vanessa | funmaxxing era

crazy fun ideas on the internet that you can try for yourself

[vanessa | funmaxxing era @bubbleteacrypto]

Balancer V2 Exploit: $120 M+ Hack Highlights DeFi Risk

lessons in there

https://t.co/1OxtzzbaDd

[Johan @Adityapandeydev]

your brain is always becoming better at whatever you repeatedly do. that’s why repetition changes people more than motivation ever will. if you spend every day stressing, overthinking, comparing yourself to strangers online, replaying old mistakes, and expecting the worst, your brain slowly starts treating those patterns like home. it begins scanning the world for more proof that you’re not enough, that life is against you, that things won’t work out. the scary part is your brain doesn’t care if the pattern is helping you or destroying you. it only cares about what gets repeated.

but the same thing works in your favor too. when you repeatedly choose discipline, growth, gratitude, focus, and belief in yourself, your brain slowly reshapes around those things as well. at first it feels unnatural because your old patterns are louder, but over time your perspective changes. challenges stop feeling like signs to quit and start feeling like part of the process. your mind becomes whatever it practices most. so be careful what you keep giving your attention to because eventually, your thoughts become your reality.

[Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal]

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors.

Out now, enjoy :)

[atzy @atzydev]

🚇🇸🇬 we made a SG MRT station guessing game

- 3 tries to match the names to 5 stations on the MRT map
- hints provided for line + direction
- speedrun mode so you can brag to friends
- island-wide tour if you're good enough

try it here: 👉 https://t.co/Zi27MiKA4k 🚇

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

you need to be delusionally optimistic

negative thinking poisons your brain and leads to congitive decline

whereas positive thinking, and gaslighting yourself into thinking everything is amazing, ACTUALLY makes your life amazing too.

you must be a silly goose

[vanessa | funmaxxing era @bubbleteacrypto]

Always always always respond to bids for connection

If not, it’s a done deal

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Chemistry is the worst predictor of long-term relationship success and dating apps spent 15 years optimizing for it.

John Gottman ran a 40-year couples research program out of the University of Washington. The original study tracked 130 newlyweds and predicted divorce with 93.6% accuracy from observing a single 15-minute disagreement. The variable doing the predicting is contempt frequency. Eye rolls. Sarcastic corrections. Dismissive sighs during conflict.

Stable couples maintain a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions during disagreement. Below 1:1, divorce becomes statistically near-certain.

Six years after the wedding, couples who stayed together turned toward each other's bids for attention 86% of the time. Couples who divorced did it 33% of the time. The behavior is tiny: asking a question, sharing a thought, looking up when the other person walks in. The signal is enormous.

Chemistry measures novelty response and dopamine. It captures how someone behaves when both of you are excited and the lighting is good. By month 18 neither condition holds. Then the predictive behaviors finally surface: how they treat you when they're tired, sick, or losing an argument.

Dating apps optimize for the metric with the lowest predictive validity in the entire field. Attraction is what gets you to swipe. Contempt patterns don't show up on a profile.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

if only you knew how easy life is when you’re delusional

[Kyle @zeroxkyle]

i am honestly shocked that singapore is the #1 country in the world in AI usage

like dyou know how crazy that is? population of 6m using more AI than USA (300+mm pop)

[vanessa | funmaxxing era @bubbleteacrypto]

Just be dumb.

If you manage to convince yourself it’s worse than you think and end up in a spiral, you can also convince yourself that it’s better than you think and end up spiralling upward.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.

Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Literally just having a delusional golden retriever mindset measurably changes outcomes and physiology.

Sleep badly? Convince yourself you're well rested.
Stressful day? Convince yourself it's fuel.
Failed? Convince yourself it's useful data.

[vanessa | funmaxxing era @bubbleteacrypto]

Fun-maxxing is the new meta

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Silly Business Theory is right: in the future the best work, greatest progress, most valuable innovations won't come from laboring under the false consciousness that work must be hard and serious to produce value. The best work is going to come from people playing and having fun.

[Nandkishor @devops_nk]

Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen.

Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore.

Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?"

AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

making yourself addicted to endorphins is how you stay hot forever btw! you can quite literally hijack the brain’s weakness for becoming addicted to whatever brings it pleasure and put it to work in your favor. when discipline starts morphing into euphoria, you’ll know you won.

[maxwell neely-cohen @maxnc]

Issue Five of The HTML Review is here!
Get to your browser for 15 excellent new pieces of web-based literature and art

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

this is why they’ve shut sora down.

[david 🔛⛓️ @davidonchainx]

People who spent $700 on a mac mini to run an openclaw agent watching claude launch all the features natively for $20

[yuuii @yuuiichive]

I must remember it all

[Kakashii @kakashiii111]

February 2026.
The leading countries that imported the most GPUs this month were… drums… drums… try to be surprised… ok?

1. U.S.
2. Singapore
3. Indonesia
4. Malaysia
5. Thailand

[Jakey @SolJakey]

Retardmaxxing

The art of never thinking

You are flow state, you are just doing shit

You aren’t thinking about the consequences or challenges

You invite them, because a retard doesn’t think

He just goes. Retardmaxxing

[vanessa | funmaxxing era @bubbleteacrypto]

The Fantasy Stack: What 80 Million Players Feel But Can't Name https://t.co/BHErnjRxof