Tom "Plaetorius" Gernez

@Polymarket what in the tortilla am i reading

NEW: A Mexican “Batman” has reportedly emerged in Jalisco, hunting motorcycle thieves & taping them to street poles.

@javiiarchive that's cool! do you plan on SaaS-ing it or open-source?

Turn your images and videos into ASCII art 👾 ❋ javii.tools · asciilab launched!

@0xsakshamtyagi @paper do you know about ui-ux max pro for Claude Code? if yes, why @paper? i'm wondering, seeking for better tech I feel like ui-ux max pro always does the "same kind of design"

I still can't believe this whole landing page came out of just a conversation with Claude. I used @paper for prompts to design then back to code I mean this is crazyy 🫡

update: as an experiment i have purchased the domain yourideas.store and you can sell your ideas engineering is commoditized, so let's see if the world is ready for an idea marketplace (it's still in early beta, I'll roll it out for real if there is demand)

@MitcheIl SHOWN

@Kali_InRealLife can you find that in Indonesia?

@plaetorius C4 use to kick. If you’re ever looking for an alternative give Bucked Up a go.

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@Clavicular0 take the L bro

I thought I did something wrong to upset people in France, but it turns out the French are impolite shitbags. No AC, terrible economy, horrible quality of living. Id be pissed too🤣.

@_devJNS Japan is reverse-bombing the US 🫪

US banned Fable 5 Japan:

@maxkolysh @ycombinator but, deep down, isn’t “being a content creator” the best strategy to get your first customers?

i polled a bunch of YC founders on how they got their first 10 customers. i was so surprised by the results that i made a video about it. enjoy!

@bouliboulibouli dans tous les cas, que le France le veuille ou non, l’Europe va faire des siennes pour pas que le nucléaire se développe sur notre sol

Macron FURIEUX contre les NULS qui voulaient fermer les centrales nucléaires :

When you look at it @TJR and @AlexHormozi have the same social media growth strategy "do so much volume it would be unreasonable for you not to be successful"

@akshay_pachaar truth is: sometimes you want to ONLY have the HTML, not the screenshot, because some data is visually hidden but still appear in the code. That’s often the case for phone numbers, emails, addresses Great tool, but to be used wisely

Web scraping will never be the same. (100% open-source visual search at scale) PixelRAG is a retrieval system that skips HTML parsing completely. Instead of scraping a page into text and embedding chunks, it screenshots the page and retrieves the image. A vision-language model reads the answer straight off the pixels. Why that matters: parsing is where web RAG quietly loses information. - A single HTML-to-text parser can drop 40%+ of a page. - Tables, charts, and layout get flattened or thrown out. - Swapping parsers alone can move accuracy ~10 points on the same docs. PixelRAG indexes the page a person actually sees. The team built a visual index of all of Wikipedia, 30M+ screenshots, and it still beats the strongest text RAG baseline by 18.1% on text-only QA. The repo also ships a Claude Code plugin that gives Claude eyes. It lets Claude screenshot any URL and read the rendered page instead of scraping the DOM. So you can hand it a live page, an arXiv paper, or your local site and ask what it actually looks like. One setup script. No MCP server, no backend. How the pipeline works: - Renders each document (web, PDF, image) to image tiles. - Embeds them with Qwen3-VL-Embedding, LoRA fine-tuned on screenshots. - Builds a FAISS index and serves a search API. A stronger reader model lifts accuracy with no re-indexing, since the index is just pixels. Everything is open-source under Apache-2.0. GitHub repo: github.com/StarTrail-org/… Talking about RAG, I recently wrote an article on a new approach that makes retrieval much more efficient by cutting corpus size by 40x, reducing tokens per query by 3x, and improving vector search relevance by 2.3x. The article is quoted below.

@parisbayarea naaaah imagine getting rejected by every girl AND loosing at a hackathon

I invited him to a hackathon

@Sherifdeenolat2 Marketing bro What do you say?

What’s one common problem every founder should be prepared for?

@jyriso kakiyo.com Please let me know what you think bro, I’d be happy to help if you need assistance to get more customers ;)

Drop your startup link. I need inspiration!

@TerminusProto @calvinluvsrice Can help with that bro, check your DMs ;)

@calvinluvsrice Failing mostly it’s great. I call it learning 😭

What is everyone doing to find their first customer?

@calvinluvsrice LinkedIn outreach 100%. I had all of mine like this. It’s not that deep, just connect with people and send DMs like it’s a WhatsApp DM. They’ll answer

@Tristanrhee3 pretty tap-in but: robotics? space?

What's coming after artificial intelligence?

Claude Code Artifacts is wonder for human-to-human information passing. Although, for storage, asking Claude to store it in Notion using the MCP is still the best. Maybe a next iteration? 👀