Brian Hauer

Progressive music, electric cars, fast software, and liberty. Decentralize the economy and the Internet.

[Econymous @Econymous_1]

Normal person: Piketty, your plan is incompatible with freedom.

Piketty: But of course, and that's not the only great thing about it.

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

I just bought a Tesla Model Y

Full Self Driving is one of the most impressive pieces of technology I’ve ever experienced.

I now wish I’d got it a year ago.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

If self-driving cars are 8x safer than human drivers and we refuse to deploy them because of one bad case, we are choosing to let hundreds of thousands of people die per year to protect our feelings about control.

[Brian Hauer @bhauer]

🤣 New “exit vim” challenge unlocked.

[snwy @snwy_me]

thanks to Claude Mythos i was able to open vim on my car infotainment screen, just to end up bricking it because the terminal does not support the colon key and restarting the car doesn’t restart the headunit

[Elai @elaifresh]

I’ll simply never get tired of gawking at this graph

How on earth did they decide that ONE-DIMENSIONAL data should be illustrated as a heatmap on polar coordinates

What on earth were they thinking?

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I managed to get RetroPad, my full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP, down to 2686 bytes of tight x86 assembly.

I checked in the exe to make life simpler, so you don't need masm on hand!

Episode coming shortly... follow so you don't miss it!

Code: https://t.co/Kl736oVuvC

[Brian Hauer @bhauer]

My favorite part of this is the ridiculous way he stands back up.

[jinjingliang @JinjingLiang]

No CEO aura farms better than Jensen Huang

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

A government that can't count votes in a timely manner shouldn't be allowed to run so many aspects of our lives.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Like honestly "it's going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election" is failed state shit and should be much more stigmatized.

[Zac Bowden @zacbowden]

Well hello there, Surface Laptop Ultra! First impressions are simple: Get this one

[Brian Hauer @bhauer]

This plus a Windows Server license for hobbyists and home users that costs some nominal amount like $50. Get into the self-hosting ecosystem. It’s where your evangelists are.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

If Microsoft made me CEO?

1) I would issue a Windows Pro SKU that lacked any upsells, bloatware, monetization, coercion of defaults, or unnecessary telemetry. It would be an annual license, enforced by activation.

2) Double down on gaming and backward compatibility as the killer advantage, which ensures PCs remain relevant in the homes and thus minds of decision makers.

3) I'd open-source portions of the Windows shell, WinUI components, utilities, and file system tools (similar to how they open-sourced parts of .NET and VS Code). Let the community fix the jank.

4) Then I'd make bash the default shell one day because I'd had too many Long Islands at lunch.

[NVIDIA RTX Spark @NVIDIARTXSpark]

NVIDIA RTX Spark reinvents @Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents, offering a new class of computer that moves from tool to teammate.

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

No. Also put ice in your drinks.

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

It's wild that we let customers experience FSD coast-to-coast themselves.

No professional production, just a normal drive.

Yet to me, this is a bigger step change than AlphaGo or GPT, as there's no special machine behind it—it's something you can buy today.

[Noah Cat @Cartidise]

whoever designed these emojis had ONE job

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy.

Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead.

There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems.

We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes.

@NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible.

America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

This New Glenn rocket explosion released 20% of the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb and that wasn't even the bad part:

→ The pad: LC-36 is the only pad on Earth that launches New Glenn and now it's gone. Over $1B to build. SpaceX needed 7 months to rebuild after a similar hit.

→ The deadline: Amazon needs 1,618 satellites up by July 30 to keep its FCC license. It has ~300. The rocket that was supposed to help fix that just blew up twice in a row

SpaceX made us believe that landing rockets on barges was a normal expectation. Turns out rocket science is hard after all. Wishing the team a speedy recovery 🚀

[Xavier Rivera @XavierRiveraX]

Server still generates the (now short-lived) cookies via Set-Cookie.
On login, Chrome creates a private key stored in your device’s TPM/hardware (never leaves the device).
When the cookie expires, Chrome auto-signs a server challenge with that key to get a fresh one.
Stolen cookies become useless fast attacker can’t refresh without your hardware key.

[Brian Hauer @bhauer]

Okay I’m paying attention.

[Pavan Davuluri @pavandavuluri]

Something new is coming for developers. And no, it’s not a new OS version 😅. See you at Build next week!

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.