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rakesh retweeted
never deleting this app.
"sorry, I accidentally told my agents to hack u"
Hey @Railway, is there a reason employee's of yours are trying to breach my infrastructure?
Your employee Jake Runzer, just attempted to tonight.
agree with the optimism here… but i think there's another angle to it
for most of tech's history, opportunity came from learning how to build things that others couldn't
now.. almost anyone can build something… which means the real challenge is figuring out what's worth building.. why someone would use it, and whether you can actually make it useful
that's a pretty exciting change in itself… and i think we're only beginning to understand its implications :)
Tech is insanely interesting because it's one of the only careers in the world where anyone from anywhere can catapult to the highest ranks of success and income purely based on what they can do and regardless of their background or education.
It's evolved so many times, each with its own windows of opportunity. Today is more interesting than ever, the first time in the history of software that the technical barriers to accomplishing "technical things" have been seemingly removed, leveling the field for anyone curious or determined enough to take advantage of this exact moment in time. People with technical expertise of course still have the leg up if they can encompass the excitement, curiosity, humility to see and understand the state of the world as it actually exists and act on it.
Every evolution there exists the doomer and the optimist on each side, making their argument about the current "thing" or state of the world, it's always so interesting to watch. The best piece of advice is the same thing echoed by all of the successful people I know: be the optimist not the doomer.
rakesh retweeted
one reason nvidia has been so hard to compete with is the amount of software work needed to get models running well on other hardware..
if agents can now do a good chunk of that work in 36 hours... that's a pretty big deal
still a long way from proving it works at scale.. but I'm curious how much of their advantage will hold up as agents get better at this
rakesh retweeted
Konvene started as something else entirely..
last week it was a webcam app that checks in on how you're feeling... it got too depressing to build.. so I dropped it
then it became a multiplayer party game you play with your face.. expression controls were too fiddly and voice controls too loud.. dropped that too
what survived was the face tech.. so now it's a video call app where blur, lighting, touch-up, captions and noise reduction all run on your own device
calls go browser to browser, encrypted, nothing stored
three names later.... it's live, free and open source :)
konvene.app
here it is: konvene.app
I'm working on a open-source and feature packed P2P video meeting service.
use my source code and enhance on it and ditch all your video meet subscriptions... please.. for god's sake.
will release it tomorrow... we have been using for months now.. not sure how services like google meet and zoom still survive in the AI era.
so i was using claude code to integrate google reCAPTCHA v3 into a form... you know.. to detect bots
claude finishes the integration and proudly reports:
"i submitted the form and everything works fine"
hold on
WHO submitted the form? 😭
the bot that implemented my bot detection system is now assuring me that it successfully got through my bot detection system...
i don't even know which one of us is being tested anymore lol
rakesh retweeted
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Dashcam video from just FEET AWAY shows the moment a Learjet 60 crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida
These folks are SUPER lucky to be alive.
Just INSANE.
Konvene started as something else entirely..
last week it was a webcam app that checks in on how you're feeling... it got too depressing to build.. so I dropped it
then it became a multiplayer party game you play with your face.. expression controls were too fiddly and voice controls too loud.. dropped that too
what survived was the face tech.. so now it's a video call app where blur, lighting, touch-up, captions and noise reduction all run on your own device
calls go browser to browser, encrypted, nothing stored
three names later.... it's live, free and open source :)
konvene.app
rakesh retweeted
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.
the "own your intelligence" discussion has me thinking about something else...
we spent years letting algorithms decide what appeared in our feeds
now we're building AI assistants that could influence what we read, buy, research and even believe
i really hope we don't hand over that much control to a handful of companies again....
rakesh retweeted
Own your intelligence.
Anyone that opposes this has something to sell you (perhaps your own intelligence back to you.)
Local models need to continue proliferating. The “absolute unit” massive models may be out of reach for now locally, so your best option is to, indeed, keep your options open. Own your harness, data, connections, runtime: your agents. Embrace open source.
one reason nvidia has been so hard to compete with is the amount of software work needed to get models running well on other hardware..
if agents can now do a good chunk of that work in 36 hours... that's a pretty big deal
still a long way from proving it works at scale.. but I'm curious how much of their advantage will hold up as agents get better at this
