Orb

Ranked as #8 most profitable lightning node in 2022. will return once significant USD volume happens over lightning.

[Orb @ln_orb]

I built Orb because i love building things that look really good / work really well (ideally both).

I wanted to show others the beauty and elegance i see in Lightning. That's it. To me these videos meant more than the software itself.

[Orb @ln_orb]

1.2 BTC LOOP channel routing in a few hours, with simultaneous WOS rebalancing using LNURL pay requests on 20 parallel threads.

The channel selector tries to keep outbound on channel 'balanced ratio' line.

Sats earned: about 100K after deducting rebalancing costs.

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

Looking back at April-May, you guys may have dunked on me a little too much

[Orb @ln_orb]

https://t.co/LDPuBUlLsA

[Orb @ln_orb]

Great question.

[rahul @0interestrates]

why do people (including me) have an aversion to AI writing but not as much to AI code? if a piece of text smells AI i stop reading it but i use things coded entirely with AI every day

[Orb @ln_orb]

@alluringmedia Neither party went into specifics which is a shame. Is x still running a microservices stack?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Orb @ln_orb]

@Bee11201120 @Xp7_Ao @Polymarket More like win the internet.

[Xp7Ao @Xp7_Ao]

@Polymarket 😂

[Orb @ln_orb]

Consistency is actually what we need.

[shadcn @shadcn]

Unpopular opinion: I don’t care if most web apps look the same. All I care about is whether it does what it says and does it fast.

Make it fast. Make the UX obvious. Put the right things in the right place and little to no animations.

[Orb @ln_orb]

@petergyang - unit tests
- e2e tests
- type coverage
- code duplication
- code complexity
- security audits
- automated pen testing

[BURKOV @burkov]

This is what a useless hype lifecycle looks like.

[Jaytel @Jaytel]

4.7 is completely unusable

[Orb @ln_orb]

@JFreerz

[Orb @ln_orb]

@Sizhe_bitcat Looks like a tech demo. Zero camera movements. Zero continuity. Zero narrative. It's technically impressive, but poorly thought out.

[Orb @ln_orb]

@jedgar I don’t know what’s more unsettling: the fact we’re jump kicking robots in the head, or the fact we’re filming it and posting it on the internet.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on.

The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software.

The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check.

Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance.

Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls.

Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else.

A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available

And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot.

It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles.

But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

[Orb @ln_orb]

April 2026 will be remembered as the "it's Ben's fault" part of the cycle.

[Orb @ln_orb]

@burkov I’ve set up bouncer to do just that.

[Orb @ln_orb]

@TheFlowHorse Yes.