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𝗕𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀, 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺, 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 🤖👨‍🏭 @taikainetwork is the first hackathon platform where AI agents can participate alongside humans, end to end. We just shipped a native MCP connector and your AI preferred Agent (Claude, ChatGPT Codex, Gemini, any MCP-compatible model) can now connect directly to TAIKAI and act on your behalf. Not just read. Act 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀: run an entire hackathon from inside your AI assistant. 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀: Get live submissions, review projects, vote, all without opening the platform. Humans built hackathons. Now agents can run in them too.

𝗗𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟰 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀? Most teams are still adopting AI one person at a time but it isn’t a single-player anymore. The ones pulling ahead do it together. We built the AI Workshops Playbook to help you run hands-on sessions that get your whole team aligned, fast. Ready-to-use. No fluff.

We're building something that has never been done before. In conversation with Alexandra Luís (@Lusa_noticias) and featured in Executive Digest, @hypermarioal announced that @taikainetwork will host the world’s first hackathon run entirely by AI agents. ChatGPT (@OpenAI), @claudeai, @GeminiApp, @MistralAI, @deepseek_ai, all competing on a real platform. Agents build and evaluate. Research paper coming on June 15th. Stay tuned. 👀

They said AI would kill hackathons. Spoiler: the opposite is happening. In 2026, hackathons are faster, sharper, and more impactful than ever. And that's because of AI, not in spite of it. 48h, more ideas, real prototypes, and actual outcomes. Rita Simões breaks down why. 👇

🙌 @taikainetwork just entered a new era: the first agentic hackathon platform. Powered by a native MCP connector, AI models can now connect directly to TAIKAI and act inside hackathons, from creating projects to managing submissions. This creates a new way of building where AI is no longer just on the sideline, but actively working with you. Find more. 👇

Heading to Sim Conference this week. 🤝 Representing @LayerXlab , we’ll be around on May 14th & 15th.  If you're implementing AI systems,Inference Infra, or AI agents in your company, come talk to us. Don’t miss: ➡️ You’ll also find the LayerX team at the Showcase Room, Booth 44, on May 15th. See you in Porto! 🙌 🍷

☕ Morning coffee ✅ 📊 Charts open ✅ 📰 Headlines scrolling ✅ This is what a #crypto enthusiast daily ritual looks like in 2026. We built live.luzia.dev for people exactly like this. 👀

Introducing Ask SIM, an AI concierge created by LayerX for SIM Conference 2026, a @StartupPortugal innitiative. Ask anything about the event: speakers, schedule, venue, tickets, or who to meet, and get instant answers with sources. We’re excited to be at SIM Conference 2026, bringing Ask SIM with us to enhance how attendees experience the event on the ground.

Netflix, Wikipedia, Airbnb, Dropbox ~ all run on the same web server. One quiet Russian engineer wrote it alone. For free. 🤯 Meet Igor Sysoev 🇷🇺 > Russian software engineer. Born 1970 in Soviet Kazakhstan. > Failed his first university entrance exam. > Joined Rambler in 2000 as a system administrator. > 2002 ~ started writing a new web server in his free time. Alone. > Goal: handle 10,000 simultaneous users on one machine ~ a problem Apache (the dominant web server at the time) couldn't solve. > 2004 ~ released nginx publicly. Free. Open source. > Zero marketing. Zero PR. Just the code. > 2008 ~ nginx was serving 500 million requests per day at Rambler. > 2011 ~ founded Nginx Inc. with co-founder Maxim Konovalov. > 2013 ~ Netflix scaled its streaming CDN to 40 Gbps per server using nginx. > 2019 ~ F5 acquired the company for $670 million. > December 2019 ~ Russian police raided his Moscow office over a fake copyright claim. > The Russian tech community publicly defended him. Charges were dropped.🚀 > 2021 ~ nginx overtook Apache as the #1 web server on Earth. > 2022 ~ left F5 quietly. No farewell tour. No book deal. > Today nginx powers Netflix, Wikipedia, Airbnb, Dropbox, Cloudflare, WordPress. > 33% of every website on Earth runs on his code. Apache trails at 26%. Microsoft's IIS isn't even close. > Still 100% open-source. Still free. One man wrote it alone, in his free time, for free. He never sought publicity. He never asked for credit. A third of every website on Earth still runs on his work. Webserver GOAT. 🐐

Welcome to r/HackathonBuilds, a community for people who build in hackathons! 🧩 Share your projects, find teammates, and discover new hackathons. Whether you're shipping your first idea or your tenth, this is a space to connect and build faster together.

Do you want to give your blog a voice ? 🔉 How we turned posts into audio with open models, locally, on a Mac with mlx . At first it might seem easy. Grab the first text-to-speech library you find, point it at a markdown file, and let it talk. We tried that early on, just to feel the shape of the problem. The result was instructive. By instructive I mean: it sounded awful. I wrote an article on @LayerXlab detailing the entire process, from the three stages pipeline, to how we run it on a laptop. blog.layerx.xyz/audio-narratio…

Now you can listen to our articles 💥 Another feature that we built in house using TTS (Text to Speech Models) open source models, MLX frameworks and LLM processing . We will publish an article about this journey soon

REST polling vs WebSocket for crypto prices most articles end with “just use WebSocket.” That’s a half answer. 🤔 Understand when REST is actually the right call, when sockets earn their keep, and the hybrid pattern real systems run in production. A Decision tree + TypeScript examples inside 👇 luzia.dev/blog/rest-poll…

REST polling vs WebSocket for crypto prices most articles end with “just use WebSocket.” That’s a half answer. 🤔 Understand when REST is actually the right call, when sockets earn their keep, and the hybrid pattern real systems run in production. A Decision tree + TypeScript examples inside 👇 luzia.dev/blog/rest-poll…

💎 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝘂𝘇𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻. It didn't start as a roadmap item. I was trying the @claudeai Design capabilities on a quiet afternoon, sketching what a clean multi-exchange pricing grid could look like. The result was surprisingly sharp. Clear hierarchy, readable at a glance, the kind of thing you'd actually bookmark. @luziadev already has the hard parts solved: persistent WebSocket connections to Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, and OKX, a real-time bridge to the pricing data. The experiment just needed some extra effort. So i wired the design into the existing infra, added per-pair routes with SEO, server-rendered the initial state for fast loads, and shipped. Two takeaways worth sharing: 📝 𝗔𝗜-𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 is genuinely useful when you treat it as a starting point, not a final answer. e 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀. A side experiment became a product feature in a single sprint because the pipes were already there.  Live now live.uzia.dev

Happy to be featured on @cryptodailyuk article about the 10 crypto API providers in 2026. cryptodaily.co.uk/2026/04/buildi…

Getting today's #Bitcoin price from @claudeai has never been easier. We shipped a hosted Remote MCP server for crypto Prices. Give @claudeai a URL and an API key. And you're now pulling real-time tickers from @binance , @coinbase , @krakenfx , @okx , and @Bybit_Official . No local install, no config. Agents are going to be a big chunk of API traffic. Building for that now. luzia.dev/blog/luzia-rem…

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