If you work in tech, and are ever approached by any crypto sh*tcoin even for a harmless ask ("here's some money for you/your project! Take it! No strings attached, promise!"), a warning: Talked with someone who took it. Seemed too good to be true. Death threats to them and family followed.

I have literally wanted this feature for years and @mariaa.bsky.social threw it together!

If you enjoyed @danabra.mov's social filesystem blogpost, you might get a kick out of a literal exploration of the premise I tried using the dat p2p filesystem 6 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0JV...

My bet is that AI policies will be soon avoided by most companies / projects in favor of quality centric policies.

Nice idea

My latest video: the only SECRET!!111 you need to know to work well with coding agents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ6r...

Make sure to check lobste.rs comments on my blog post, if you are interested in the topic of AI coding. They are better than HN comments about the same post.

New blog post: Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. antirez.com/news/158

ok i've tried a few of these, and @bobbby.online's Deciduous (notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io/deciduous/tu...) is most intriguing so far it roughly matches what i want out of a tool like this not perfect but i recommend playing with it

I updated my list of reasoning models with solid tech reports for 2025! 2025-01-22 - DeepSeek R1 - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 2025-01-22 - Kimi 1.5 - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12599 2025-03-31 - Open-Reasoner-Zero - arxiv.org/abs/2503.24290 2025-04-10 - Seed-Thinking 1.5 - arxiv.org/abs/2504.13914

might be time

Some notes on the new DeepSeek-R1-0528 - a completely different model from the R1 they released in January, despite having a very similar name Terrible LLM naming has managed to infect the Chinese AI labs too simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...

In case it interests anyone, I managed to set up a demo of GRPO RL training in Colab. It’s an adaptation of Will Brown instant classic for math reasoning. Replace llama 1B with qwen 0.5b and inference with vllm. Full training in about 2 hours. colab.research.google.com/drive/1bfhs1...

“The drop in demand for IT professions could signal long-term shifts due to technological changes, particularly artificial intelligence.” www.swissinfo.ch/eng/workplac...

Painting of a group of hatchling Tyrannosaurus rex- showcasing the fact that even these massive predators started out as fluffy little youngsters! #paleoart #dinosaurart #trex

Reid Hoffman’s Financial Times op-ed captures Silicon Valley VCs’ hopes and fears about Trump. They hope for eased scrutiny on tech acquisitions, relaxed crypto/AI regulations, and nuclear energy support. Their fear? Elon Musk as a power broker picking winners and losers. Both outcomes seem likely.

Many people are saying. ;) hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/8dqgwqiu...

I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)

Daily paper: GPT-4V(ision) is a Generalist Web Agent, if Grounded arxiv.org/abs/2401.01614

Alibaba has their own version on GPT-o1. This might be the best description of “o1-type”systems so far arxiv.org/abs/2411.14405

Winter is here in Switzerland!

If you're new to Bluesky, or just want to understand how it's profoundly different from platforms like X, I wrote this article last year about federated social media -- Bluesky and Mastodon specifically -- and how they fit into the US history of federalism. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The #1 overall free app on the App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android) is... Bluesky?? This is pretty incredible from an independent team, with a fraction of the budget as most other apps on these charts. (This represents current downloads, but it still huge. Congrats Bluesky team!)

How cool is this: this is from the Bluesky firehose! What's so cool about this is: 1. The throwback style 2. That *any* dev can do this! Thanks to there being an API for this (no other social network allows this AFAIK) This API is a big reason to be bullish on Bluesky firehose3d.theo.io

Some folks look to be using AI as deflection—I don’t have to deal with my own fear/boundaries/control issues/blaming because AI will make programmers so efficient that there will be no conflicts to trigger my shit. Nope

Untitled, 150 cm x 45 cm, acrylic on glass. These abstracts often start with a single gesture, in this case the sort of squid-looking figure on the left. The rest fills itself in around that.

In case it's useful for you as well, Word2Vec converted in a sane binary format. huggingface.co/antirez/word...

Bluesky never felt so active as it has, the last few days. It's great to be here! (I'm here for software engineering and tech topics - both following these, and sharing more about them. I write The Pragmatic Engineer and host the podcast with the same name. E.g. a recent article)

Nice, @theo.io made exactly what I was looking for. It works perfectly, found a ton of Bluesky people I didn't know were here!

what are good starter packs for: AI researchers, AI Systems people, GenAI hackers, LLM enthusiasts?

What do you call a sheep who can sing and dance? Lady Ba Ba. (It’s not her fault. She was shorn that way.)

Bluesky seems to be the first decentralised social network to truly take off. Just like Bitcoin protocol proved influential so will AT.

if only 16yo me could have known how often adult me would need to solve some graphics programming problem with the ditty my maths teacher Mr Pickles taught us 🎵 twiddly dum, twiddly dee 🎶 around the moon is pi times d 🎵 but if a hole you want repaired 🎶 then you must use pi r squared #mrpickles

it's official — 1,000,000 people have joined Bluesky in just the last day!!! welcome and thank you for being here 🥳

And here's a notebook derived from this to model the experiment from Charan's lab @charan-neuro.bsky.social in www.nature.com/articles/s41... Took me about 15 minutes.... Let me know which other experiment you want me to model next :-) colab.research.google.com/drive/1TU6-l...

if unit tests keep the app from failing why don't they just make the entire app out of unit tests

real disorienting to go from twitter — where i do a post to 200k followers and get five favs — over to bluesky where a post gets like 200 favs immediately

One thing still missing here is good discussion of academic papers, so I guess I'll be the change I want to see in the world Really interesting results from Jacob Andreas's group showing great performance on ARC-AGI just from doing a few gradient descent steps at test time arxiv.org/abs/2411.07279

Zeroth bot is a really cute open-source humanoid: zeroth.bot Creator Jingxiang Mo says its ~$350 bill of materials, build it yourself, with an NVIDIA isaac sim for policy learning and everything

We are rebuilding foundational layers of Google's model/agent inference stack, and we will soon hire some more people! If you are interested in pairing with me, please DM! If you are located either in the Bay Area, London, or Zurich, it'd help! Python and/or C++ expertise would be good to have!

For those of you who still believe in science, it is well known that following the Bluesky users in this starter pack will make you more intelligent, successful and more attractive to your preferred gender. It will also help you win arguments and entertain you. Get started: go.bsky.app/49C2jUo

folder gotchas (in the terminal) wizardzines.com/comics/folde...

Google’s AI ‘learning companion’ takes chatbot answers a step further

I'm studying and practicing like it's day one.

ICYMI...if you are curious about how the ARC-AGI challenge is connected to the idea of 'cognitive programs', perceptual+cognitive representations etc. have a read: blog.dileeplearning.com/p/how-to-get...

It really is amazing that we spent more than a year begging Meta to simply allow political content to be seen on Threads, and yet they’re so hostile to their own audience that Bluesky is looking like it’s going to lap Threads.

cashier: can take your order? me: [spent the entire time in line rehearsing for this moment] yes, one pleaseburger cheese :)

I don’t even know why I stopped using this in the first place? Good GOD it’s nice to be in a digital space with other real human beings. Can someone give a Cliff Notes of what went down here over the last year? Tea, dev notes, big memes, whatever is best please