Most people think Harry Potter is the best selling book series in history at ~615M books.
That will likely change this year.
It will be overtaken by One Piece, by Eiichiro Oda, regarded as the greatest Japanese manga / graphic novel of all time, which just crossed 600M in March and is projected to surpass HP this year and hit 725M+ when it ends in ~2030-32 (thereās 10-15% left).
The story follows Monkey D Luffy, a young boy who has rubber man powers, who assembles a pirate crew and goes on an epic journey to find the legendary āOne Pieceā treasure.
As a voracious reader, I struggled to take manga seriously for most of my life. Iām a hardcore Harry Potter fan, and even thinking of manga in the same breath once disgusted me. I relegated manga to a āniche comic book for nerdsā and anime to a ākids cartoonā. āThese arenāt real books, itās just for people who canāt read longformā, I thought. But the past few years have completely changed my mind. Iāve been personally reading and watching (YouTube/Crunchyroll) many manga / anime including One Piece. Aside from the appreciation for the artistry of the characters, the stories strike me as immensely powerful with deep lessons about loyalty, sacrifice, friendship, ambition, justice, power, grief and kindness. Once you get in the flow, itās far more enjoyable than most non-fiction and rivals anything on my shelf. The storytelling is beautiful. It awakens the child inside you without being juvenile. I highly recommend it to anyone who has previously had reservations like I once did, and doubly so if you want to enjoy something with your kids.
The Hugging Face reachy_mini app store (~330 apps!) is browsable in-app: install, start, stop, remove. Running apps expose their own control UI, embedded in a WebView with the robot's address auto-rewritten from 0.0.0.0.
How it works: the robot runs a FastAPI daemon on port 8000. The phone is just a client ā discover via mDNS/Bonjour (reachy-mini.local), send HTTP commands, stream live state over WebSocket
With the Blessing of Sri Krishna, I am launching BhÄgavata-VÄNi (Link next post)
The complete ÅrÄ«mad BhÄgavatam (all 12 skandhas) with synced audio recitation and karaoke-style highlighting.
- 10 scripts with topic descriptions
- ad-free
- stotra list,
- advanced searches
Amongst my friends, Spotify is the lowest quality consumer app we still pay for. It certainly hasnt gotten noticeably better in the last couple years (arguably worse). So, this is not the positive look Ant and Spotify are spinning here.
Bigger picture, this is the problem with a lot of AI reporting. It reports completely meaningless metrics like deploys per day or LoC. Why donāt we start reporting consumer satisfaction reports? Actually end state research results.
All the no nuance AI people always come out and think that this is anti AI. Again, I think AI is great and Claude is great. But this is bad marketing and makes both look like clowns.
As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.
Dear US government,
Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people:
- Microsoft Teams
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Jira
- Outlook
Please do what you must to save America šŗšø
JUST IN: Andrej Karpathy, a top AI scientist at Anthropic, is reportedly barred from accessing the companyās most advanced AI model because he is not a U.S. citizen.