Random facts

23, woman, posting interesting things.

[𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉 @Shadaya_Knight]

Men, never let a woman tell you how to become a man

[DelCrxpto @DelCrxpto]

$EFT dividends are better than any APY or APR in finance…

It’s a mathematical fact.

[Naval @naval]

You won’t get rich just working hard, but if you don’t work hard, you won’t get rich.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

I hope the next global trend is critical thinking

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

🚨 Introducing Project Cosmos, the world’s largest database of climate change research.

Carbon Brief has mapped the academic literature and evidence that underpins humanity's knowledge of climate change.

The Cosmos database includes 1.8 million studies.

Explore the database here ⬇️
https://t.co/sVbaZVsHo4

[Domino's Pizza UK @Dominos_UK]

BREAKING NEWS

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

It’s amazing to see Muslim nations doing well in the World Cup but especially England, Canada, and France.

[kuno @kunoo]

Crypto explained in 24 seconds.

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

The biggest money-making opportunity in AI isn’t in tech.

It’s in entertainment.

In the next few years, we’ll see a billion-dollar franchise , the next Game of Thrones, Demon Slayer, or Attack on Titan created by a writer and a team of 10 to 20 people.

Imagine the billions generated by Game of Thrones, but split between 10 people instead of thousands. All the rights and royalties going to a single studio/publishing house.

Seedance is only two or three evolutions away from making this possible for small teams.

You don’t want to build the next Cursor, Harvey, or Salesforce.

You want to build the next Disney, Pixar, Marvel, or MAPPA.

[Tereza Ann💙❤️ @ann_tereza]

Whoever did this won't make it to heaven!😭🤣

[Iconic Football Moments ⚽ @SliceofSport]

Ronaldinho: The magician who transformed football from a simple game into a real spectacle.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

https://t.co/pLMD0krc69

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Siboniso KaMabaso @ZuluSweG]

Real wealth