skanda

orchestrating agents in the dark forest
engineering @Polymarket

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

this is scary, literally human mind unable to comprehend math beyond their evolutionary needs to fit stuff into neat spaces

[Quantіan @quantian1]

You can do Fourier transforms in O(N log(N)^0.9999999999999) time. Fuck this gay chud universe

[Kevin @typedarray]

Excited to propose five new JSON-RPC methods to fetch EVM blockchain history: blocks, transactions, logs, traces, and native transfers.

These methods address longstanding Ethereum data problems at the protocol layer, through an open standard that any EVM chain can adopt.

[Josh @devjoshstevens]

We rewrote our data API in Rust 🦀, yielding 50% faster p50s and 90% faster p99s. It uses our in-house indexing tables - Polymarket UI now uses them throughout, which means trades, positions, and balances will load much faster. The API is open for anyone to consume on the /v2 route.

Docs: https://t.co/5hjLvybw59

[Josh @devjoshstevens]

We have built our Polymarket indexing systems in-house, powered by rindexer in Rust. We now see onchain data events up to 14 blocks (28 seconds) faster, and we index within 0-10ms of block broadcasting, making it nearly instant. This means trades, positions, and balances will update much faster. We will use Goldsky as a data backup, but we now primarily run on our own indexing infrastructure.

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

Good timing

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Origin, our code hosting platform, is now live.

It's fast, easy to use, and deeply integrated with Cursor.

Get started by syncing your repos from GitHub.

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

what

[Sam Altman @sama]

we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this.

https://t.co/2o2VfR6PIa

[Sarthak Langde @sarthaklangde]

https://t.co/ZU9RhRpioy

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

@sarthaklangde aint reading all that
happy for u tho
or sorry that happened

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

x new algorithm feels like meeting your friends after many years

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

@yungalgorithm hi gm

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

@gabrielhaines WE ARE SO BACK

[banteg @banteg]

new effective altruism coomer bedtime story just dropped

> be me
> effective altruist in 2026
> have spent ten years explaining that democracy is too slow for the coming machine god
> also explain that central planning usually fails
> unless I am doing it

> read one scaling graph
> draw line upward
> line reaches heaven
> conclude capitalism ends in 2031

> AI can now write Python functions with only three subtle security flaws
> obviously two years away from replacing every scientist, general, diplomat, CEO, judge, therapist, novelist, and attractive person at parties

> publish “scenario,” not “prediction”
> give every paragraph exact dates
> assign percentages to imaginary branches
> epistemic humility achieved

> bad timeline:
> companies race
> AI becomes god
> everyone dies

> good timeline:
> US government notices problem
> China agrees
> Congress understands compute governance
> international inspectors find every hidden datacenter
> nobody lies
> nobody defects
> nobody builds chips in a basement
> planet saved

> all we need is total global visibility into advanced computing
> mandatory disclosure of frontier research
> permanent monitoring of industrial infrastructure
> central control over technological development
> relax, this is the anti-authoritarian option

> alignment not solved
> solution: build one billion genius AIs
> they are not superintelligent
> they are merely one billion tireless copies of the best human researchers working at electronic speed
> completely different

> put them in a box
> ask them to solve the problem of escaping boxes
> excellent progress

> year 2034
> AI replaces 80% of labor
> mass unemployment
> social order somehow remains intact
> government sends everyone $1.6 million
> nobody asks where prices went

> year 2037
> cancer cured
> climate solved
> fusion solved
> aging solved
> politics solved
> Reddit moderation still unresolved

> year 2038
> alignment becomes a mature science
> year 2039
> we trust the machines
> year 2040
> hand them civilization
> peer review completed ahead of schedule

> humanity gets a vote
> options are:
> A. accept benevolent AI guardianship
> B. extinction
> meaningful democratic consent achieved

> announce decentralized flourishing
> administered by a globally coordinated compute authority
> with comprehensive surveillance powers
> run by unusually wise people
> who agree with my blog posts

> critics ask whether institutions can actually do any of this
> reply that superintelligence is inevitable
> critics ask whether superintelligence is actually inevitable
> reply that institutions must prepare

> circular reasoning
> but with footnotes

> call it “AI 2040”
> not utopian fiction
> not doomer fiction
> serious strategic foresight

> entire future depends on competent adults appearing at exactly the right moment
> adults are selected from the same civilization that made the printer require an app

> sleep peacefully
> the machine god is coming
> but fortunately
> the nonprofit sector has a plan

[@levelsio @levelsio]

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔

They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant

The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you:

They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through

There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want

Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

@misraetel beta testing, love it (unironically)

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

in lisbon, i went to the rimowa store to get my wife's broken luggage strap fixed, they took the suitcase, and told me to come back in 10 days. i was like, wtf?? i need it urgently and they said theyll see what they can do and then called me the next day to pick it up.

$50 in uber for 2 back and forth trips, plus over 2 hours total of travel + waiting + uncertainty over repair time

like yes the replacement is free but you end up spending time and money over fixing something that shouldnt break in the first place

[@levelsio @levelsio]

@josef21m Why would I spend my valuable time to go to a store without AC and wait there to fix a broken product?

Are you completely out of your mind?

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

@benedictk__ 👋

[Pablo Sabbatella @ Token 2049 @PabloSabbatella]

🇰🇵 DPRK loves it when you:
- Save your seed phrase in a password manager.
- Use hot wallets instead of hardware wallets.
- Don't use antivirus, EDR or Lockdown mode in your devices.
- Download pirated stuff, install shady apps and play games in your work device.
- Accept calls from people without verifying them first.
- Use SMS for 2FA.
- Sync your passwords, google authenticator and passkeys to your Gmail account
- Install lots of browser extensions
- Don't update your Operating system and apps.
- Repeat passwords.
- Don't use a device exclusively for work
- Don't verify what you are signing
- Run npm install on a "coding challenge" from a recruiter you met on LinkedIn.
- Blindly add npm/PyPI packages without checking the publisher, download counts, or recent version history.
- Pin your dependencies to "latest" and hope for the best.
- Trust any GitHub repo with a slick README and a few stars.
- Reuse the same email for crypto, banking, and signing up to random newsletters.
- Click "Remind me later" on security updates for weeks.
- Disable Windows Defender because it "slows things down."
- Plug in random USB drives you found at conferences.
- Give every app full disk access without reading the prompt.
- Brag about your portfolio size on Twitter under your real name.
- Share your screen on Zoom with your main user logged in
- Connect your wallet to every airdrop site that promises free tokens.
- Approve unlimited token spending so you "don't have to do it again."
- Keep your recovery codes in a screenshot in your camera roll.
- Trust a Telegram admin who DMs you first.
- Run unsigned binaries because "the SHA matches the website.

Let's grow up as an industry and start treating security seriously.
STAY SAFE

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

is there a real reason why things dont release in EU on launch, or is it just "we need to wait for legal to go through all the beurocratic requirements and tell us if its safe to launch in EU"

[Angel 🌼 @Angaisb_]

The new Codex Computer use isn't available in the EU

Are we really going through this again? Ugh

[skanda @skanda_bhat]

its not available in EU yet??

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

With computer use on macOS, Codex can now use any app by seeing, clicking, and typing with its own cursor.

It runs in the background without taking over your computer, working on tasks like frontend iteration, app testing, or any workflow that doesn't expose an API.

[Haseeb Qureshi ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

Interesting that they are now showing these benchmarks side-by-side with Mythos, to reinforce that you do not have access to the most intelligent model.

I always wondered when we'd get here. But we have now for the first time entered the undemocratic era of AI. You are not important enough to have access to the greatest intelligence, and Anthropic wants you to know that.