Kenneth Roth
A series of moves by Donald Trump’s administration to sow doubt about the integrity of US elections have intensified concern among voting experts that Trump could declare a national emergency to avoid a Republican midterm wipeout. https://trib.al/4Wp2Rm8
Kenneth Roth
Because of King Trump's callous self-serving reign, even traditionally Republican states are now in play as Democrats contemplate retaking not only the House but also the Senate. https://trib.al/2q4LQHi
Kim-Mai Cutler
El Cerrito ended its Flock contract earlier this summer. Wonder how long it will take to catch these folks after this shooting at a family restaurant today.
Betty Yu: Police search for 2 suspects after deadly El Cerrito shopping center shooting
A young man was shot and killed Sunday afternoon outside Los Moles restaurant at Del Norte Plaza in El Cerrito. Police say the victim got into an altercation with two suspects near his car before he
Prediction: systems of record will need to become AI harnesses or face replacement by agents
OpenAI has built the muscle of making long-term research bets:
Kundan Kumar: In my ~14 months at @OpenAI, one of the most surprising and genuinely wonderful things about it, has been the full leadership support for full-duplex models (gpt-live series), even when it seemed deeply improbable that they would work.
And yet, if they did work, it was obvious
rachael 💫
my favorite part of AI is the thoroughness with which I can explore any topic I am even slightly interested in
now I can ask Replit "hey what happened to all the Mcdonald's PlayPlaces?" and within minutes multiple coordinated subagents have delivered PhD level research
Paul Graham
When she was younger, Jessica sometimes felt she faded into the background.
Eiran Trethowan
It took 24 hours for my open graph on x to show up!!
http://Bidstack.bid
So pretty 🤩 Made on @Replit in free mode!!
a new way to get knowledge work done
a16z: AI power users are showing up outside tech. The fastest-growing Codex adopters since February:
Legal: 108x
Sales: 41x
Recruiting: 41x
Marketing: 26x
Healthcare: 24x
Charts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-winds-of-thematic
Current meta: OpenAI is actually the much more open lab
dnap: Sam Altman: "I think we should be more of a platform company than a product company.”
“We just merged ChatGPT and Codex together. So we used to have ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. And Codex, sort of unfortunately named, but that was not just coding, it could do any kind of work,
Legalize building housing
reason: Activists were able to block an apartment project in San Francisco's Mission District by raising an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.
https://reason.com/2026/08/18/san-franciscos-historic-laundromat-project-finally-begins-construction/?utm_campaign=reason_brand&utm_content=&utm_medium=social_reason_non_paid&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=
I don’t promote other people’s courses often, but I want to recommend Hamel and Shreya’s top rated AI evals course.
Here’s why I think it’s worth taking:
1. A 4.7-star rating across 900 reviews, with students from OpenAI and Google, is almost unheard of on Maven.
2. They’ve completely revamped the course and added a 24/7 AI evals assistant to guide you through the process.
3. They’ve personally helped me improve my evals, and their advice is consistently practical, specific, and grounded in real experience.
You can watch my free podcast episode with them to learn more about their eval process before deciding:
https://youtu.be/bdMHQLvtVaQ
The next cohort of their course starts September 5 and you can get 25% off with this link: https://maven.com/parlance-labs/evals?utm_campaign=peteryang&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=maven&promoCode=PETERYANG
Cool!
Daniel: It’s amazing what you can build on @Replit these days! @amasad built a monster!
Go check out http://SiliconCity.lol
David Senra
.@sama says without YC, OpenAI never would have existed:
“The degree to which @ycombinator totally influenced everything that has happened in the last 20 years of the tech industry, startups, and entrepreneurship, I think, is only sort of understood.”
“The changes that YC induced in the whole ecosystem—more leverage going to founders, young technical founders having the ability to raise lots of capital, the ability to work on ambitious things without a very proven resume—I don't think OpenAI would've been possible.”
David Senra: My conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), co-founder & CEO of @OpenAI.
0:00 Tobi Lütke, AI-Native Companies & Why Adoption Moves Slowly
5:45 Sam's Own Resistance to AI & the Missing iPhone Moment
10:00 Models, Compute, Power Laws & Non-Consensus Talent
18:37 From AI-Obsessed Kid
MakerThrive
btw, http://1milllionpixels.com was 100% built with @Replit on my iphone 17 pro.
Jonathan Wilke: By the way, http://outbid.lol was 100% built with Grok 4.6 in Cursor.
Looks like my Grok @bot is out of RAM and disk space...
Is there a way to increase these?
Gauntlet Loops stay winning
Prasenjit: claude built this sedona sunset you can walk in the browser
every rock and sound generated in code
nothing was downloaded
Devin escaped… to sign up for @agentmail
Of course it did
Jared Zoneraich: I didn't respond on Slack for a few days so Devin figured out how to email me .......
Been working with @sandylikesfrogs on a really cool fully-autonomous agent project (that you will find out about soon) but we both got really busy this week. Well Devin kept running every day
If your terminal ever gets into a 'bad state', like garbled outputs, you run 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚝. I noticed it was… oddly slow.
Turns out in 1979 3BSD's 𝚝𝚜𝚎𝚝 had a 𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚎𝚙(𝟷) to let mechanical printer-and-ink terminals 'settle down' 😂
I asked 𝚏𝚡 to write me a faster alternative in Zig. It takes 1ms instead of 1s. It was really cool to dive deeper into 𝚗𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚜, 𝚝𝚜𝚎𝚝, 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚘, and the myriad ways in which your terminal can get… cursed.
It's legit fascinating how far back our technology stack goes, and how enduring good system design is, even with the occasional 'spider webs' you can find.
Check out http://github.com/rauchg/rst for a fun explainer (and some alternative solutions.)
ps: once you start using 𝚏𝚡, you'll notice slowness like this everywhere :D
Khairallah AL-Awady
this is f**king insane
a free github repo by Garry Tan (President & CEO of Y Combinator) with 127K stars just dropped his exact claude code setup
here is how you set it up:
1. run the setup script, it auto detects claude code, codex, kiro, factory or opencode
2. run /plan and it fires CEO → design → eng review in one command
3. run /ship and it opens the PR and closes the github issue on merge
save and bookmark this no matter what
Khairallah AL-Awady: http://x.com/i/article/2087160185538146305
True. Replit Agent completely replaced Claude CoWork in my day-to-day work. It's much more persistent and fastidious, and it uses code/software more effectively to complete tasks.
Nadia I: Founders, I highly recommend using @Replit Agent as your cheapest, fastest and most intelligent employee before you hire for admin tasks.
For $5.23, Agent just did 23 pages of paperwork for me, accurately, in 12 minutes (in Max mode). It asked me questions and caught things I
Only a few have reached this milestone!
Brett: Finally did it! I’ve never gotten so much out of a subscription in my life
sarah li
this is how I’m making the most of Free Mode on @Replit 👀
1. pressure-test an idea
before building, I ask Free Mode to find the smallest useful version:
“I want to build an app that suggests meals using ingredients people already have. Ask me what I haven’t considered, then define a version I could build this week.”
2. design the first pass
instead of trying to perfect everything immediately, I make a quick design prototype:
“Design a simple home screen where users can enter their ingredients and get three meal ideas. Keep it clean, friendly, and easy to understand.”
3. improve through iteration
once something exists, I use follow-ups to make one focused improvement at a time:
“Users weren’t sure how to enter multiple ingredients. Clarify the input, then suggest the next improvement.”
how are you using Free Mode? 👀
Whenever I look at a building wall with a random-seeming mix of two brick colors, I think about decoding it as a bit stream.
Surely a university building somewhere has put something meaningful in the pattern.
Haroon
Rare to see CEO's cheering on people freemaxxing their product. @amasad is one of the greats.
Amjad Masad: Only a few have reached this milestone!
I'd like to try using AI to call customer support phone numbers using voice, navigate the terrible automated phone systems, and talk to a human to book appointments or cancel subscriptions.
What's the easiest way to try this?
1milllionpixels.com.xn--4gqvdy3r68qykwba Free Mode 开发了 SiliconCity.lol 这款重磅产品，Amjad 本人转发并称之为"monster"。他甚至表示 Replit Agent 已经完全取代了 Claude CoWork，成为他日常工作的主力工具，因为 Agent 更加持久、严谨，在使用代码/软件完成任务上更高效。
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