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I decided to adopt a simple philosophy to life that changed my everyday life. Doing things beats not doing things. Simple enough, but hard to apply. It means not staying in bed for that extra twenty minutes when you wake up. It means cold approaching people. It means rejection. It means executing on the ideas you’re reasoning about. Iterate and pivot if necessary. It means asking that friend for help. It extends to everything. It means that you’re taking chances. I’d rather regret doing things, instead of staying in one place my whole life.

@514V3R That Tuesday at 6am is the whole rep.

Two months of not missing a session. What changed: nothing visible yet. What changed: everything underneath. I don't have a mirror update. I have a Tuesday at 6am where I didn't feel like it and went anyway. That's the only update that's actually true.

@hthieblot It’s kind of enjoyable in a masochistic way

The most brutal stretch as a founder is holding unbreakable belief that you'll make it... when you have literally nothing to show for it.

@TradexWhisperer @Jespabe Five years is a long runway. If HBM demand keeps growing at this clip, 2030 might actually be conservative. What's the read on whether new capacity additions realistically close it or demand just keeps outrunning the fabs?

SK Hynix Chairman Chey Tae-won reaffirmed a persistent supply deficit of memory chips that could last until 2030, in Taipei on June 2. SK Hynix plans to double its memory chip wafer capacity over the next five years (by 2031) $DRAM $MU $SNDK

@DropSiteNews @Ali_Husain333 Numbers the mainstream press buried.

By the end of October 8, 2023, Israel had already murdered 413 Palestinians and wounded between 2,200 and 2,300 others in indiscriminate retaliatory airstrikes across the Gaza Strip.

@joelhedwards @fardarter Nuclear has a stronger case on paper and still gets culture warred into oblivion. Hot rocks just lands differently.

geothermal brings red votes for the bluest members, and blue votes for the reddest members hot rocks uniting the country in ways nothing else can

@0x_rxkvys texas is cheap, Bali if you want to relax

housing in sf is way too expensive our team is trying to find places to move to options so far: - LA - Bali - Texas - Florida does anyone have any recommendations?

@aeronxbt Law hasn't caught up to synthetic CSAM. Most statutes still require a real victim. That gap is being weaponized in real time.

There's a Fortnite poster on the wall behind Jenna Ortega. Except it isn't her. The body in the gaming chair belongs to a 12 year old, and the face is generated. The whole transformation takes 2 seconds and one snap of his fingers. A comment came in asking for Jenna. He delivered her, live, in a clip that crossed 8 million views in three days. TikTok's Creativity Program pays $5,000 to $10,000 per 10 million views on a video like that. He runs the requests. He keeps the bag. The face swap that used to take a Hollywood VFX team three weeks now runs on Roop. Open source. Free on GitHub since 2023. Any kid with a $40 GPU rental and a working laptop can do it after homework. Three pairs of sneakers on a floating shelf. A glass of water. A black gaming chair. Yellow ceiling light. Then he snaps his fingers, and Wednesday Addams is dancing where the boy used to sit. His mom thinks he's editing Fortnite clips. She isn't entirely wrong. The chair is the same. The bedroom is the same. Bedtime is still 9. School is still in the morning. Only the face changes. Jenna Ortega has never seen the video. Her face is paying for his sneakers.

@Investanswers @cps23800 @SpaceX And Starship hasn't entered the picture properly yet. The real steepening is still ahead. What do you think defines the ceiling?

This is a Serious Space S-Curve @SpaceX

@aakashgupta Grade controls peak force, not total energy. Work is mgh regardless of path. Winding only wins if instantaneous power is the binding constraint.

The straight red line is a 30% grade. The winding one is 8%. That single number is the whole answer. Grade is rise over run, and the height of the hill is fixed. You don't get to negotiate how much you climb. The only thing you control is how much horizontal distance you spend doing it. The straight shot crams the entire vertical gain into the shortest possible run, which is what makes it the worst option on the board. A loaded truck starts losing traction past about 12%. A normal car can't pull away from a stop on much over 20%. Going downhill, brakes on a sustained 30% grade overheat and fade inside a mile, which is the entire reason runaway truck ramps exist. So the straight road saves you nothing. Most vehicles physically cannot drive it. Switchbacks quadruple the distance to cut the grade by a factor of four. Same elevation, four times the run, a quarter of the steepness. A 30% wall turns into an 8% climb a fully loaded semi can take in low gear and come back down without cooking its brakes. Then there's cost. A straight road up that face needs deep rock cuts and heavy retaining walls to stop the slope from sliding onto it. The winding road traces the natural contour and moves almost no earth. Cheaper to build, cheaper to drain, far less likely to fail. The shortest line on a map is almost never the cheapest line in physics. Water worked this out a billion years before engineers did. Rivers don't run straight down mountains either.

@broadfield_dev @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @xai Revenue numbers say otherwise. Local is legit for privacy and cost but frontier capability doesn't run on a laptop yet. What's your stack?

The trouble with @OpenAI @AnthropicAI and @xai is that they are building products that nobody actually wants. Nobody actually want's to be reliant on a datacenter for output that can be generated locally.

@leerob Dinner as a shipping timer is genuinely new. 18 months ago nobody wrote voice notes to their IDE.

Cursor (and coding agents generally) still blows my mind daily. Just today: 1. I shipped a new landing page. I gave a 10min voice note to Cursor, left to go eat dinner, and came back to a 90% finished version. Made some small design and copy tweaks and merged. 2. Had Cursor dig through Search Console and Semrush with computer use, researched places we could improve SEO, and then merged 3 PRs with fixes. 3. Used the Supabase MCP to pull thousands of emails from the Compile waitlist, had it research them with web search based on ideal fit for the event, and got back a CSV with the top people to invite and why. 4. Updated an internal app I built for doing company-wide surveys (think Typeform but Cursor branded) in a few hours before our All Hands. 5. Had a few agents researching furniture I'm hoping to buy. They searched the web for a bunch of variants and then made a custom shopping cart (just an HTML page) with images, prices, links, and tons of details. Super helpful. I don't do this every day, of course, but it's still wild to me this is the new normal for what someone with a computer and AI can do. Most of these were running in the cloud as I was between meetings, just humming away in the background. I could check the app (🔜) to see progress and merge PRs. What a time to be alive. (P.S. if you extrapolated my usage today, I'd still be on the $200/mo plan)

@mikelin1789 Same to you. Anything big on your plate for 2026?

Wish everyone a healthy 2026!

@jedpolglase Optimism isn't cope when the fundamentals back it up

Just stop with all the negative rhetoric and drama for a moment. Allow yourself a couple of minutes to be inspired by what has already been achieved and what’s coming next!

@kori_rotir @PFIRorg True, but the US already has everything else. What's your read on what actually matters most after the visa?

You are right about the political cynicism...but startups dont get formed in a vacuum through golden startup visas. Its not as simple as a founder (particularly someone outside the US) having an idea and then creating a billion dollar startup. Thats not the case in tech (and I am guessing any industry with any technological sophistication). Its usually people who already have a lot of technical knowledge/experience/depth, and requires building the right network so that you can connect with people with the capital to invest or bring you your initial customers. Those things are in most cases not possible without the programs you criticize...someone starting a job on OPT, moving to a H1B, getting their greencards and during that process developing both their skills (hard and soft) and network. And the biggest part is luck, you can have everything correct and get unlucky. Go ahead and dig into the details of some of these actual companies, and what it took to start and build them.

If Congress were on the verge of passing an immigration bill tomorrow that eliminated chain migration, the diversity visa lottery, and employer-sponsored work visa programs while creating a true “golden visa” pathway for startup founders, watch how quickly these groups would turn against it. Their reaction would tell you everything you need to know about whether their priority is attracting entrepreneurs or expanding immigration more broadly.

@albertadevs @pwnalisa1 @mytechceoo Tokens are the new cloud egress bill. Nobody budgets for it until month two.

BREAKING: CEO discovers tokens cost money

@notjazii She's asking you to ship slower.

GF: "babe, can't we just cancel your claude and codex sub to have more money for vacation?" Me:

@dbreunig The prompt isn't the right unit to hold accountable. The behavior is. Model updates break prompt contracts without changing a character. You end up needing behavioral assertions, not prompt diffs.

The most important rule in AI engineering or agentic development is: hold your prompts accountable. Do this with tests, ensembles, data, your own eyes…Whatever. Figure out the important sites to put controls and put them there.

@ugwumx @MEXC synthetic token, not the actual stock. and real NVDA barely pays dividends anyway

a friend bought “NVDA” on a crypto platform sometime last year. he held it for almost six months, expecting dividends that never came. turns out he was holding a token that tracked Nvidia’s price - not a share of Nvidia. nobody told him the difference, and he didn’t think to ask. and for most people, the difference never really becomes obvious. Binance. Gate. Bitget. Ondo. @MEXC. every major crypto exchange is now offering some version of “US stocks.” the race isn’t about adding stocks - it’s about becoming the gateway to every asset class. but before we compare platforms, there’s a more important question to ask. not “can I buy Nvidia?” but; “what do I actually own after I buy it?” because the answer changes completely depending on where you bought it. on the surface, two assets can track the same company and use the same ticker. underneath, the ownership structure can be very different. and that’s where dividends, shareholder rights, and genuine equity exposure start to matter. walk w me..

@leerob It’s insane the capabilities you can have. AI is a crazy multiplier in any field. Being able to use tools efficiently though unlocks whole new degrees of efficiency.

@willdepue SpaceX carrying the whole United experience.

united airlines sucks but the starlink experience is so smooth from boarding to deboarding oh my god