THIS GUY GOT CLAUDE CODE TO BUILD A LIVE MAP OF CLAUDE CODE. EVERY TOOL CALL IS A PULSE LIGHTING UP A STATION
it's called lot-map and it's open source, MIT
he got tired of reading a scrolling list of tool calls, so the map sits in a pane right beside the chat. the agent is a dot in the middle, and everything it does shows up as a pulse going out and coming back
the ten stations around it:
> you
> the model
> memory
> files
> shell
> network
> browser
> subagents
> skills and hooks
every model request, tool call and hook sends a pulse from the centre to its station and back. errors turn red
it also remembers: spokes get thicker the more a station gets used, so you can see what the agent leans on
the fun detail: Opus 5.5 wrote the first version, and Fable 5.2 reworked it the next day
you used to watch an agent by squinting at a wall of text
now you watch it like a subway map
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THIS GUY HAD CLAUDE CODE BUILD A NETFLIX-STYLE APP THAT REPLACES SIX HOME MEDIA SERVER APPS. THE WHOLE THING IS 15 MB
it's called HolyArrs and it's open source
a home media server usually means sonarr, radarr, lidarr, bazarr, prowlarr and seerr just to find and get one movie. this does all of it in one app, and plugs into what you already run: qbittorrent or sabnzbd to download, plex, jellyfin or emby to watch
no api keys. posters and search come from a metadata server he runs and pays for
what's in it on day one:
> rows built from your own library: "because you have...", "finish the collection", "popular in your household"
> top 10s and coming soon for shows, movies and music
> anyone in the house can request something with one tap
> HD and 4K of the same movie side by side
moving over takes a few minutes. it talks like sonarr and radarr, so your tools keep working and your files never move
the rule that kept it small: if a change makes it heavier, it doesn't ship. no operating system inside
six apps used to be the price of a home media server
now one guy and claude code made it one 15 MB download. it's still a beta, so not your main app yet
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THIS GUY USED CLAUDE CODE TO FIND TWO PLANET CANDIDATES IN NASA DATA. THE TESS TEAM'S OWN NUMBERS LANDED WITHIN 1.6 SECONDS OF HIS
it's about a star called TIC 4206066, watched by the TESS space telescope
a planet passing in front of its star makes the light dip a tiny bit. he found two repeating dips with Claude Code and published their orbit times on October 6
on November 6 the TESS team added the star to their official list as TOI 7930, with both signals as planet candidates
how close the two answers are:
> 3 day orbit: his 3.1827844 days, TESS team 3.1827878 days. off by 0.29 seconds
> 11 day orbit: his 11.1327454 days, TESS team 11.1327267 days. off by 1.6 seconds
> sizes: he had 1.4 and 2.2 Earth radii, they have 1.30 Β± 0.15 and 2.04 Β± 0.37
he checked it 3 times because he thought he had messed up the units
the TOI list is what gets handed to astronomers for follow-up from the ground, so these are still candidates, not confirmed planets. but a separate pipeline found the same two signals
the video of the observations was made with Opus 5.5 too
used to be that finding a planet meant a university and a telescope
now one guy with Claude Code and public data got on NASA's list
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Introducing ChatGPT for competitor research.
Drop in any rivalβs website. GrowthPeel shows you exactly how they grew:
β The exact reels, with views and when they were posted
β The exact ads theyβre running
β The exact timeline of what they did and when
We ran it on Lovable. Their biggest reel has 4.3M plays, and a creator made it.
@felixrieseberg yes but it still can't completely give a teardown of your competitor's growth. You should try https://t.co/BqnaZMOmSe
https://t.co/g3NEhODvhM
Introducing ChatGPT for competitor research.
Drop in any rivalβs website. GrowthPeel shows you exactly how they grew:
β The exact reels, with views and when they were posted
β The exact ads theyβre running
β The exact timeline of what they did and when
We ran it on Lovable. Their biggest reel has 4.3M plays, and a creator made it.
Introducing ChatGPT for competitor research.
Drop in any rivalβs website. GrowthPeel shows you exactly how they grew:
β The exact reels, with views and when they were posted
β The exact ads theyβre running
β The exact timeline of what they did and when
We ran it on Lovable. Their biggest reel has 4.3M plays, and a creator made it.
THIS GUY HAS BEEN BUILDING AN ENTIRE GAME WITH CLAUDE OPUS FOR 15 WEEKS. THE AI WRITES THE CODE, BUILDS THE CITIES, CREATES 3D ASSETS, AND EVEN EDITS THE TRAILERS.
it's called Nightshoal, a Godot game set in a 1920s world of harbours, fishing boats, bridge cities and black markets.
he's been building it with Claude Opus, posting weekly progress on Reddit, and there's already a free playable demo.
what's insane is how much of the actual game is being built by AI.
the world has:
a massive bridge city with moving traffic, trams and a lighthouse
a sun that actually moves across the sky, changing shadows and water reflections
a moon that takes over at night, with buildings lighting up
an entire black market with steamers, warehouses, piers and fishing boats
harbours, docking scenes, weather, achievements and more
and here's how he builds it:
Claude Opus 5.5 writes basically all the code. it also controls Blender through MCP to build city layouts, buildings and fix 3D models.
TripoAI generates the 3D assets. he makes images showing all four sides of an object, Claude splits them up, Tripo turns them into a model, and Claude cleans it up in Blender.
OpenAI's image API generated 24 reference mockups of the city, showing 6 different views at 4 times of day.
then he built something called a Gauntlet-Loop.
AI critic agents blindly compare screenshots of his actual game against those mockups and keep improving the game until it wins.
after 10 rounds, 31 out of 33 pieces beat the reference images.
even the performance work is done by Opus.
this week it found a map using 4 GB of graphics memory because it was being drawn at double size.
Opus helped bring that down to 0.3 GB and cut startup time from 26 seconds to 13.
the first harbour docking freeze went from almost 2 seconds to 0.2.
he also has another system called Jev that decides how much reasoning effort Opus should spend on each task.
the crazy part?
he spent around $1,100-$1,150 on AI tools just this week, including four Claude Max plans.
15 weeks in, he's already got a playable game, entire AI-built environments, dynamic lighting, weather and a working world.
and he's still building the actual gameplay.
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I understand English just fine. You apparently don't understand the difference between professional achievement and personal integrity.
Calling someone a good man because he built a great company is a moral argument.
Try defending your argument instead of insulting people who can actually think critically about it.
I genuinely don't understand what is wrong with so many tech CEOs. We keep putting these people on pedestals because they build billion-dollar companies, yet some seem to have never developed the most basic qualities of character, integrity, and self-control.
Being exceptionally intelligent doesn't automatically make you a good human being. And changing the world doesn't excuse failing the people closest to you.
a good man can do a bad thing.
Jensen Huang has done enormous good for the world through NVIDIA and advancing life-saving superintelligence technology
we donβt erase that because he was unfaithful.
one of my heroes is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we donβt discount his civil rights leadership because of his various well-documented extramarital affairs.
i donβt mean to excuse any of it.
he did a dumb, stupid, and hurtful thing.
marriage is a sacred covenant and he damaged his family.
but how many of you could withstand the pressure of a full nation-state apparatus hellbent on bringing you down?
we have to be able to hold two ideas in our heads at the same time: the personal failure and the larger contribution.