Michael Buen

[Michael Buen @iEnableMuch]

https://t.co/piADj2lhby

Pictaflow productivity

Having a picture on your YouTube’s home page prevents you from getting easily distracted by YouTube’s recommended videos. Pictaflow will force you to search what you want to watch, watching with intent rather than passively

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Joma Tech @jomatech]

I'm building an app to make $10,000/Month and I'll record everything...

I want to document my WHOLE journey building an app, marketing it, and making money off of it. Is it really that easy? How hard is it?

I've been seeing so many X users online talking about how easy it is to make money online with AI now.

I want to test it and show people the reality of making a business online.

[The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 @TGTM_Official]

PSA: Always remember that make up is very important.

For the guys, please do you due diligence when dating.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

High school student Mia Heller, 18, has reportedly invented a water filter capable of removing up to 95.5% of microplastics.

[IsakPar @IsakPar021]

Bloom filters. A giant bit array in memory where every existing username gets hashed and flips some bits to 1.
To check yours: hash it, check the bits.
-Any bit is 0? Definitely free.
-All 1s? Probably taken, confirm against the real DB.
2 billion usernames in ~2 GB of RAM. Microsecond lookups.
Why not a hash set? That’s 60-100 GB. Bloom filters trade a ≈1% false positive rate for 30x less memory, and never give false negatives. They’ll never say “available” when it’s taken.

[Marianne Enriquez @mariannenriquez]

“IF WE WON’T HOLD HEARINGS, HOW WILL WE DETERMINE PROBABLE CAUSE? MANGHUHULA BA TAYO?” — LUISTRO

House Justice Committee Chairperson Gerville Luistro stressed that the proceedings against VP Sara Duterte are hearings to determine probable cause, not a trial.

“If we will not conduct a hearing proper, if we will not conduct a clarificatory hearing, if we will not ask questions… ano ang magiging basis natin ng determination ng probable cause? If we will not do that, manghuhula ba tayo?”

Luistro underscored that every step taken by the committee is guided by due process, the Constitution, House impeachment rules, and Supreme Court rulings, ensuring a fair and lawful proceeding.

@News5PH

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

MrBeast: "If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers in six months"

"Your videos suck. You think your videos are good, but they suck. They just do. And the sooner you learn how to make good, great videos that people actually want to watch, the sooner you'll get views."

MrBeast shares his early reality:

"When I was 14, I thought my videos were the best in the world. They weren't, they were terrible. To be successful, you kind of have to have a little bit of that ego where you think your content's great. But also, if you have sub-1,000 subscribers, there's a good probability your videos just suck. They just do."

He explains what to do about it:

"You need to make hundreds of videos. Improve something every time. And just get to the point where they don't suck. When you make good content, you'll blow up. It's not the algorithm. It's not anything. Most people who are in my position just made terrible videos, and that's okay. Because you've got to make a bunch of videos and improve over time to be great."

MrBeast uses an analogy:

"You don't just pick up a baseball and become an MLB-level athlete within a year. It takes many, many, many years. YouTube's kind of the same way."

On analysis paralysis:

"A lot of people get analysis paralysis. They'll sit there and plan their first video for three months. If you have zero videos on your channel, your first video is not gonna get views. Period. Your first 10 are not gonna get views. I can very confidently say that. So stop sitting there and thinking for months and months on end. Just get to work and start uploading."

He gives the formula:

"All you need to do is make 100 videos and improve something every time. Do that, and then on your 101st video, we'll start talking. Maybe you can get some views. But your first 100 are gonna suck."

How to improve something each time:

"The second video: put more effort into the script. The third one: learn a new editing trick. The fourth one: figure out a way to have better inflections in your voice. The fifth one: study a new thumbnail tip and implement it. The sixth one: figure out a new title. There's infinite ways. The coloring, the frame rate, the editing, the filming, the production, the jokes, the pacing, every little thing can be improved. There's literally no such thing as a perfect video."

On the algorithm:

"What YouTube wants is for people to click on a video and watch it. That's what it is at its core. By studying the algorithm, you'll learn that you're more studying human psychology. What do humans want to watch?"

MrBeast shares a simple reframe:

"Anytime you say the word 'algorithm,' just replace it with 'audience' and it works perfectly. 'The algorithm didn't like that video?' No, the audience didn't like that video. Literally, that's it. If people are clicking and watching, it gets promoted more. The algorithm just reflects what the people want."

On titles:

"Short, simple, and just so freaking interesting that you have to click. If someone reads it, are they like, do they have to watch it? Is it just so intrinsically interesting that it's gonna haunt them if they don't click?"

He adds nuance:

"Keep it below 50 characters. Above 50 characters, on certain devices it goes dot, dot, dot, and that's the worst thing because then people don't even know what they're clicking on."

MrBeast shares the extremity principle:

"The more extreme the opinion, typically the higher the click-through rate. 'Fiji water sucks', that'd do fine. But 'Fiji water is the worst water I've ever drank in my life', way more extreme, would do way better. But then you have to deliver. The more extreme you are, the more extreme you have to be in the video."

On the first 5 seconds:

"Before you film a video, what is the thumbnail? What is the title? Then what's the first 5 seconds? Then what's the first 30 seconds?"

He explains why autoplay changed everything:

"On YouTube now, videos automatically play. So many people don't even see the thumbnail because it autoplays so quickly. The thumbnail is irrelevant for them. I have to visually convince you to click on the video in the first 5 seconds. Before, the hook was important because you had to convince people to watch. Now you have to convince people to click and watch at the same time, with the first 5 seconds."

On matching expectations:

"Your title and thumbnail set expectations. At the very beginning of the video, to minimize drop-off, you want to assure them that those expectations are being met. If you click on a video called 'Tether is a scam' and at the very beginning, he starts talking about literally anything else, you're like, 'Oh, this is BS. This isn't what I clicked on.' But if at the very start you go, 'Tether is a scam and I'm gonna teach you why,' then it's like, okay, you match the expectations. Then you want to exceed them."

He emphasizes the importance:

"The thing people undervalue the most is literally the first 10 seconds of the video. That 15% difference in viewership between losing 35% of viewers in the first 30 seconds versus losing 20%, that really does make the difference between 2 million views and 10 million views. You just had a more strategic intro that hooked them."

On removing dull moments:

"You basically want to remove every dull moment. Find the 10 most critical people you know, make them watch the video, and just roast it. If I talk to a camera for 10 seconds without a cut, a lot of people will get bored. Having a B-cam and C-cam three seconds in, cutting to a different angle, now it's more interesting even though it's essentially the same thing."

On keeping viewers watching:

"Give them why they clicked. Tell them why they should watch. Then just stick on topic. That right there isn't even super complex, but I would already put you in the upper echelon of YouTube. A lot of people drag it out. It's like, 'I'm going to eat $100 ice cream, but first...' and then it's them birthday shopping for their mom. That's not why I came here."

On quality over quantity:

"It's much easier to get 5 million views on one video than 50,000 views on 100 videos. A lot of small YouTubers just post videos that aren't bad but aren't great, and none of them ever pop off, so they never get an audience. It might be better to upload half or a third or even a fifth of the videos, but make the videos you upload so freaking good that the algorithm has to promote it."

He warns against the consistency trap:

"When you set a consistent schedule and you're constantly having to upload videos that aren't as good as you'd like because you gotta hit 'Oh, this Monday I said I'd upload', that's a dangerous trap. The viewers notice the quality isn't as good and it makes them less likely to watch. I think it hurts your longevity."

On the real metric that matters:

"A big thing that everyone underestimates, what was your experience with your last video? If people loved the last video of yours that they watched, they're more likely to watch your next one. When people watch your video, you don't want them to go, 'Okay, that was good, but that's enough of you for the day.' What you want is them to go, 'Holy crap, that was crazy! Oh my god, what's that?' and they watch 10 videos. That's how you get high view counts. People watch 10 videos, not one."

On thumbnails:

"You want it to be simple. When they're scrolling, you want them to instantly understand what you're conveying and feel some type of emotion. Make it so interesting, or spike their curiosity so much, that if they don't click it, they'll wonder before they go to bed what happened?"

He gives an example:

"If you uploaded 'I rode a skateboard with 1,000 other people on it', and people are falling off the side, it's about to go off a big ramp if you don't click that, you're gonna be so curious. Later in the day, when you're daydreaming, you'll think, 'What happened to those 1,000 people on that skateboard?' That's the mindset you should have when making thumbnails."

On knowledge being the only barrier:

"It's all knowledge. It really is. I could start a new channel tomorrow without using my face or my voice, without ever promoting it, and in six months have 20 million subscribers. I just could. It's purely knowledge. If you knew what I knew, you could get 10 million subscribers no matter where you are right now within six months."

He addresses the skeptics:

"90% of the people watching don't agree with that. Everyone has excuses. 'Nah, YouTube just doesn't work like that, Jimmy.' But I mentor a lot of people. I see it all the time. It is possible. It is simply knowledge. The second you accept that it is knowledge and you start your journey of learning figuring out what makes a good video, what does my audience want, how can I elevate and then you take that knowledge and just assume 'I will never understand what the perfect video is' and every single day be devoted to learning and improving as much as possible there you go."

On money not being the barrier:

"There are tons of viral ideas that don't require money. It does not require money to go viral. One of my most-viewed videos was spending 24 hours in a desert, we just grabbed a tent and some stuff and went to the desert. It got 60-70 million views. People say, 'I could be MrBeast if I had money.' A, I didn't start off with money; I was poor, I had no money. It took me seven years just to buy a camera saving up from YouTube. And B, some of our most-viewed videos literally anyone can do."

On why no one will outwork him:

"No one's ever gonna do what I do better than me. It's just not humanly possible. I reinvest every penny I make. I work every hour I'm awake. I devote every atom in my brain to solving this. I hire the best people on the planet. I've been doing this for 14 years. And I think in decades, not years. I'm gonna be doing this for another 20-30 years. If I thought someone was doing better than me, I'd just start sleeping less so I could work even more."

But he doesn't recommend it:

"I don't have a life. I don't have work-life balance. My personality, my soul, my being is making the best videos possible. That is why I exist on this planet. And I don't recommend it. You should have work-life balance. You should not devote your entire life to this one thing. I have a mental breakdown every other week because I push myself so hard. I don't recommend it."

The only question that matters:

"Subscribers don't matter. Views don't matter. I mean, they do. But everything you want as a creator comes from making the best videos possible and thumbnails. The video part's the hard part. Ask: 'How can I make my videos better?' Do that every single day for years. And then you'll probably get views."

[CG @cgtwts]

Anthropic CEO:

“ I have engineers within anthropic who don’t write any code, they just let Claude write the code and they edit it and look it over”

“At anthropic writing code means designing the next version of Claude it self, so we essentially have Claude designing the next version of Claude itself, not completely but most of it”.

In the last 52 days, the Claude team dropped 50+ major feature launches.

This is literally INSANE.

[vitrupo @vitrupo]

Eric Schmidt says the 10x advantage is no longer execution. It is defining what counts as success.

A programmer writes a spec and an evaluation function, runs it at 7pm, and wakes up to what was invented overnight.

The advantage now belongs to whoever can specify the problem precisely.

The rest will be automated.

[H*****Z @Hz___143]

I miss when being the president was held by someone who is a compassionate person that cared for people

[Luna M ✨ @tiredfeminist_]

The Corgi was the one leading them home
The German Shepherd was injured
The dogs kept a protective formation around the German Shepherd
The Corgi stopped often to make sure they were still okay
It took them 2 days to get home
They are neighbourhood friends
I’m going to cry😭😭😭

[Teisen @Teisentwts]

After this video went viral, China banned the car owner from entering all gas stations in the country🗿🚗

[Michael Buen @iEnableMuch]

@alreadydawn How about this Chinese-English / English-Chinese dictionary? Hope you make a review of it, thanks! https://t.co/EqMypHzGeZ

[Burke Holland @burkeholland]

When you prompt, stop cramming so much information in. This confuses the model.

The better way is to use plan mode and be intentionally vague - “I want to port this app to JavaScript”.

Let plan mode prompt you for the details. It will assemble a coherent plan.

Then for the love of god review the plan. I know that takes time. I know it’s boring. I know you are cooking at 9k miles per hour and you need the model to just do the thing.

But there is no beating a well thought out, comprehensive plan. Period. You will spend more time typing “it still doesn’t work please fix it” in the long run and burn WAY more tokens.

Slow down. Plan. Review. Execute.

It has never been more important for you to move deliberately than it is right now. I cannot stress this enough.

This will be the difference between success and “it almost works”.

[BullBrezza | Macro & Crypto @BullBrezza]

The system doesn’t reward intelligence.
It rewards alignment.

Schools reward correctness.
Markets reward timing.
Corporations reward obedience.
Capital rewards asymmetry.

The smartest people optimize for truth.
The richest people optimize for leverage.

That’s why intelligence often produces thinkers…
but leverage produces winners.

Different games. Different scoreboards.

[The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 @TGTM_Official]

Since it is Tuesday, we go a bit light hearted: it is said when all the girls turn their head at the same time, the guy will turn to the girl he have a crush on.

Anyone have tried this before?

[Branko @brankopetric00]

Kubernetes was built by Google to run millions of containers across a global fleet.

You're running a Django app with 500 users on a $3,000/month EKS cluster.

Stop it.

I've seen 3-person startups hire "platform teams" to babysit their cluster. Six-month migrations for apps that ran perfectly fine on a $50 VPS. Engineers debugging YAML at 3 AM for problems that didn't need to exist.

You don't have a scaling problem. You have a resume-driven development problem.

Docker Compose exists. Railway exists. A single VPS exists.

"But we might scale!" You won't. And if you do, migrating later is easier than maintaining Kubernetes without the team for it.

And if you actually need Kubernetes? You're still probably doing it wrong:

- No resource limits (one pod kills the node)
- Using latest docker image tag
- No health checks (traffic routing to dead pods)
- Running as root (security? never heard of it)
- Single replicas in production
- Secrets in plain env vars

Full breakdown with fixes:

[Atheyst @atheystx]

@MMatt14 First video is always immediately piggy backing off of what Linus built. Proximity to power deludes some into thinking they wield it.