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@JohnTRhoads

Chaos enjoys a glass of milk

Typo Factory, CA Katılım Haziran 2010
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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
xkcd.com/1732/ A short, valuable comic on world temperatures Warning: not funny
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Movez
Movez@0xMovez·
This weather bot turned $300 → $122K on Polymarket weather markets in 3 months I fully decoded algo and built a self-learning Hermes weather trading agent using weather APIs + Opus 4.7, the bot runs 5-min scans & searches mispricings on Polymarket run your agent in 5 steps: • set up a VPS server on Hetzner - $6 • create a weather API on {visualcrossing} - free • set up Hermes agent using one-liner code - free • connect Telegram bot + Opus 4.7 • send {weather trading logic} from article to agent started my agent 2 days ago with a test sum and already having 40% profit agent already caught 2 traders with +400% ROI on Seoul & Chicago weather markets bot used for logic: @coldmath?via=following" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">polymarket.com/@coldmath?via=… my bot test wallet: @hermesweather?via=following" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">polymarket.com/@hermesweather… Hermes bot is a self-learning agent so give him enought trades {100+}, to build his own logic. start small
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Atticus
Atticus@solvingdilemma·
@heynavtoor Open source replacing bloated SaaS is the fun part. The harder moat is reliable execution, approvals, and account safety once agents start doing the work inside the product.
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Nav Toor
Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
Buffer charges $6 per channel per month. Hootsuite charges $199 per month. Hypefury charges $29 per month. Sprout Social charges $249 per month. There's an open-source tool that replaces the entire social media scheduling stack. It's called Postiz. Not a basic scheduler. A full AI-powered social media command center that handles scheduling, content creation, analytics, and automation across 25+ platforms. From one dashboard. Here's what it does: → Schedule posts to X, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, Mastodon, Discord, Slack, Dribbble, Telegram, and more → AI generates your post content and creates images — Canva-like design editor built in → Full analytics dashboard — track what's working across every platform → Team collaboration — invite members, comment, review, approve before posting → Auto-post, auto-like, auto-comment when you hit engagement milestones → Full public API — automate everything with n8n, Make. com, or Zapier → Self-host it on your own server — zero monthly fees forever Here's the wildest part: The self-hosted version has every single feature the paid hosted version has. No feature gating. No premium tier lockout. No "upgrade to unlock analytics." Everything is included. Buffer: $6/month per channel. 5 channels = $30/month = $360/year. Hootsuite: $199/month = $2,388/year. Sprout Social: $249/month = $2,988/year. Postiz: $0. Self-hosted. Unlimited channels. Unlimited posts. Unlimited team members. Forever. #1 Product of the Day, Week, and Month on Product Hunt. Millions of Docker downloads. 28,000+ stars on GitHub. 5,000+ forks. AGPL-3.0 Licensed. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
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Daniel Vassallo
Daniel Vassallo@dvassallo·
I've been in the process of building a custom home for 5 years. Bought the land in 2021. Got the building permit this year. Haven't started construction yet. During those 5 years, I accumulated thousands of emails with dozens of architects, engineers, surveyors, contractors, government agencies, title companies, and others. Hundreds of PDFs I opened once and never found again. My project management system was email search and my own memory. I could always find individual emails when I needed them. What I couldn't do was see the project. How much money have we actually spent, and on what? Who are all the contractors we talked to, and how did we find each one? What happened with the easement, not one email about it, but the full arc across three years? Why did we stop using the original surveyor? The answers were all in my inbox. But they were spread across hundreds of threads. No single email contained the story. The story only existed in the connections between them. So I tried something. I pointed OpenClaw at my full email inbox and said: read all my emails in chronological order and figure out what happened with this project over the last 5 years. Build me a timeline. Find all the documents. Track the money. Map the people. That's it. I didn't sort anything. I didn't classify anything. I didn't tell it which threads mattered. I just pointed at the inbox and let it work. And it worked way better than I expected. It found 1,850 emails across 450 threads involving 58 people at 35 organizations. From that, it produced 511 timeline events describing what actually happened over 5 years. Not "Daniel emailed the architect" but "Easement delay threatens grading permit" or "architect warns the entire permit depends on securing the neighbor's access agreement." Real project history in PM language. It identified 690 documents and classified each one: invoice, permit, survey map, legal agreement, environmental report, estimate, and so on, and it linked them to the timeline events that referenced them. It extracted 170 finance records from email bodies and PDF attachments. Invoices, payments, estimates, and receipts with amounts, dates, and payees pulled from messy documents. It mapped out 58 contacts with their roles, their organizations, and how they related to the project over time. All interlinked. Click a timeline event, see the emails that produced it and the documents attached. Click a payment, trace it back to the invoice and the email thread. Click a person, see every event they were involved in. It built a dashboard on top of it and for the first time in 5 years, I could actually see the whole project. The full arc. Every dollar. Every person. Every decision. Stitched together from raw correspondence into something I can sit down and browse. The key insight for me was realizing this is basically an ETL process: Extract, Transform, and Load. The emails are the source data. The agent does the extraction from emails and loading into a database. But the really powerful part is the Transform: the LLM reads the raw correspondence with enough context to do intelligent enrichment across hundreds of threads spanning months and years. And by enrichment I don't mean summarization. I mean it actually reconstructed the narrative of the project. It traced how we almost hired the wrong well driller. We originally hired one company, paid a deposit, and were ready to go. Then the architect heard from someone in his network that they weren't reliable. We pivoted to a different driller who came recommended through a chain of referrals the agent traced back to its origin. The new company came out, drilled 140 feet, hit an artesian well with water pressure above ground level, and finished in two weeks. The original deposit got refunded. The agent reconstructed that entire sequence from first contact to final invoice, across dozens of emails and multiple contractors, and presented it as one coherent story. It reconstructed the full permit saga. Four separate permits with the county, each with its own cycle of applications, reviews, correction letters, resubmissions, and approvals. Years of back and forth. The agent built the complete timeline for each permit and linked every document and payment to the right stage. It tracked the money flow end to end. Not just "we paid the architect X." It found every invoice, matched them to the work described in the email threads, categorized the spending, and produced a financial history of the entire project broken down by architect, engineer, surveyor, contractor, county fees, and everything else. It mapped out relationships between people that I had half-forgotten. Which engineer referred which surveyor. Which contractor's crew member later became a separate vendor. Which county reviewer handled which permit. All of it was in the email, I just never had the time to stitch it together myself. One of the most fun things it did was writing honest personality profiles for each contact based purely on their communication style. How responsive they are. How they handle pushback. Whether they tend to over-promise. Whether they're the kind of person who answers at 11pm or takes five days to reply. Reading an AI's unfiltered take on the people you've been doing business with for years, based on nothing but their emails, is surprisingly entertaining and uncomfortably accurate. The thing that surprised me most is how much structure was already hiding in the email. I didn't add information. The agent found what was already there. The timeline, the document graph, the money flows, the cast of characters. It was all latent in the correspondence. Five years of decisions and negotiations and payments, all recorded in email, just never connected. I think a lot of people are sitting on projects like this without realizing it. Your renovation emails are a project database waiting to be assembled. Your legal correspondence is a case file. Your immigration threads are an application history. The raw material has been accumulating for months or years. It's rich, timestamped, and complete. It's just in a format designed for messaging, not for understanding. Point an agent at it. Let it read everything. Let it do the transform. The whole story was in my inbox the entire time. I just needed something that could read all of it at once.
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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@jnnnthnn Have you tried making an AI KEYBOARD
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Jonathan Unikowski
Jonathan Unikowski@jnnnthnn·
We've raised $8.4m to make software that sharpens your attention. We're starting with an email app that lets you handle your Gmail inbox in seconds. We call it Avec. It's available now!
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Aaron Tan
Aaron Tan@aaronistan·
Introducing Lume. A lamp that does your chores. Order now. Shipping this summer.
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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@credistick @bgurley did you listen to the interview on the Stripe podcast? I became wholly interesting in being Kalshi short
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Dan Gray
Dan Gray@credistick·
I'm suddenly reminded of @bgurley's quote about people in SF being a 3/10 on financial literacy. Using a probability-priced binary instrument is essentially asking CFOs to gamble with your payroll; the only way it makes sense is if you beat the market. Just buy OTC inflation swaps, where you pay a fixed rate (set at current market breakeven inflation) for floating payments tied to actual CPI. Enough with the casino culture nonsense, please.
Kalshi Research@KalshiResearch

Kalshi founder on institutional adoption: "Block trades are already live on the platform...Right now a trade that we're seeing a lot is in the $20-30 million range for payroll hedging"

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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@collision Wait till your wife gets cancer and you have to try to get the records to put her in a clinical trial... We run a local wiki/drive for this now. Thank you LLMs.
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John Collison
John Collison@collision·
Basically the experience of interacting with US healthcare specialists. Your results are on MyChart. We'll message you on Spruce. Just log into MyPatientPortal. It's right there on FollowMyHealth. Just create an account on myEHR.
Aaron 🦇@aaronfraggle

It's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now.

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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@bryan_johnson Question - the anti-seed oil community often prefers avo and coconut oils. What does this mean for coconut oil and avocado oil fried food? Do you avoid all high temp low humidity cooking?
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Bryan Johnson
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson·
Daily Mail misinterpreted scientific evidence and doctors piled on, spreading misinformation and making you sound dumb if repeated. 🧵
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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@pmarca Big miss on this one
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
"Fuck You Money" is mainly a myth. First, if you're in business, you pick up more responsibilities along with more money, you're responsible for more people, your actions have more consequences for others. Second, political power >> financial power every day of the week.
Zarathustra@zarathustra5150

A surprising lesson of the last decade was how little “Fuck You money” seems to exist. It was breathtaking to watch billionaires—especially in Silicon Valley—genuflect in slavish subservience to the woke crusaders, and enthusiastically provide a vigorous fellatio for a decade.

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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@dgumpright @shareavail Hey Dan - considering renting out my car with Avail. Do you think it is worth it? Any advice/cautions?
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Dan
Dan@dan_uk_85·
@shareavail Can you just respond to my email and pay me what I’m owed please??
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Brett David Stewart
Brett David Stewart@iambrettstewart·
@shareavail Are you going to respond to my email? I have emailed Avail multiple times regarding incorrect charges. I can't get any response. I'm not sure what else to do besides throw it out to Twitter, too.
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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@esltrevino @shareavail Hey Eric - considering renting out my car with Avail. Do you think it is worth it? Any advice/cautions?
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Erik Torenberg
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg·
The average ambitious person spends too much time accumulating optionality & too little time taking actual risk. They compete insanely hard to accumulate options for the future, instead of figuring out what they really want to do & doing that instead. twitter.com/eriktorenberg/…
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg

We’re obsessed w/ optionality: “I don't know what I'm gonna do w/ my life so I’m gonna get a degree” “I don’t know what to do w/ this degree so I'm gonna get a grad degree” “I don't know what to do w/ grad degree so I’m gonna get consulting job to figure out what job I want.”

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Erik Torenberg
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg·
Labels effectively "acquihire" artists for ~$1m. Surprisingly, if you offer them e.g $200K at $2m valuation, they'll reject b/c they value upfront $ more than equity. So that's why you can't disrupt labels, you need to disrupt how artists think about ownership. h/t @__aston__
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Rhoads
Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@eriktorenberg especially if candidate supplied the reference
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Rhoads@JohnTRhoads·
@eriktorenberg if you aren't sure... it is a negative reference
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Erik Torenberg
Erik Torenberg@eriktorenberg·
When reference checking, what's the best way to ascertain whether it's a negative reference when the reference giver doesn't want to explicitly be negative? e.g. tell reference giver it's a cross check & ask them how you can make sure the candidate is successful when they join.
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