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Designer. Co-founder 📲 https://nitter.cf/t.co/FFfC6lXtHL ♻️ https://nitter.cf/t.co/vCDrQNHwok 😇 Side projects - https://nitter.cf/t.co/Ic2pvVW7c1 + https://nitter.cf/t.co/shtOaX8dHN

Joined August 2008
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Love the conciseness of @naval’s tweets and the choice of words. Those tiny sentences pack a lot of clarity and meaning. This artwork is a visual / minimal representation of one of his recent tweetstorms on being Healthy, Wealthy & Wise.
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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.
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Stageshow: a skill that helps your agent make better faux UI stills, animations, bento grids, and more. npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow
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Not every founder needs a technical cofounder to ship v1. You need a tight scope, a fixed price, code you own, and a team that's shipped it before. Find the cofounder once there's traction worth sharing equity over. That's most of what we do at NFN Labs.
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Been playing with Arc all weekend now. Holy cow, I've found my forever browser 🫶
My friend @theo2000 just told me about this new Arc Browser, as a replacement for Google Chrome! After trying it for a day, I gotta say this feels like the future! I'm making the change from Chrome (never thought I would!) Wish me luck!
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iPhone Duo is here! Excited to have worked on the design of our open/close transition. It’s designed to make the two displays feel like one seamless experience by perceptually bending the focal plane, not the content, so that it feels like opening a window onto a singular view.
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October has been an absolute nightmare for software > Railway - customer secrets exposure > LiteLLM - malicious PyPI + Docker releases > Zeabur - infrastructure breached > OpenCode - AI API keys exposed > OVHcloud CLI - official binaries backdoored > Rank Math PRO - malware in official plugin > TeamUpdraft - customer data compromised > ConnectWise - cloud backup identities compromised > Tensorlake - npm package infected > SubQuery - backdoored npm package > GhostAction - GitHub repos with malicious workflows > PHP - critical RCE vulnerabilities > Node.js - security vulnerabilities patched > eMudhra - certificate authority keys compromised > Tailscale - eMudhra incident At this point, the biggest security risk might not be the code we write, but the code we trust...
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This and Arc Mobile were truly great products. Sad to see them 💀 The pain of moving to a different browser 😭
We've decided to sunset Arc on December 22, 2026. That's not an easy sentence to write. We spent years building Arc and celebrating each and every release along the way: we have so much pride and love for what we made alongside the Arc community. Our priority is to deliver best-in-class security for our members. Keeping a browser secure takes constant, dedicated work that is only increasing in the age of AI. Dia was built from the ground up to meet today’s security standards, so that's where our engineering and security teams will focus moving forward. We've worked to make switching to @diabrowser as easy as possible for Arc members. Here's how: · Your passwords, bookmarks, extensions and history come over to Dia seamlessly. · Spaces, Folders, and Tab Groups are in Dia and import over with your data intact. · Dia now surpasses Arc benchmarks in stability, speed, and security. · The browser features you use in Arc are free in Dia, and the AI is optional. Thank you for using Arc, for pushing us to make it better, and for building alongside us. The team that made Arc is the same team behind Dia, and some of our most ambitious work is just ahead. We'd love for you to be there with us when it lands.
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What if water could feel your phone folding? Tried making water behave as though it actually lives inside iPhone Duo with Gulpo. 😊 Fold the phone, and water dips into the crease. Open it, and waves ripple outward. Even the speed of the fold changes how the water moves. Gulpo for iPhone Duo is available now on the @AppStore! apps.apple.com/app/id6800241…
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Wabi 2.0 is live! personal agents are one person, one chat. but the parts of life that matter run on more than one person Wabi is an agent you use together. you talk to it, it does stuff, builds the apps you need, and anyone can join the thread - your partner, your best friend, the preschool moms groupchat school changes pickup time → Wabi updates the family calendar, everyone sees it. a show you’d both love → Wabi finds a night that works, gets the tickets. the trip everyone keeps talking about → Wabi picks the dates, builds the itinerary, books it go start a thread with your people 👇
🤖 Made with AI
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Hi, it's Darshita. I am a designer. And I'm pitching myself in public 'cause I'm done with a year full of anxiety. Everyone says design is dead and AI killed it. But the real parasite was hiding in plain sight. So here's my film, DESIGN IS DEAD. She's bold, fearless and very PINK 💖 Hiring? My DMs are open.
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Today, I'm sharing Milepost! It's a driving journal on iOS that lets you record your drives, cars, music, photos, and more. You can share them with friends, get monthly recaps, and even let agents recommend routes with our MCP server. Download it here → milepost.club/
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Formula 1 Singapur yarışı canlı yayınında yaşanan kamera geçişi:
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Introducing BlitzClean ! A free, open-source RAM monitor + disk cleaner for Mac I built it based on 3 things: - I kept running out of storage - I never knew what was eating my RAM - Memory Clean 2 stopped working for me on the macOS 27 beta (Golden Gate) What it does: - CPU, RAM and free disk in the menu bar - Ranks apps + AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) by RAM, so you can pause or quit the ones you forgot about - Finds what fills your disk - Cleans caches, node_modules, simulators, Docker and old worktrees (you review everything first) MIT, runs 100% locally github.com/blitzreels/blitzc… Made the video with Opus 5.5 medium, what do you think ?
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made a rug for your desktop so you can sweep your mess under it
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Halo is now available on the App Store. It's a personal AI assistant that helps declutter the noise in your life and shows you what matters right now. I started building Halo last year with 3 goals in mind: - Surface what’s important before I have to ask - Understand my life through the apps I already use - Keep my personal data on my device Privacy is at the core of Halo and it's what sets it apart from other AI assistants. Excited to finally share it with you.
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Launching the 💎 Timeless Typeface Family One super family of Grotesk, Sans, Serif and Text, all variable with matching italics. Free to use. We’ve been working on this for a couple years now, hope you enjoy them Everyone deserves beautiful typography. timeless.co/type
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is now on GameToMac. 70–80 fps on Apple Silicon. Which game should I add next?
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"explain how Shazam works" I had no idea Karpathy is so right about this custom explainer videos will change education
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks: Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better: Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better: Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better: Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work! In summary: - As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding. - Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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Liftoff of Starship's first orbital flight
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So good 🤌🤌🤌
Gulpo is out now on the App Store! It’s a little app made around the idea that hydration changes with your day... your weather, workouts, pace, and what you actually drink. I hope, just like Lumy, it slowly finds its tribe 🫶 apps.apple.com/app/id6800241…
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