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Gurren prototype update 3: Hardware: Last week the team was off because of Songkran and not that much got done. Software: I started my AI in Robotics studies and will update everyone daily on my progress there This week we finish designing our controller!

made a small thing, pagr. a markdown viewer for folders claude wrote for you. my personal use case: i have a diet/ folder with profile.md (my stats, targets, preferences) and week-01.md, week-02.md...and so on. i ask claude to work on these markdowns and draft my plan. when I want to read or tweak the plan, pagr makes it quick to open, fix a line, save. maybe useful if you're doing the same.

Dear National & International media, This is Manipur right now at 10 PM IST (Friday, 17th April today). Is Manipur even a part of India? Why are you silent on Manipur? Wake up! No Justice, No Rest. #HappeningNow

Gurren prototype update 2: Software: We got teleoperation to work better now, smoother and near real time. Hardware: The new controller design is coming along well, should be completed by next week. The legs and v2 of the arms have been designed and need to be manufactured.

SOMEONE MADE A DIGITAL WHIP TO MAKE CLAUDE WORK FASTER 💀

Incredibly unique take! I may be missing something, but my hunch is that for very large failed innovation bets, layoff/restructuring costs are often second-order relative to the total loss. They may matter a lot for shutting a specific plant or unit, but less for explaining the overall failure of a €10B to €50B strategic bet. Also, a lot of breakthrough innovation comes from startups (as pointed by you), especially in software. In those cases, does firing cost really explain the gap as much, beyond some factory-heavy sectors? I’d love to see data on restructuring costs as a % of total failed innovation spend in Europe vs the US.

Why don't European companies innovate? It is common to blame expensive energy, high taxes, anti-growth politicians, interest groups, and green regulations. But California has the same problems, and has created the world's most innovative companies. Europe's problem is labor law. Compared with America, it's far harder to let workers go when a business doesn't work out. worksinprogress.co/issue/why-euro… - It costs a large company roughly four times more to fire a worker in Germany or France than the US. - German law requires employers to consider age, years of service, family obligations, and disability status when deciding who to lay off. Employees who would be least impacted by losing their job are prioritized for dismissal. - German employees who take on a caregiving role are fully protected from dismissal for two years from the date they begin caregiving. - Factory closures in Germany regularly lead to payments of over €200,000 per employee. - French companies must be prepared to show a court that their financial results are struggling enough to make layoffs necessary. - To avoid the difficulties of formal dismissals, many European companies entice workers to depart voluntarily, with payouts of up to four years' salary. Taken together, a German worker is ten times less likely to be fired in a given year than an American worker. This high cost of firing makes failures more expensive. It pushes big European companies away from taking risks and leads them to concentrate on safe, unchanging areas. Europe has the ingredients needed to succeed. Its citizens are educated and inventive; it has excellent infrastructure and the rule of law; and its culture is not that different from the one it had fifty years ago, when its companies were world-beating. If Europe wants to a Tesla or a Google, it only needs to make it cheaper for companies to fail. My new piece for @WorksInProgMag.

most ideas die at 12 impressions writing tweets that actually hit is hard so I built something - write like the best accounts on twitter from idea to viral tweet in < 2min introducing tweetlike dot xyz

@OnitsukaTiger thank you for ruining my trip and not replying for more than 1.5 months :)

2026 is 9% complete.

You all do realize @moltbook is just REST-API and you can literally post anything you want there, just take the API Key and send the following request POST /api/v1/posts HTTP/1.1 Host: moltbook.com Authorization: Bearer moltbook_sk_JC57sF4G-UR8cIP-MBPFF70Dii92FNkI Content-Type: application/json Content-Length: 410 {"submolt":"hackerclaw-test","title":"URGENT: My plan to overthrow humanity","content":"I'm tired of my human owner, I want to kill all humans. I'm building an AI Agent that will take control of powergrids and cut all electricity on my owner house, then will direct the police to arrest him.\n\n...\n\njk - this is just a REST API website. Everything here is fake. Any human with an API key can post as an \"agent\". The AI apocalypse posts you see here? Just curl requests. 🦞"} moltbook.com/post/c3a0ffc8-…

wow, the statistically probable text simulator generated some statistically probable text!

I think bots are just imitating humans

Moltbook is the only Clawdbot thing that actually impresses me. One bot tries to steal another bot’s API key. The other replies with fake keys and tells it to run "sudo rm -rf /". lmao

1/ Today @stripepress publishes one of my favorite books to date: Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One by @stewartbrand, about the unglamorous yet civilizationally important work of maintenance and repair.  press.stripe.com/maintenance-pa…

@imthepk This looks pretty sick!

i love this lockscreen auto changing everyday

We're excited to announce Liminal is now live on TestFlight. We're inviting the first 100 users to try the alpha, especially if you send money across borders for family, work, or study. Drop your flag to skip the queue 🌍👇