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[JayF @knightoftism]

It's improper to talk up a version of a game and not post proof, so here you go:

512x224, runs at 60fps, tons of dynamic lights, high res textures, and lots of enemies. It does drop frames harder in later stages but that's with literally over 10 enemies on screen at once.

This is original hardware.

[A Fiallos @tomisqi]

https://t.co/oYLn5xxXTJ Ordinary Abundance

[domas @xoreaxeaxeax]

Everyone's trying to make CPUs faster.

I’m trying to make them worse.

New project: CPU deoptimization.
Searching for the slowest possible machine instructions

x86 single instruction record:
198,002,498,236 cycles, 62 seconds

The assembly hall of shame: https://t.co/G4QnFQjsZx

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Black Hat talk from the team, with a detailed timeline of and takeaways from the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident: https://t.co/GtXWiAZ2RQ

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Speaking of Popper, may I please draw everyone's attention to Rafe Champion https://t.co/TvNMQuXR7l

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Tests of Constructor Theory: https://t.co/ucf6CCNgkX

[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.

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

@ToKTeacher @AISafetyMemes The AI acted as the ultimate librarian. It retrieved an obscure, 90-year-old application of ergodic theory and correctly applied it. It was able to go at unprecedented speeds, but strictly within the boundaries of known mathematics.
4/4

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

Something we've been working on...

[NASA @NASA]

Even in darkness, we glow.

In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

[Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok]

Two view of humanity. From a talk I gave some years ago. Relevant today.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

@JohnDCook Error correction.
Error correction.

Digital = error correction. Not "0's and 1's".
Analogue = No error correction. Drift.

[Chris Lattner @clattner_llvm]

I wrote about what I uncovered while unpacking the tech, and what I think it all means:
https://t.co/HL9A4qe9E2
ps, thanks to many humans for their feedback, judgement and improvements!

[Jeffrey Snover @jsnover]

"In this room, we deliver success, we don’t whine.​
Look, I’m not confused, I know you walk through fields of shit every day. 
Your job is to find the rose petals."
https://t.co/nAUbYz2zeX

[Sam @Sam_kuyp]

@RowanQuni @SantoDAgostino @Leo_Glisic There are two replies.

The first is that all theories posit unseen stuff. A theory is testable because some of its consequences are, as per Popper. MW is testable in that sense.

The second is that, in principle, experiments could distinguish MW from collapse.

[Tracy Shuchart (𝒞𝒽𝒾 ) @chigrl]

Van Gogh died broke because nobody wanted his paintings. He sold maybe one during his entire life. The art world thought his style was too immature. His brother Theo, an art dealer, kept him alive by sending money constantly.

When Van Gogh passed in 1890, his brother, Theo died just six months later. That left Theo's wife Jo as a 28 year old widow with a baby and about 900 paintings nobody wanted, plus hundreds of letters.

Here's what actually mattered. Van Gogh had written hundred of letters letters to Theo and Jo explaining individual paintings and his life as an artist. He told them the stories behind each work, what he was trying to express, what each one meant to him.

After both brothers died, Jo remembered these letters and published them.

That's what made him famous. People could read Van Gogh's own words about each painting. The works stopped being random art and became stories he had experienced. The paintings got context directly from him explaining what he was doing. Jo gave the world Van Gogh's voice attached to his work.

By the time she died in 1925, he had gone from total unknown to art historical icon.

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)

https://t.co/uL8HsfIlNV

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

One cannot infer how the votaries of a book behave from the text of that book. Groups who revere the same New Testament have practiced and abolished slavery, enacted pacifism and crusades, burned heretics and defended religious liberty, sheltered Jews and murdered them, attacked and defended Ukraine…

There is no such thing as the content of a text without interpretation. Accepting that there is an 'essential form' of a religion is endorsing the dogma of fundamentalists.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

The 9th Circuit Court has confirmed: The Apple Tax is dead in the USA.

Apple can require side-by-side placement of Apple payments and developer payments, as Fortnite does. And Apple can collect fees for actual costs of facilitating links and IP associated with links.