Kernel

Technology as craft. Entering KB12, our 12th block.

Applications always open:

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

In 1993, Wired launched with Marshall McLuhan on their masthead. Silicon Valley loved “the medium is the message.”

McLuhan was famously faith-driven, a converted Catholic. He (alongside Ivan Illich) have served inspiration for @left_pad.

Best known as a steward of the pivotal open-source JavaScript compiler Babel, Henry (KB4) has spent much of his life creating open source tools – a social annotation layer for the web, a receipt printer, a faith-inflected OSS podcast. Throughout, he remains keenly aware of the effects of his “electric engineering.”

“Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as spiritual substance,” McLuhan wrote. “It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ. After all, the Prince of this World is a very great electric engineer.”

Those searing words anchor @left_pad’s (KB4) nascent Bible App.

“When God creates everything, he says that he creates humans in his image,” Henry told Kernel. “What that means is that we are meant to create.”

His feed-based Bible App is a new message in a familiar medium. It’s a tool built to subvert TikTok “brain rot,” and to create precedent for technology that provides more signal and less noise.

Cursory McCluhan readers may be surprised that he had more to say on his most known quote. "In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message,” he wrote in the 1974 essay, Liturgy and the Microphone. “It is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same."

Henry tells his story of where the medium & message intertwine, and along the way, encourages each of us to create our own.

[Honcho @honchodotdev]

🫡 Honcho 3.0.0 is here.

Continual learning for stateful agents.

Give your agent the 10K tokens that matter, not the 100K that don't. Give it memory that reasons.

⚡ SOTA & pareto dominant
⚡ 5x cost reduction
⚡ Per-token pricing
⚡ Unlimited retrieval
⚡ 60-90% less tokens
⚡ Granular reasoning control

Better context. Fewer tokens. Any stack. Any scale.

Much more 👇

[vintro @vintrotweets]

this is a really big release for us 🚀

we've productionized the version of honcho that defined + dominates the pareto frontier in agent memory

biggest things to note:
--docs overhaul. if you've felt confused by honcho in the past, pls give it another shot. if it's still confusing, lmk
--we've been saying memory is reasoning, so now it's priced like a reasoning model. $2/m input tokens
--variable output pricing. reasoning efforts now available
--our landing page got a massive revamp that explains all of this too??!!

check out honcho [dot] dev

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

@obiabo_immanuel https://t.co/RaMOYEC0RK

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

In 1993, Wired launched with Marshall McLuhan on their masthead. Silicon Valley loved “the medium is the message.”

McLuhan was famously faith-driven, a converted Catholic. He (alongside Ivan Illich) have served inspiration for @left_pad.

Best known as a steward of the pivotal open-source JavaScript compiler Babel, Henry (KB4) has spent much of his life creating open source tools – a social annotation layer for the web, a receipt printer, a faith-inflected OSS podcast. Throughout, he remains keenly aware of the effects of his “electric engineering.”

“Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as spiritual substance,” McLuhan wrote. “It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ. After all, the Prince of this World is a very great electric engineer.”

Those searing words anchor @left_pad’s (KB4) nascent Bible App.

“When God creates everything, he says that he creates humans in his image,” Henry told Kernel. “What that means is that we are meant to create.”

His feed-based Bible App is a new message in a familiar medium. It’s a tool built to subvert TikTok “brain rot,” and to create precedent for technology that provides more signal and less noise.

Cursory McCluhan readers may be surprised that he had more to say on his most known quote. "In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message,” he wrote in the 1974 essay, Liturgy and the Microphone. “It is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same."

Henry tells his story of where the medium & message intertwine, and along the way, encourages each of us to create our own.

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

In 1993, Wired launched with Marshall McLuhan on their masthead. Silicon Valley loved “the medium is the message.”

McLuhan was famously faith-driven, a converted Catholic. He (alongside Ivan Illich) have served inspiration for @left_pad.

Best known as a steward of the pivotal open-source JavaScript compiler Babel, Henry (KB4) has spent much of his life creating open source tools – a social annotation layer for the web, a receipt printer, a faith-inflected OSS podcast. Throughout, he remains keenly aware of the effects of his “electric engineering.”

“Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as spiritual substance,” McLuhan wrote. “It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ. After all, the Prince of this World is a very great electric engineer.”

Those searing words anchor @left_pad’s (KB4) nascent Bible App.

“When God creates everything, he says that he creates humans in his image,” Henry told Kernel. “What that means is that we are meant to create.”

His feed-based Bible App is a new message in a familiar medium. It’s a tool built to subvert TikTok “brain rot,” and to create precedent for technology that provides more signal and less noise.

Cursory McCluhan readers may be surprised that he had more to say on his most known quote. "In Jesus Christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message,” he wrote in the 1974 essay, Liturgy and the Microphone. “It is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same."

Henry tells his story of where the medium & message intertwine, and along the way, encourages each of us to create our own.

[Godspower Eze @0xgodspower]

Introducing "Fast-fourier Transform (FTT), Number-theoretic Transform (NTT) and Lattice-based Cryptography", a two-part series exploring FFT, NTT and how NTT is used in lattice-based algorithms like ML-KEM and ML-DSA.

https://t.co/65K0Vgng5G

I'm happy to share the part one of this focused on FFT and NTT.

With over 7500 words and rich diagrams, it takes you on a journey from Polynomial Multiplication, Complex Numbers and Roots of Unity to FFT and NTT.

It makes no assumption about your knowledge. Rather, it gives you everything you need to follow through. All you need is the willingness to learn.

I put in so much love and care into making this valuable to you and I hope you get value out of it. Do check it out and let me know.

[Verb4l @verbersouza]

@Kernel0x is one the most important communities on the web3

there I find a lot of people open to teach, share knowledges and build

The round is open and I highly recommend to apply

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

we began Kernel nearly 6 years ago.

while Kernel's shape may transfigure,
the values at our roots do not.

happy 2026 🤓

[johnx @johnx25bd]

I've been thinking a lot about @Kernel0x's education philosophy, and the call to "deschool society".

It's slowly taking root ...

https://t.co/TqTCl4u52K

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

@johnx25bd @rushkoff @SeeWhatsUnder @kepano 😂

[Feems @feemschats]

@Kernel0x Glad this popped on my feed applied!

[charles (csl) ᛋ @CharlieStLouis]

Thrilled to share that I've joined the @ethereumfndn as its in-house defi specialist.

I’ll be working to deepen the Foundation’s connection to defi and strengthen Ethereum as the global financial settlement layer.

Onward 🫡

[Jess 🌱 @thattallguy]

The leader in Agent Memory.

Top scores on 3 leading benchmarks + the most token efficient memory on the market.

Always ahead of the curve.

gg @plasticlabs crew.

[Honcho @honchodotdev]

Honcho has fully determined the Pareto Frontier in Agent Memory.

It’s state-of-the-art on LoCoMo, LongMem, and BEAM.

Honcho is also the fastest, cheapest and most token efficient memory solution.

[Tess Rinearson @_tessr]

Kernel is a great program and community. Applications are open for their next batch!!

[johnx @johnx25bd]

Kernel is an incredible place to build — if anyone has questions or wants an intro, please let me know 💖

[V @vsinghdothings]

the 12th time is the charm

looking forward to working closer than ever with the participants in @Kernel0x

the energy shift from fellowship to residency is palpable

if you're considering 'what is next?' or building something new, we'd love to chat

https://t.co/TyV087tnSo

[MacEagon Voyce @maceagon]

@Kernel0x's back in 2026 for a new -- yet familiar -- residency program

as per usual, it's grounded in craft, quality, and a sense of a more intentional, collective future

[Sertac Guven ᯅ @Esfekia]

As a #KB5 fellow, strongly recommend Kernel to any tech builder curious about web3/crypto & beyond! It'll expand your thinking, spark new ideas, and connect you with an incredible community of like-minded folks in profound ways.

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

@0xOptimus congrats @0xOptimus, wish you all the best with your last semester!

if you are interested in furthering your research / building out the PropAMM (or explore something new), we'd love to have you consider kb12

https://t.co/bzjY55hdkX

[Kernel @Kernel0x]

Kernel is a residency for technologists pursuing high-quality work – from research to production – in crypto & beyond.

We offer:
▷ A technical & philosophical culture
▷ Accountability, refinement, & distribution
▷ A network of unusually talented peers

KB12 apps are open. Apply early by 12/31.

https://t.co/ezZ9cWqlx8