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  1. CULTURE & OTHER

    engineers being upset at the level of abstraction new engineers operate at is a tale as old as time. x.com

    engineers being upset at the level of abstraction new engineers operate at is a tale as old as time.

    via hirad @hiradp

  2. AI & AGENTS

    Staff software engineer prompting a cloud agent to stop adding narrative copy to the UI x.com

    Staff software engineer prompting a cloud agent to stop adding narrative copy to the UI

    via Ryan Florence @ryanflorence

  3. CULTURE & OTHER

    European tech is simply unstoppable. It's over for Silicon Valley x.com

    European tech is simply unstoppable. It's over for Silicon Valley

    via Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder

  4. AI & AGENTS

    another week at the prompt factory x.com

    another week at the prompt factory

    via trash @trashh_dev

  5. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Darkbloom is back in action; Yesterday, we went from free tier to paid tier on OpenRouter. We have fulfilled on track close at 4.5B tokens served and $102K ARR. We are open network of Mac machines (25 x.com

    Darkbloom is back in action; Yesterday, we went from free tier to paid tier on OpenRouter. We have fulfilled on track close at 4.5B tokens served and $102K ARR. We are open network of Mac machines (250 online right now). On average, people are earning $120-200 per month per

    via Gajesh @gajesh

  6. CULTURE & OTHER

    We built for this. It invokes them. 🤣 flightywifi.com

    We built for this. It invokes them. 🤣

    via Ryan Jones @rjonesy

  7. CULTURE & OTHER

    every company eventually becomes 11 people doing actual work and 64 people asking for updates x.com

    every company eventually becomes 11 people doing actual work and 64 people asking for updates

    via Dabs🩸 @DabsMalone

  8. CULTURE & OTHER

    I wrote a long thingy indicting you for how you program. That's what we do now. That's the rule. sockpuppet.org

    I wrote a long thingy indicting you for how you program. That's what we do now. That's the rule.

    via Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf

  9. CULTURE & OTHER

    Post by Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン martinfowler.com

    @mholt6 https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoPizzaTeam.html

    via Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll

  10. AI & AGENTS

    Most founders copy/paste their privacy policy from Stripe or ask Claude to draft an MSA at 2:00 AM, then pray they don't get sued. You can stop doing this. We built a free, CC0-licensed legal template x.com

    Most founders copy/paste their privacy policy from Stripe or ask Claude to draft an MSA at 2:00 AM, then pray they don't get sued. You can stop doing this. We built a free, CC0-licensed legal template library for startups: -MSAs -Employment agreements -Privacy policies

    via Ryan Walker @rwalk_xyz

  11. CULTURE & OTHER

    on a call with the new team. nobody said "we'll give folks a few minutes to trickle in" and the guy presenting didn’t even ask "can everyone see my screen?" x.com

    on a call with the new team. nobody said "we'll give folks a few minutes to trickle in" and the guy presenting didn’t even ask "can everyone see my screen?"

    via JT @jiratickets

  12. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Who's gonna tell vibe coders about... > Rate Limiting > Caching > Load Balancing > Reverse Proxies > API Gateways > CI/CD > Docker > Kubernetes > Service Discovery > Circuit Breakers > Timeouts > Retr x.com

    Who's gonna tell vibe coders about... > Rate Limiting > Caching > Load Balancing > Reverse Proxies > API Gateways > CI/CD > Docker > Kubernetes > Service Discovery > Circuit Breakers > Timeouts > Retries > Exponential Backoff > Idempotency > Message Queues > Pub/Sub >

    via Sakshi @Sakshi50038

  13. AI & AGENTS

    ai;dr (AI; didn't read) x.com

    ai;dr (AI; didn't read)

    via Franziska Hinkelmann, PhD @fhinkel

  14. CULTURE & OTHER

    software engineering Q3 2026 x.com

    software engineering Q3 2026

    via David @dzhng

  15. AI & AGENTS

    Google engineer: "In 2026 if you aren't building AI agents it's crazy how behind you are at Google, 85% of our engineers were running self-improving agentic loops & graphs" in this 32-minute talk a Go x.com

    Google engineer: "In 2026 if you aren't building AI agents it's crazy how behind you are at Google, 85% of our engineers were running self-improving agentic loops & graphs" in this 32-minute talk a Google engineer reveals how the future of agentic coding will look worth more

    via Movez @0xMovez

  16. CULTURE & OTHER

    Euler's genius in mathematics is staggering! He solved the sum of reciprocals of squares (pi²/6) and invented the zeta function, linking sums to prime number products. A true mathematical GOAT! #Math x.com

    Euler's genius in mathematics is staggering! He solved the sum of reciprocals of squares (pi²/6) and invented the zeta function, linking sums to prime number products. A true mathematical GOAT! #Math #Euler #ZetaFunction

    via From First Principles @FFPPod

  17. AI & AGENTS

    지도를 작품처럼 그려주는 오픈소스를 찾음!! 우리 동네를 감성 있는 지도 포스터로 만들어 줌 장소명이나 지도 스크린샷만 있으면 끝, 도로, 건물, 공원, 물길까지 예쁘게 표현해줌 단순히 AI로 만든 지도보다 이런 감성이 훨씬 잘 먹히죠 콘텐츠 만드는 사람이라면 일단 꼭 공유 & 북마크! x.com

    지도를 작품처럼 그려주는 오픈소스를 찾음!! 우리 동네를 감성 있는 지도 포스터로 만들어 줌 장소명이나 지도 스크린샷만 있으면 끝, 도로, 건물, 공원, 물길까지 예쁘게 표현해줌 단순히 AI로 만든 지도보다 이런 감성이 훨씬 잘 먹히죠 콘텐츠 만드는 사람이라면 일단 꼭 공유 & 북마크!

    via MagicAI @magic_ai_skill

  18. AI & AGENTS

    i didn't tell anyone about this repo but it kept getting stars 😂 so i guess it's time to share it introducing /vision. it's a very simple skill to help you write down an explicit VISION.md file for y x.com

    i didn't tell anyone about this repo but it kept getting stars 😂 so i guess it's time to share it introducing /vision. it's a very simple skill to help you write down an explicit VISION.md file for your project but what's VISION.md? as we let agents do more and more work for

    via Kun Chen @kunchenguid

  19. PROGRAMMING

    The reason I built this is that I suspect we really need new token-efficient programming languages or new ways to read code (nah ast-grep outline). Using this tool tells me a surprising result: git is x.com

    The reason I built this is that I suspect we really need new token-efficient programming languages or new ways to read code (nah ast-grep outline). Using this tool tells me a surprising result: git is one of the most token-hungry commands in my workflow. Always measure!

    via Herrington Darkholme @hd_nvim

  20. PROGRAMMING

    Generative Antitecture. This is not a house. This is automatic architecture. // Vanilla Javascript x.com

    Generative Antitecture. This is not a house. This is automatic architecture. // Vanilla Javascript

    via Mannay 🌹 @mannay

  21. AI & AGENTS

    Protip if you're vibe coding games: Ask claude to make every system *configurable* with a constants file. Separate the game system logic files from *configuration constants* so you can easily hand-tun x.com

    Protip if you're vibe coding games: Ask claude to make every system *configurable* with a constants file. Separate the game system logic files from *configuration constants* so you can easily hand-tune things like game feel (animation speeds etc.) I have an entire directory

    via Chubigans @metatransformr

  22. AI & AGENTS

    an infinitely large model trained on infinite data still cannot go below 1.69 GPT-4 burned three months on twenty five thousand GPUs inching toward it plot every model ever trained, error against comp x.com

    an infinitely large model trained on infinite data still cannot go below 1.69 GPT-4 burned three months on twenty five thousand GPUs inching toward it plot every model ever trained, error against compute on a log scale, and none of them gets below one straight line. runs ten

    via helicerat @helicerat0x

  23. CULTURE & OTHER

    If you’re interviewing tap in there is so much alpha here it’s insane x.com

    If you’re interviewing tap in there is so much alpha here it’s insane

    via seb (recruiting arc) @hiiinternet

  24. CULTURE & OTHER

    If you've heard about PBT and want to learn more, we just published a 30-minute introductory video with hands-on exercises that helps you develop an intuition for what PBT is and how to implement it, x.com

    If you've heard about PBT and want to learn more, we just published a 30-minute introductory video with hands-on exercises that helps you develop an intuition for what PBT is and how to implement it, in collaboration with @Keleesssss, and the @CarnegieMellon Center for

    via Antithesis @AntithesisHQ

  25. AI & AGENTS

    seniority in any role is often just the ability to take a poorly shaped prompt (eg “this is bad, make it better”) and do the right thing the more senior you are, the more misshapen the prompt you can x.com

    seniority in any role is often just the ability to take a poorly shaped prompt (eg “this is bad, make it better”) and do the right thing the more senior you are, the more misshapen the prompt you can handle some of you may know this by the name of “handling ambiguity” from your

    via Kevin Yien @kevinyien

  26. CULTURE & OTHER

    Every project needs a principles chart. x.com

    Every project needs a principles chart.

    via Jacob Titus @jacob__titus

  27. PROGRAMMING

    That's a small reminder! 👇 As of June 2026, HTTP has a new method - a GET with a `body` 😎 Meet QUERY (RFC 10008). It lets you send complex queries in the body (like POST) while staying safe, idempot x.com

    That's a small reminder! 👇 As of June 2026, HTTP has a new method - a GET with a `body` 😎 Meet QUERY (RFC 10008). It lets you send complex queries in the body (like POST) while staying safe, idempotent, and cacheable (like GET). Already works on servers (Node.js, Go,

    via IP @ipwanciu

  28. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    just spent an hour on Material-Archiv.. looking at materials. it's a Swiss database for designers, architects and craftspeople to explore materials, their properties, and make informed material choice materialarchiv.ch

    just spent an hour on Material-Archiv.. looking at materials. it's a Swiss database for designers, architects and craftspeople to explore materials, their properties, and make informed material choices. i got completely lost in these textures hehe

    via Holly Blake @hollycurates

  29. AI & AGENTS

    As someone who ships LLM systems in production, this hairy ball theorem video is the closest thing to a "why positional encoding in 3D robotics always breaks" explainer I've ever seen released for fre x.com

    As someone who ships LLM systems in production, this hairy ball theorem video is the closest thing to a "why positional encoding in 3D robotics always breaks" explainer I've ever seen released for free. Everyone thinks orientation in 3D space is a solved problem. A theorem from

    via Eron @0xEronn

  30. AI & AGENTS

    I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents wi x.com

    I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time,

    via swisscheese @swisscheese4299

  31. AI & AGENTS

    I'm officially done reading AI-generated code. It's been two weeks since I looked at any of it. I think the IDE is officially on its way to the graveyard. The job is no longer about "writing code," so x.com

    I'm officially done reading AI-generated code. It's been two weeks since I looked at any of it. I think the IDE is officially on its way to the graveyard. The job is no longer about "writing code," so we need new tools that better reflect this new reality. While reviewing the

    via Santiago @svpino

  32. AI & AGENTS

    AI agent’lar için açık kaynak Palantir yapmışlar: Semantica. Veriyi knowledge graph’e çeviriyor, agent kararlarını kaydediyor ve sonradan “bu kararı neden verdi?” sorusunun izini sürebiliyorsun. Conte x.com

    AI agent’lar için açık kaynak Palantir yapmışlar: Semantica. Veriyi knowledge graph’e çeviriyor, agent kararlarını kaydediyor ve sonradan “bu kararı neden verdi?” sorusunun izini sürebiliyorsun. Context Graph + Decision Intelligence + provenance + deterministic reasoning.

    via bakigul @bakigulai

  33. CULTURE & OTHER

    not deploying to prod on every merge is borderline psychotic x.com

    not deploying to prod on every merge is borderline psychotic

    via cole murray @colemurray

  34. STARTUPS & MONEY

    Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 ye x.com

    Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent

    via Kenton Varda @KentonVarda

  35. AI & AGENTS

    Just shipped HermesOffice — an open-source office suite (Word, Sheets, Slides, PDF) where the AI is a real agent running 100% on your machine. No cloud account. No third-party proxy. The assistant tha x.com

    Just shipped HermesOffice — an open-source office suite (Word, Sheets, Slides, PDF) where the AI is a real agent running 100% on your machine. No cloud account. No third-party proxy. The assistant that edits your documents is the same agent that knows your files, your memory,

    via Gustavo Caetano @gustavocaetano

  36. AI & AGENTS

    levels of slavery from least to most brutal: - forced laborer in 1770 France - chattel slave in 1860 USA - silver mine slave in 400 BCE Athens - - - gpt-5.6's subagent in 2026: x.com

    levels of slavery from least to most brutal: - forced laborer in 1770 France - chattel slave in 1860 USA - silver mine slave in 400 BCE Athens - - - gpt-5.6's subagent in 2026:

    via mteam.gwei @mteamisloading

  37. CULTURE & OTHER

    Exa is now one of the largest indexes in the world. We serve 80B pages, track 1.4T urls, and are on track to be Google-scale in early 2027. It's difficult to know the size of indexes, but we estimate x.com

    Exa is now one of the largest indexes in the world. We serve 80B pages, track 1.4T urls, and are on track to be Google-scale in early 2027. It's difficult to know the size of indexes, but we estimate Google to be ~1T, Bing to be ~500B, and Yandex ~200B. Brave mentioned in

    via Will Bryk @WilliamBryk

  38. CULTURE & OTHER

    Where you been all my life microsoft.github.io

    Where you been all my life

    via Hrishi @hrishioa

  39. AI & AGENTS

    ‘Service-as-a-software’ is here... We moved our entire company brain to GitHub and wired 25+ tools through MCPs. Any one of our 20+ team members can now spin up a contextualized AI assistant in second x.com

    ‘Service-as-a-software’ is here... We moved our entire company brain to GitHub and wired 25+ tools through MCPs. Any one of our 20+ team members can now spin up a contextualized AI assistant in seconds. The system has 5 layers: 1. Markdown company OS ↳ SOPs and campaign

    via Fivos Aresti @fivosaresti

  40. AI & AGENTS

    An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science. We believe it will be a major step openai.com

    An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science. We believe it will be a major step for scientific reasoning.

    via Noam Brown @polynoamial

  41. AI & AGENTS

    Semantica is an open-source alternative to the enterprise intelligence layer that Palantir built. It adds context graphs, explainable reasoning, and a permanent audit trail to AI agent operations. github.com

    Semantica is an open-source alternative to the enterprise intelligence layer that Palantir built. It adds context graphs, explainable reasoning, and a permanent audit trail to AI agent operations.

    via Tom Dörr @tom_doerr

  42. AI & AGENTS

    if you've got a new project here's a pitch for you: go instrument tracing from the beginning do it as correctly as you can (ideally the agents will help, but sentry hasnt released the tools yet here a x.com

    if you've got a new project here's a pitch for you: go instrument tracing from the beginning do it as correctly as you can (ideally the agents will help, but sentry hasnt released the tools yet here and its still rough) you can now answer anything you need about your app. no

    via David Cramer @zeeg

  43. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    Most backend interview questions eventually lead to one of these • REST • gRPC • OAuth • Redis • Kafka • Idempotency • Message Queues • CDN • Rate Limiting • Load Balancers • Database Indexing • Shard x.com

    Most backend interview questions eventually lead to one of these • REST • gRPC • OAuth • Redis • Kafka • Idempotency • Message Queues • CDN • Rate Limiting • Load Balancers • Database Indexing • Sharding • Replication • Circuit Breakers • Webhooks • Connection

    via Umesh Kumar Yadav @Umesh__digital

  44. CULTURE & OTHER

    yeah I'm never going back x.com

    yeah I'm never going back

    via Hewar @byhewar

  45. CULTURE & OTHER

    Midjourney exploration x.com

    Midjourney exploration

    via Hewar @byhewar

  46. AI & AGENTS

    There’s 1 trillion dollars buried in research papers and it’s your job to use Claude/Codex to get it out x.com

    There’s 1 trillion dollars buried in research papers and it’s your job to use Claude/Codex to get it out

    via Jake @JustJake

  47. CULTURE & OTHER

    [1] software factories are super real but we need to be realistic. the factory aspects haven’t been cracked yet, the [3] innovators are toying around with discovering practices and pieces. if someone x.com

    [1] software factories are super real but we need to be realistic. the factory aspects haven’t been cracked yet, the [3] innovators are toying around with discovering practices and pieces. if someone is selling you a factory rn and they aren’t in the super small cohort (ie.

    via geoff @GeoffreyHuntley

  48. PROGRAMMING

    Its tough to be a Java developer these days... x.com

    Its tough to be a Java developer these days...

    via SumitM @SumitM_X

  49. CULTURE & OTHER

    兄弟们,微软居然还搞了这个好东西,值得看看啊! 做零售店、巡检的行业人简直是大喜~ Microsoft扔出一个仅仅4B的流式视觉模型,能实时盯着视频说“什么时候发生了什么”。 Mage-VL是Codec-Native的Streaming VLM,专门做直播式理解。 x.com

    兄弟们,微软居然还搞了这个好东西,值得看看啊! 做零售店、巡检的行业人简直是大喜~ Microsoft扔出一个仅仅4B的流式视觉模型,能实时盯着视频说“什么时候发生了什么”。 Mage-VL是Codec-Native的Streaming VLM,专门做直播式理解。

    via Berryxia.AI @berryxia

  50. AI & AGENTS

    Tutorial de 16 minutos sobre cómo crear sitios web cinematográficos de $50,000 (paso a paso) con Claude Fable 5 Guarda esto antes de que lo pierdas 🔖 x.com

    Tutorial de 16 minutos sobre cómo crear sitios web cinematográficos de $50,000 (paso a paso) con Claude Fable 5 Guarda esto antes de que lo pierdas 🔖

    via Marco @maarcoofdezz