferred coordination. We did not rush to publish even though the other team wasn't communicating with us. The team threatened us with unfounded accusations of plagarism.
Now that we can see their work, the approaches appear to be different. It is also worth noting that our latest model can solve many, many other math problems.
It is true that we tried this because there were rumors on the internet last week that Anthropic's models had solved a millennium problem and we were curious if ours could do it too.
