@GregorySchier @0xblacklight I’m still not convinced - if Bun.image isn’t referenced I don’t think it gets included in the build.
Is there a link/chatgpt query you can point me to that argues otherwise?
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previously @whatsapp, and @instagram. interested in the changing world and trying to do things that are hard
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@hellosvapnil @0xblacklight I don't think compiling bun apps actually recompile bun though. And they probably can't know for sure if you're using the image API, since you don't have to import anything and js is so dynamic
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i mean this is cool but it feels like this should be a separate module or extension?
i don't want every server app I ever build having ~ ffmpeg bundled into it for no reason
Bun@bunjavascript
In the next version of Bun `Bun.Image` - fast builtin multi-format image processing library
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@GregorySchier @0xblacklight Bun apps compile to binary, and I’m pretty sure bun.image, if not imported and used, wouldn’t make it into the final bundle.
Would love to be proven wrong if you have any source that says otherwise
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@NorthflankWill I think there’s probably some things, like SSO / SIEM, access controls, that you can buy from other Rippling products that works well with this
It’s probably not everything, but it’s probably a good chunk
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"unbelievably fast" because it's unbelievable
I didn't know Rippling was a bastion for cluster observability, container scanning, secure runtime, disaster recovery for production databases, rollbacks, approvals for EC2 access or fully understood pre-prod and production environments.
This only covers half of the entire process (at most), and that's generous. Seems odd to launch this in this climate.
Parker Conrad@parkerconrad
Rippling is the *legitimate* way to spend less time on your SOC 2. Every other SOC 2 product is purely a detection system — a reporting layer bolted on top of tools it doesn't control. Rippling *is* those tools. That’s how we’re able to get SOC 2 done unbelievably fast.
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We're starting an agent harness company. We're pivoting into an open source IDE for coding agents. It's a context engine for your internal brain. We're exploring the idea of an always-on assistant. We're building a filesystem for agents
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@AsterZephyrIsis If scholar of urban displacement = reads boomer twitter all day then okay good job lmao
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@hellosvapnil I am a sf native *and* a scholar of urban displacement, so I doubt it!
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love when the people who are actively destroying San Francisco through tech are like, "I went somewhere else and it was so great! SF is a tech bubble!"
Parv@ParvSondhi
NYC observations after spending last week there • people are actually outside touching grass (or cement 😅) • very few AI ads or billboards around • even cafes i went to - very few screens with claude code or cursor or some coding tool • people are way more open to socializing. everyone is willing to strike up a conversation (not about AI agents) • the energy is electric - everyone’s moving with purpose. • found a way to talk to folks without mentioning AI • way more artists, and non traditional creators. Met an actual physical product designer which was cool. it’s genuinely refreshing to remember there’s a whole world outside the feed been traveling the last few days and the SF tech bubble makes it easy to forget how alive real cities feel. sorry SF, you’re still home… but perspective is healthy 🤷♂️
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Love telling people that I live a block away from Union Pool with no additional details
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times photo editors deserve a raise
Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer
NEW: Sergey Brin, his "MAGA Girlfriend" and a $57 million bid to kill the California billionaires tax. The inside story of how a Google cofounder and a gut-health influencer ghosted Matt Mahan and confronted Gavin Newsom — even if Newsom is "handsome." nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…
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Constantinople, the last of the Roman Empire, fell in 1453.
Just over 100 years later, the first cafes (for coffee) opened up in Istanbul in 1554.
100 years after that, the first cafes start opening up in Europe
200 years between the Roman Empire and the first Parisian cafe!
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@cosmos_raj This goes really hard if you set your thinking effort to low
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Built as a European suburb?
It’s denser than Berlin or London.
Eric Krehbiel@ericgkrehbiel
@cosmos_raj the "city" is as built up as a european suburb
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living in SF means going to a party and leaving with more LinkedIn connections than girls numbers
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@808sNbackbreak @aayeinbaigan Recent banger
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson
"SF...is paradoxically conservative. People want it to remain just as it is...Even Haight-Ashbury, the epicentre of the hippie culture, adopted strict new zoning rules in the 1970s, one result of which is that its black population fell from 40% to only 5%" edwest.co.uk/p/the-city-of-…
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@aayeinbaigan @hellosvapnil What has been going on the last 10-15 years is corrupt neo libs. There is one socialist on city council and she is the one getting the most housing built.
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San Francisco is ironically one of the most hyper conservative places in the country. Lots of company building but very very little long term plans to build a sustainable, important, equitable city
Keval Desai@kevaldesai
Today in SF, a smart articulate young person knocked on our door canvassing for Saikat = she said if I wasn't into that then I should consider Connie Chan = we had a very nice chat where I explained if I wanted socialism, I'd have stayed in India + the damage to SF last decade...
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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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passive observation that once you’ve outsourced state capacity to corporations such as this one it’s bound to be that they come with other aspects of quasi-statehood like internal politics, ideology, internal judiciary
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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