Florin Duroiu
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Florin Duroiu
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Free radical #nostr npub1h3w2ld0s49xerr27gwmvn0xp7rrjh6qnswqlpglad836haf4jxgscj0lff
Berlin, Germany Katılım Şubat 2009
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This guy lost $723 MILLION worth of Bitcoin in a single transaction
In August 2010, a BitcoinTalk user named Stone Man was running early Bitcoin software off a Linux boot CD that wiped itself every time the computer shut down
He sent 1 BTC to himself as a test but the wallet transferred the other 8,999 BTC out to a new address he didn't even know existed
His backup only saved the old wallet, with no record of the new address where the rest of his coins had just been moved
The second he rebooted, all 8,999 BTC were gone forever
He ran straight to BitcoinTalk begging for help and the whole community came back with the same answer, those coins are cooked
15 years later they're still sitting on chain at an address nobody has the keys to
That wallet is worth over $723 million today and hasn't moved a single satoshi since the day he fumbled it
In late 2025, a Reddit dev claimed he built a tool that could finally crack the wallet using raw GPU power
Those 8,999 Bitcoin are one cracked password away from making someone else $723 million richer overnight


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@Eng_china5 The above tweet cost more than $0.10, while Twitter cost tens of billions of dollars!
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@NirDiamantAI Peter Steinberger told me that he wants PR to be "prompt request". His agents are perfectly capable of implementing most ideas, so there is no need to take your idea, expand it into a vibe coded mess using free tier ChatGPT and send that as a PR, which is now most PRs.
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Paper below tested a variety of base LLMs (no TTA) on generalization-focus math problems and found that they can't reason and can't do math.
All true... but the fact that base LLMs have zero fluid intelligence, while extremely controversial back in 2024, is now well established. An interesting experiment here would have been to try current LRMs on the same problems and measure the delta. I bet latest LRMs can solve most of these problems.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.01988
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I built a new embedded search engine for browsers that can do both lexical search, vector search, and aggregations. The documentation site for this is powered by this. You can ask questions of the documentation, play with faceting, etc.
querylight.tryformation.com
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Geschwindigkeitsverlust am Ende der Geraden, teils Kurven nicht am Limit und kaum scharfes Anbremsen vor den Kurven, sondern Super Clipping oder/und Lift and Coast. Wie bewertet ihr das neue Reglement? #formel1 #f1 #gpaustralien

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Look Ma, No CAD... We fed datasheets to Gemini Deep Think and it spit out production-ready EAGLE .lbr files... paste mask segmentation and all. ESP32-P4, MAX44009, LT3652, ES8311.
It calculated every pad coordinate, segmented the paste mask to ~40% coverage so the chip doesn't float during reflow, and grouped schematic pins by function. No footprint editor. No GUI. XML out of a chat window. 📄➡️📦
blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/fro…
@GoogleDeepMind @autodesk #deepmind

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🤯 Wow! In one prompt Qwen3-Coder-Next generated a fully working flappy birds game in HTML.
(0:05) Claude Code with Qwen3-Coder-Next
(0:26) Shows the game running
Run it fully locally:
ollama pull qwen3-coder-next
Ollama's cloud if you can't run it locally:
ollama pull qwen3-coder-next:cloud
Try launching it with Claude Code using ollama launch
(link to play 🧵)
So cool! @Alibaba_Qwen @Ali_TongyiLab @JustinLin610
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🚨 Your brain is running on just 12 watts right now while processing this sentence. An AI system would need 2.7 billion watts to do the same thing.
That's not a typo. The human brain operates on roughly the same amount of power as a dim light bulb, yet it can recognize faces, solve complex problems, create art, and experience emotions simultaneously. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence systems require massive data centers consuming enough electricity to power entire cities just to simulate a fraction of what your brain does effortlessly.
Think about what your brain accomplished just reading this far. It decoded symbols into meaning, connected new information to existing memories, probably triggered some emotional responses, and maybe even started forming opinions about AI energy consumption. All while maintaining your heartbeat, breathing, and thousands of other bodily functions. Total power consumption: 12 watts.
The most advanced AI systems need server farms filled with thousands of high-powered processors, industrial cooling systems, and backup power supplies. They consume roughly 225 million times more energy than your brain to perform similar cognitive tasks. It's like comparing a bicycle to a freight train in terms of efficiency.
This incredible disparity reveals just how remarkably evolution has optimized biological intelligence. Millions of years of natural selection created a thinking machine so efficient it makes our most advanced technology look primitive and wasteful by comparison.
Your smartphone uses more power than your brain while being infinitely less capable. Every thought you're having right now represents the pinnacle of energy-efficient computing, wrapped in three pounds of biological tissue that somehow generates consciousness, creativity, and dreams.
Nature got there first, and we're still trying to catch up.

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Launching truestories.club, a private self-publishing platform for friends and family. Your audience can read your story online or on their eReaders. The platform offers a state of the art manuscript editor, an elegant book creator and an eBook distribution service.
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