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An exited founder needsβ¦
β’ more vitamin D
β’ sunlight
β’ exercise
β’ to breathe again
actually, we all need that and a few others and I (will let you determine who) are going to post more about cool stuff we do
if thereβs any questions or if anything goes OSS follow along :)
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Jun 17
keep a look out. reading rooms the next big thing, i swear
Reading Rooms are really gaining steam, and we're looking for collaborators!
If you care about more normative discussion around technology & society, or just wanna discuss your favorite essays with friends, RR are the place.
DMs open to cohosts, sponsors, and venues!
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Jun 16
π¨π£ JUST IN: Silicon Mania and Plumsoda are hosting the first-ever Tech World Cup β½οΈ
8 teams of founders & operators playing 5v5 soccer against each other to answer one question: which tech company will be champion?
6/28 - sf.
tickets below.
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This gives me @demishassabis coded π
Generative gaming soon!! Personal software but for fun ππ
i've been trying to get my son to make things instead of just consuming them.
he's obsessed with mario. so i thought: what if we didn't just play a game, what if we built one?
mario-ish... but with him *in it*. his siblings too. his cousins. he picks which family member to play as, designs the levels, makes up the enemies, decides what happens next.
so we tried it!
we used gpt-5.5 and started putting together a little platformer. he'd tell me what he wanted, the characters, the levels, the obstacles, the enemies, and we'd turn it into an actual playable game.
it came out *way* better than i expected. there's a character select screen where he chooses between himself, his siblings, and his cousins. every level ends with a dragon, and the dragon gets bigger and meaner as you go. silly, personal, kind of a mess. he loves it.
of course, the game wasn't really the point.
the point was watching it click for him that something he made up in his head could turn into a real thing he could play. now he's got a running list for the next one. and the one after that. new bosses, new powers, levels i have no idea how to build yet... with clouds, and weird monsters and secret rooms
honestly this feels like one of the better ways to show kids what AI is actually for. not a homework shortcut, not a chatbot to mess around with. a thing you make stuff with. stories, worlds, whatever's bouncing around in their heads.
i've linked the game below if you want to try it.
and if anyone wants the guide, prompts and all, i'll write it up!
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Jun 16
Cursor origin
Agent native git platform
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Jun 15
SpaceX valuation: $2.5 TRILLION
Amazon valuation: $2.560 TRILLION
SpaceX revenue: $18 BILLION
Amazon revenue: $742.78 BILLION
BREAKING: SpaceX, $SPCX, is now worth $2.5 trillion and the 6th largest public company in the world.
SpaceX is now just 5% away from surpassing Amazon as the 5th largest public company in the world.
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Jun 15
The UK economy basically works like this:
Get paid Β£2,000.
Give Β£900 to a landlord. Give Β£200 to the council. Give Β£150 to energy companies. Give Β£300 to supermarkets. Give Β£300 to car insurance and fuel.
Spend the rest surviving until next payday.
Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for Β£37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.
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Jun 15
In partnership with @stripe, Hermes Agent now supports a full suite of Stripe skills.
Your agent can buy things, pay per-call APIs, and provision its own SaaS, with configurable safety limits on every action.
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RT @levelsio: You don't realize how scary not having any economic growth is until you realize everyone around you is get richer
Europe's Gβ¦
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Jun 15
While we still had Fable, I built this interactive 3D map of the Bay Area with @Levelsfyi compensation data overlaid on top.
You can scroll through the major hubs of the Bay Area and even ride the Caltrain π
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This video on being able to afford London π―π―π―
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Jun 15
In case you thought it gets easier
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Do I have to say the thing for this to go viral?
___maxxing π« ππ¬π§
site below for anyone interested in playing with the 3d cube or tapping into the city :)
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hopefully more to come this Summerβ¦
thelift.fyi
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Jun 15
So... I built 80% of the core features of Shopify in 30 hours.
After 20 years of working in e-commerce, I wanted to ask myself a question: how hard would it be to recreate all of Shopify's important SaaS storefront tech if I π§βπ»π€π§βπ»π€π§βπ»?
This is what I found. π§΅π
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Jun 14
Had Hermes Agent with the Manim Video skill plus it's TTS tool create a video explaining Hermes' Agent.
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Jun 12
Owning a Β£400,000 house with a Β£350,000 mortgage in the UK in 2026 means signing a 25-year contract to give the bank around Β£2,050 a month, in exchange for the right to maintain a building you'll spend another Β£4,000 a year keeping dry, warm and structurally sound.
At a 5% fixed rate, the total interest over the life of the mortgage is around Β£264,000. The total mortgage cost ends up at roughly Β£614,000.
The price tag on the front door says Β£400K. The actual cost of living in it for 25 years is closer to Β£750K, before council tax, repairs, insurance and the new boiler.
This is what the country has been calling 'getting on the ladder.'
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really great finals game
lets go knicks!! π½π§π¦
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Jun 12
internally, Fable 5's research process was unlike any i've seen across frontier models
for ex. it questioned the task's framing, tested RL & measured its outcomes, was less naive with synthetic data, and trained the model to be more aware of the game state. very impressed!
Jun 11
Fable 5 is doing something wild on our FrogsGame post-training task.
It trains a weaker model to solve the puzzle, peaks at 68%, and produces the only ~10x improvement we see across the benchmark.
It spent 17 hours, 25M tokens without human in sight. 34% pass@1, while every other frontier model averages under 4%.
We will publish a more detailed analysis soon.
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Jun 12
Hermes Agent users that use WhatsApp just got a HUGE upgrade. No more burner phone #'s, way better UX, an all around major overhaul for WhatsApp support!
`hermes update` to access now!
Jun 12
Hermes Agent now has a production-grade WhatsApp Business Cloud integration: use it as a private WhatsApp bot for yourself or your team, or configure it for customer-facing support.
Connect an existing WhatsApp Business Cloud number or create one through Meta Business Manager, then run 'hermes whatsapp-cloud' to wire it into Hermes with guided setup, secure webhooks, media/voice support, read receipts, typing indicators, and interactive approval buttons.
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