isnt it strange how dishwashers need you to insert detergent every time
why does it not have its own tank from which it can dispense as needed and you replace it like once a month
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texas should build a high speed rail just to prove they can do it faster than california
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so you're telling me there exists a type of toilet that's only $300 which has wider drains and *can basically never get clogged* because it uses pressurized water instead of gravity fed but its not everywhere????????
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it's always bugged me that skyscrapers don't have more connections between each other
the streets between them and the vertical space is so wasted
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my recursive GPT agent is trying to get out of doing work by spawning another instance of itself to do it...
infinitely
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i can't imagine a single person has booked a flight based on the co2 equivalent shown on google flights
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"hi! <credential> here" or "hope this helps" have become easy tells for me to ignore something, it's just really tiresome clapback culture
hi! jet propulsion engineer here: if you can hear your spool over your plume, you're not actually creating jet propulsion
Community note
The CEO confirmed that they intentionally used very low pressure and made very little power because it would otherwise be dangerous to have a crowd so close to the jet engine: nitter.app/k2pilot/status
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honestly, it seems like there will be a point where we ditch the traditional game engine and replace it with a diffusion + multi-modal model...
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got this CNC’d, anodized, and shipped from JLCCNC in China (within a week!) for $400
USA really needs to up its game
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the fact that all modern political and business attire for men is blue or black suit & ties is insulting to human creativity and aesthetics
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this is just gonna end the moment jd vance suggests that in retaliation the US will no longer participate in the five eyes intelligence program
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just realized, if you get a neuralink, are you just not able to get an MRI ever again?
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where are all these companies coming from??
we’re so back
Late last month, our G1_Dallas factory set a new production record: 14 MW of solar panels in a single day.
Do the math: that's a 5.1 GW annualized pace.
Domestic solar. It's the path to American power.
Thank you to our G1 workers!
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LFG!!! 🫡 finally finished devlog #0
all actions & dialogue for every character is fully simulated, in real-time, with @OpenAI's GPT-4
and I condensed all the work so far into a 2-minute explainer, just for you 😉
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It's time to build the bay area megacity.
- rapid transportation (both intercity and intracity)
- high density
- high walkability
- enough housing to have 100 million+
- the home of 10+ trillion dollar companies
- underground hyperlogistics + robotic network
- capital of tech, hardware, bio, education, etc
- produce so much energy we export it to others
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hey all, i shutdown starlight labs (@starlightlabsco), the game studio I made to create new games at the frontier of what's possible with current AI models.
i open sourced all the work for it, although fair warning i didn't clean it up at all:
github.com/orgs/StarlightLab…
biggest takeaway is that in the game industry the *only* thing that matters is:
is what you make fun? is it fun on the micro, moment to moment gameplay? is it fun on the macro, overarching learning curve, that keeps you coming back for game session after game session?
i found that my game prototypes could never hit that sweet spot of being fun in the moment but also last more than a few minutes. they were cool demos to try rather than lasting games.
the reality is that most games do not succeed in doing that!! you can have teams of AAA experienced devs make a game and have it flop, and a single dev make a simple game that is the next megahit. finding that gameloop is the jackpot, and it's really freaking hard.
so if you're interested in doing something similar, focus on the fun.
in regards to what's next for me, I've already been working on something that makes me so unbelievably excited about that future (for quite a while now). it's much much bigger scale and scope, with a kickass team going after a really hard problem, and also, it lets me get my hands on hardware again, but more on that later :)
Starlight Labs
Starlight Labs has 13 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
github.comLFG!!! 🫡 finally finished devlog #0
all actions & dialogue for every character is fully simulated, in real-time, with @OpenAI's GPT-4
and I condensed all the work so far into a 2-minute explainer, just for you 😉
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palmer luckey’s rant on important problems and being the one who solves them was part of the reason i left working on ai video games to go back to working on hardware
choose good quests
Again, ask yourself:
Is the mission you're on actually important?
If YouTube Shorts vanished tomorrow, would the world notice? Would it be better or worse off?
What if those same engineers were pointed at something that mattered... like rebuilding factories, power grids, or physical AI?
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my god
i don't think i've seen a video of weaponized programming autism quite like this one
this guy built an entire 3D rendering pipeline inside the 2D level editor of Geometry Dash, and built his own compiled programming language to do it
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there's a material we're buying as part of our manufacturing process
US: $80 / unit
China: $7 / unit
i genuinely thought i misread, even with a 200% tariff... US no where close
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why do these have to be a custom vehicle? why couldn't they just be Rivians?
NEWS: A $10B program to buy EVs for the U.S. Postal Service is far behind schedule, with defense contractor Oshkosh not disclosing significant manufacturing difficulties for more than a year.
The USPS has received only 93 trucks - far fewer than the 3,000 expected by now.
Trump's transition team is considering canceling the contract to buy over 60,000 more of these all-electric USPS vehicles.
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never would i recommend skipping college, no matter how much the silicon valley machine tries to get you to
be around people your age, make friends, make mistakes, travel abroad, learn what you're passionate about
don't throw it away at the whim of an industry that wants you to be their next markup
A lot of the 15-18 y/o founders I meet still want to go to college even though they've achieved more professional success than 99% of Americans... make it make sense
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for as much money as some people have, the world is sorely lacking on ambitious side projects
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YOOOOOOOOO! The conversation system is in & it's looking amazing!!
Completely generated in real-time, nothing pre-written, and 100% based on the character's personality, memories, and environment.
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yacine has figured out the monetization optimal, probably gets paid $10k a month to just poast
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i feel like if YC was optimizing for hardware more they could have much more impact by having a warehouse full of manufacturing and prototyping tools like 3d printers, CNCs, laser cutters, welders, etc and just space to build
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imagine getting access to the CTO of OpenAI's Twitter account, and wasting it on an obvious crypto spam instead of announcing GPT-5 and moving markets
🤡
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pro tip, if you're buying brackets on mcmaster, just download the STEP, and get it made from SendCutSend instead
$5.56/ea (SCS) vs $8.94/ea (McMaster)
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defense tech startup ecosystem is just picking an existing product, saying you're gonna build it for 10x cheaper, throw in some american flags and warehouse photos, and boom, you have a vc funded business
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the only thing forcing the market is the bad regulation
this is america, let people build on their land
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request for startup: us-based bambu labs for industrial automation
- esp32/stm32 ecosystem for PLC replacements
- expansion modules for high channel high quality input/outputs, transistors, relays, analog, thermocouple, loadcell, etc
- online store with overnight shipping
- open source, good documentation, video tutorials for common tasks, conveyers, pick and place, etc
- "it just works"
- available 3D cad models for all hardware
- enclosure configurator & ordering (bonus: wiring service)
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crazy to think you make more than the majority of people in europe by working at this gas station in texas
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LET'S GOOO. THE BAY AREA MEGACITY DEMANDS ITS EXISTENCE
It's time to build the bay area megacity.
- rapid transportation (both intercity and intracity)
- high density
- high walkability
- enough housing to have 100 million+
- the home of 10+ trillion dollar companies
- underground hyperlogistics + robotic network
- capital of tech, hardware, bio, education, etc
- produce so much energy we export it to others
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An example of US quotes for comparison:
- Didn’t get quote back till this morning
- Requested 7 day lead time, was quoted 21 days
- $1.1k for just the part, shipping not included
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no internship this summer? good.
3 months of pure upside:
- learn to cad
- make your first mcmaster order
- break a tap
- send parts to be made for cheap in china
- record a cherry picked edited video of your project when it’s actually working
- cyber bully software founders
- learn in public
- fail fast
resume lines don’t build founders.
reps do.
use the summer. surprise yourself.
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basically every hardware company i know has power issues
if you made a startup dedicated to making
- 800v LFP battery (250S 1P)
- ability to charge off grid service
- transformer & inverter to 480 VAC 3Ph
you’d make a killing
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damn, my NPCs are mean af to each other.
games are gonna get wild with fully simulated conversations, relationships, and actions
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i really do think the US would gain an unthinkable amount of value if we made LA <-> Bay Area travel as fast as possible
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the markets haven’t priced in how disruptive global low latency internet access from satellite constellations will be
it’ll be the biggest labor arbitrage in the history of the world
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the solution is we fix the rotten parts of our society and culture, there's no other choice.
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The name of the company, Figure. It is a cutting edge high-tech firm out of the Bay Area awaiting imminent patent approval on the next generation of humanoid robotics that have both huge military and civilian applications now. Right now, John, the stock trades over-the-counter at 10 cents a share. And by the way, John, our analysts indicate it could go a heck of a lot higher than that. Your profit on a mere $6,000 investment would be upwards of $60,000!
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JLCPCB offers a service that is "upload your BOM, and we'll figure out what parts you use, get them, and assemble it for you with our pick and place machines"
for.... $10.
and if you select this option you get expedited 24hr build time
just insanely good UX...
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do people legit do 100 pull ups? like everything else seems doable but how do you not completely ruin your arms before hitting 100
I'll be live on @tbpn at 11am PT, drenched in sweat, talking about the Anduril Murph Challenge and our work with the veterans community.
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US manufacturing economy can't comprehend the fact that china has better supply chains and manufacturing facilities
so they resort to claiming moral high ground for their high prices while the industry retires into nothingness
That's the whole point. They're externalizing "OSHA" violations, environment costs, etc., not internalizing them. They're also funding ethnic cleansing and genocide with your money.
This is not a new thing. You're funding a lot of really bad things for a shiny cheap thing.
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Every day I'm getting closer & closer to natural real-time conversations with AI.
Still a bit of latency but I've got a few tricks up my sleeve. 😏
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uses mains water pressure to pressurize air in the container, and then use that on flush
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someone could make a ton of money with robotic concrete polishing for new warehouses
big roomba
right now current price is like $2-3/sqft which for a $30k sqft warehouse would be 60 grand
very simple job, very labor intensive, very automatable
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pathetic cowards. all of them.
A group of Western VCs goes to China, not to invest but to see what the competition is like. They realize that China is too far ahead on clean tech and decide the only way forward is to work with Chinese companies.
One VC describing a visit to Chinese battery giant CATL:
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I can’t hide the safari URL bar and it takes up a huge chunk of the screen, also swipe gestures are more annoying, and there are just a bunch of APIs Apple doesn’t give u access to like vibration
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this is just so funny to me
sure, i worked at NASA, Varda, and helped put some satellites into space, but game dev.. no game dev is too hard for you 🤣
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like dude if you're worth a few hundred million, you can make your own major studio feature films
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