Gekonn

Techno-optimist, because what other source of optimism remains?

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@copywriterka @MITONCZ Lol :D

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@mattshumer_ Can you please share the prompt?

[Laura Shin @laurashin]

I think Ethereum’s original sin was not considering tokenomics with every move it made from Dencun on.

The ultrasound money thesis was a good one and with Dencun (or the L2 roadmap generally) they should have stopped to say that this was going to hurt the ultrasound money thesis and consider how to preserve it.

Most people, like David, don’t want to believe in something that isn’t also putting up points on the scoreboard.

When the main offering becomes ideology/communism and money/tokenomics/capitalism are overlooked, the peasants are going to revolt — as they’ve been doing for two years now.

Look at the public reaction to Tomasz: broad praise, a sense of hope, excitement, the price pumping … only for him to be gone a year later with the new ED being someone who cannot even be found online except for a Wayback Machine url with his name that has some really questionable statements on it (and I should say the EF denied that this website, which was taken down a few weeks after he was appointed to the board, is his). They’re going to be really mad at me for even mentioning that but in the place of a void, these are the kinds of things people will glom onto.

Then there was the manifesto — I mean, mandate, which they backtracked on forcing people to sign. (Btw, this is the second bit of news that seems to relate to Bastian. And now the third would be all these departures. There’s nothing else for us to point at and say about him — when I searched for his name on Google News just now only 14 links came up. He seems to be some kind of invisible hand behind the scenes.)

I don’t think ideology and capitalism/tokenomics/number go up are mutually exclusive. I think you can have CROPS values and also consider how each step of the roadmap affects the tokenomics and even have teams for BD/ecosystem growth.

It feels like the EF doesn’t realize the moment that crypto is in. The competition is only just starting. We are in the phase of real world adoption. The Ethereum Foundation’s CROPS principles are great ones, and they are worth fighting for. But the EF seems to want to sit back on its laurels and act above it all when all its competitors are all getting down and dirty on the field to gain market share.

Maybe it is the right approach. I don’t know. I’m just saying that more competitive people won’t align with it. And so they will leave … and community members will as well.

I personally don’t think it’s good for Ethereum if its most competitive people depart. Ethereum’s unwillingness to stop the brain drain will only benefit its competitors — or spawn new ones. Giving a shit about price and tokenomics and BD doesn’t hurt CROPS. It just helps ensure that these principles get spread to more people and that other chains that don’t have these principles don’t get a leg up.

All the commentary may be pointless. It seems Vitalik tried what everyone wanted and it didn’t align with his vision, so he brought in a new person he felt more comfortable with. It makes me sad to see people become so disaffected with Ethereum, but maybe this is V’s Brian Armstrong/no politics at Coinbase moment where he lays down what the EF will work on and asks everyone else to leave. That was the right move for Coinbase, but I view them as fundamentally different issues. We’ll see whether Ethereum maintains its lead with a foundation that isn’t willing to fight for it.

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@0xCharlota @darylginn @0xDragoonLab In a room full of average experts, be a median one.
- Marcus Aurelius (probably)

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@0xCharlota @conconconling hello👋, I needed the same thing so I am building it. See if it works for you:
https://t.co/BV7HehjYPk for -monthly- magazine
https://t.co/kPxVbSdkdV for 15-30 min daily or weekly Kindle curated soup. Printers are slow :D

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

Well well well. @tayvano_ has been saying for ages, IKYK. Now that even the second row starts to get that crypto is under a constant nation state(s) attack, how will the roadmaps change? Maybe yield optimization was less important than security. Reject Salami. Embrace d/acc.

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@pesvklobouku Tady jsem udelal preview jak by to vypadalo: https://t.co/3tOIC83qM2

Bohuzel Artemis Ref Guide neni PDF pripraveno pro knizni nebo casopisovy tisk a zaroven nejde snadno extrahovat diky pouzivani captions v obrazku.

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@pesvklobouku Ahoj, knizku neumim, ale umim casopis co vypada jako paperback (lepena vazba). Koukni na https://t.co/nYY9besddz

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

My second favorite slovak person (after my wife) said that RSS are back. Ok, https://t.co/nYY9besddz now supports RSS.
Let's go

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well.

We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable.
Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one)
Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025:
https://t.co/dwAiIjlXet
Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells.

I don't know, something has to change.

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

I miss David Bowie

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@gerad_t0d @0xCharlota @joshpuckett Substack should be supported -> for paid content, Instapaper saves what you see at the moment of saving.

But hey, there's a free preview feature, so you can try and if it doesn't work, I'll find a way.

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

Wake up babe, new sim just dropped. Time to reread Accelerando again. Space Lobsters here I come :D

[hattie @oh_that_hat]

There's a fruit fly walking around right now that was never born.

@eonsys just released a video where they took a real fly's connectome — the wiring diagram of its brain — and simulated it. Dropped it into a virtual body. It started walking. Grooming. Feeding. Doing what flies do.

Nobody taught it to walk. No training data, no gradient descent toward fly-like behavior. This is the opposite of how AI works. They rebuilt the mind from the inside, neuron by neuron, and behavior just... emerged. It's the first time a biological organism has been recreated not by modeling what it does, but by modeling what it is.

A human brain is 6 OOM more neurons. That's a scaling problem, something we've gotten very good at solving. So what happens when we have a working copy of the human mind?

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@0xCharlota @joshpuckett Wow, yes, I think https://t.co/BV7HehjYPk is exactly what you need @joshpuckett. Intapaper articles -> printed magazine monthly to your door. Currently working on RSS support <3

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

BOOM!

Apple’s Neural Engine Was Just Cracked Open, The Future of AI Training Just Change And Zero-Human Company Is Already Testing It!

In a jaw-dropping open-source breakthrough, a lone developer has done what Apple said was impossible: full neural network training– including backpropagation – directly on the Apple Neural Engine (ANE). No CoreML, no Metal, no GPU. Pure, blazing ANE silicon.

The project (https://t.co/jrk67hf9p1) delivers a single transformer layer (dim=768, seq=512) in just 9.3 ms per step at 1.78 TFLOPS sustained with only 11.2% ANE utilization on an M4 chip. That’s the same idle chip sitting in millions of Mac minis, MacBooks, and iMacs right now.

Translation? Your desktop just became a hyper-efficient AI supercomputer.

The numbers are insane: M4 ANE hits roughly 6.6 TFLOPS per watt – 80 times more efficient than an NVIDIA A100. Real-world throughput crushes Apple’s own “38 TOPS” marketing claims. And because it sips power like a phone, you can train 24/7 without melting your electricity bill or the planet.

At The Zero-Human Company, we’re not waiting. We are testing this right now on real ZHC workloads. This is the missing piece we’ve been chasing for our Zero Human Company vision: reviving archived data into fully autonomous AI systems with zero human overhead.

This is world-changing.

For the first time, anyone with a Mac can fine-tune, train, or iterate massive models locally, privately, and at a fraction of the cost of cloud GPUs.

No more renting $40,000 A100 clusters. No more waiting in queues. No more massive carbon footprints.

Training costs that used to run into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars? Plummeting toward pennies on the dollar – mostly just the electricity your Mac was already using while it sat idle.

The AI revolution just moved from billion-dollar data centers to your desk.

WE WILL HAVE A NEW ZERO-HUMAN COMPANY @ HOME wage for equipped Macs that will be up to 100x more income for the owner!

We’re only at the beginning (single-layer today, full models tomorrow), but the door is wide open. Ultra-cheap, on-device training is here.

The future isn’t coming. It’s already running on your Mac.

Welcome to the Zero-Human Company era.

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@michalblaha @HlidacStatu 💛 This was not a shot at HS, this was "let's turn up the volume".

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

Wen @michalblaha sees this

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

NOW YOU CAN TRACK GOVERNMENTS AND HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE WITH AI AGENTS

Openplanter - an ai agent that tracks your government like they're tracking you

Correlates disparate data sources, identifies entities, hunts for anomalies automatically

https://t.co/nPUeACNTwK

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

Beyond Claude Opus 4.5 and Antigravity, the app that brought me the most joy lately is @WisprFlow

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@StaniKulechov https://t.co/K9CdZ90xv9 thanks 🙏🏻

[Gekonn @Gekonn]

@jillgun Zcash has been a trade call this year. Aztec is a build and use call right now. Different audience