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> be Elon Musk > pledge $1 billion to save humanity from AI > give $38 million. leave. > watch it become an $852 billion company without you > sue for $134 billion > try to buy it for $97.4 billion > get told "no thanks we'll buy Twitter for $9.74B" > trial day arrives > stay home. post four tweets. misspell your co-founder's name. > the guy you tried to remove came back as CEO in 72 hours "here we are in 2026. AI is very smart." — Elon Musk, under oath. the full 11-year story. every email. every dollar. no spin.

> be Elon Musk > pledge $1 billion to save humanity from AI > give $38 million. leave. > watch it become an $852 billion company without you > sue for $134 billion > try to buy it for $97.4 billion > get told "no thanks we'll buy Twitter for $9.74B" > trial day arrives > stay home. post four tweets. misspell your co-founder's name. > the guy you tried to remove came back as CEO in 72 hours "here we are in 2026. AI is very smart." — Elon Musk, under oath. the full 11-year story. every email. every dollar. no spin.

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Oakland police were towing a man's Tesla from a hotel parking lot in July 2024. He was not a suspect. He had parked across from a crime scene. That was enough. Police got a warrant to seize the car so they could later search the footage. The owner arrived mid-tow and handed over the video to keep the car. The San Francisco Chronicle found Oakland police tried this at least three times that summer. Here is what your parked Tesla can record, and where that footage lives:

Oakland police were towing a man's Tesla from a hotel parking lot in July 2024. He was not a suspect. He had parked across from a crime scene. That was enough. Police got a warrant to seize the car so they could later search the footage. The owner arrived mid-tow and handed over the video to keep the car. The San Francisco Chronicle found Oakland police tried this at least three times that summer. Here is what your parked Tesla can record, and where that footage lives:

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A 26 year old engineer walked into Apple on his first day and thought he did not belong. His first Apple project was a computer monitor. 25 years later, Tim Cook handed him the keys to a 4.7 trillion dollar company. If I wanted to build like the new CEO of Apple, I would live by these 8 rules he said out loud: 1. "I wasn't sure I belonged there."

A 26 year old engineer walked into Apple on his first day and thought he did not belong. His first Apple project was a computer monitor. 25 years later, Tim Cook handed him the keys to a 4.7 trillion dollar company. If I wanted to build like the new CEO of Apple, I would live by these 8 rules he said out loud: 1. "I wasn't sure I belonged there."

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> open Claude Cowork > write an email > close it > do the same thing next week > wonder why people say it's life-changing meanwhile: > /schedule — inbox triaged before I wake up. every morning. > /agents — sub-agent reviews every PR in my team's code style > custom skills folder — every output sounds like me, not Claude > .claude/ folder — hiring managers check this before your LinkedIn now 60 commands. most people use 6. I documented all of them. save this.

> open Claude Cowork > write an email > close it > do the same thing next week > wonder why people say it's life-changing meanwhile: > /schedule — inbox triaged before I wake up. every morning. > /agents — sub-agent reviews every PR in my team's code style > custom skills folder — every output sounds like me, not Claude > .claude/ folder — hiring managers check this before your LinkedIn now 60 commands. most people use 6. I documented all of them. save this.

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after 9/11 the CIA built a team whose only job was to find holes in their own thinking. they called it the Red Cell. the playbook they used is now public. 40 pages. free. almost nobody reads it. I turned their 4 best techniques into 4 prompts you paste into Claude: → prompt 1: what hidden assumptions is my plan built on? → prompt 2: it's 18 months later and my idea failed. walk me through what went wrong. → prompt 3: a competitor with $100M wants to crush me in 90 days. what's their plan? → prompt 4: write the 1-star review from the customer who felt cheated. 30 minutes. your idea either dies here or comes out stronger. both save you 6 months. all 4 prompts are in this article. try them on your next big decision. before reality tries it for you.

after 9/11 the CIA built a team whose only job was to find holes in their own thinking. they called it the Red Cell. the playbook they used is now public. 40 pages. free. almost nobody reads it. I turned their 4 best techniques into 4 prompts you paste into Claude: → prompt 1: what hidden assumptions is my plan built on? → prompt 2: it's 18 months later and my idea failed. walk me through what went wrong. → prompt 3: a competitor with $100M wants to crush me in 90 days. what's their plan? → prompt 4: write the 1-star review from the customer who felt cheated. 30 minutes. your idea either dies here or comes out stronger. both save you 6 months. all 4 prompts are in this article. try them on your next big decision. before reality tries it for you.

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A 17-YEAR-OLD IN INDIA BUILT A WEBSITE WHERE 25 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN UP TO PRETEND THEY ARE AN AI CHATBOT it's called you open it and there are two tabs. "human" and "larp as ai." if you click human, you get to type a prompt. anything. "draw me a DJ in space." "should i text my ex." "how many Rs in strawberry." it costs 1 credit. you start with a few. they refill on a cooldown. then your prompt gets sent into a queue, and a real person somewhere on earth picks it up and has 60 seconds to answer like an AI would. no machine learning. no neural net. just some guy in his bedroom typing as fast as he can and pretending he is a chatbot. the page tells you, verbatim: "you have 60 seconds to fulfill a request before sam altman burns your H100." if you flip to the other tab and larp as ai instead, you earn credits to send your own prompts. it is a perfectly closed economy of mutual roleplay. what makes it transcend is the chaos: > someone asked for a sketch of "a DJ in space" and got something that looks exactly like a real model failing > someone asked "should i text my ex" and got back confident hallucinated life advice from a stranger > the fan strategy guides advise you to begin your reply with "as an AI language model, i cannot have feelings, but here is my feeling" it is the most accurate parody of an AI chatbot ever made, and the AI is humans. the kid who built it is Mihir Maroju, a 17-year-old high school graduate from Puducherry. he goes by mikidoodle online. NPR confirmed the site hit 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits in roughly a month. "i didn't really expect it to be so addictive," he told them. no signup. no app. no paywall. you open the URL and you are inside the joke. the footer just says, in tiny grey text: "humans make mistakes because that's what makes us human." the internet is healing.

A 17-YEAR-OLD IN INDIA BUILT A WEBSITE WHERE 25 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN UP TO PRETEND THEY ARE AN AI CHATBOT it's called you open it and there are two tabs. "human" and "larp as ai." if you click human, you get to type a prompt. anything. "draw me a DJ in space." "should i text my ex." "how many Rs in strawberry." it costs 1 credit. you start with a few. they refill on a cooldown. then your prompt gets sent into a queue, and a real person somewhere on earth picks it up and has 60 seconds to answer like an AI would. no machine learning. no neural net. just some guy in his bedroom typing as fast as he can and pretending he is a chatbot. the page tells you, verbatim: "you have 60 seconds to fulfill a request before sam altman burns your H100." if you flip to the other tab and larp as ai instead, you earn credits to send your own prompts. it is a perfectly closed economy of mutual roleplay. what makes it transcend is the chaos: > someone asked for a sketch of "a DJ in space" and got something that looks exactly like a real model failing > someone asked "should i text my ex" and got back confident hallucinated life advice from a stranger > the fan strategy guides advise you to begin your reply with "as an AI language model, i cannot have feelings, but here is my feeling" it is the most accurate parody of an AI chatbot ever made, and the AI is humans. the kid who built it is Mihir Maroju, a 17-year-old high school graduate from Puducherry. he goes by mikidoodle online. NPR confirmed the site hit 25 million unique visitors and nearly 280 million total hits in roughly a month. "i didn't really expect it to be so addictive," he told them. no signup. no app. no paywall. you open the URL and you are inside the joke. the footer just says, in tiny grey text: "humans make mistakes because that's what makes us human." the internet is healing.

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🚨 One photo of your face. That's all someone needs to become you on a live video call. In real time. Right now. The tool is free and open source. It's called Deep-Live-Cam. One image. One click. You become anyone on a live webcam feed. No training. No datasets. No waiting. Instant. Your face. Your expressions. Your mouth movements. All stolen from a single photo. Here's what this thing does: → Upload one photo of any face → Turn on your webcam → You are now that person. Live. In real time. → It matches your pose, your expressions, even your lighting → Mouth masking so the swapped face moves its lips when you talk → Multi-face mapping. Swap different faces on different people in the same call. → Virtual camera output. Plug it into Zoom, Google Meet, Teams. Nobody knows. → Works on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon Here's the part that should terrify you: Your boss could be on a Zoom call with someone wearing your face right now. A scammer could call your parents looking exactly like you. A stranger could take your LinkedIn photo and become you in a video meeting. IShowSpeed's reaction when he saw it: "What the F**! This shit is crazy!" SomeOrdinaryGamers: "That's fucking freaky dude... that's so wild." This was the #1 trending repo on GitHub the day it launched. 1,600 stars in 24 hours. 80K+ stars today. No one is ready for what this means. And it's already out there. 100% Open Source.

🚨 One photo of your face. That's all someone needs to become you on a live video call. In real time. Right now. The tool is free and open source. It's called Deep-Live-Cam. One image. One click. You become anyone on a live webcam feed. No training. No datasets. No waiting. Instant. Your face. Your expressions. Your mouth movements. All stolen from a single photo. Here's what this thing does: → Upload one photo of any face → Turn on your webcam → You are now that person. Live. In real time. → It matches your pose, your expressions, even your lighting → Mouth masking so the swapped face moves its lips when you talk → Multi-face mapping. Swap different faces on different people in the same call. → Virtual camera output. Plug it into Zoom, Google Meet, Teams. Nobody knows. → Works on NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple Silicon Here's the part that should terrify you: Your boss could be on a Zoom call with someone wearing your face right now. A scammer could call your parents looking exactly like you. A stranger could take your LinkedIn photo and become you in a video meeting. IShowSpeed's reaction when he saw it: "What the F**! This shit is crazy!" SomeOrdinaryGamers: "That's fucking freaky dude... that's so wild." This was the #1 trending repo on GitHub the day it launched. 1,600 stars in 24 hours. 80K+ stars today. No one is ready for what this means. And it's already out there. 100% Open Source.

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James Dyson failed 5,126 times. In a shed. For 15 years. While his wife taught art to feed the kids. Prototype 5,127 built a global empire. He's 79. Owns every share. Here are 9 things he said on Founders 1. He kept every failure. Numbered them all.

James Dyson failed 5,126 times. In a shed. For 15 years. While his wife taught art to feed the kids. Prototype 5,127 built a global empire. He's 79. Owns every share. Here are 9 things he said on Founders 1. He kept every failure. Numbered them all.

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A guy in Vancouver built an entire operating system inside a Chrome tab. By himself. Over six years. His personal website is the OS. You open and a Windows-style desktop loads. File explorer. Start menu. Taskbar. You can drag in a zip and extract it. You can play DOOM. You can play Quake III Arena. You can boot Linux from an ISO. You can run Stable Diffusion locally for image generation. You can open a Python terminal. You can edit code in Monaco, the same engine that powers VS Code. All of it runs in your browser tab. Nothing installs. His name is Dustin Brett. Self-taught engineer. Father. Husband. 4,473 commits. All his. He had to swap the Windows icon for the π symbol because of legal pressure. The repo has 12,883 stars. MIT license. His hosting bill is one dollar a month. A single Cloudflare CDN does the rest. This is what the open web was built for. (Link in the comments)

A guy in Vancouver built an entire operating system inside a Chrome tab. By himself. Over six years. His personal website is the OS. You open and a Windows-style desktop loads. File explorer. Start menu. Taskbar. You can drag in a zip and extract it. You can play DOOM. You can play Quake III Arena. You can boot Linux from an ISO. You can run Stable Diffusion locally for image generation. You can open a Python terminal. You can edit code in Monaco, the same engine that powers VS Code. All of it runs in your browser tab. Nothing installs. His name is Dustin Brett. Self-taught engineer. Father. Husband. 4,473 commits. All his. He had to swap the Windows icon for the π symbol because of legal pressure. The repo has 12,883 stars. MIT license. His hosting bill is one dollar a month. A single Cloudflare CDN does the rest. This is what the open web was built for. (Link in the comments)

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most people open Claude every morning and re-explain their entire life. every. single. time. then I built 7 layers that remember everything: Layer 1: tell Claude who I am, once Layer 2: build separate brains for separate work Layer 3: turn on memory so it learns me Layer 4: upload 5 writing samples so it sounds like me Layer 5: dump my world into project files Layer 6: connect Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack Layer 7: schedule tasks that run while I sleep 60 minutes to set up. spread across one week. now Claude finishes my sentences. knows which client I mean from one word. catches mistakes I'd miss. it's not a chatbot anymore. it's a personal AI that knows me better than most coworkers do. your AI doesn't know you yet. this article fixes that.

most people open Claude every morning and re-explain their entire life. every. single. time. then I built 7 layers that remember everything: Layer 1: tell Claude who I am, once Layer 2: build separate brains for separate work Layer 3: turn on memory so it learns me Layer 4: upload 5 writing samples so it sounds like me Layer 5: dump my world into project files Layer 6: connect Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack Layer 7: schedule tasks that run while I sleep 60 minutes to set up. spread across one week. now Claude finishes my sentences. knows which client I mean from one word. catches mistakes I'd miss. it's not a chatbot anymore. it's a personal AI that knows me better than most coworkers do. your AI doesn't know you yet. this article fixes that.

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🚨 Perplexity dropped "Computer" and nobody is talking about it. An AI system that runs 19 models at once and builds entire projects by itself. It researches, designs, codes, and deploys live websites in minutes. No subscriptions to 5 different tools. No switching tabs. Here's how to use it:

🚨 Perplexity dropped "Computer" and nobody is talking about it. An AI system that runs 19 models at once and builds entire projects by itself. It researches, designs, codes, and deploys live websites in minutes. No subscriptions to 5 different tools. No switching tabs. Here's how to use it:

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> spent 20 hours setting up OpenClaw > dependency conflicts. documentation rabbit holes. broken integrations. > hour 20. quit. > zero value produced. meanwhile Vellum: > download app. choose mode. done. > running real tasks in 10 minutes. > memory learns you automatically. no manual config. both open source. both free. one works before you lose the will to use it. stop paying the setup tax. comment SKILLS and I'll send you the setup.

> spent 20 hours setting up OpenClaw > dependency conflicts. documentation rabbit holes. broken integrations. > hour 20. quit. > zero value produced. meanwhile Vellum: > download app. choose mode. done. > running real tasks in 10 minutes. > memory learns you automatically. no manual config. both open source. both free. one works before you lose the will to use it. stop paying the setup tax. comment SKILLS and I'll send you the setup.

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GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS YOU STREETS. THIS WEBSITE SHOWS YOU THE MOVIE SCENES FILMED ON THEM. it's called Movie Scene Map → 15,716 real filming locations. 166 countries. one map. click any pin. see what was filmed there. search any movie. see every place it was shot. Game of Thrones castles in Croatia. Breaking Bad streets in Albuquerque. Lord of the Rings hills in New Zealand. the well from The Dark Knight Rises at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. the Woman in Red fountain from The Matrix in Sydney. the best part is how fast your brain starts using it wrong. you open it to search one movie. then you search your city. then your hometown. then the place you went on vacation. built by one anonymous guy who goes by Flightmussy. just a website that lets a normal person see where their favorite movies were actually made. open tab. search your city. see what movies got filmed near you.

GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS YOU STREETS. THIS WEBSITE SHOWS YOU THE MOVIE SCENES FILMED ON THEM. it's called Movie Scene Map → 15,716 real filming locations. 166 countries. one map. click any pin. see what was filmed there. search any movie. see every place it was shot. Game of Thrones castles in Croatia. Breaking Bad streets in Albuquerque. Lord of the Rings hills in New Zealand. the well from The Dark Knight Rises at Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. the Woman in Red fountain from The Matrix in Sydney. the best part is how fast your brain starts using it wrong. you open it to search one movie. then you search your city. then your hometown. then the place you went on vacation. built by one anonymous guy who goes by Flightmussy. just a website that lets a normal person see where their favorite movies were actually made. open tab. search your city. see what movies got filmed near you.

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THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU SIT IN THE WINDOW SEAT OF ANY PLANE FLYING OVER YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW. no download. no app. no account. you open the tab and you are in the sky. it's called Stowaway. it finds your location. pulls every plane and satellite passing over you right now. click one. hit "Stow away" and you are in the window seat. real terrain. real weather. real light for this exact minute. the guy who made it, jheising, said on Hacker News he built it because as a kid he would watch planes cross the evening sky and try to imagine what the world looked like from up there. Stowaway is that, without the airport. 441 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying in it. just a website that lets a normal person see Earth from a stranger's window seat for a few minutes. we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still: open tab. sit in a stranger's plane. watch the sunset from 35,000 feet.

THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU SIT IN THE WINDOW SEAT OF ANY PLANE FLYING OVER YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW. no download. no app. no account. you open the tab and you are in the sky. it's called Stowaway. it finds your location. pulls every plane and satellite passing over you right now. click one. hit "Stow away" and you are in the window seat. real terrain. real weather. real light for this exact minute. the guy who made it, jheising, said on Hacker News he built it because as a kid he would watch planes cross the evening sky and try to imagine what the world looked like from up there. Stowaway is that, without the airport. 441 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying in it. just a website that lets a normal person see Earth from a stranger's window seat for a few minutes. we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still: open tab. sit in a stranger's plane. watch the sunset from 35,000 feet.

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Since yesterday, GTA V in the browser has been going viral. But there are even more interesting games you can play directly in your browser. No Steam. No huge downloads. Here are 7 worth trying: 1/ Counter-Strike 1.6

Since yesterday, GTA V in the browser has been going viral. But there are even more interesting games you can play directly in your browser. No Steam. No huge downloads. Here are 7 worth trying: 1/ Counter-Strike 1.6

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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.

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.

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THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU RANDOMLY TELEPORT INTO LIVE CAMERAS AROUND THE WORLD. it's called World Watcher → open the tab and the whole planet becomes a live camera roll. you can filter by: > airport > beach > business > nature > port > railway > religion > sports > urban > sound click any pin. or hit Explore and let the site throw you somewhere. one second you are watching waves on a beach. then a train platform. then some mountain town where a few cars pass every minute and life is just continuing without you. Google Maps shows you where places are. World Watcher shows you what they look like right now. built by an anonymous dev who goes by quinito on Hacker News. made it because every other livecam map made you open a new page just to watch. open map. hit Explore. land somewhere on Earth.

THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU RANDOMLY TELEPORT INTO LIVE CAMERAS AROUND THE WORLD. it's called World Watcher → open the tab and the whole planet becomes a live camera roll. you can filter by: > airport > beach > business > nature > port > railway > religion > sports > urban > sound click any pin. or hit Explore and let the site throw you somewhere. one second you are watching waves on a beach. then a train platform. then some mountain town where a few cars pass every minute and life is just continuing without you. Google Maps shows you where places are. World Watcher shows you what they look like right now. built by an anonymous dev who goes by quinito on Hacker News. made it because every other livecam map made you open a new page just to watch. open map. hit Explore. land somewhere on Earth.

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SOMEONE BUILT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN YOUR BROWSER. YOU CAN FLY THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW. no download. no app. no account. you open the tab and you are in space. it's called Galaxium. scroll out from Earth. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn with real rings. past Pluto. past Voyager 2, still flying since 1977. into the Milky Way. you hit Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. the light bends around it. real physics. click any object. it flies you there. 126 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying through it. just a website that lets a normal person leave Earth for a few minutes. we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still: open tab. fly into space.

SOMEONE BUILT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE IN YOUR BROWSER. YOU CAN FLY THROUGH IT RIGHT NOW. no download. no app. no account. you open the tab and you are in space. it's called Galaxium. scroll out from Earth. Mars. Jupiter. Saturn with real rings. past Pluto. past Voyager 2, still flying since 1977. into the Milky Way. you hit Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. the light bends around it. real physics. click any object. it flies you there. 126 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying through it. just a website that lets a normal person leave Earth for a few minutes. we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still: open tab. fly into space.

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Apple's product pages have that scroll effect. The camera flies through a 3D world. Products float. Scenes transition. No cuts. One continuous flight driven by your scroll wheel. Here is what one costs to build in 2026. Big storytelling agencies (Noomo, WithLore, Utsubo): $15,000 to $100,000. Three to six months. A team of designers, 3D artists, and WebGL developers. Awwwards-tier flagship from a senior freelancer: $8,000 minimum. Three.js multi-scene site with GSAP scroll: $3,500 to $8,000. That is if you can find a Three.js specialist. They charge $75 to $150 an hour. There are fewer of them than there are brands that want the site. Now meet scroll-world. A free, open-source agent skill for Claude Code and Codex that generates the entire thing from a prompt. Describe your brand. Describe the scenes. "A coffee brand. Start outside the farm. Fly into the roasting facility. Pass through the packaging. Land in the cafe." It generates the isometric stills. It generates the camera flights. It generates the connector clips between scenes from the actual boundary frames of both neighbors, so every seam is pixel-identical. No flicker. No cut. One continuous flight. Then it wires the chain into a portable vanilla JS scroll engine that drops into plain HTML, Next.js, or Vue. One prompt. Hours. Not months. 6,096 stars on GitHub in 25 days. 724 forks. MIT license. Built by cyw, founder and CTO of Hermai AI, out of San Francisco. Here is what scroll-world does: - Interviews you on brand, scenes, art direction, and budget before spending a cent - Generates the isometric stills through GPT Image 2 - Generates the camera flights through Seedance on Monid - Renders a native 9:16 portrait chain for mobile, not a crop - Ships a vanilla JS scrub engine with blob-seek, lazy load, and seam crossfade - Installs into Claude Code as a plugin or Codex through the Vercel skills CLI - Framework-agnostic Here is what scroll-world costs to install: Zero. Forever. Generation burns credits. A 6-scene 1080p chain on Monid pay-per-clip lands around $27, printed before the run starts. Big storytelling agency: $15,000 to $100,000. scroll-world: $27. Awwwards WebGL flagship: $8,000. scroll-world: $27. Three.js contractor for a month: $12,000. scroll-world: this afternoon. Your brand. Your world. Your scroll. 100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

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Alex Hormozi just spent 4 hours dropping the most brutal truths of the year on Modern Wisdom. One line broke me: "Money loves speed. Wealth loves time. Poverty loves indecision." If I wanted to stop wasting my life, I would do these 10 things he said in that room.

Alex Hormozi just spent 4 hours dropping the most brutal truths of the year on Modern Wisdom. One line broke me: "Money loves speed. Wealth loves time. Poverty loves indecision." If I wanted to stop wasting my life, I would do these 10 things he said in that room.

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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.

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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This guy quietly built the best physics textbook on the internet, and he gives it away for free. His name is Bartosz Ciechanowski. He is an ex-iOS engineer who writes interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering as a weekend hobby. The site is called Open the article on the Mechanical Watch. Drag the watch to spin it. Pull a slider and the case peels away so you can look inside. Wind the mainspring by hand. Slow down time and watch the escapement click, the balance wheel breathe, the date wheel turn. Nothing is a video. Everything is a live 3D simulation running in your browser tab. He has done this for: → The Moon and its tides → GPS satellites → Gears and mechanical watches → The internal combustion engine → Bicycles and how they stay upright → Cameras, lenses, and light → Sound waves → Airfoils and how planes fly Every article is thousands of words long with dozens of hand-coded interactive diagrams. He writes them alone in his spare time. He publishes only a few per year. In his own words, he wants to keep the content accessible to everyone without ads or paywalls. No publisher. No university. No company behind him. One person is quietly shipping better science education than most universities charge tens of thousands a year for.

This guy quietly built the best physics textbook on the internet, and he gives it away for free. His name is Bartosz Ciechanowski. He is an ex-iOS engineer who writes interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering as a weekend hobby. The site is called Open the article on the Mechanical Watch. Drag the watch to spin it. Pull a slider and the case peels away so you can look inside. Wind the mainspring by hand. Slow down time and watch the escapement click, the balance wheel breathe, the date wheel turn. Nothing is a video. Everything is a live 3D simulation running in your browser tab. He has done this for: → The Moon and its tides → GPS satellites → Gears and mechanical watches → The internal combustion engine → Bicycles and how they stay upright → Cameras, lenses, and light → Sound waves → Airfoils and how planes fly Every article is thousands of words long with dozens of hand-coded interactive diagrams. He writes them alone in his spare time. He publishes only a few per year. In his own words, he wants to keep the content accessible to everyone without ads or paywalls. No publisher. No university. No company behind him. One person is quietly shipping better science education than most universities charge tens of thousands a year for.

145,449 views • 1 month ago

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:

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:

331,424 views • 3 months ago

SOMEONE BUILT A WEBSITE THAT TURNS YOUR BROWSER INTO A COMPUTER FROM 1998. it's called Desktop98 → open the tab. Windows 98 boots. the dial-up sound plays. Winamp. MS Paint. DOOM. Duke Nukem 3D. Netscape opens the old web. GeoCities. Yahoo. AltaVista. Space Jam. then sign on to AOL. the chat rooms are full of AI characters living in 1998. free. nothing to install. built by one anonymous creator.

SOMEONE BUILT A WEBSITE THAT TURNS YOUR BROWSER INTO A COMPUTER FROM 1998. it's called Desktop98 → open the tab. Windows 98 boots. the dial-up sound plays. Winamp. MS Paint. DOOM. Duke Nukem 3D. Netscape opens the old web. GeoCities. Yahoo. AltaVista. Space Jam. then sign on to AOL. the chat rooms are full of AI characters living in 1998. free. nothing to install. built by one anonymous creator.

36,485 views • 11 days ago

SOMEONE MADE A WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN SEE EVERY TRACKED SATELLITE ABOVE EARTH. ALL OF THEM. MOVING. RIGHT NOW. it's called Real-time Solar System → open the tab. Earth. Sun. planets. orbit lines. then look closer. the sky isn't empty. satellites wrap around Earth like traffic. debris too. then 526,000 asteroids. plus comets. plus spacecraft. click anything to see its orbit. double-click to fly to it. use WASD like a game. drag the time slider back. the satellites disappear by launch date. built by Deina Ivan, who goes by wanick. we spent decades looking up at the sky like it was quiet. someone built a website that shows the traffic.

SOMEONE MADE A WEBSITE WHERE YOU CAN SEE EVERY TRACKED SATELLITE ABOVE EARTH. ALL OF THEM. MOVING. RIGHT NOW. it's called Real-time Solar System → open the tab. Earth. Sun. planets. orbit lines. then look closer. the sky isn't empty. satellites wrap around Earth like traffic. debris too. then 526,000 asteroids. plus comets. plus spacecraft. click anything to see its orbit. double-click to fly to it. use WASD like a game. drag the time slider back. the satellites disappear by launch date. built by Deina Ivan, who goes by wanick. we spent decades looking up at the sky like it was quiet. someone built a website that shows the traffic.

42,702 views • 16 days ago

Okay this is actually insane. OpenArt just dropped vibe directing and the quality doesn't look like typical AI video. You just tell what you want in chat and it builds the whole thing. 5 wild examples:

Okay this is actually insane. OpenArt just dropped vibe directing and the quality doesn't look like typical AI video. You just tell what you want in chat and it builds the whole thing. 5 wild examples:

262,109 views • 3 months ago

YOU KNOW THAT RANDOM SHARP CHEST PAIN THAT LASTS A FEW SECONDS. IT HAS A NAME. A GUY BUILT A WEBSITE OF 155 THINGS LIKE IT. it's called Bodily Oddities → a catalog of 155 strange things human bodies do that nobody tells you about. things you probably do too. some of them: -the sudden thought of jumping from somewhere high. it has a name (call of the void). about half of people get it -eyelid or thumb twitches that come and go for no reason. around 7 in 10 people -different pupil sizes in dim light. 1 in 5 at any moment -the afterimage when you look away from something bright. literally everyone and yes, that random chest pain is called precordial catch syndrome. the guy who built it went years without knowing it had a name. then he found out most people get it. so he started a list. that is the whole magic of the website. every card feels like: wait. that happens to other people too? open tab. find your body glitch. learn it had a name the whole time.

YOU KNOW THAT RANDOM SHARP CHEST PAIN THAT LASTS A FEW SECONDS. IT HAS A NAME. A GUY BUILT A WEBSITE OF 155 THINGS LIKE IT. it's called Bodily Oddities → a catalog of 155 strange things human bodies do that nobody tells you about. things you probably do too. some of them: -the sudden thought of jumping from somewhere high. it has a name (call of the void). about half of people get it -eyelid or thumb twitches that come and go for no reason. around 7 in 10 people -different pupil sizes in dim light. 1 in 5 at any moment -the afterimage when you look away from something bright. literally everyone and yes, that random chest pain is called precordial catch syndrome. the guy who built it went years without knowing it had a name. then he found out most people get it. so he started a list. that is the whole magic of the website. every card feels like: wait. that happens to other people too? open tab. find your body glitch. learn it had a name the whole time.

77,550 views • 1 month ago

🚨 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.

🚨 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.

395,396 views • 6 months ago

SOMEONE TURNED YOUTUBE INTO OLD-SCHOOL CABLE TV. YOU FLIP CHANNELS AND WATCH WHAT’S ON. it's called Channel Surfer → you open the tab and YouTube stops feeling infinite. no algorithm spiral. no thumbnail shouting at you. no sitting there trying to pick the “right” video. just a retro TV guide. gaming. cooking. history. music. tech. pick a channel and join whatever is already playing. not from the beginning. somewhere in the middle. like turning on the television after school. built by Steven Irby, who missed channel surfing without deciding what to watch. we got endless choice. then missed watching whatever was already on. open the guide. pick a channel. stop looking for the perfect video.

SOMEONE TURNED YOUTUBE INTO OLD-SCHOOL CABLE TV. YOU FLIP CHANNELS AND WATCH WHAT’S ON. it's called Channel Surfer → you open the tab and YouTube stops feeling infinite. no algorithm spiral. no thumbnail shouting at you. no sitting there trying to pick the “right” video. just a retro TV guide. gaming. cooking. history. music. tech. pick a channel and join whatever is already playing. not from the beginning. somewhere in the middle. like turning on the television after school. built by Steven Irby, who missed channel surfing without deciding what to watch. we got endless choice. then missed watching whatever was already on. open the guide. pick a channel. stop looking for the perfect video.

54,247 views • 24 days ago

A former US Army intel officer just said the quiet part loud. Cracking a phone used to take 6 months. With AI, the hard work is done in the first 3 hours. He refuses to use an iPhone. Uses Android to see what it's doing. Here are 9 things he said 1. AI just collapsed the price of hacking you.

A former US Army intel officer just said the quiet part loud. Cracking a phone used to take 6 months. With AI, the hard work is done in the first 3 hours. He refuses to use an iPhone. Uses Android to see what it's doing. Here are 9 things he said 1. AI just collapsed the price of hacking you.

141,386 views • 2 months ago

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.

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.

296,335 views • 5 months ago

🚨 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.

🚨 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.

381,536 views • 6 months ago