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Why did the US ban this number in 2001? It sounds insane, but 25 years ago, the Motion Picture Association of America was genuinely trying to delete this number from the internet. You see, back in 1999, a teenager in Norway named Jon Lech Johansen wrote a piece of code called DeCSS. It cracked CSS, the encryption on DVDs. Suddenly, anyone could copy a movie with the click of a button. It was a nightmare for the movie studios. They went nuclear. They sued the hacker magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. They threatened Slashdot, and their lawyers fired out cease-and-desist letters to anyone hosting the code. They called it a digital burglary tool. But the internet found a loophole. A computer scientist named Phil Carmody realized that computer code is just binary ones and zeros. And you can treat that string of binary as a single number. That way, you get a really, really big integer—which is the illegal code. But Carmody knew that just finding any number wasn’t going to be enough, because the government could still ban a random number. So he needed a number that science would be forced to protect. He needed a prime number. You see, the University of Tennessee maintains a prestigious academic database called the Prime Pages. It records the 5,000 largest known prime numbers. Carmody realized that if he could turn the illegal code into a record-breaking prime number, the university would have to publish it. His first attempt was 1,401 digits long. It was prime, but too small. It didn’t crack the top 5,000 list. It wasn’t mathematically interesting enough to save. So, he hacked the math. Use this formula: K × 256^N + B Now, K is the illegal code part. 256^N is the mathematical equivalent of adding useless zeros at the end—like making a book longer by adding blank pages. It doesn’t change the actual content inside. So, he kept adding “blank pages,” shifting the number, until he hit a mathematical jackpot—a 1,959-digit monster. This wasn’t just illegal code anymore. It became the 10th largest ECP prime number ever discovered at the time. It was checkmate. The number was immediately added to the university database. For the MPAA to ban the code now, they would have to order a university to delete a scientific record. You can’t censor mathematics.

I trained this @ltx_model LTX 2.3 LoRA of George Costanza at home on my 5090 in about a day with AI Toolkit. I generated this 30 second video with @ComfyUI on my 5090 in 6 minutes. Open source is, always has been, and always will be, the future of generative AI. (SOUND ON)

The older I get, the more I understand this guy.

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this guy has 29 models on huggingface at page 2 ranking. no lab behind him. no sponsorship. $2,000 from his own pocket on GPU rentals. he compressed GLM-4.7 to run on a MacBook and quantized Nemotron Super the week it dropped. all public. all free. nvidia is a trillion dollar company with hundreds of teams but they are not the ones quantizing models middle of the night and pushing them out before sunrise. if nvidia stopped tomorrow their employees stop working. people like @0xSero would not. that is the difference between a paycheck and a mission. @NVIDIAAI you talk about making AI accessible. the people actually doing it are right here. 29 models deep burning their own compute with no ask except more hardware to keep going. you do not need to build another program. just look at who is already building for you. one GPU to this man would produce more public value than a hundred internal sprints. i am not asking for charity. i am asking you to invest in someone who already proved it.

When @spacebudznft launched in March 2021, it felt like the beginning of something special for Cardano. I had already been investing in Cardano and collecting NFTs on other chains, so when these little astronauts appeared, I was instantly hooked. I minted 3 Budz, my babies, and quickly became very active in the community that formed around them. Along the way, I also became friends with Ales. Over the years, I've watched him build things that quietly shaped parts of the Cardano ecosystem in ways many people may not fully realize. The funny thing is, Ales never really saw himself as "a dev." He was just exploring, building things he found interesting, and sharing them openly. Before any of this, he had already become an SPO with a simple mission: to prove that Cardano was so energy efficient it could run on Raspberry Pi computers, and to teach others how to run nodes and become operators themselves. Like many great builders in open source, Ales built on tools and libraries that came before him and shared his own work openly so others could build on it. And through that same curiosity and generosity, he ended up enabling a lot of what people build on Cardano today. Amongst them: - The CIP-25 NFT standard, which SpaceBudz and Berry NFTs helped pioneer. - Nami, which helped make dApp connections possible. - The SpaceBudz marketplace, the first smart contract-enabled NFT marketplace on Cardano, which he open-sourced so other marketplaces could build and flourish. - Lucid, a JavaScript library that made development on Cardano much easier. - CIP-68 NFT Standard (programmable NFTs), opening the door for more advanced on-chain assets. Recently, Ales shared with me that after a lot of reflection, he feels ready to step away from the digital world and pursue a life that feels more grounded in human connection. And as part of that decision, he chose to pass SpaceBudz on to new hands. And I fully support him in that choice. SpaceBudz will always remain a special part of Cardano history. It wasn't just a collection, it was a moment when imagination met experimentation, and suddenly the possibilities of the chain felt wide open. A huge thank you to @berry_ales and @punk9968 for creating something that sparked that moment and sharing it so openly with the ecosystem. And thank you to the SpaceBudz community, which has always understood what this project was really about. Exploring the capabilities of the chain, building with open tools, and letting each Bud take on a journey of its own. Ales, thank you for your friendship and for the journey we’ve shared through all of this. I will never forget it. And to @Knackfish and the @TavernForge team, now stepping in to guide SpaceBudz forward, thank you for taking the torch and continuing the journey! SpaceBudz has always been about curiosity, exploration, and the courage to step into the unknown. A reminder that sometimes the greatest adventures begin when we choose to see what might be possible beyond the horizon. I'm excited to see where you take the Budz next and look forward to the adventures still to come. 🚀

@berry_ales Thank you for everything you brought to Cardano Ales. You inspired me and a lot of other people to learn how awesome Cardano can be. You're a true legend. ❤️

This marks the end for Zieg and me. Thank you everyone for the magical time, and for letting us experiment. Now it's time to move on.

- He killed his neighbor who killed his dog. - Started McAfee software - Forbes top 100 - Presidential candidate - Wanted in 3 countries - Survived 50+ assassination attempts - Married a prostitute who was hired to kill him - Behind Edward Snowden - Bitcoin billionaire - Worked on the Apollo missions -Hacked Hillary Clinton's office by sending her staff free computers - Killed a few people in Belize - Lived on a boat in the Caribbean sea with armed guards - Never paid income tax because he blackmails the US government - Escaped captivity in Guatemala by faking a heart attack - committed suicide in a Spanish prison - May still be alive

Susan Kare was an early Apple artist who designed many of the fonts, icons and images for Apple, Microsoft, NeXT and IBM (1980s). Check out her work below 🔻

Self-hosted web search for AI agents github.com/ythx-101/ask-s…

This guy built a $1.2 BILLION drug empire from a laptop in a library, got two life sentences, and still walks free today. In 2011 a 26 year old physics grad named Ross Ulbricht launched a website called Silk Road. Named himself "Dread Pirate Roberts" after a character from The Princess Bride. The first product listed was magic mushrooms he grew in a rental cabin in Texas. Silk Road became the Amazon of the dark web and you could buy ANYTHING anonymously using Bitcoin. 9.5 million Bitcoin was traded on the site, nearly half of all BTC that existed at the time. At today's prices that's over $800 billion. The FBI spent two years looking for him while an IRS agent solved it in his free time. Ross had promoted the site on a mushroom forum under a fake name, then used the SAME fake name on another forum where he posted his real Gmail address. Agents tracked him to San Francisco where he worked from cafés and a public library. The day they arrested him, two undercover agents staged a fake couple's fight behind him in the library to distract him while another agent grabbed his laptop before he could lock it. The screen showed him logged in as Dread Pirate Roberts. On the laptop they found a file labeled "emergency" with his escape plan, destroy the laptop, destroy the phone, find a place on Craigslist for cash, create a new identity. Two of the FBI agents investigating him got caught stealing Bitcoin from the case. Ross got two life sentences plus 40 years with no chance of parole. Served 11 years. Trump gave him a full pardon in January 2025. Someone anonymously sent him 300 Bitcoin after his release which are worth $31 million. His prison clothes are on display at crypto conferences now like museum exhibits.

🚨 RIP Chrome for AI agents. Someone built a headless browser from scratch that runs 11x faster and uses 9x less memory. It's called Lightpanda. Every AI agent doing web automation right now is running Chrome under the hood. That means you're spinning up a massive desktop application, stripping out the UI, and running hundreds of instances of it on a server. For something that never needs to render a single pixel. It's like renting a semi-truck to deliver a letter. Lightpanda is built differently. Not a fork of Chromium, Blink, or WebKit. Written from scratch in Zig with one goal: headless performance, nothing else. It still runs JavaScript. Still handles Ajax, XHR, Fetch, SPAs, infinite scroll, all of it. Just without dragging along 500MB of browser bloat you'll never use. And it drops straight into your existing stack: → Compatible with Playwright, Puppeteer, and chromedp via CDP → One-line Docker install → CDP server on port 9222, swap it in for Chrome in 30 seconds The use cases are obvious: AI web agents, LLM training data scraping, browser automation at scale, testing pipelines. Anything where you're paying for Chrome compute and cringing at the bill. It's still in beta and Web API coverage is growing. But at 11.8K stars it's clearly hitting a real nerve. 100% Opensource. AGPL-3.0. Link in comments.

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

someone built a VS code extension that turns your claude code agents into pixel art characters working in a little office each agent gets its own character > typing when it's writing code > reading when it's searching files > speech bubble when it's waiting for you > sub-agents spawn in with matrix animations you can even customize the office lol this is the most unnecessary thing i've ever wanted to install immediately free AND open source too

Everything is Computer, but Computer isn't Everything!

BREAKING: New startup "RentAHuman" allows AI agents to rent humans to perform tasks they cannot physically perform themselves.

🚨 Governments pay millions for this kind of intelligence. Shadowbroker just put it in a GitHub repo for free. You're getting: → Every US Navy carrier strike group tracked via OSINT → Military aircraft separated from commercial in real-time → Spy satellites color-coded by mission (recon, SIGINT, early warning) → GPS jamming zones with live severity overlays → Ukraine frontline updates every 30 minutes → 25,000+ ships tracked via live WebSocket → 2,000+ CCTV feeds from NYC, London, Singapore Right-click any point on Earth and get a full intelligence dossier. The knowledge has always been public. Nobody bothered to aggregate it. Until now. 100% Opensource. Link in comments.

🚨 A developer built an AI engine that simulates thousands of people to predict the future. It's called MiroFish. You upload a news article, policy draft, or financial report and it spins up a full parallel digital world with thousands of AI agents that have independent personalities, long-term memory, and behavior logic. Then you watch society evolve and get a full prediction report. 100% Opensource. Link in comments.