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@theroberthu @samuel_spitz Let’s not kid ourselves that these are people playing the same game for the same reasons. There are winners and losers.

@samuel_spitz when did proximity to a generational wealth event start feeling like a personal failure

Everyone I know in SF who’s not at OpenAI/Anthropic is freaking out about how their friends are about to make $5-50M with these IPOs

@Elon_Orbit @TeksEdge @intel .. because NVIDIA prints data center money with no end in sight. Giving competitive local options is against their interests.

@TeksEdge @intel Wonder why NVIDIA left this gap open. 32GB under $1k could pull serious local inference workloads away from their ecosystem.

🚨 Exciting Local Inferencing News! @intel just dropped the Arc Pro B70 a serious new opportunity for local AI inference! 🔥💥 💰 Price: $949 📆 Available: Starting today (March 25, 2026) Key Specs: 32GB GDDR6 VRAM 📦 (608 GB/s bandwidth ⚡) 32 Xe2 cores + 256 XMX engines 🧠 Up to 367 peak TOPS 🚀 TDP: 160–290W (Intel version ~230W) ⚡ Intel claims massive gains 📏 2.2x larger context windows ⚡ 85% higher token throughput 🏎️ 6.2x faster Time-to-First-Token 💵 Better token-per-dollar vs RTX Pro 4000 Equivalent to? 🧩 Strong competitor to the NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada / Blackwell (32GB class) for local LLM inference — especially on Linux setups Excellent value under $1k for AI/agent workloads 👀 Worth it over used 3090s? Or still sticking with NVIDIA? Drop your thoughts below 👇

@ptrschmdtnlsn so the point of tariffs are to encourage domestic PCB manufacturing but price isn't competitive anyway.. so tariffs are just an extra tax.

I asked a major US PCB shop for a quote, and now 17 days later(!) they finally got back to me. They want $2700/board, where JLCPCB will do about $90/board in qty 5 in half the lead time, and an instant online quote. We must improve our manufacturing, as a country.

@lutefiskguy @_baldtires That’s what I made for myself. Stainless steel sheet metal with 3D printed middle section.

@_baldtires Split mechanical keyboard.

any cool desktop gizmos/devices you've always wanted made out of metal instead of plastic?

@KSimback @kashishshah lol it’s either a bot or lying. The model works perfectly fine for coding.

@kashishshah That’s huge, 180 t/s is massively functional for most use cases

The math is mathing even more now! Seeing many positive reports of running Qwen 35B-A3B locally on modest consumer hardware No need for a $10k+ Mac Studio So you get a Sonnet 4.5 grade model that can run privately at home, then you can chat with it on your phone via Tailscale

@mortgagetruth @jack @blocks We incentivize short term thinking. One quarter ahead is my problem. 5 years ahead is someone else’s problem.

@jack @blocks Doesn't this eventually come full circle? If we are building systems to replace humans, there will be fewer customers for your business as well. So strong growth today, sure, but what will fuel strong growth tomorrow if more people are unemployed?

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@GeonnCannon @heartstopperacd @CBThorburn Yeah it’s literally the first scene. 🤷‍♂️

@heartstopperacd @CBThorburn It's literally, like, one of the first scenes.

If I can bitch for a second, American Fiction, a film nominated for 5 Oscars including Best Picture was released in the UK in 2024, distributed by Amazon MGM Studios. It's now 2 years later and that film is not on Amazon Prime or MGM+ and there is no fucking DVD. It's gone.

When Gina last fought, Bitcoin was 7 months and 12 days old. Her last win was before the Bitcoin Genesis block.

21 million coins, shifting hands over 16 years. Pay attention.

@timbo_xyz @Andrew_The_PA Even plumbing needs a plastic o-ring seal

@Andrew_The_PA Funny how hard this can be Had trouble finding a stainless steel water bottle without a plastic touch point under the cap

Finally found a fully stainless steel and glass coffee maker. No plastic components touching the hot water/coffee

@rajivkhaneja @Andrew_The_PA What about the rubber part of the plunger?

@Andrew_The_PA FYI- The Aeropress premium is entirely glass and stainless steel. I love it.

@blind_via @SheppaDean China is cheaper, faster, better quality PCBs. No reason for the tariffs as there is no US competition for hobbyists. And I’ve tried the US manufacturers

Control what you can control. Maybe I can't make chips be made locally, but I certainly can do the board and assembly myself. Again, the focus on price. Give me one good reason besides price. JUST ONE. Seriously. There is no price on innovation. When you reduce your turn around cycles and increase quality communication with your vendors, you can accomplish good engineering faster.

Don't listen to the guys saying you can only build stuff in CHYYYNNNAAA. US PCB manufacturing is strong. There are lots of options, my list is still growing. Drop your favorite American PCB manufacturing company to grow my list.

this is why RAM prices are inflated 🌬️

@mpatrickwalton Never really considered that.. would need to think further. As it is China gets you 1 week turnaround without jumping through hoops. Tariffs just an extra nuisance tax.

@jyap Yeah, I've been thinking about that. What if we initially also offered 1-day PCB fab IF you design your board to a template board (100s of options) that had pre-placed vias? Would it be worth it for some boards you do?

would you use an American JLCPCBeta? - instant quote - 1-day turnaround assembly of in-stock components how much of your BoM would need to be in stock? 50%? 80%? you could have your quick-turn PCB fab (osh park, dkred, other) just mail the completed boards to us. only adds 1 day + shipping?

Absurd that this is a 24h chart. Calling bottom. If not deleting this.

@lookonchain Deposits and withdrawals don't imply buying/selling or even accumulation. This could just be some arbitrage rebalancing.

Whale bc1pyd, who had been steadily accumulating $BTC, has stopped buying and sold all 5,076 $BTC($384M) over the past 8 hours, incurring a loss of ~$118M! intel.arkm.com/explorer/addre…

Proposing and have been using an acronym TGDR. It’s a rework of TLDR. Basically means Too Good Didn’t Read/Research. For when you want to break news say to a group chat and you didn’t take the time to verify real/fake/AI/etc… Anyway TGDR

@limegpt @PalmerLuckey Anduril Edition Chromatic is premium materials

@PalmerLuckey Why 2 different ordering sites: Anduril and ModRetro?

Alroght, as promised, we have re-opened orders for the Anduril Chromatic. The original production run sold out in just a few minutes, this final preorder closes at midnight on Sunday. They are a gigantic pain in the butt to make, no amount of pleading will bring it back!

@CalebChamberla6 Indeed. The market is largely: China + Tariffs US + slow + expensive Untapped middle ground. I see PCBs (and CNC) as the final frontiers for US manufacturing. Laser thanks to companies like yourself is 👍

@jyap Interesting idea... Drag-drop gerber files into your cart at oshcut.com?

We just cut purchase orders for $4 million in equipment. Another $2 million coming soon.