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An eager software developer daily going beyond event horizon and back.

[Julian Figueroa @kinetic_finance]

I have been in Bitcoin for 10 years.

I have NEVER seen sentiment this bad, on all fronts.

Not 2015, not 2018, not the 2022 collapse.

Something is broken this time, and I think I found out why through 9 charts... 📉

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

A Thai diver swam 200 meters through a pitch-black flooded cave passage to find five villagers who had given up hope.

When he reached them, they broke down crying. So did he.

Norrased "Benz" Palasing had 50 minutes of underwater darkness ahead of him on the return trip, guiding terrified, hypothermic civilians through water, one at a time, while keeping himself together long enough to get them all out alive.

Most people couldn't do that job cold and alone for five minutes. He did it five times.

Source: CNN

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

URGENT: Germany’s collective punishment of my family continues. They’ve now frozen my pensioner mother’s bank account, claiming I somehow “control” it too. Her savings are inaccessible — yet she has received no official notice from any German authority. No charges no due process

[Daniel Scott @odanielscott]

Evolução do PIB Per Capita:

2011:
🇧🇷 Brasil: $ 13.397
🇵🇾 Paraguai: $ 5.805
🇨🇱 Chile: $ 14.487
🇦🇷 Argentina: $ 12.850

2025:
🇧🇷 Brasil: $ 10.311 (- 23%)
🇵🇾 Paraguai: $ 6.416 (+ 11%)
🇨🇱 Chile: $ 16.710 (+ 15%)
🇦🇷 Argentina: $ 13.970 (+ 9%)

O que está acontecendo conosco?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Learn to tolerate boredom. Success isn't flashy. It's built through long periods of extremely disciplined, boring routines. If you need constant novelty, you won't make it very far. To shine in the light, you have to embrace boring work in the dark.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Enhanced Games stock crashes 50%, after many non-enhanced athletes outperformed "juiced" ones.

[BowTiedBrazil @bowtiedbrazil]

I have traveled to nearly every region of the world. I can tell you one truth that is immutable in every country, no matter how great or shitty:

people, both rich and poor, ALWAYS complain about their home country and think grass is greener elsewhere. Every single country. Some people actively move and test the theory out for themselves

This isn't' really a surprising phenomenon to anyone who has international experience

[@levelsio @levelsio]

In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera

Some pros will keep doing work with DSLRs (and need them), but most basic apps will be built with no code. Just like most photos now are shot on a phone

[Mololuwa | Cybersecurity - (The God Complex) @cyber_rekk]

Osint is dangerous imagine being tracked from only one picture

[Marc J. Randazza 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇷 @marcorandazza]

today, no legal system is based on the Mongols’, nobody reads ancient Mongolian books, its history inspired nothing.

Rome still exists in the Catholic Church, Civil Law, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian languages, the entire notion of a republic.

Eat a dick, Genghis.

[Ryan Clogg @RyanClogg]

If you think about it...

This is still absolutely insane.

[mert @mert]

imagine being an illegal migrant in france

you kidnap a few crypto bros, poo on the street, and stab a few women. life is good. freedom.

but that much crime is tiring so you're watching your health. you opt into a zyn instead of a cig. and bam, that's 5 years in jail bucko.

[Zhu Su @zhusu]

Enhanced Games might be the most effective “don’t do drugs” campaign ever.

[lostbutlucky @lostbutlucky]

Enhanced Games is backfiring. None of the athletes are beating any records. Proving everyone's point that the top athletes are using steroids already.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

To build this dam, engineers first drowned a waterfall twice the size of Niagara. You could hear it roaring from 20 miles away. Then they made one of the world's biggest rivers move out of the way, just to clear room for the construction site.

It's the Itaipu Dam, on the Paraná River where Brazil meets Paraguay. Work started in 1975, and the first job was the river itself. Crews spent three years carving a 1.2-mile channel through solid bedrock, 500 feet wide and 300 feet deep.

They hauled away 50 million tons of earth. In October 1978, they set off 58 tons of dynamite, forcing the Paraná into a brand new path. Only then could the dam itself start to rise.

The structure ate roughly five times the concrete used for the Hoover Dam, plus enough steel to rebuild the Eiffel Tower 380 times over. On one day in November 1978, the site poured concrete fast enough to put up a 10-story apartment building every hour for 24 hours straight. The main wall is 643 feet tall, the height of a 65-story tower. It runs almost 5 miles across the river.

The bill came to $19.6 billion in 1970s money, roughly $60 billion today. About 40,000 people lost their homes when the reservoir filled. And in October 1982, when the water rose in just 14 days, it drowned Guaíra Falls, a chain of 18 waterfalls on the Brazil-Paraguay border that carried double the water of Niagara. Months earlier, a footbridge over the falls had collapsed under crowds of last-look tourists. Twenty-six died.

In 2016, the dam produced as much electricity in a single year as New York City uses in two. That set a world record only broken in 2020 by China's Three Gorges Dam, which has 60% more generating power but sits on a river that runs low for half the year. Since 1984, Itaipu has put out more electricity than any single power plant in human history. It supplies around 90% of Paraguay's electricity and roughly 10% of Brazil's, from one wall of concrete. The final construction loan was paid off in February 2023, almost 50 years after the treaty was signed.

[Kadir Kirisci @K2adir]

Speed dating etkinlikleri düzenleyen arkadaşım diyor ki:

21-30 yaş yaptığımızda gelecek kadın bulamıyoruz, etkinlik erkeklerle doluyor.

30-45 yaş grubu yaptığımızda ise gelecek erkek bulamıyoruz, bu sefer de sadece kadınlar oluyor

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The amazing thing about Israel trying to derail the deal by insisting on the right to bomb Lebanon:

Trump announced on April 18 that as part of a deal, he ordered Israel to stop bombing Lebanon, claiming it's "PROHIBITED."

Israel laughed in his face and bombed the next day.

[Prajwal Tomar @PrajwalTomar_]

WAIT. This is actually insane.

A solo dev just won the Anthropic hackathon, shipped a working product in 8 hours with Claude Code, and walked away with $15,000.

Then he open-sourced the entire stack.

153,000 stars on GitHub. Here's full setup:

→ 38 specialized agents (planner, security reviewer, debugger, code reviewer)
→ 156 skills loaded on demand (/plan, /tdd, /security-scan, /quality-gate)
→ 72 custom slash commands
→ AgentShield: 1,282 security tests across CLAUDE .md, MCP configs, hooks, skills
→ 3 Opus 4.6 agents running red-team pipelines (Attacker, Defender, Auditor)
→ Continuous learning layer that builds confidence across sessions
→ Coverage across 12 language ecosystems

This is what Claude Code looks like when someone treats it like infrastructure instead of a chatbot.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A guy named nbatman on Reddit accidentally built the most useful website on the internet.

It's called FMHY (Free Media Heck Yeah).

This is the website Google delisted from search for DMCA violations, Reddit shadow-banned for promoting piracy, the Motion Picture Association flagged as a top piracy threat, and the RIAA pressured hosting providers to drop. It is still online. It is still updated every month.

Here's how it works.

FMHY is the index. The wiki itself hosts nothing. It just tells you where every free thing on the internet actually lives, organized into 14 categories with safety ratings on every single link.

→ Movies and shows in 4K from 50+ streaming sites
→ Music at Spotify and Apple Music quality
→ Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, JetBrains
→ Every paid course on every major learning platform
→ 100 million books and papers through Anna's Archive
→ Free alternatives to every paid AI tool
→ A SafeGuard browser extension that flags unsafe sites in real time

It started as a single Google Doc maintained by one Reddit moderator in 2018. Google killed it with a DMCA takedown in 2023.

The community rebuilt the wiki on its own domain, mirrored it to GitHub and IPFS, and now runs it across 12 backup domains simultaneously.

There is no company. No CEO. No central server. Six anonymous volunteers maintain the entire thing in their spare time. Donations through Ko-fi pay for the hosting. Nobody profits.

Hollywood can't shut this down. Spotify can't shut this down. Adobe can't shut this down.

The entire subscription economy is held together by you not knowing this wiki exists.

https://t.co/AAr2rLlqgy