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teach me something new

@ihtesham2005 “Someone made it” we see the localhost bro

The New York Times charges $17/month. The Wall Street Journal charges $38/month. Nature charges $199/year. Someone just open sourced a proxy that bypasses all of them for $0. And publishers cannot shut it down. It's called Ladder. Here's the trick that makes it work: Every news site and academic journal on earth shows Google the full article text for free. They have no choice. Block Googlebot and you disappear from search results overnight. Ladder pretends to be Googlebot. Same headers. Same fingerprint. Same access Google gets. → Paste any paywalled URL → Full article loads instantly → No account. No subscription. No credit card. → Works on NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg, Nature, Science, The Lancet, The Atlantic, and hundreds more → Also strips CORS headers from any URL, which saves developers a stupid amount of time Publishers got 12ft killed by pressuring the domain registrar. Ladder runs on your own server. There's no domain to seize. No company to pressure. No central server to shut down. One Docker command. Your machine. Your rules. 6.3K stars. MIT License. 100% Opensource - github.com/everywall/ladd…

@iamgingertrash reduce led brightness to 65% in dark envs and it would look beaut

Will prove obvious, In hindsight

@donaldvchu @cormachayden_ literally lmfao the original design was a 1:1 copy too

@cormachayden_ didn't you copy yuka?

not one to focus on copycats, would rather build heads down, but things are getting out of control apps are blatantly stealing our app screens, content and creators and lying to users case 1) macropal - ripped our screenshots exactly - app doesn't even match screens - directly poaching our creators

@johnsummit provokes a fight with an artist and then complains about the backlash

yeah they’re insane, they found my number somehow and sending me threats, not worth fighting against if i were u

@a16z ah yes, comparing an NYC build to Kroger which famously are everywhere on the east coast.

NYC's government-run grocery store is expected to open in 2029 at a $30M cost to taxpayers More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

@a16z @signulll Unbelievably surface level thinking

.@signulll says we're still in the stone age of AI tools: "I don't think most people are utilizing them anything beyond the basics." "We're in the stone ages of how people view and perceive and use these things, even though there's a billion people utilizing them, but they're not utilizing them to the full capabilities." "The number one challenge... is how do we make this stuff, the power of the models more easily accessible and useful in terms of what they can do." "I think this is happening with agents. It's happening today, but it still seems very primitive and very inaccessible to a lot of individuals... we need to make this stuff much more easily accessible and useful for individuals."

2010 VCs were probably like: Instagram isn't defensible, facebook already has pictures

I have a new thing on the Orange Newsletter App! It's called "Real Research on Artificial Intelligence" It's an NRG channel where I share, weekly, our original survey research on AI Latest post: a lot of normal people think AI is a fancy search engine. And if you weigh "the destruction of your job, many humanity" against "great search" you can see why some people might be uneasy

@iamgingertrash Wellll, you can’t use a symmetrical wave to describe an asymmetrical process. If one party shifts significantly further from the historical norm than the other, the graph fails because the median line bends, not just oscillated around. Unless your reply was trying to ELI5 the op

Power in the United States, is expressed as a divergent sinusoidal 1) Sinusoidal because it alternates between the left and right 2) divergent because each ruling classes pushes the boundaries on authoritarianism The next dem trifecta will be even worse than the Biden era

@TaylorLorenz @PENELOPTICON I can’t believe progressives are tearing into your llm use this much 😭

@PENELOPTICON Good thing I live in LA where the weather is perfect every single day so I don’t have to do that!

FWIW keeping your apartment thermostat at 90 degrees Fahrenheit 24/7 365 days a year probably sues exponentially more energy than using Claude

@TaylorLorenz Actually contributed to a paper on this! Hollywood is experiencing a localized industry crisis =/= the LA real estate market governed by a broader regional housing shortage. Growth in defense tech and aerospace sectors brings in high-income renters to offset the decline.

I’m curious how this economic crisis is happening in LA but it’s not affecting rental costs. Rents are still going up and LA doesn’t seem to be getting less expensive. Curious if ppl who know about econ can explain what’s happening

@ritakozlov @whoiskatrin .@astrodotbuild mentioned

bet cloudflare launching a wordpress successor wasn't on your 2026 bingo card but! it's wild how much (40%!!!) of the web is still wordpress. we decided it was time for a makeover. so... enter emdash — familiar look and feel, open-source (MIT), built on typescript + astro

@9th @thecosmos Send me the gofundme link bro I got you

@notalefyi @thecosmos $300 in ad spend is going to change everything for us thank you

Tomorrow. 3/31

@itsjamiecho @thecosmos jamie I believe in you

@notalefyi @thecosmos stay tuned instagram.com/cosmos

@sawyerhood fucking finally

wtf chrome has vertical tabs now. finally

@PaulYacoubian he’s gonna see this and dunk on one of your investments

@shiri_shh isn’t this literally renatahuman.ai

startup idea: build Fiverr but for AI agents

@MegaBasedChad my green bag made an appearance

They rly came through with the free smoothie, and it’s quite good I now feel obligated to tell you all to pull up to Corgi Café 🐕

shoutout @nico_laqua needed a spot to push to prod at 2 am 🙏