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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Helpful tool for improvement. It’s just physics thinking in the limit.
Everyone can use @elonmusk's "Magic Wand Number" and "Idiot Index" They're universal ideas, helpful in any industry.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Some of the most impactful work we do at X is invisible to the user. In the last 12 months, we have rewritten almost every core part of the app. We will soon be shipping a 90% reduction in our web app’s load times.
Performance improvements to upcoming versions of X.com (under slow / 4G internet connection).
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
SpaceX was less than 10 people back then. We didn’t even have office furniture.
SpaceX started with a mariachi band party in 2002.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
NEW: Front landing gear of a Lufthansa Boeing 787-9 collapses while parked at the gate at Frankfurt Airport. No statement has currently been made regarding the cause or whether there were any injuries.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
The laptop hasn't changed in 30 years. NVIDIA just changed it RTX Spark is their first PC chip ever. - RTX 5070 level GPU - 128GB unified memory - 1 petaflop of local AI - thin, light, barely throttles unplugged Your AI agent lives on the machine. 24/7. No cloud. This is step one of the agentic AI PC, and everyone else is about to copy it.
Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra. Built for world makers. Designed for what's next. The most powerful Surface laptop ever. Coming Fall 2026. Sign up to learn more: msft.it/6019vw79T
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Jun 1
MrBeast reveals his biggest person splurge "What has been your biggest personal splurge?" "One time my fiancée, she was studying in the UK, and I really wanted to see her." "I don't live near a major airport so like, all my, I have to drive two hours to an airport to then take a layover to take a layover to get to places because our airport is so small." "One time I was like, screw it, I'm just gonna rent a private jet and fly to her because I really want to see her. But if I don't rent a PJ, I literally just can't make it work because a PJ flight is 8 hours, where as like commercial would be like 19, there and back. It's, it's like so much wasted time and that was probably like $150,000. I felt so bad but I was like, I don't know, I just really want to see my fiancée, or at the time my girlfriend."
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
We recently made Lovable apps server-side rendered, which means better default discoverability from search engines like Google and AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. That meant rebuilding Lovable's foundations on @tan_stack Start. Why TanStack? It's maintained by an established team with a strong ecosystem, stays in the React world, is open and independent, deploys anywhere, and its end-to-end type safety gives our AI clearer guardrails when it generates code. Read more here: lovable.dev/blog/building-ap…
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Commentary is one of the most important pillars of X. And sometimes the best way to share your thoughts is with video. Today we're launching a whole new way to make them: React with Video Tap the repost button and start recording with green screen, split screen, or picture-in-picture. Now available on iOS
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Bound to happen
Hear me out: add plants and warm lighting to the interior of Starship.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Grok foundation model V9-Medium (1.5T) has finished training. Evals look good. A lot of Cursor data was added in supplementary training and there is more to come. Fine-tuning is underway and reinforcement learning begins in a few days. 2 to 3 weeks to public release. This will be a major improvement over the 0.5T v8-small that currently serves all Grok production traffic, especially for difficult coding tasks.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
I did it 👍 thanks @levelsio for sharing. Setup @Tailscale on my @Hetzner_Online VPS 🙌 Installed @claudeai on VPS 🤞 All my sites run through @Cloudflare tunnels 😎 Got @TermiusHQ running locally on my Mac and iPhone ❤️ Locked all the ports 💪 Migrate 25GB of projects, websites, apps onto my VPS. All MD files there as well 🏋️‍♀️ Then went shopping with the wife while coding from my phone and I’m no coder. This means I can check daily tasks, fix minor bugs and constantly and work on our main Shopify site. I’m launching a daily deals section all automated with resend but I can build and tweak that without needing to be at my MacBook. And if someone says you should be present when shopping. Fuck that. I’m present when 99% around my family and kids.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, just explained why single-agent workflows are already dead in this talk he breaks down exactly how the future is teams of agents, not better prompts: - the 14% you lose to CLAUDE.md before typing a word - one agent researching. one building. one reviewing. one orchestrating - the architecture that separates hobbyists from real builders - the 3 properties every agent team needs to actually survive if you've been using Claude for more than a month and never left the chat window, you've been using one agent when you could be running a team of them instead of another show tonight, watch this make sure to bookmark it before it gets lost in your feed the guide is in the article below
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Show me the thing you’ve built with AI you’re most proud of. Reply with a working product URL and what model / agent you primarily used.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
It all boils down to: 1. Providing the best tools to create content 2. Incentivizing the highest quality content 3. Ranking that content so it finds its audience Nothing else matters.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
This is fundamentally why we run a profitable business. Because as long as we're profitable, we can sustain. And when you sustain, you have more opportunities for these magic moments. I've found no better way to bump into more magic than to simply be available for it. There's nothing better than that moment of insight, of catching a glint, of seeing a meh transform into an oh wow, we're on to something.
This conversation with @RickRubin is special. Here's a 2 minute preview that I’ve watched 15 times. The episode will be out tomorrow:
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
May 24
Elon Musk built a second internet above the first one. Nobody asked him to. Thousands of satellites orbit at 550 kilometers. Moving at 25 times the speed of sound. Talking to each other through lasers in the vacuum of space. Musk: “Thousands of satellites providing low latency, high-speed internet throughout the world.” Before Starlink, satellite internet lived at 36,000 kilometers. Geostationary orbit. Signals traveling a tenth of the way to the moon before bouncing back. The lag made it barely functional. Musk dropped the altitude by 98%. One decision rewrote the physics of an entire industry. But the altitude wasn’t the real play. Musk: “There are laser links between the satellites. It forms a laser mesh. The satellites can communicate between each other and provide connectivity even if the cables are cut.” Every internet connection you’ve ever used runs through cables. Fiber optic lines buried in soil. Dragged across ocean floors. Threaded through chokepoints that every military maps before anything else. A single anchor drop can black out a country. An earthquake can sever a continent. The entire digital world hangs from threads in the mud. Musk built a network that doesn’t touch the ground. No cables. No trenches. No ocean floor. No single point of failure. A constellation of machines whispering to each other through light at the edge of the atmosphere. The men who tried before him weren’t fools. Gates backed Teledesic at the height of Microsoft’s power. Motorola built Iridium with the best engineers alive. Both paid someone else to reach orbit. Both went to zero. Musk owned the rocket. SpaceX made launch reusable. Built the satellites in-house. Flew them on its own rockets. Owned every inch of the chain from factory floor to orbit. That isn’t a cost advantage. It’s a moat no one can cross without first building a rocket company from scratch. Starlink passed 10 million subscribers as a side project. Every telecom executive on Earth watched it happen. Not one of them can explain the architecture underneath. They think he built a better satellite company. He built the only network that survives when the ground gives out. And the ground always gives out.
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
The Starship V3 heat shield held well
We need heat shields to protect us, since we use the air to slow us down as we return to Earth. From orbital speed, it gets to 1650°C / 3000°F. From the Moon: 2750°C / 5000°F. For yesterday's Starship suborbital test flight, peak was 1450°C / 2600°F. Great to see the @SpaceX progress over the last 3 flights. Making them truly reusable is complex and necessary for permanent, cheap space access. image compilation: @niccruzpatane
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
May 22
Mark Cuban explains how he pulled off one of Wall Street’s greatest trades “When Yahoo offered us $5.7B in stock, I couldn’t sell it for six months” “So what I did was I took every penny that I had and shorted the internet index as protection, basically taking insurance out in case the internet bubble popped” “When I was allowed to sell it, because I couldn’t sell it all at once, it would just crater the market, so I did something called a hedge” “What the hedge is, you can sell options. So I sold call options, which gave somebody else the right to buy my shares at a higher price in the future” “I took that money and used it to buy puts, which protected me in case the price of my stock went down” “When it popped, I actually made more money. It was called one of the top 10 trades in Wall Street history”
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RT @levelsio: Every bug fix or new feature on any of my sites I now built live on my VPS, in production, without any staging Claude Code o…
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Basilis Kanonidis retweeted
Congratulations @SpaceX team on an epic first Starship V3 launch & landing! You scored a goal for humanity.
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