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A Navy SEAL ran 100 miles with no training, broken feet, kidneys shutting down, peeing blood. His conclusion changed how millions train: when your mind says you are done, you are only at 40% of what your body can do. If I wanted to be unbreakable, I would do these 7 things he learned in hell 1. Treat exhaustion as a lie your brain tells you.
Nav Toor1,676,208 Aufrufe • vor 7 Tagen

SOMEONE BUILT WORDLE BUT FOR MINI GOLF AND IT IS QUIETLY BECOMING MY FAVORITE MORNING RITUAL it's called you open the tab and there is one mini golf hole. that's the whole game. one new hole every midnight pacific. same hole for everyone in the world. your first finish counts. you click the ball, drag back like a slingshot, let go. the further you pull, the harder you hit. today's hole is called "Up and around." it's an S-shaped tropical island floating in dark teal water, with cross-barriers and one little wooden ramp that i ricocheted off three times in a row. par 6. at the top of the screen, a live ticker scrolls past in real time: > someone holed 6/6 · par > someone holed 5/6 · birdie > someone holed 11/6 · +5 real strangers are putting on the same hole as you. you can see the ghost rings of where their balls travelled, in cyan and purple and pink. when you finish, you get a wordle-style share card. emoji result. takes one tap to drop into a group chat. PC Gamer just wrote a whole love letter to it. the writer admits they scored a 20 on a par 12. they were thrilled. the developer goes by the 3D models are from Kenney, a guy who has been releasing free CC0 game assets for over a decade. no signup. no account. no tracking. your streak lives in your browser. if you clear your cookies, the streak dies with them. the about page says it in one sentence: "Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific, and your first finish is your score. That's the whole game." we are 35 days into the project and the calendar archive lets you play every single previous hole. i don't know why this is so satisfying. i just know i was supposed to be writing this post and i kept reopening the tab. the internet is healing.
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A 2500-year-old Hindu scripture describes a nuclear weapon. The CEO of Perplexity told Joe Rogan the whole story. Then he spent 2.5 hours revealing how AI will collapse the world you know. If I want to survive the next 10 years, I would do these 9 things he said:
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A GUY AT GOOGLE DEEPMIND MADE AN ISOMETRIC PIXEL-ART MAP OF NEW YORK CITY AND PUT IT ON THE OPEN WEB FOR FREE it's called you open the tab and the city is just sitting there in classic SimCity 2000 isometric pixel art. you scroll. and it keeps going. and going. i zoomed in on midtown and i could read the H&M signage in times square. in red. as actual pixel-art letters on the side of a building. i could see the crystalline spire of the Bank of America Tower poking out of a clump of skyscrapers. individual rooftop HVAC units. tiny green roof gardens. the little driveway loops in front of the hotels. he estimates the map needs roughly 40,000 tiles. nothing is a placeholder. the guy who made it is Andy Coenen, a senior staff engineer at Google DeepMind. he is not a pixel artist. by his own admission he is "a former electronic musician." what he actually did is kind of insane: > pulled NYC's geometry from the Google Maps 3D tiles API > fine-tuned an open-source image model (Qwen-Image-Edit) on ~40 hand-paired examples of "satellite tile → pixel art tile" > spun up 50 parallel instances on rented GPUs and generated tens of thousands of tiles in a few hours > the fine-tune cost him 12 bucks his own stated mission for the project, verbatim, is one sentence: "what's possible now that was impossible before?" apparently the answer is "one engineer can pixel-art most of a metropolis for the price of a sandwich." and the wildest part to me is he didn't sell it. no signup. no paywall. no NFT. you open the URL and the city is yours to wander. the post landed at 1,325 points on Hacker News and topped bestofshowhn's 2026 list. we live in a timeline where a senior engineer at one of the largest AI labs on earth spent his nights pixel-arting Manhattan for fun and then gave it away. the internet is healing.
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SOME GUY BUILT A 24/7 ONLINE RAVE IN YOUR BROWSER AND IT IS COMPLETELY FREE TO ATTEND it's called Hallucinate. you click one link, your browser loads a 3D field at night, and suddenly you are standing in a crowd of hundreds of low-poly strangers dancing under a moon to a youtube video playing on a giant screen. there is no login. there is no wallet. there is no signup. you are just at the rave. the rave has its own keyboard. > 7 and 8 cycle your hair color > 9 and 0 cycle your skin tone > U and I cycle your hair style > L and ; cycle your dance moves > V is the wave emote > B is the bounce emote > SPACE bar is literally labeled "speak" every other person in the room is a real human pressing the same keys, in real time. nobody ever stops dancing because the creator wrote on hacker news: "everybody dancing forever is crucial for the feeling. you don't stop dancing in a rave." the dev who made it goes by the handle stagas. he says the entire thing was "vibe coded in its entirety" by an LLM. the commit messages on the repo are three words long: "cool." "jump jump." "perf." he has about 500 other repos on his github account. the post went up on Show HN two days ago. it is currently sitting at 435 points and 193 comments and the top discussion in the thread is people arguing whether magic numbers in shaders.ts disqualify you from getting a job. we built the global internet so that two strangers across the planet could fall in love or trade stocks or topple regimes. and the very best thing happening on it right now is a thousand cubes dancing forever under a fake moon. the internet is healing.
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A Stanford neuroscientist said something on his podcast that most adults do not want to hear. Heavy phone use can cause adult ADHD in people who never had it. The fix takes 30 days. It costs nothing. Almost no one will try it. 1/ The dopamine reset most adults need.
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Hollywood has a dirty secret. That perfectly clean green screen shot in your favorite Marvel movie? A human being sat in a dark room for 6 hours fixing it frame by frame. The AI keyer got the body. A person painted every strand of hair. By hand. At 2 AM. For 400 frames. The software costs $5,000 a year. And it still cannot key hair. Nuke: $4,988/year. Cannot key hair in motion blur. After Effects: $264/year. Cannot key transparent glass. Boris FX: $1,865. Cannot key fine edges without haloing. The industry's solution for 30 years has been the same: pay for expensive software, then pay a human to fix what the software couldn't. The YouTubers behind Corridor Crew looked at this and asked a different question. What if the AI didn't try to remove the green? What if it figured out what color was actually there before the green contaminated it? They trained a neural network on synthetic 3D data. Not scraped footage. Not stolen clips. Perfectly rendered scenes where every pixel's true color was already known. Hair strands. Motion blur. Transparent glass. All simulated with known ground truth. Then they fed it real green screen footage. It worked. They called it CorridorKey. Then they open sourced it. → Feed it raw green screen footage → AI reconstructs the true foreground color for every pixel → Hair stays perfect. Every strand. → Motion blur stays intact. Every frame. → Transparent glass stays transparent. → 16-bit and 32-bit EXR output. Nuke-ready. Resolve-ready. → Handles 4K natively → Runs on consumer GPUs. 6 GB VRAM minimum. → Runs on Apple Silicon via MLX → Auto-detects green or blue screen → Removes tracking markers automatically → DaVinci Resolve plugin live → Standalone GUI for non-technical users → One-click installer. No Python setup. Here's the wildest part: Within 2.5 months: 13,000+ GitHub stars. 787 forks. Active Discord. Community built a cloud render farm so you can process footage without owning a GPU. DaVinci Resolve plugin shipped. Nuke and After Effects plugins in development. VFX freelancers are already offering CorridorKey-powered services to production companies. One person. One GPU. Hollywood-quality keys. A business built on free software. Nuke: $4,988/year. Still needs manual cleanup. After Effects: $264/year. Still needs manual cleanup. Rotoscope artist: $50 to $150/hour. For the cleanup. CorridorKey: $0. No cleanup needed. One honest flag: the license is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Free forever for personal projects, students, indie films, and learning. Commercial use requires permission from Corridor Digital. They did not pretend it was MIT. A problem that plagued Hollywood for 30 years. Solved by YouTubers. Open sourced for free. 13,000+ stars. 787 forks. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Your footage. Your keys. No rotoscoping.
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🚨 Claude Code costs $200/month. GitHub Copilot costs $19/month. Jack Dorsey's company built a free alternative. 35,000 GitHub stars. It's called Goose. An open source AI agent built by Block that goes beyond code suggestions. It installs, executes, edits, and tests. With any LLM you choose. Not autocomplete. Not suggestions. A full autonomous agent that takes actions on your computer. No vendor lock-in. No monthly subscription. Bring your own model. Here's what Goose does: → Works with ANY LLM. Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama, DeepSeek, Ollama. Your choice. → Reads and understands your entire codebase → Writes, edits, and refactors code across multiple files → Runs shell commands and installs dependencies → Executes and debugs your code automatically → Extensible through MCP. Connect it to any external tool. → Desktop app, CLI, and web interface. Pick your workflow. → Written in Rust. Fast. Lightweight. No bloat. Here's the wildest part: Block is a $40 billion company. They built Cash App, Square, and TIDAL. They use Goose internally. Then they open sourced the entire thing. This isn't a side project from a random developer. This is production-grade tooling from a company that processes billions in payments. Built for their own engineers. Given to everyone. Claude Code: $200/month. Locked to Claude. GitHub Copilot: $19/month. Locked to GitHub. Cursor: $20/month. Locked to their editor. Goose: Free. Any LLM. Any editor. Any workflow. Forever. 35.3K GitHub stars. 3.3K forks. 4,078 commits. Built by Block. 100% Open Source. Apache 2.0 License.
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🚨 Electrical engineers are going to hate this. Someone just turned React into a circuit board factory. Write code. Get a real PCB manufactured and delivered to your door. It's called tscircuit. React for Electronics. No Altium. No $10,000/year licenses. No 6-month learning curve. You write React components. But instead of and , you write , , and . The same way you build a website. That's how you build a circuit board now. Here's what this thing actually does: → Design real circuit boards using TypeScript and React → Edit code in your IDE, watch the circuit update in real time → Auto-generates schematics, PCB layouts, and 3D previews from your code → Automatic part selection and bill of materials generation → Built-in autorouting algorithm for PCB traces → Export to Gerber files and send directly to a manufacturer → Online playground. Design circuits in your browser right now. Here's the wildest part: The creator wrote 40 lines of TypeScript. From that he got a full PCB, a schematic, and a 3D preview. Then he exported it, sent it to a manufacturer, and got a real working circuit board delivered. 40 lines of code. A real physical product. This is free. Write React. Get hardware. $20K+ in bounties already paid to contributors. 8 years in the making. 100% Open Source. MIT License.
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Adobe tried to buy Figma for $20 billion in 2022. The deal collapsed. So Figma went public on the NYSE in July 2025 instead. Ticker FIG. Public company. Quarterly earnings. Wall Street pressure. You know what happens to design tools after they IPO. In March 2025, Figma raised the Professional Full seat 33%. From $15 to $20 a month. Organization seats jumped to $55. Enterprise to $90. Then they took Dev Mode, which was free during beta, and locked it behind a paid seat. Your developers now pay extra to inspect the designs your designers already paid to create. In March 2026, Figma started charging for AI credits on top. If Figma raises prices again, you pay. If Figma gets acquired, you pray. If Figma shuts down, your files die with it. Your design system. On their servers. In a proprietary format only their app can read. To draw rectangles on a screen. There is an open source design platform that runs on your hardware. Stores your files in plain SVG. Costs $0 forever for unlimited users. It is called Penpot. 45,700+ stars on GitHub. A full Figma-grade design platform built on open web standards. Vector editing. Components. Design tokens to W3C spec. Flex and Grid layouts. Real-time multiplayer. Interactive prototyping. Here's what it does: → Real-time collaboration. Live cursors. Comments in line. → Components, variants, shared libraries. → Auto layout, Flex, CSS Grid. The tool outputs production CSS, not lookalike CSS. → Interactive prototypes with overlays, animations, and flows. → Inspect tab. Free. Built in. Every developer grabs production CSS, SVG, HTML without a separate seat. → Plugin ecosystem. Figma import to migrate your files. → Self-host on Docker in one command. Your designs never leave your network. Here's the wildest part: Figma stores your designs in a proprietary format only Figma can read. Penpot files are SVG. The same format your browser has rendered for 25 years. Open them in any editor. Open them in 20 years. Nobody can lock you out. The feature Figma charges your developers extra for, Penpot gives away. Without asking permission. Figma Professional: $20/month per seat. A 10-person team: $2,400/year. Figma Organization: $55/month per Full seat. A 50-person org: $33,000/year. Penpot: $0. Unlimited users. Unlimited files. Unlimited teams. Self-hosted. Free forever. 45,700+ stars. 2,700+ forks. 250+ contributors. MPL-2.0 license. Backed by a community that believes design tools should be free. Your designs. Your files. Your standards. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)
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> go to bed at 11pm > 1am: code agent fixes failing tests > 2am: research agent writes tomorrow's briefing > 3am: numbers agent flags yesterday's anomaly > 4am: briefing agent queues the one decision to make before noon > 6am: inbox agent sorts emails and drafts the urgent replies > 7am: you wake up. everything is done. 9 agents. running every night. while you sleep. $540K of payroll. doing your morning prep. for free. by 7am. this article has every agent file. copy them. schedule them. wake up to the future.
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>be Greg Brockman in 2015 >drop out of MIT. quit Stripe. join a charity to "save humanity from AI." >wire $0. work out of your living room. >get co-founder equity in the for-profit subsidiary >in 2017, journal one line: "Financially, what will take me to $1B?" >that journal gets unsealed by a federal judge in 2026 >walk into court worth $30 billion >Musk's lawyer asks "you just happen to be $30 billion richer?" >reply: "compensation was certainly secondary to the mission." Musk donated $38 million. Brockman donated $0. guess who walked out richer. the OpenAI trial just exposed how a charity built to save humanity quietly minted the 100th-richest person on Earth. every email. every journal entry. every dollar. read this before the verdict rewrites tech for a decade.
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you finished a great book last month. try explaining one chapter right now. you can't. here's why: 20 minutes later: 42% gone 1 hour later: 56% gone 31 days later: 80% gone that's not you being dumb. that's how every human brain works. it's called the forgetting curve. Richard Feynman won a Nobel Prize and fixed this with 4 steps a 12-year-old can follow. I turned those 4 steps into 4 Claude prompts: → prompt 1: find the 5 ideas that actually matter → prompt 2: explain each one like you're teaching a kid → prompt 3: Claude tells you exactly where you got it wrong → prompt 4: lock each idea with a story your brain won't forget reading is proof of attention. explaining is proof of understanding. not the same thing. all 4 prompts are in this article. stop consuming. start explaining.
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TWO EX-OPENAI ENGINEERS BUILT A WEBSITE THAT TELLS YOU HOW FAMOUS YOU ARE TO THE AI. no signup. no login. you type your name and 13 different models cough up everything they remember about you. it is called Are You in the Weights. the second you load the page you get the joke. there is a leaderboard. Messi sits at the top with a score of 996. Charlize Theron at 988. Bette Midler at 986. then there is you, scoring 12, sharing a tier with a 19th century coal miner from Sheffield. the screenshot is the post. you don't have to explain it. > it asks GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Grok 4.20, Gemini 3.1, DeepSeek, Kimi, Llama, Mistral, Qwen, and four more > every model gets a colored bar showing how confidently it knows you > common names break it in the funniest way. type "Karen Mitchell" and the AI stacks two cards on top of each other, one British food author, one American soap actress, neither sure which one you meant > truly obscure names just spin forever while the model tries to decide if you exist > every result has a COPY IMAGE button built in. they want you to share it. made by Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, the two founders of Global Illumination. OpenAI bought their company in 2023. the first acquisition OpenAI ever made. they left this year and the very first thing they shipped is a vanity search engine. Dimson's pitch is darker than it sounds. "being in the weights means your existence was deemed important in the process of creating superhuman artificial intelligence. it's a kind of fame meaning you live on as long as the model does." so go check if you live forever. it takes nine seconds.
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BREAKING: Canva just launched "Canva AI 2.0." It turns a single sentence into a fully branded presentation, social post, or website. It connects to your Gmail, Slack, and Zoom. It works while you sleep. 265 million people use Canva. Most don't know this exists yet. Here's how to use it 👇
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A NEW YORK MOTION DESIGNER 3D-SCANNED HIS BACKYARD AND TURNED IT INTO A WEBSITE. no signup. no install. no app store. you open the link and you are standing in his actual yard, looking down at his actual stump, with his actual axe leaning against it. tap the screen. the axe lifts, swings, and cleaves the log in half. the halves fall to the side. the grain of the wood is visible. a new log appears on the stump. tap again. there is no score. no level. no story. just an infinite loop of splitting wood on a stranger's lawn, rendered well enough that you keep checking if the photo is moving. > he 3D-scanned his real splitting stump > he 3D-scanned the actual piece of wood > he 3D-scanned his own Fiskars X27 axe > he filmed himself splitting logs and used the footage to animate the swing in Cinema 4D > he hosts it on his own personal domain, no ads, no tracker, no nothing his name is Gavin Shapiro. motion designer, New York. he has worked at R/GA, Buck, Brand New School. on his portfolio he says his ultimate goal is to "produce work that makes you smile." so he 3D-scanned his lawn for us. Waxy posted it. Hacker News pushed it to 990 points. r/vibecoding gave the making-of 2,800 upvotes. it has been ten days and the thing is still climbing. the closest thing I have ever felt to chopping wood without leaving the bus. the internet is healing. lawns are healing. tap is healing.
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🚨Those Reddit story videos on TikTok get millions of views. Every single day. Someone automated the entire process. One command. No editing. No assets. No video skills. It's called RedditVideoMakerBot. It grabs a Reddit thread. Screenshots every comment. Adds text-to-speech. Slaps on a background. Renders a complete vertical video. Ready to upload. Here's what happens when you run python main. py: → Pulls a random thread from any subreddit you choose → Grabs the top comments and screenshots each one with Playwright → Converts every comment to speech using text-to-speech → Downloads a background video and chops it at a random point → Stitches everything together with perfectly timed transitions → Outputs a final video ready for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels One command. That's the entire workflow. No video editor. No Premiere Pro. No CapCut. No timeline. No transitions. No exporting. No rendering settings. You run one Python script and get a finished video. Here's the wildest part: The videos this bot creates follow the exact format that dominates short-form content right now. Minecraft parkour background. Reddit screenshot overlay. Robotic voiceover. The formula you've seen hundreds of times in your feed. Now you know how they're made. 10,100 GitHub stars. 2,500 forks. 1,286 commits. GPL-3.0 License. 100% Open Source.
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