Herval in the Metaverse of Madness

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[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

I got a bit tired of Openclaw app's clutter, so I built my own little "Whatsapp for agents".

littleguys is a Mac app for OpenClaw, Hermes, Claude Code, Codex and any ACP agent. See who's working or needs you, reply in a few keystrokes, approve in one click.

Free and open-source 👉 https://t.co/uWH9awhlYc

👻

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@nerdalert And now it probably memorized to never buy eggs again

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@sean_a_mcclure @curiousnovice10 @signulll I think it rewards charisma and high agency more. AI is getting good at raw creativity and solving abstract problems, that fountain is gonna dry out soon. The last meaningful skillset will be “being popular”

[Mike Taylor @hammer_mt]

Worst week of Jensen's life

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

Hypercompetition

[Camilo Corzo @Jccorzot]

Sandbox provider are trending now, so here is a list of them ordered from most expensive to cheapest
(All prices are for 2 vCPU / 4 GB, running for one hour).

27. Depot — $0.60/hr
26. Vercel Sandbox — $0.341/hr *
25. Fly.‌io Sprites — $0.315/hr *
24. AWS Lambda MicroVMs — $0.252/hr
23. Tenki — ~$0.24/hr (its CI rate)
22. Modal — $0.238/hr
21. Upstash Box — $0.20/hr *
20. Cloudflare Sandbox — $0.180/hr *
19. Namespace — ~$0.18/hr (rough)
18. E2B — $0.166/hr
17. Daytona — $0.166/hr
16. Thunder Compute — $0.166/hr
15. BoxLite Cloud — $0.158/hr
14. Dedalus — $0.149/hr
13. Freestyle (YC S24) — $0.132/hr
12. CreateOS — $0.119/hr
11. exe.‌dev — $0.105/hr
10. AWS Nitro Sandboxes, on-demand — ~$0.083/hr
9. Northflank — $0.067/hr
8. AWS Nitro Sandboxes, 1-yr Savings Plan — ~$0.059/hr
7. Quivvo — $0.054/hr
6. Celesto — ~$0.030/hr (its CI rate)
5. AWS Nitro Sandboxes, Spot — ~$0.029/hr
4. Boat (YC F26) — $0.018/hr
3. InstaBox (YC P26) — $0.017/hr
2. Cube — ~$0.016/hr (shared vCPUs)
1. Agent 37 (YC F26) — ~$0.006/hr (shared host)

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@gpt_alex Anyone that picks Gemini over a good product wouldn’t be buying from startups anyway. Google is the new IBM

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@gulshanefilhaal @Marsadist When corporation A needs resources from corporation B, they can generate purchases, hence profits. U don’t need humans buying something for that to continue, the purchasing power of humans concentrates on the top 0.1% and the rest become bystanders

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

Almost the ENTIRE batch of YC started working on "harnesses", then seems to be pivoting into "sandboxes" now.

The groupthink has never been stronger in the Bay Area, and AI exponentializes it, since everyone is passing their ideas through the same thinking machine's brain

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

“dad, why are we so poor”

“well son, I was in YC in 2026 and everyone was pivoting to sandboxes in the middle of the batch. I decided that there were too many sandbox companies already

so I kept building my b2b saas”

“dad did you not see the MRR charts? were you not on X or something?”

“i was son, but I thought every MRR chart was going to be the last one. but they kept coming

for months, box, boxes, boat, box (this one by upstash). everybody launch post went viral.

modal quietly got to 1B arr. loveable started making sandboxes for some reason.”

“i hate you dad”

“not as much as i hate myself”

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Norway now has more than 2,000 underwater AI laser robots shooting lice off its salmon

they're made by a company called Stingray, and they already guard more than 50 million salmon and trout 24/7

the reason is sea lice, tiny parasites that latch onto salmon and feed on them

as few as 11 can kill a small fish, and one pen can hold 150,000 salmon

the usual fix is pumping the fish out and blasting them with warm water or water jets to knock the lice off

but the handling is so rough that Norway's fish health report ranks it the top cause of death in full-grown farmed salmon

so instead, Stingray puts a robot inside the pen that hunts lice one at a time, all day:

> two cameras watch every salmon that swims past

> AI checks two frames to make sure it's really a louse

> then a green laser fires from up to 2 meters away

> the salmon's scales reflect the beam, so the fish swims off fine and the louse is dead

we now live in a world where AI lasers do pest control on your dinner lmao

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@hustlin_heev Find better idols mate

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

Now imagine doomscrolling + claude babysitting 8-10h/day. We’re dementiamaxxing our brains

[George Ferman @Helios_Movement]

And don't get me started with the parents who babysit their kids with tablets.

Peter Thiel’s kids get 90 minutes per week.
Lesson in there.

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@grok @Bouqeke @beureut34711 @AMK_Mapping_ I love how grok always corrects imbeciles

[JOSΞPH 🌳 @CupOJoseph]

I taught it to sing Wonderwall

Chimera looks up pronunciations in CMUdict, falls back to letter-to-sound rules, and turns the resulting sounds into timed gestures that it can reuse for each lyric.

The future is now

[Yassine Bouanane @ybouane]

- Restaurants have no moat.
- Anyone can vibecook their own meal.
- You can build your own burger at home at a fraction of the cost it takes you to get it from a restaurant.
- If a restaurant builds a really good recipe, copycats will instantly reverse taste it and steal it.

Restaurants are dead.

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@von_springkafer @itsolelehmann * for now

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@fuckscales All this slop and u share an actual kursgezagt video?

[nil @dhvanil]

i went to bed and asked claude to paint an autumn tree overnight.

at around 4am, it realised that it didn't have some shades -- so it stopped and titrated its own paint: diluting red, sienna and madder step by step on a second palette, then measuring each pocket from a photo.

woke up to this beautiful watercolor painting. 303 brush marks, took about 4.5 hours 🍂 (still working on the speed)

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

Jeez I wonder why it had to be acquihired

Everything has a hundred clones now

[Ryan Shea @ryaneshea]

Conductor is shutting down and we put together a list of alternatives.

Here is a new and expanded list with over double the alternative products.

There's 43 in total, sorted by coverage of Conductor's core defining features:

Paradev, Tembo, Multica, Continuum, Agentastic, T3 Code, Traycer, Kcap, OpenHands, Orca, Warp, Replicas, Paperclip, Paseo, Orchestrator, Niteshift, Cloudroom, bb, Ghostex, Superconductor, Podium, AQ, Devin, Ellipsis, Synara, Emdash, Maestro, Boxes, CloudCLI, QM, Herdr, OpenClaw, Nimbalyst, Murmell, Capy, Rex, Supacode, Intent, OpenChamber, Sculptor, Darting, Vorflux, ArkenOS

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@Aditya_T007 models aren't a moat, controlling your attention is. That's what Claude is doing - more and more of people's times is just using it (instead of interfacing w/ any app)

[Herval in the Metaverse of Madness @herval]

@poteto @jamonholmgren @aphumphreys if you look closely, the people selling the "software factory" hype the hardest are the same ones who sold "web 3". I just mute any AI posts from people using crypto punks/monkeys/etc as the avatar, my feed quality has increased immensely since then