Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦

#Informatics #Admiralty #LifeLongLearning #Kaizen #Concepts #Words - Care for your herd. Tinyest yoga is a smile. Also on Bluesky.

[Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦 @thor574]

NATO could add a new article;

500. Any candidate country can join the alliance, if another country keeps a war going to prevent it from joining.

Then the Russians can’t do what they do.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

2/2 For years, we heard from the ousted government that the European Union was withholding these funds for political reasons.
For years, we were told that the dispute was about illegal migration, about Ukraine, and about various ideological issues.
Meanwhile, the relevant documents have been publicly available for everyone to see. They clearly state what the European Union expects from Hungary: strict anti-corruption measures, more transparent government, stronger safeguards, and autonomous universities.

We have taken the necessary decisions accordingly.

[Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦 @thor574]

@OlgaNYC1211 He has a simplified view of the belief of the world and of us. Even if we don’t.

[Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦 @thor574]

Like kiitos.fyr

[rewind @rewind02]

Andrej Karpathy talked about agent engineering

“Vibe coding is incredible. But agentic engineering is the next level"

what agentic engineering actually looks like:

- you define the spec, the architecture, the top-level design decisions
- you know the fundamentals well enough to catch what the agent gets wrong
- you don't memorize API details - the agent does. you understand what's happening underneath
- you treat agents as fallible, stochastic, powerful interns who need clear specs and oversight
- you stay in charge of judgment, taste, and correctness - and delegate everything else

those who understand the difference between vibe coding and agentic engineering are already operating at a level most teams haven't caught up to.

the clearest Karpathy interview yet, plus a step-by-step guide to Loop Engineering, are below 👇

[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.

[Lesia Dubenko 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇮🇱 @LesiaLVD]

Armenia chooses to say fuck Russia

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

PewDiePie just embarrassed every AI startup in Silicon Valley.

He built a better local AI workspace than most funded companies. Gave it away for free. And hit 20,000 GitHub stars before most people woke up.

The project is called Odysseus. And the story behind it is more interesting than the product.

Felix Kjellberg better known as PewDiePie has 111 million YouTube subscribers. He is the most subscribed individual creator in the history of the platform. He retired from daily content in 2022 to raise his son in Japan. The world assumed he was done building things.

He was not.

He launched Odysseus on June 1, 2026 announcing it in a YouTube video titled "MY trillion $ Dollar Project is finally OUT!" a free, open-source, self-hosted AI workspace designed to be a fully private alternative to ChatGPT and Claude.

Here is what Odysseus actually does.

Odysseus tracks no user telemetry, operates entirely without subscription fees, and retains all context on your local machine. It includes advanced autonomous agents capable of running shell commands, editing files, and browsing the web safely.

Chat, agents, deep research, docs, memory, and email basically ChatGPT and Claude UX on your own hardware. 20,000 GitHub stars in 24 hours.

Here is the comparison nobody in the AI industry wants to make publicly.

ChatGPT Plus: $20 per month. Your conversations stored on OpenAI's servers. Your data used to improve their models. Their infrastructure. Their terms. Their decisions about what you can and cannot do.

Claude Pro: $20 per month. Same structure. Anthropic's servers. Anthropic's terms.

Odysseus: $0. Your hardware. Your data. Your rules. Zero telemetry. Zero bytes sent to anyone else's server. Ever.

MIT license. 88 contributors. 22,400 stars. 2,800 forks. v1.0 already released. Use any local or cloud model, zero software cost.

Here is what is inside the workspace.

Full chat interface, the same conversational UI experience as ChatGPT and Claude, running locally. Autonomous agents with shell access, file editing, and web browsing, the same agentic capabilities that Claude Code and GPT-5 offer, running on your own machine. Deep research mode multi-step autonomous research across the web, synthesized into a structured report. Document management. Persistent memory across sessions. Email integration. MCP support for connecting to any external tool or service.

Odysseus auto-registers built-in MCP servers at startup including a browser server with Playwright for page navigation, screenshots, and vision capabilities. Non-admin users do not get shell or file access by default admin-only routes including MCP management, API tokens, and model serving are admin-gated.

Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Uses Ollama for local model inference on Mac. Supports any Hugging Face model. Supports cloud APIs for Claude, GPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek if you want cloud performance with local orchestration.

Most of Odysseus's code was written with AI models, not just by a human.

PewDiePie used AI to build an AI workspace. Then open-sourced it. Then gave it to 111 million people for free.

Here is the detail that should make every AI founder uncomfortable.

If a traditional tech startup promised a seamless, zero-telemetry local workspace featuring autonomous agents, deep research, and automated local model orchestration completely for free you would be incredibly skeptical. The fact that this project arrives via a massive creator repository makes it one of the most fascinating disruptive plays in the open-source community this year.

OpenAI raised $40 billion.

Anthropic raised $12 billion.

PewDiePie raised nothing. Shipped a product that competes with both. And gave it away for free.

The most subscribed YouTuber in history just became an open-source AI developer.

And the product is actually good.

Source: GitHub · Gizmodo · NerdZap · ExplainX · Dhaka Tribune · June 1, 2026

(Link in the comments)

[Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦 @thor574]

@cursor_ai Good timing, @cursor_ai !

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

All eyes on Armenia (the video has English audio)

[v0 @v0]

Introducing v0 Browser Use.

v0 can now open the apps it builds, use them, critique designs, debug complex flows, and fix things proactively.

While it's working, v0 will send you screenshots of what it sees.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

The rezoning of Gowanus, Brooklyn:

[Turkish MFA @MFATurkiye]

Regarding the Attack on a Turkish-Owned Dry Cargo Vessel in the Black Sea https://t.co/cKtPNGl2Za

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Russia's former Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov says the country's economic "miracle" is over.

According to Milov, wartime growth was fueled by massive state spending, but those reserves are running dry. Investment is falling, inflation remains high, and budget deficits are growing.

He also argues that Ukraine's long-range drone strikes have had a huge psychological impact. Airports are closing, businesses are paying the costs of protection and repairs, and many Russians, including members of the elite, are increasingly tired of the war.

The pressure needs to increase.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

“When I talk about captivity, grown men cry.”

These are the words of Dmytro Kanuper, call sign “Rasty”, Azov fighter.

He survived Azovstal, 2.5 years in russian captivity, and two sham sentences — 48 and 29 years — before returning to Ukraine in 2024.

🧵1/8⬇️

[Luke Coffey @LukeDCoffey]

My idea 18 months ago

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

NATO moves into the Baltics! Up to 60,000 troops near Russia’s border

The alliance is urgently building a separate command structure specifically for Latvia and Estonia, based on the German-Dutch corps model.

In the event of war, up to 60,000 troops could be deployed within hours — without lengthy political approvals or bureaucratic delays. Time is critical in the Baltics: the Suwałki Gap is narrow, squeezed between Kaliningrad on one side and Russia’s Pskov region on the other. In a real crisis, every hour would matter.

According to The Wall Street Journal, European officials and intelligence agencies are seriously considering a scenario in which Putin deliberately escalates tensions against the Baltic states to justify a new wave of mobilization inside Russia.

Latvia is already preparing. In the coming weeks, mobile border units equipped with interceptor drones and automated turrets will appear along the Russian frontier.

The Baltics are rapidly turning into Europe’s most dangerous powder keg.

[Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦 @thor574]

Star wars..

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

This is wild... Russia seems to be threatening a *commercial* satellite that provides imaging services to Ukraine:

▸ starting about two weeks ago, Russia started maneuvering five (!) of their classified satellites to the same orbital inclination as the ICEYE satellite

▸ these burns were big, on the order of 100 m/s, clearly using chemical propulsion given the speed of the burns — very expensive and deliberate maneuvers

▸ as of last Friday, all five Russian satellites are now co-planar, at ~97.8° inclination, with three of ICEYE's satellites, and aligned in other orbital elements (e.g. RAAN) that make it clear they're specifically targeting this set

▸ I am a little skeptical that Russia is specifically targeting -X36 — there are two other satellites at the same inclination/RAAN (-X37 and -X38) — but the Russian sats are now all within striking distance of -X36, which is why people are concerned about it specifically; the closest cross-track distance is an estimated 500 meters (!!), all while the satellites are orbit 550 kilometers above Earth

▸ Russia has unleashed a cyberattack on a commercial satellite before (Viasat), and it is official Russian policy that commercially-owned infrastructure that aids in military efforts "may be legitimate target[s] for a retaliatory strike.”

▸ there's speculation that this could be a precursor to an RPO mission (meaning: physically grabbing the satellite or some other kind of non-kinetic attack like blinding/jamming)

Worth tracking closely. And unfortunately more evidence that space is militarizing, fast.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Russia wants us to discuss who talks to them,
And they are already picking who is suitable for that.

Let's not walk into that trap.

Negotiations are always a team effort, with a defined strategy.

That’s why the substance that we discuss today in Cyprus matters much more.

My press remarks ahead of today’s meeting of EU Foreign Ministers ↓

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I am grateful to all the MPs who so promptly ratified the agreement with the European Union on €90 billion in support for Ukraine over two years. These funds will strengthen our resilience and help protect the lives of our people, rebuild what has been destroyed by Russian strikes, and defend our independence. This was one of the most important votes – one that demonstrates the constructive nature of our joint work and our readiness to hear one another. Unity in Ukraine is what always works for Ukraine. I am also grateful to our European partners for their readiness to stand with Ukraine and provide meaningful support for our defense, our diplomacy, and our recovery. Ukraine is defending Europe with all its strength, and full support for Ukraine will certainly strengthen all of Europe as well. Glory to Ukraine!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine knows how to do the right thing.

Thank you, Sweden!

[Thor Hovden 🇳🇴❤️🇺🇦 @thor574]

@RianSweetDoris Easy: get up earlier (and to bed earlier)