Mohamed Yamany

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[Mohamed Yamany @yamaany]

@nutlope Sounds interesting. Want to try

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Worth a minute of your time and please send to your kids.

[Quran.com @quran]

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[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

They give noose pins to their children to celebrate the execution of Palestinians, and you want me to believe Zionism isn’t a racist ideology? Their entire identity is tied to this project of hate and dehumanization of an entire group of people. We recognize exactly what this is.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@jonstewart unpacks AI’s dubious promise of a better future, from the fate of our jobs to an "age of abundance"

[Elias Stråvik @eliasstravik]

reminds me of the @paulg essay How to Get Startup Ideas where he references Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

"You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally."

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇵🇸 Nearly three years into Israel's genocide in Gaza, 94% of Palestinians still lack proper shelter, according to a UN-backed survey, as Israel maximizes Palestinian suffering by deliberately design. Almost 2 million people live in tents, makeshift shelters or damaged buildings as Israel is blocking durable tents, mobile homes, timber, cement and metal sheeting from entering Gaza. More than 500 truckloads of shelter materials are pending, and at current rates they would take over seven months to get in, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said Monday. Some 1.65 million people now face a fourth winter without adequate shelter, and 950,000 live in sites at risk of flooding.

See footage below.

[Mike Recine @mikerecine]

The dad had to go home and disassemble the baby’s crib and hide his toys because he knew his wife wouldn’t be able to handle seeing it. You should hate the people who do this. Hate is good actually.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Shazam could name any song back in 2002, on flip phones, with zero AI. You dialed the number 2580, held your phone up to the speaker, and hung up. 15 seconds later, a text came back with the song name. That same core trick still runs the app today.

The inventor was Avery Wang, a Stanford PhD in audio signal processing. His problem was brutal. Match a short clip recorded on a 2002 cell phone mic, in a noisy bar, against a database of a million songs, in seconds, over a phone call.

His solution treated music as geometry instead of sound.

The algorithm converts audio into a spectrogram, a picture of the song, then throws almost all of it away. It keeps only the peaks, the loudest frequency points at each moment in time. Bar chatter and blown-out speakers can wreck most of a recording. The peaks survive. Shazam only ever needed the peaks.

Those surviving points form what Wang called a constellation map, because it looks like a star field. Pairs of peaks get converted into hash numbers, and identifying a song becomes a dictionary lookup rather than an audio comparison. That made it fast enough to search a million tracks on 2002 hardware.

Wang published the full method openly in 2003 in a paper called "An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm." Anyone could read exactly how the magic worked. The moat was the database and the deals with carriers, never the secret.

Apple bought the company in 2018 for a reported $400 million. People have tagged over 100 billion songs since the very first one, Jeepster by T. Rex, during the beta in April 2002.

One deterministic signal-processing trick, written before most people had heard the phrase machine learning, and it's still so good that in 2026 everyone assumes it must be AI.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

From an Israeli intel official in NAZA:

“I hack into the phone of a 12 year old girl. If a girl calls her mom, ‘Mummy,’ she says, ‘when are you returning home? Daddy just came back.’ That’s a message that would alert the system bc it contains the words ‘return’ and ‘daddy.’”

This builds on @yuval_abraham’s previous reporting on the (incomprehensibly evil) “Where’s Daddy” program the IDF built to learn when fathers were at home with their children so they could kill then all at once (along with anyone else killed in the building during the attack).

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

We are now at the stage of the genocide where Israeli politicians openly and proudly call for mass murdering babies

[Maail @maail]

Spun of my speed boat game to make a website where you can explore all the maldives islands by just riding the speedboat.

You can check it out at https://t.co/BwNL7IZZCq

- Select the Atoll -> Island and then just roam around
- Most of it is to scale with the data I was able to get online
- I plan to expand and add more details if people like it

[Bob Bowman @coach_bowman]

I've coached over 30 Olympic gold medals.

I've worked with some of the greatest athletes in history.

Here are the lessons I wish more people understood:🧵

[yazin @yazins]

i need your help!

i'm building Tilawa: a free engine that lets Quran apps follow your recitation and help catch mistakes.

if you can read the Quran, record a few short clips following the prompts, then share this with friends.

each takes ~20 seconds: https://t.co/3c7TN5oGmK

[yazin @yazins]

introducing calm salah, an app i built for my 7yo son.

prayer is supposed to be a moment for peace, away from the humdrum of normal life, and when the person next to you is fidgety and they're moving around a lot, it can affect the quality of your prayer and your ability to focus and detach from the world.

and it's especially annoying if that person is your own son, because, you know, you want to encourage them, but also at the same time you want to maintain some degree of peace.

i give my son feedback at the end of the prayer; but by the time the next prayer comes around, he's already forgotten.

which got me thinking: what if there was a way to actually remind him *during* prayer to fidget less?

the idea of the app is that it's silent by default, and then whenever it detects excessive movement, it would just glow red.

and man, he loves it.

he would actually tell me, hey, i want you to run the app. and he wants me to do it every. single. time.

has it helped? you bet! like i thought it's probably gonna take a bit of getting used to. but now he puts a conscious effort to *not* move every single time.

my idea was never for this to be a permanent thing. just a temporary measure until he becomes more aware,v and builds his own self-awareness.

the app isn't public yet, but it will be soon! if you want to get access, drop your email below.

i'll shoot you an email when it's ready!

link: https://t.co/Gzc9smIzwr

[Deedy @deedydas]

my favorite Paul Graham essay “how to do great work” in under 200 seconds of video

(thanks opus)

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

NYT now confirms it.

He knew about Oct 7.

He stood down IDF posts.

He moved a festival of kids a mile from the unmanned IDF line.

He slaughtered his own people to justify slaughtering 100 times more Palestinians.

It was all by design.

An evil beyond imagination

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

This might be the greatest thing I have ever seen

🤣

[Maail @maail]

Bunch of small updates to speedboat

- Fixed stuttering issues while numbers point to next check point
- You can now pass through a check point from either side
- You will now see fishes in shallow water; they actually look pretty good!

Currently exploring showing other players boats when free roaming. And maybe multi-player races later.

Thanks for everyone sharing suggestions. I'm enjoying making this

https://t.co/iHadAa6eQt

[Mohamed Yamany @yamaany]

@mvanhorn Yes