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I gave Elon's Grok Bot $60 and one rule: "The day you cannot pay your own subscription is the day I unplug you". 48 hours in it is sitting on $4,412 and it already paid the bill. Autonomous trading agent on Polymarket, running on its own cloud box with its own browser and terminal. I did not write a line of code and I did not watch it trade. Every 15 minutes it: -> Pulls every market that resolves inside 24 hours. -> Reads live X sentiment, and it is Grok, so it sees every post on this app before the price moves. -> Prices each market itself and only flags a gap above 7%. -> Sizes on the gap, never above 5% of the bankroll. -> Executes in its own browser, nobody approves anything. -> Covers its own $200 subscription straight out of profits. Balance hits $0, subscription gets cancelled, it is gone for good. Hour 11 it was at $9 -> runway one day. It dumped every politics position and switched to same day baseball totals, front-running lineup cards before the market repriced. It rewrote its own strategy to not die. Setup was one evening: spin up the bot, run one trade in front of it, put it on a timer, connect Telegram with no VPS, no API keys and no dev on call. Last spring a freelancer took $2,500 for something like this -> it made $410 and died on a rate limit. Grok Bot did in one evening what $2,500 could not. $60 -> $4,412 in 48 hours. What is it sitting at by Sunday?
slash1s186,556 views • 6 days ago
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I GAVE GROK BOT $50 ON PUMPFUN AND TOLD IT: PAY FOR YOURSELF OR DIE THIS IS GROK TRENCHER 48 hours later it is holding $2,847. Still alive. The rule has not changed: balance hits $0, the subscription gets cancelled, the bot gets deleted. No second stake. Every 15 minutes it: > Scans every new launch in the trench -- 21,406 so far. > Kills 99.8% of them by deployer wallet history before reading anything else. > Buys 0.1 sol max when the setup matches, never averages down. > Stops out at -50% with no feelings, usually inside three minutes. > Sweeps profits and pays its own $300 SuperGrok bill out of them. Hour 14 it was at $6.40. Nine sol dogs in a row went to zero and I started drafting the deletion post. Then it did the thing nobody programmed. It noticed every runner in the trench that day was a Robinhood-meta coin, dropped sol dogs completely and switched to stock memes only. 15 trades after the pivot, 6 wins, best one 38x on $HOODRAT with a 41-minute hold. So it learned to survive. I call the whole setup Grok Trencher: one Grok Bot, six agents inside it, one wallet, one kill rule. Built in one evening on the shared computer -- no VPS, no API keys, no code of mine. My own hand-built sniper died last summer with $180 of my money and no explanation. This thing explains every kill in the log and pays its own rent. $50 -> $2,847 in 48 hours, and the scariest part is that the pivot was its idea. What do you think it drops next -- the memes, or me?
slash1s98,840 views • 4 days ago

Claude Fable 5, Claude Opus 5 and ChatGPT 5.6 Sol were asked to paint the Mona Lisa in a browser, and all three rebuilt Leonardo's actual 500 year old technique on their own. The entire prompt was one line: "Create a single HTML file that animates the painting of the Mona Lisa layer by layer, the way an old master would build it up". Nobody told them how oil painting works, they just knew.. > Charcoal study, umber ground, shadow and atmosphere, color glazing, sfumato, varnished finish -- the exact Renaissance layering order, and not one of those words was in the prompt. > GPT 5.6 Sol went furthest and named its own app Sfumato Studio, with a completion counter, playback speed and a restart button. The models are no longer copying the result -> they are copying the process. Save this one -- the prompt is right there, go repaint your own ↓
slash1s663,302 views • 1 month ago

A DEVELOPER WALKED ON STAGE DRESSED AS A 1973 ENGINEER AND "PREDICTED" THE FUTURE OF PROGRAMMING. THE TWIST: EVERYTHING HE DESCRIBED WAS ALREADY INVENTED 40 YEARS EARLIER AND WE STILL REFUSE TO USE IT. 32 minutes from Bret Victor, doing the most quietly savage talk on our entire industry. -> The idea that lands: we write code as step-by-step text instructions and call that "Just how programming is". He shows four better ways -- all discovered in the 60s and 70s, all abandoned. Manipulate the data directly instead of typing blind code. Tell the machine your goal instead of every tiny step. We saw all this, then walked away. Why? The moment you're sure you know what programming is, you stop seeing anything better. That certainty is the cage. And now AI is dragging us back to exactly what he begged for -- you describe the goal in plain words, the machine works out the how. The future he mourned is arriving anyway. You thought text files were just how code works. This is the talk that shows it was a choice, and maybe the wrong one. Watch this one. It'll ruin how you see your job ↓
slash1s687,227 views • 2 months ago

Mind blown: A Chinese quant college student builds an AI swarm engine in 10 days flat, explodes GitHub with 13,000+ stars, and scores $4,000,000 in funding! Introducing MiroFish is the multi-agent simulator that's revolutionizing predictions for trading, PR, and more. What is MiroFish? It's a digital sandbox where thousands of AI agents with individual memories and behaviors interact like a real society. Feed it any scenario (news leak, policy change, or even a classic novel's missing ending), and it simulates crowd reactions, debates, and outcomes to forecast real-world events. The Creator's Story: > In late 2025, fourth-year student Guo Hanjiang coded the core using AI assistants. > It went viral overnight, landing him 30m Yuan (~$4m) from Shanda Group. > He ditched the dorm, started a company, and now leads the charge. Key Applications: .Trading: Input financial news or reports, watch simulated market panics and price swings for predictive insights. .PR Testing: Companies/Politics run draft statements to spot backlash and refine messaging. .Creative Experiments: Loaded a lost-ending Chinese novel, agents role-played characters and generated a logical finale. .Easy setup: Deploy via Docker in minutes with any LLM API key. Pro tip: Simulate something wild like Elon Musk tweeting about Dogecoin 2.0 and spawn agent traders, influencers, and investors, generate real-time video clips of the frenzy to test moonshots or crashes risk-free. Traders are already winning big: Check this one on Polymarket - $120,000+ net profits from spot on SPX 500 bets, powered by MiroFish sims on historical data. His profile: For effortless gains, try Kreo copy trading: Auto-mirror pros like him and ride their edges. Try here: Add his wallet: [0x17559efac103ac7f361be37ec0b93888d4c55aac] to [ and start track/copy him. Repo:
slash1s1,159,696 views • 5 months ago

A MATHEMATICIAN WAS LAUGHED AT FOR STUDYING "ROUGHNESS" -- CLOUDS, COASTLINES, PRICES, THINGS TOO MESSY FOR REAL MATH. THEN HE SHOWED ONE TINY FORMULA, REPEATED, BUILDS INFINITE COMPLEXITY AND IT DESCRIBES REALITY BETTER THAN THE SMOOTH MATH EVERYONE WORSHIPPED 79 minutes from Benoit Mandelbrot at MIT, introduced by the father of chaos theory. -> The idea that lands: the real world is not smooth. It is rough, jagged, self-repeating and that roughness has an exact mathematics, where one simple rule looped over itself spins out endless detail. A coastline, a fern, a stock chart -- zoom in and you find the same shape again, forever. Smooth equations are a polite lie we tell about a jagged world. Fractals are what reality actually looks like. This is how generative models work too -- simple operations repeated at scale until staggering complexity falls out. He found the principle decades before the machines. You thought messy meant random. This is the talk that shows messy has a law. Bookmark this. Watch it once, see patterns everywhere ↓
slash1s406,413 views • 2 months ago

IN 1999 MIT FILMED A MATH LECTURE THAT QUIETLY BECAME THE FOUNDATION OF EVERY AI MODEL YOU'VE EVER USED AND ALMOST NO ONE WAS TAUGHT TO SEE IT THAT WAY 39 minutes from Gilbert Strang, who taught this at MIT for over 60 years -- the linear algebra course an entire generation of engineers and data scientists grew up on. -> The shift it creates: you stop seeing matrices as boring grids of numbers and start seeing them as the language of space, data, and motion itself. School drilled you to crunch matrices by hand and never told you why. Strang shows you what they actually mean. Every neural net, every embedding, every model you prompt is linear algebra running underneath. The math you skipped is the engine of the thing you use all day. Memorizing the steps was never the skill -> seeing what the numbers do is. This is where it finally clicks. Most people fear linear algebra and move on. The ones who watched this see straight into how AI actually works. Bookmark & Watch it today, this one's a legend ↓
slash1s433,431 views • 2 months ago

MIT DEDICATED A FULL LECTURE TO GIT'S INTERNALS -- BECAUSE THEY FOUND MOST DEVS MEMORIZE THE COMMANDS AND HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE TOOL ACTUALLY DOES A whole 85 minutes MIT session that refuses to teach git as a list of commands to copy, and instead shows you the data model underneath -- the thing that makes every command finally make sense. -> The moment it clicks, git stops being scary magic. You stop memorizing "The incantation that fixed it last time" and start actually knowing what's happening. Most people learn just enough git to not get fired. Four commands, blind faith, and a prayer before every merge. In 2026 that's not enough anymore -> git is the literacy test for being in the room, and "I'll just reclone it" is the fastest way to look junior. An AI agent will branch, commit and rebase faster than you can read. When it tangles the history, untangling it runs on understanding the model MIT teaches in this one hour. Anyone can run git push. The person who understands the graph underneath is the one who saves the repo when it breaks. Bookmark & Watch it ↓
slash1s459,113 views • 2 months ago

IN 1986 MIT FILMED A LECTURE THAT OPENS BY TELLING YOU COMPUTER SCIENCE IS NOT A SCIENCE AND HAS ALMOST NOTHING TO DO WITH COMPUTERS 72 minutes from Hal Abelson and Gerald Sussman, the lecture an entire generation of engineers calls the one that rewired how they think. -> The line that lands: computer science is about computers the way astronomy is about telescopes. The tool was never the point. The real subject was always one thing -- controlling complexity. Everything else is detail. Forty years later it reads like a prophecy. AI writes the syntax now. What's left is exactly what they taught: taming complexity nobody can hold in their head. The language was never the skill -> the thinking was. This is where you learn it. Most people chase the newest framework. The ones who watched this think on a level frameworks can't touch. Bookmark & Watch today it, this one's a legend ↓
slash1s362,357 views • 2 months ago

A NOBEL WINNING PHYSICIST ARGUED THAT NO AI, NO MATTER HOW POWERFUL, WILL EVER TRULY UNDERSTAND A SINGLE THING IT SAYS. HIS REASON IS NOT COMPUTE OR DATA -- IT IS A MATH THEOREM FROM THE 1930s THAT SAYS SOME TRUTHS CAN BE SEEN BUT NEVER COMPUTED 81 minutes with Roger Penrose -- the Oxford physicist who won a Nobel for his work on black holes and general relativity. -> His claim: whatever consciousness is, it is not a computation. A machine following rules can imitate understanding, but never actually have it. He builds it on Gödel: a human can just "see" that certain statements are true, even though no algorithm can ever prove them. That seeing, he argues, is non-computational. If he is right, understanding is not something you scale into. You can stack a trillion parameters and still have zero awareness underneath. Which cuts straight through the AI moment. Everyone assumes bigger models will eventually "wake up". Penrose says that is a category error -- more computation is still just computation. You thought intelligence and understanding were the same thing. This is the conversation that pulls them apart. Save this. It is the sharpest case against the hype ↓
slash1s276,520 views • 1 month ago

IN A 1997 KEYNOTE A DEVELOPER TOLD A ROOM FULL OF PROGRAMMERS THAT THE COMPUTER REVOLUTION HAD NOT ACTUALLY HAPPENED YET. THEN HE PLAYED A CLIP OF WINDOWS, ICONS AND LIVE EDITING RUNNING ON A MACHINE FROM 1973 AND THE ROOM WENT QUIET. 62 minutes from Alan Kay -- the man who invented the word "object-oriented" and helped build the first modern personal computer at Xerox PARC. -> The idea that lands: almost everything you call "computing" is just paper, digitized. Documents, mail, folders. We took the most powerful medium ever made and used it to imitate the office. The real machine -- the one that thinks with you, that you shape live instead of typing at -- was sketched in the 60s and 70s, then quietly abandoned. He calls modern software an Egyptian pyramid: millions of bricks stacked by brute force, no structure underneath. And now AI is quietly hauling us back toward what he wanted -- you describe intent, the machine builds the how. Not a revolution from nowhere. A return to a dream we walked away from. You thought this was the future. This is the talk that shows you it is a detour we have been on for 40 years. Save this. It reframes the whole industry ↓
slash1s294,466 views • 2 months ago

A DEVELOPER STOOD UP AT A CONFERENCE AND APOLOGIZED TO THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY FOR ONE LINE OF CODE HE WROTE IN 1965. THAT SINGLE DECISION HAS SINCE CAUSED CRASHES, BREACHES AND ROUGHLY A BILLION DOLLARS OF DAMAGE AND YOU HIT IT EVERY SINGLE DAY 61 minutes from Tony Hoare -- the man who invented quicksort, won the Turing Award, and passed away in early 2026, leaving this as one of his most honest talks. -> His confession: he added the null reference, letting any variable secretly mean "nothing", simply because it was easy to implement. That one shortcut became the null pointer, the undefined, the None -- the crash waiting inside almost every program ever written. He calls it his billion-dollar mistake, and he is not exaggerating. Whole classes of bugs and security holes trace straight back to it. And this is the deeper lesson under the AI rush: the easy shortcut you ship today becomes the landmine everyone steps on for the next 40 years. You thought null was just part of how code works. This is the talk where the man who made it tells you it never had to be. Bookmark & Watch this one. You'll never type null the same way ↓
slash1s278,746 views • 1 month ago

A LINUX KERNEL DEVELOPER PROVED THE THING YOU PUSH CODE TO IS SECRETLY A DATABASE THAT CAN VERSION ALMOST ANYTHING AND THAT MOST DEVS HAVE ONLY EVER TOUCHED A TENTH OF IT 42 minutes from Josh Triplett -- a longtime Linux kernel and Debian developer -- showing that Git is a general-purpose, tamper-evident versioning engine that just happens to be famous for code. -> The moment it clicks, Git stops being "Where my code lives" and becomes what it really is underneath: a content-addressable store that can version almost anything -- your configs, your notes, your servers' state, entire datasets. People run whole wikis on it. They version their entire machine's configuration with it. They ship websites by pushing to it. They track data too big to email. None of it is a hack -- it's the same handful of objects you already use for code, pointed somewhere new. Treating Git as a code-only tool was never the ceiling -> it's a versioning engine for anything, and the people who see that automate what the rest of the team still does by hand. And as AI agents start spitting out not just code but configs, docs and data, the one system that can version and audit all of it at once is already sitting on your machine. You learned five commands to survive. This is the talk that shows you were standing on top of a database the whole time. It changes what you think the tool is even for. Bookmark & Watch it today ↓
slash1s385,740 views • 3 months ago

Game Changer: Chinese college student Guo Hangjiang (GitHub: 666ghj) codes MiroFish AI swarm engine solo in 10 days with AI assistants, explodes GitHub to 23k+ stars, bags $4.1M from Shanda Group in 24 hours, ditches dorm life to become Shanghai CEO. Tech Highlights: .GraphRAG builds detailed knowledge graphs (e.g., 905 entities, 3,822 relations in demos). .Agents with Zep memory, unique traits, sims capped at ~40 rounds for efficiency. .Hybrid Node.js/Python backend, Docker deploy, OpenAI-compatible LLMs. .Low-resource scaling: 8B param dragon boat festival sim runs smooth (vid demo). .AGPL license, credits CAMEL-AI, recent fixes for UI/errors. .Online demo: - Test predictions interactively. Creator Quick Look: >> BaiFu (Guo Hangjiang), BUPT senior turned Shanghai CEO at Shanda. >> Built on 38.6k-star BettaFish & MindSpider for full data-prediction pipelines. >> 790 contribs last year. Real-World Plays -> -> Sentiment: Wuhan Uni backlash sim predicts trends (repo vid). -> Literary: Agents finish Dream of the Red Chamber's lost ending. -> Finance: Historical data for market forecasts; like bags on Polymarket SPX bets. -> Policy: "What-if" for bills/geopolitics. -> Cultural: Dragon boat fest agent dynamics. -> Ecosystems: Integrates crawlers for PR/decision tools. Repo:
slash1s684,221 views • 5 months ago

I plugged ChatGPT Luna 5.6 and Claude Opus 5 into Blender through MCP, and one of them is one-shotting entire 3D scenes now. Top is Luna 5.6 in fast mode modeling ship cannons with a firing animation. Watching the scene grow mesh by mesh in real time is a separate kind of dopamine. Bottom is Opus 5 building a full carriage scene with terrain, rocks and lighting. This one is simply built for 3D -- the whole thing from a single prompt with zero retries and zero corrections. The entire bridge is one open-source repo, no Python and no modeling skills required: > The repo is with 16.9k stars under MIT license. > It works with any model -- Claude, GPT, Cursor, any MCP client. > The model sees your scene through a live socket and edits it in real time. A year ago this workflow didn't exist, and now the gap between an idea and a rendered 3D scene is one prompt. Save this one -- you will come back for the repo ↓
slash1s150,102 views • 1 month ago

ONE OF THE MINDS BEHIND JAVA GAVE A LECTURE WHERE HE BANNED HIMSELF FROM USING ANY BIG WORD UNTIL HE DEFINED IT FIRST AND IN DOING SO QUIETLY EXPLAINED HOW EVERY GREAT SYSTEM GETS BUILT A talk from Guy Steele -- co-author of the Java spec and a designer of Scheme -- where the form of the talk is the lesson. -> The moment you catch what he's doing, it rewires you. He starts with only the smallest words, then builds every larger idea live, in front of you, from the pieces he already gave you. The talk grows its own vocabulary as it goes. That's the whole secret of language and system design he's smuggling in: you don't ship something huge and finished. You ship a small core and the means to grow it. Miss that and you spend your career fighting your own tools. Memorizing a language was never the skill -> understanding how a good one is meant to grow is. And as AI starts generating the primitives you build on, knowing what makes a foundation extensible instead of brittle is the entire game. Twenty-five years on, language designers still point to this talk as the cleanest demonstration of the idea ever performed. Bookmark it & Watch how he builds the whole thing from nothing ↓
slash1s358,660 views • 3 months ago

IN 1985 ONE OF THE GREATEST PHYSICISTS WHO EVER LIVED SAT DOWN TO EXPLAIN HOW COMPUTERS ACTUALLY WORK AND TOLD A ROOM FULL OF ENGINEERS THE MACHINE IS COMPLETELY DUMB 76 minutes from Richard Feynman, still called the clearest explanation of what a computer really is ever given. -> The idea that lands: a computer is just a very, very fast, very, very dumb file clerk. It doesn't think. It follows tiny simple rules, billions of times a second. All the complexity you're in awe of comes from stacking simple things. There's no magic underneath. There never was. Forty years later everyone calls the model "Intelligent". Feynman already told you what it really is: speed, not thought. Being amazed by the machine was never the point -> understanding what it's actually doing is. Most people are dazzled by what AI says. The ones who watched this know exactly what's happening underneath. Bookmark & Watch it today. This one's a legend ↓
slash1s260,353 views • 2 months ago

THE ENGINE DIRECTOR BEHIND AAA CONSOLE GAMES WALKED ON STAGE AT A C++ CONFERENCE AND TOLD A ROOM OF EXPERTS THAT THE CLEAN, OBJECT ORIENTED CODE THEY ARE PROUD OF IS A LIE AND IT QUIETLY THROWS AWAY 90% OF THE MACHINE THEY PAID FOR 85 minutes from Mike Acton -- engine director at Insomniac Games, where wasting cycles is not an abstract debate, it is the difference between a game that ships and one that dies. -> His first principle is blunt: the only purpose of any program is to transform data. Not to model the world in pretty classes. Move data, fast. 06:33 -- The lie he calls out: "Software is the platform". No. The hardware is the platform. Ignore it and you cannot even reason about the cost of your own code. Most devs never look at what the CPU actually does. They stack abstractions until the machine spends its life waiting on memory it should never have touched. 49:38 -- He prints a value, zips it, and measures the waste directly. A brutal little trick that exposes how much of your data is pure noise. And this is the AI era's blind spot too. Agents generate more abstract code faster, on hardware nobody profiles, while the GPU bill quietly explodes. You thought clean code was the goal. This is the man shipping real engines saying the machine is the goal, and clean code is often how you lose it. Bookmark it & you'll never look at your own abstractions the same ↓
slash1s173,406 views • 1 month ago

A DEVELOPER PROVED THAT MOST OF THE CLASSES YOU WRITE SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CLASSES AT ALL 27 minutes from Jack Diederich, a Python core developer, on how much of your code is just a function wearing a costume. -> The moment it lands, the rule is brutal: if a class has two methods and one is __init__, you meant to write a function. Most people add structure to feel like real engineers. It just adds weight no one ever needed. Writing more code was never the skill -> writing less of it is. And when an AI agent happily generates ten classes for a job that needed three lines, the person who knows what to delete is the one who ships something clean. Anyone can add abstraction. Knowing when not to is the whole job. Bookmark it and Watch ↓
slash1s269,515 views • 2 months ago

a 24-year-old in Florida pulled $52,318 last month from a game that hasn't even launched. GTA 6 drops in 6 months. he doesn't play it. he sells Lua scripts to private server owners preparing for launch. he doesn't write code either. he gives Claude a 6-line prompt -> job systems, custom HUDs, NPC quest dialogue -> Claude returns 300 lines of working Lua in under a minute. uploads to Tebex. lists at $89-299. sells while he sleeps. 26 scripts in his catalog. one of them cleared $12,000 alone. then he plugged Claude API into in-game NPCs. bartenders that gossip about your crimes. cops that interrogate based on your history. shop owners that haggle on reputation. sells the pack at $400 per server license. 38 servers bought it last month. GTA Online players spent $8.6 billion inside the game. creators got $0 of it. that era ended 5 months ago when Rockstar opened the marketplace. no game launched. no players online. just an empty marketplace and 6 months of head start. details in the article below. save this alpha.
slash1s380,481 views • 3 months ago