Ihtesham Ali

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Ihtesham Ali

Ihtesham Ali

@ihteshamali

I write on technology and business. Helping you understand AI.

🇵🇰🇨🇳🇺🇸 Katılım Ekim 2025
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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
Blender is free. But creating a usable human character inside it can still consume hours of sculpting, rigging, and weight painting. MakeHuman removes most of that work. It is a free, open-source human generator that lets you build complete 3D characters using sliders. You can change the character’s: - Face - Age - Height - Weight - Muscles - Proportions - Skin - Hair - Clothing And every adjustment updates the body automatically. You can then choose a skeleton, apply a pose, and export the character into Blender as FBX, OBJ, or DAE. That gives you a ready-made starting point for animations, game characters, illustrations, films, and 3D scenes. No modeling every finger from scratch. No building an entire skeleton bone by bone. No repeating the same setup whenever you need a different character. The software costs nothing, and models created with its core assets can be used commercially. MakeHuman handles the repetitive work so you can spend more time creating the actual scene. github.com/makehumancommu…
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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
Bloomberg sells Wall Street a financial command center that costs $32,000 a year. So, a guy named Didier built a free alternative for ordinary investors like you and me. It is called OpenBB. Open it and you get a customizable financial workspace pulling market data, company fundamentals, filings, earnings transcripts, estimates, news, and economic indicators into one screen. > Stocks and ETFs > Options and futures > Forex and crypto > Financial statements > SEC filings > Global economic data Turn any dataset into interactive charts, tables, watchlists, and dashboards. Then ask its built-in AI Copilot to compare companies, explain price movements, summarize filings, or find patterns hidden inside the numbers. It reads the data already sitting on your dashboard and cites the exact sources behind its answers. You can also connect your own files, APIs, databases, research models, and custom AI agents. The underlying Open Data Platform is open source, has more than 70,000 GitHub stars, and installs with one command: pip install openbb The Community workspace is free for individual investors. Wall Street pays nearly $32,000 a year for a financial command center. OpenBB puts one in your browser.
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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
@PromptLLM I love the computer and I use it for: - market research - content marketing - making cool apps and websites - videos and media ( images & graphs ) Its so good.
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Prompter@PromptLLM·
wtf happened to perplexity? biggest fall from grace of a company ever
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Hasan Toor@hasantoxr·
Ant Ling just released Ling-3.0-flash, a hybrid-reasoning MoE model built for agents. 124B total parameters. Only 5.1B active per token. At roughly 1/8 the size and 1/12 the active params of their 1T flagship, it matches or beats it on most agentic and coding benchmarks. Here's everything you need to know:
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Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
A solo YouTuber named Chris Titus built the open source tool XDA called the best way to fix Windows 11. He gave it away for free. It is called WinUtil. Microsoft Windows 11 puts ads in your Start menu. It puts sponsored apps on a fresh install. It puts a Copilot button in Notepad, Photos, and the Snipping Tool. It runs Recall, which screenshots your screen every few seconds and stores everything in a searchable database. Users renamed the OS Microslop. Microsoft admitted the backlash in March 2026 and promised fewer upsells. Windows 11 Pro costs $199. Fiverr has 24 gigs for Windows optimization starting at $15. WinUtil does it in one PowerShell command for free. Microsoft ships the bloat. Fiverr sellers charge to remove it. WinUtil removes it for you. Here is how it works. You open PowerShell as admin. You paste one line. A window opens. You click checkboxes for the things you want gone. Disable telemetry. Disable Microsoft Copilot. Uninstall OneDrive. Remove Cortana. Disable Bing in Start menu. Remove Edge. Disable Recall. Tabs: Install, Tweaks, Config, Updates, MicroWin. Tools: winget for bulk app installs, MicroWin to build a custom stripped Windows 11 ISO, restore points before every change, presets from Minimal to Desktop. Works on Windows 10 and 11. Fully local. Zero cloud. Zero telemetry sent home. Chris Titus is a YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of subscribers on his Windows and Linux channel. He open sourced WinUtil in April 2022 under MIT. He wrote 733 of the commits himself. Version 26.07.22 shipped yesterday. 147 people have contributed. 58,777 stars on GitHub. 3,411 forks. 44 releases. Microsoft can't shut this down. The MIT license does not permit that. The Fiverr sellers can't shut this down. They do not employ any of its maintainers. Microsoft built a tool to advertise to you. Fiverr built a marketplace to charge you to turn it off. Chris Titus built a tool that turns it off for free. (Link in the comments)
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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
How to build your first app without paying for expensive developer tools: Go to FreeFor. dev It gives you free hosting, databases, APIs, authentication, storage, analytics, AI tools, testing, and security in one place. Choose what you need and see exactly what the free plan includes before signing up. If you are learning to code or building your first app, bookmark this website.
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Software companies give developers a free tier the way casinos give gamblers a free drink. So, a coder named R.I. Pienaar built a directory of free developer tools you can use to build an entire product without paying. It is called FREE-FOR-DEV. You open it, choose what your project needs, and it shows you which companies will provide it for free and exactly where the limits begin. → Cloud hosting → Databases → APIs → Authentication → Email delivery → File storage → Monitoring → Analytics → CI/CD → AI models → Security tools → Error tracking → Payment systems → Design resources → Testing platforms The list now covers more than 50 categories. And these are actual free tiers. A 14-day trial does not qualify. A service must remain free for at least a year if the offer is time-limited. Tools that place basic security like TLS behind a paid plan can also be rejected. Beside every service, you can see the allowance before signing up. How many requests you get. How much storage is included. How many users it supports. Which features require money. The project has collected 130,000 GitHub stars, more than 7,000 commits, and contributions from over 1,600 people. They keep adding new services and removing the ones that quietly kill their free plans. You could assemble the hosting, database, authentication, monitoring, email, analytics, and deployment stack for your next project without paying anything. It may be the only startup budget where every line ends in $0.

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Hasan Toor@hasantoxr·
I'm deleting every paid document extraction tool because of this. Zipstack built Unstract and it turns any PDF, scan, or image into clean structured JSON using LLMs you already pay for. You point it at a document (an invoice, a bank statement, a KYC form, a tax return, a claims form) and it automatically pulls the fields you asked for and hands back a JSON object ready to drop straight into your database. The difference from every other document extraction tool is the setup. Most tools want a model per vendor or regex per template. This works from a single natural language prompt that handles every variation. → Extracts structured JSON from PDFs, scans, and images → Lets you write extraction schemas in plain English through Prompt Studio → Deploys as a REST API or ETL pipeline in minutes → Ships an MCP server so Claude and other agents can extract documents directly → Connects to S3, GCS, Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, and every major destination → LLM-agnostic: bring OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama, or any provider you already use Basically: you have thousands of documents nobody has time to read. Unstract turns your documents into clean, structured JSON that you can run in production. This is what document extraction should have been all along.
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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
@cb_doge Love this. Make AI work for humans rather than use them to replace them. Great talk.
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DogeDesigner@cb_doge·
"I think what we can & should try to do is to make sure that the AI has good values, it cares about humanity & it wants us to prosper. Most important thing for AI safety is to be maximally truth-seeking & curious. If that's the case, I think it will foster humanity." — Elon Musk
The Economist@TheEconomist

Can AI’s bosses work together to control the technology’s risks? “If we have to talk, we’ll talk,” says @elonmusk. On the latest episode of The Insider, he tells @zannymb that the industry’s rivals can “set aside personal differences for the good of the world”. Tune in to the full interview from 6pm London time here: bit.ly/4fvUlxt

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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
@TheEinarkist The note is correct here. And I said for the small creators and genuinely the license is just worth it if you are monetized and want to grow and make amazing content.
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Ihtesham Ali@ihteshamali·
BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet. It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world. Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds. You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded. Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together. And the archive gets insanely specific. You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands. There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
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DogeDesigner@cb_doge·
Elon Musk in his new interview: "AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in about, in around five years. Roughly five years is my guess. There really won’t be anything that AI can’t do better than humans, apart from being human perhaps."
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Nav Toor@heynavtoor·
@ihteshamali very useful, putting this much data at one place
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AI Base@aibasehub·
@ihteshamali The average investor thinks “market data” means price charts. No. Market data means filings, fundamentals, earnings transcripts, estimates, macro indicators, options, news, and the boring numbers that explain why the chart moved.
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@ihteshamali This is incredible- thank you for sharing!!!
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