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Liked on XI made a mistake. When Jack and I decided to organize this $100K Hackathon, my biggest concern was cheating. Unlike a regular hackathon, everyone participates from home. And because the winner is whoever makes the most PROFIT (not revenue), there are so many ways to manipulate the numbers. So I added a $99 entry fee. One thing I’ve learned from building businesses is that people tend to be more committed when they pay for something. I thought it would filter out spam, attract serious builders, and make the competition fairer for everyone. But I completely missed the other side. 3 years ago, I was a living with my apps. Today, I’m financially free. My life changed so much that somewhere along the way, I lost perspective on what $99 means to someone else. For someone in India, someone struggling to pay their bills, or someone trying to make their first dollar online, $99 can be a lot of money. And those are exactly the people I want to help! I’ve spent years sharing what I’ve learned, reviewing random people’s landing pages, and organizing free meetups around the world. Not because there’s money to make, but because I genuinely love seeing people build things and succeed. And somehow, I was so focused on keeping cheaters out that I didn’t realize I was also keeping genuine builders out. That’s my mistake. So I’ve decided to make the $100K Hackathon completely FREE :) Everyone who already paid got a full refund. I’m still worried about cheating. That problem hasn’t disappeared, and Jack and I will have to figure out better ways to verify profits and keep the leaderboard fair. But that’s our problem to solve. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Sometimes you need people to remind you of things you’ve forgotten. I genuinely hope this hackathon changes someone’s life. ❤️Liked on XIt’s time to bring back Cafe CursorPosted on Xyo @pendev i can't live share edit a .pen file? it's the most needed featurePosted on XI'm coining a word "Agentsplaining" Agents condescendingly assuming the user don't know fuck and repeating the obviousReplied on X@jayhxmo @raycast Hard to explain. It's the small detailsPosted on X@raycast iOS keyboard is insanely good. Might resub Raycast pro just cuz of thisReplied on X@ishuagra02 I saw a theory that F5.2 is a post train of 5.1, but O5.5 is a distillation of F5.5(unreleased new pretrain) and thats why O5.5 > F5.2Liked on X@anaclumos don't know what is actually improved 👀Posted on Xam i the only one underimpressed with 5.2 fableReplied on X@bvvst great minds think alike https://t.co/YRFWhb1mcOLiked on XClaude Fable 5.2 is out and it's the perfect time to run this god-level prompt on your codebase: "I want you to audit our codebase, is anything here unnecessary, overly complicated in our current setup, or based on weak assumptions? Challenge them. - What can be deleted entirely? - What can be simplified now that unnecessary pieces are gone? Then make the changes. Prefer deleting over simplifying, simplifying over optimizing, and optimizing over automating. This product is being used by thousands of customers, do not cut any corners." 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So much :') Thank you God!" i know I've been posting about my exit for like a week now, but it really is a big deal for me and my family! i'll share more about how this all happened and some tactical advice later this week, but for now i'm just riding out all the emotions to quote my mom, thank you God!!!!Liked on X@thefarmers_Dog it stands for Egg GzampleLiked on X🦍 Introducing Memorilla: memory as a modality for LLMs Memorilla turns everything a frozen LLM needs to remember into just 16 memory embeddings ⚡ It uses up to 4,212× fewer tokens and is 27× faster than full context inference while more accurate 🎯 Pushes the Pareto frontier over RAG and agentic memory in personalization, long-document and knowledge QA A thread 🧵:Liked on XThere's a huge product opportunity downstream of Tailscale etc too. At @tldraw we've started designing for "high trust networks" and it's been a beautiful thing. 1. Features that would be a nightmare on the internet are okay on my computer and mostly okay on private networks. Websites that execute user-generated scripts, control production systems, allow for users to send desktop notifications, spend tokens, or directly prompt my agent. Crazy stuff that would only make sense if everyone was in a committed polycule. 2. When everyone on the server can be trusted to have _external_ reasons for good behavior (eg keeping their job, or maintaining friends, family, church, mafia org), the software can be designed in a default social way. Most apps default to isolation, low horizontal visibility, highly restricted collaboration. Makes sense if the social contracts are inside of the app, but if you can trust that they live outside of the app then you can get wild. Example being small group chat names as an emergent comedy phenomenon because anyone in the group can change the name. 3. This can work for commercial products, too, not just internal stuff. Security matters more than ever but the way we've seen that manifest is that more companies are more confident in their own solutions than anything we could provide, to the point where owning data and access is a better value proposition than having it managed. Always has been true for big companies but now even small companies can get a good secure network set up pretty easily, and the hooks we need to build are easy enough. tldraw offline got us started down this road (and shout out to @pendev for first introducing me to the idea of desktop + mcp). We've been bringing that product to private networks and it's been exciting to see how much we can get away with. Keep an eye outReplied on X@saradu birds eye viewLiked on XApplications close in 2 days!! 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역사의 종말 오류 (에세이)

역사의 종말 오류 (에세이)

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역사 속 중세는 언제 끝날까? 중학생 조성현을 사로잡았던 주제 중 하나다. 가 중세를 보던 시선과, 지금 우리가 르네상스를 보는 시선이 얼마나 닮았는지 살펴보자.

중세는 고대의 영광과 르네상스의 지적 재탄생 사이에 끼어 있다고 여겨지는 9세기에서 15세기 사이를 가리키는 말이다. 중세(라틴어로 medium aevum, middle ages)라는 말 자체가, 그리스와 로마 고전 문명에 대한 관심이 다시 높아지던 르네상스 시대에 만들어졌다. 르네상스 학자들은 스스로를 고전 지식의 계승자라고 생각했고, 고대와 자기들 사이에 낀 시기를 문화가 멈추고 쇠퇴한 시기로 봤다. 그래서 고대 세계나 자기 시대에 비해 위대한 업적도, 지적 역량도 모자랐다고 본 이 시기에 중세, 그러니까 '중간 시대'라는 이름을 붙였다. 이 이름은 그대로 굳었고, 지금도 르네상스 학자들의 원래 시선이 꽤 무겁게 남아 있다. 근데 역사가들이 이 시대를 더 깊이 파고들어 보니, 중세는 암흑과 무지의 시대와는 거리가 멀었다. 과학, 기술, 철학, 예술 같은 여러 분야에서 상당한 발전이 있었고, 대학이 세워지고 고전 문학이 번성했다. 중세 학자들도 르네상스 학자들처럼 고전 지식을 지키고 퍼뜨리는 데 한몫했다. 토마스 아퀴나스, 로저 베이컨, 빙겐의 힐데가르트 같은 사람들은 서양 사상의 흐름을 만들면서 그들만의 지적 돌파구를 열었다.

아이러니하게도, 르네상스가 중세를 깔봤던 것처럼 지금 우리가 르네상스를 보는 시선도 비슷하다. 16세기의 예술적, 문화적 공헌은 인정하지만, 과학과 공학 방법론, 인간 사회의 정의, 정치적으로 덜 자란 시민 사회를 보면서 끝없이 비판한다. 르네상스 시대에 나온 인문주의 운동은 고전 텍스트 연구와 지식 추구에 큰 비중을 뒀는데, 이 운동도 아리스토텔레스나 프톨레마이오스 같은 존경받는 인물의 권위에 너무 기댄 나머지 새로운 과학 방법론이 자라는 걸 막았다. 경험적 조사, 회의주의, 과학적 방법처럼 권위 있는 텍스트보다 증거에 기반한 추론과 실험을 중시하는 지금 관점에서 보면, 르네상스는 현대 과학 탐구의 엄격함과 정확성이 빠진 시대다. 게다가 르네상스의 공학적 업적은 당시엔 대단했지만 현대 기술에 비하면 미미하다. 성 베드로 대성당 같은 16세기 건축은 우주 정거장이나 대형 강입자 충돌기 옆에 서면 초라하기 짝이 없다. 이런 의미에서 르네상스는 고대의 기술과 지금의 혁신 사이에 끼어 있는, 그 자체로 중세다.

다시 생각해 보면 2500년쯤엔 우리도 결국 중세가 된다. 우리는 인간 과학 기술의 꼭대기에 올랐다고 생각하지만, 역사는 늘 주관적이고 상대적이다. 중세와 르네상스, 그리고 지금 시대를 보는 시선들을 나란히 놓고 보면, 인류 역사가 얼마나 복잡하게 얽혀 있는지 새삼 알게 된다.

우리도 마찬가지다

우리는 종종 자기 성장의 끝에 거의 다 왔고, 앞으로 크게 달라지지 않을 거라고 생각한다. 새로 시작하기엔 너무 늦었다고 생각한다. 근데 오늘도 훗날의 중세가 된다는 걸 기억하자. .

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