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@pxlboy LLMs definitely provide a cheat code for creating metal shaders without understanding the fundamentals of frag vs vert, and the math behind it But the goal is output not who can know it all

great example of a different way to leverage LLMs in the software development process. keep coming back to this idea for myself of using it to prototype and move quickly, but then re-write it myself once it’s a more crystallized idea

@jordan_nebula What do I do after getting 5 curated listings? I still have to manually contact them?

so my nyc rent got raised again and i'm done scrolling through 200 listings manually 😐 i just built AIpartment it scores every listing for me based on price, space, commute, amenities, so i only look at the ones actually worth my time 👀 link below if u wanna try it for free

@tylerangert @soleio Lets gooo

we're working on a new photo search engine called Angles. it's focused on doing one thing well: finding photos + videos by visual similarity. here is raw, unedited footage of me going through my 80,000 photo camera roll *in realtime* with text-to-image search, image-to-image search, "find similar" inside of a photo, and "live search" with the camera. all done with local models and completely private. auto-growing albums coming soon :-) Angles has been exceptionally useful for my friends who do creative work. when words fail to describe what you are looking for, you can simply tap on any asset and instantly see everything else like it across your entire library. we're in early beta - if you want access please send a DM to @patinasystems with your testflight email! i have spots available for another 50 people

@tyler_agg How large is your ads swipe file?

I just used Gemini's new multimodal embedding model to build a searchable ads swipe file what makes Gemini's new embedding model unique is that it can process text, photos, videos, audio enabling similarity search across all media types which means it is extremely easy to build a searchable swipe file in under 5 mins (as before you couldn't search across images or videos with embeddings) and this concept applies to ANYONE that has any type of multimedia database I built this in under 5 minutes and if you want to see how check out the full video below

@maxnc Good one - check out Wagner symphony no 9 as well

Today marks FIVE YEARS since I started this spreadsheet cataloging the songs stuck in my head when I wake up in the morning. It's the closest thing to a journal I've ever had -

@youwillmakemaps What’s your use case for overlaying historical maps on top of CARTO maps

LLMs let anyone, meaning you, create interactive maps for precise micro-purposes That’s wonderful

it's funny because as much as we think in the tech world that gaussian splatting and walking around a 3d home is the future for real estate the actual behavorial execution is entirely different - people want to be sold homes through tiktok influencers doing home tours a 1 min edited video will outsell this gaussian splat look at the data

スマホで家の中をただ歩きながら撮影するだけで、リアルに歩き回れるバーチャル内覧が作れるAIツールが登場しました。不動産業者の人は必見です。 しかも100%無料 + オープンソース。 最新アップデートで「実際に家の中を歩ける」ようになりました。 仕組みを解説します👇

@Vinny_Daniel0 deck.gl is and threejs are tooo powerful

As a consolation to AI taking everyone's jobs, I now have a vibe-coded app that shows me what bar patios and restaurants are getting the best sunlight in NYC on a Saturday evening.

@notolegv @andrewchen How are you planning on getting over the trust barrier with users connecting financial institutions?

@andrewchen fliptexts.com

Who’s working on this idea: Openclaw for personal finance - integrates w all your banks/cards/etc - understands tax returns and filings - monitors portfolio and competitors - digests proprietary data sources (credit card panels, app rankings, and etc) - reads company news and X Etc etc

@bitforth How does this compare with @puzzlefin ?

At my startup I've taken over as COO and handling CFO duties, so naturally, FY25 taxes fall on me. As a tech startup, we run our stack on startup-friendly tools with API Access for banking, payments, and payroll. So I sat down with Claude and fed it - Mercury transaction exports (checking + credit card) - Stripe gross charge reports - payroll data. It merged separate bank exports, deduplicated transactions, flagged failed charges, identified misclassified expenses, separated founder draws from operating costs, reconciled Stripe fees that were netted from payouts vs. debited separately, and produced a comprehensive, professional-grade P&L report for FY2025 with monthly breakdowns, vendor-level software spend detail, payroll tax decomposition, capital account tracking per founder, and notes to the financial statements. Then it traced every dollar each founder received through payroll and distributions, identified a small imbalance between partners, and when I gave it 2026 draw activity, it recalculated the running ledger and told me exactly how much of a catch-up distribution is needed to get us back to even footing. The whole thing took about 45 minutes. @colin_thornton and I had a 30-minute call to go over everything. It all checks out. I don't feel confident enough yet to let it file without a CPA reviewing, but the numbers were precise, the recommendations were actually relevant, and it caught things I would've missed (like Stripe fees being understated). Ridiculous to me that people are still saying AI "isn't quite there yet"

@ChandanLodha agreed, having financial sovereignty outside of the country sovereign is key The tradeoff here is that the insurance policy of FDIC / banking regulation and OPSEC needs to nailed down on the user side Multisigs such as squads are absolutely necessary

Most Americans think bitcoin is a casino chip. One of my friends used it to escape a war. When Russia invaded Ukraine, his life collapsed in 72 hours. His bank account was frozen and capital controls kicked in overnight. No international wires allowed. No Wise. No way to move money through any normal channel. And there was a second clock ticking. Draft notices were going out: men his age were being conscripted on the spot. The window to leave was shrinking by the hour. He had savings, he just couldn't touch them. So he met a stranger in a back alley, handed over Rubles in cash, and bought bitcoin on his phone. That transaction became his entire financial life. Savings, exit ticket, and proof he'd have something on the other side of whatever border he could cross. He left the country carrying nothing a customs officer could seize and everything he needed to start over. I remember him telling me this story over coffee, as if it were the most normal thing in the world. I kept waiting for him to acknowledge how insane it sounded. He never did. For him, it wasn't a crypto thesis. It was Tuesday. That conversation triggered something in my brain. I'd spent years thinking about crypto through the lens of markets, speculation, and regulation. He wasn't thinking about any of that. He needed money that kept working when everything else stopped. That's it. If you have a stable bank, property rights, and a functioning legal system, you probably don't think about this stuff. I didn't. But many people don't have those things. And for them, "digital money that no single government controls" can be a lifeline. My friend is safe now. Rebuilding in a new country, with savings intact, because of a transaction in an alley that took less than thirty minutes. He's the reason I can't look at bitcoin the same way.

@immad thank you - excited to try it

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@xleaps @andrewchen how did you solve the SSN problem? Just pure local inference? Does QWEN3 downloaded in LM studio suffice?

@andrewchen Agreed, and the financial stakes here may reward parties willing to take responsibilities on quality -- beyond the mere capability.

@itsdpark Great work!!

Took the time to open source all my Origami prototypes. I hope this helps you with your journey in craft and interactions! origamiarchive.com

@ResearchSfl I think US foundational model companies roughly parallel too

@capitalizedtime Their valuations are insanely high! wait and watch?

5 of the most interesting graphs of the Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company/ Zhipu/ Z.ai PHIP equivalent to the Hong Kong SEC S-1 filing For context: Minimax and Knowledge Atlas Technology/Zhipu/z.ai, will both go public this week on the HK exchange on January 9 and January 8 respectively from @theinformation, in the first half of this year, Zhipu had a net loss of $334 million on $27 million in revenue. let's dive in on the best charts from the six little dragons of hangzhou

@afrazhaowang 你认识组织人吗？

this is so cool: a chinese-language conference in chiang mai on “the shrinking cypherpunk spirit and the illusion of super-individuals” in the age of rupture and AI, curated, organized, and funded by diaspora chinese cypherpunks, digital media scholars, crypto technologists. wow. i really wish i could be there.

@ednewtonrex there’s also full LinkedIn data sets on the grey market too

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. They are charging $200,000 (payable via crypto, of course). You get high-speed access to the full collection. This includes more than 60 million books. (This is also the group that recently stole Spotify's entire music catalog, so expect this to be available to high rollers too.) This is the collection Nvidia is accused of accessing for training. Training on pirated works is rife in the AI industry. It's been embraced by some of the biggest AI companies in their greed-fuelled race to win the AI market. When they claim what they're doing is somehow fair, remember that not only is it theft (which is bad enough) - it supports further theft by funding pirates. We desperately need a hard reset in the AI industry. It must turn away from theft, and start paying the people whose work it relies on.

@shashpicious_ Wow thank you for sharing this~ What are your main themes from design in east v west?

If your UI inspo starts and ends at Mobbin, you’re living in a small bubble 🫠 Here are some country-specific Mobbin (not really Mobbin, but you get it): 🇯🇵 Japan → ui-pocket.com 🇨🇳 China → uinotes.com 🇰🇷 Korea → wwit.design Found these while designing a China-first app … completely different design brains at work.

see all the filings here www1.hkexnews.hk/app/appindex.h… minimax: www1.hkexnews.hk/app/sehk/2025/… zhipu: www1.hkexnews.hk/app/sehk/2025/…

5/ GLM-Z1 (reflection) and GLM-Z1-Rumination (rumination) are the equivalent of their o3 and thinking models thank god for the webster thesaurus