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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." This prompt is one I run often and leads to the best results.Replied on X@akshayadinesh19 @bot can we please BYOM for botsLiked on XTo be fair, the Chinese models have a much lower refusal rateLiked on XF*CK IT, im creating a library of AI slop indicators. my feed is full of taste larpers. stay tuned https://t.co/5Muv8nQRm3Liked on XJENSEN! THATS NOT WHAT WE MEANT BY CHINESE MODELS!!!!!!!Liked on Xmy parents had to declare bankruptcy when I was a kid, so they had every reason to pressure me towards a more stable career path instead, they were so patient with me, even as i failed startup after startup for years so getting to tell my mom that everything turned out okay was a really special moment :) for those who can't read Korean, her first message roughly translates to: "Really!!! Congratulations my son. 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!! If you have a cool bio idea, and $5-10k will go a long way for you, please apply!!! https://t.co/NCvmrNC53cLiked on XWe've been early adopters of Rust since 2018 and a lot of our infra, voice tech, and even some of the current client is already Rust, the holy grail was getting the whole client there. That means Electron goes away, and so does React Native, mobile keeps native UI but shares app code with desktop via Rust. We hope to get it into testing with users soon™. (And it's not Tauri, it's GPUI, so good guess everyone.) Alright, back to staring at the WoW Forever login screen.Reposted on XOh boy. https://t.co/X7SSskGuGvLiked on XRIP .si domain squatters
컴퓨터는 향정신성 약물인가

컴퓨터는 향정신성 약물인가

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디지털 중독, 정보 중독이라 말한다면 하루 이틀 일이 아니다. 하지만 여전히 많은 사람들이 정보 중독 문제를 앓고 있다. 디지털 기기를 향정신성 의약품이라고 정의한다면 접근 방식을 조금 달리 할 수 있지 않을까. 대한민국에서 향정신성 의약품은 다음과 같이 정의된다.

제2조(정의) 향정신성의약품이란
① 인간의 중추신경계에 작용하는 것으로서
② 이를 오용하거나 남용할 경우 인체에 심각한 위해가 있다고 인정되는 다음 각 목의 어느 하나에 해당하는 것.

컴퓨터임이 느껴지는가? 몇 가지 관찰을 해보자.

기기 자체의 중독성.

화려한 인터페이스는 중독성을 준다.

알록달록한 색깔과 팝팝 튀는 진동, 부드러운 애니메이션과 지속적인 알림은 우리의 관심을 끊임없이 요구한다.

스크린 타임, 알림 요약, 방해 금지 모드와 색상 필터 (흑백), 애니메이션 비활성화, 진동 비활성화 등의 접근성 기능들을 활용해서 기기의 중독성을 제어하자.

서비스의 중독성.

이를 의존성 설계라고 부른다.

서비스들은 자신들의 수익을 늘리기 위해서 여러 심리적 전략을 사용한다.

즉석 도파민을 제조하는 좋아요부터, 바이럴 콘텐츠, 무한 스크롤, 자동 재생, 개인 맞춤 피드 등이 그 예시이다.

Potential의 "주의력 설정" 제안()에서 이들의 문제와 플랫폼 운영자 입장에서 잠재적 해결 방안을 제안한다.

그렇다면 일반인의 입장에서는 무엇을 할 수 있을까?

우선, 휴대전화에서 이 서비스들을 사용하지 않는다.

휴대전화는 접근성이 너무 좋으며 프로그램을 변조할 수 없어 서비스 제공자가 원하는대로만 앱을 사용할 수 있다.

컴퓨터에서 이 서비스들을 사용하면 확장 프로그램들을 적극적으로 활용해 침략적인 중독성을 조절하자.

핸런의 면도날. 디지털 중독에는 핸런의 면도날이 적용된다. 아주 일부의 사람들이 의도적으로 휴대전화를 중독적으로 만든다고 해도, 그것은 단지 서비스 체류 시간과 수익을 늘리기 위한 근시안적 해결책을 찾은 것뿐, 인간 사고를 잠식하겠다는 악의에서 시작한 것이 아니다. 그들은 그저 멍청했을 뿐이다. 하다 못해 페이스북도 플랫폼을 덜 중독적으로 만드는 것이 장기적으로 더 낫다는 연구 결과를 발표했다.

디지털 중독.

디지털 중독은 스스로 치료할 수 없다는 것을 인지하는 것부터 시작하자.

중독자는 자신이 중독자인지 모른다.

하루하루 중독자의 인생을 살아가면서 오늘의 도즈 「dose」 를 몸에 밀어넣는 삶을 살아갈 뿐이다.

때문에 근처에 누군가 디지털 기기에 대해 문제를 가지고 있는 것 같다면 적극적으로 도와주자.

반대로 이야기하면 내 디지털 체류 시간이 비정상적으로 길게 느껴진다면 아직 나에게는 스스로 해결할 수 있는 희망이 있다는 뜻이다.

더 늦기 전에 적극적으로 관찰하고 대응하자.

근데 넌 컴퓨터과학자잖아?

혹자는 나를 "컴퓨터로 밥벌어먹고 사는 사람이 컴퓨터의 무궁한 발전을 기원하지 않고 이게 무슨 오만함인가!"라고 소프트웨어 엔지니어가 디지털 기기를 거짓되게 비난한다고 얘기할 수 있다. 하지만 하나의 물자체 그 스스로와 그 물자체의 광적 파괴성은 분리되어 고려되는 것이 마땅하다. 나는 주로 이를 원자력에 비유한다. 핵물리학에 매력을 느끼는 과학자가 원자폭탄의 파괴성까지 지지하는 것은 아니다. 마찬가지로, 컴퓨터과학에 매력을 느끼는 엔지니어가 인간의 사고력을 서서히 침식시키는 기계의 조용한 침공까지 지지하는 것은 아니다.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

-- 블레즈 파스칼 (1623-1662)

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