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[Antonio Tabet @antoniotabet]

Trechos das conversas entre Daniel Vorcaro e Fred Kachar, CEO da Editora Globo, responsável pelos jornais “O Globo” e “Valor Econômico”. Na pauta - além de muita intimidade e afagos - conversa com Malu Gaspar a comentários sobre Deborah Secco, Sabrina e Monique.

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@kurtsaltrichter It’s not simply AI. It’s everything. These datacenters will dominate all aspects of the economy simply because all aspects of the economy need computing power and at the current cost level only these heavily subsidized companies can afford it.

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@_janoninho Soldado

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

Pô, tem vários anos aí em que ele não lançou nenhum projeto novo nem nada. Mó preguiçoso!

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@unclebobmartin @grok turn this video content into a LLM instruction md

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[nyk @nykdotdev]

https://t.co/cUzaPuUqJ1

[Abdoulaye Ndiaye @AbdouNdiayeNYU]

The only thing Secretary of State Marco Rubio falls short of doing in his praise of Western imperialism, settler colonialism, and expansion over the past 250 years is to go a few centuries back and hail the banners of the Crusaders. He ends his speech calling for an alliance between the US and Europe to compete for market share in the Global South. I am all for market competition…

Yet at the same time as this speech nostalgic of old grim times for non-Europeans and Native Americans or Africans, China competes for market share in the Global South by opening its borders to goods and services. I will leave it to geopolitical analysts to decide what option is the most effective.

For leaders of nation-states in the Global South, where I come from, the prescription seems clear:

1. Provide value-added (keyword VA) goods to a diverse set of partners
2. Build dignity and sovereignty in action, not just slogans, that is do what is in the interest of your citizens, not your elites
3. Take quick wins where they are, that is, at the global stage work with partners that are willing to (and do not make life harder with free alignment on positions of principle or civilizational warfare).

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@cianurosex Você me enoja

[Rafael Kriek @rafaelkriek]

Estabilidade não é um direito seu porque o concurso é difícil de passar e você estudou muito para isso. Estabilidade é uma prerrogativa para que o servidor público possa agir conforme a legalidade e o interesse público, sem sofrer pressão de qualquer natureza.

[Sabrine 💕 @thisabri]

vcs sabiam que antigamente era assim que se pedia delivery do @paodeacucar?

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Liar!

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@marcoangeli A letra tem o protagonista literalmente sendo chamado de _liberal_ (que no Reino Unido é mais ou menos igual ao antigo alinhamento do PSDB brasileiro, ou seja, de esquerda).
É lamentável o baixo nível intelectual da direita atual.

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@marcoangeli Supertramp era de direita por acaso? “The Logical Song” tem o tipo de letra que algum direitista escreveria? Pare de falar bobagens, militante.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

a good friend of mine noticed that every elon musk quote looks at home next to dwight schrute

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@eduardopaes Acerta o prefeito em tentar requalificar o centro da cidade em uma dinâmica mais atualizada. Que muitos outros projetos residenciais venham, em especial voltados para moradias populares. Há aí uma grande oportunidade para a cidade melhorar as condições de vida de todos!

[Glauber Braga @Glauber_Braga]

Petroleiros na luta por direitos e por uma Petrobras para os Brasileiros!

A greve unificada da FUP e da FNP denuncia os ataques aos direitos dos trabalhadores da Petrobras e exige uma política que valorize a categoria e defenda a soberania nacional! 1/3

[Marco Costa (Rede Marco) @rede_marco]

Respeito muito a jornalista Júlia Dualib, mas dessa vez ela tomou uma invertida que perdeu as estribeiras...

Essa mania da GloboNews de defender "os mercados" vai acabar com a pouca credibilidade que ainda resta à emissora

Ou se defende a população ou se joga a toalha

[Thiago @thiago_pc]

@mmunitabr @nonoinvestidor É só passar no concurso.