Joined August 2021
For the cost of 8 years of $200 Claude subs, you can force your team to use shitty quantized versions of DeepSeek v4 Flash running at 30tps. Incredible deal!
Local AI is good enough for a startup. A 10-person startup built its own 128GB-VRAM AI server for $18,000. One Threadripper box sitting locally with 🎮 4× Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB 💾 128GB total VRAM 🧠 Qwen3.8 + DeepSeek V4 Flash 👥 16 concurrent AI sessions And they're actually pushing it. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with 16 simultaneous sessions: 📚 48K context/user ⚡ 538.5 tps aggregate decode At 128K context per user ⚡ 365 tps aggregate decode The GPUs are even undervolted to under 210W each. Link in ALT
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Regarding the Danfoss refrigeration systems hacked in France: The username is `admin`, and the password automatically changes every day to... the current date. Yes, today's date. The French supermarkets affected in today's attacks had exposed all its refrigeration controllers directly to the internet. Every single device reportedly used the same password: today's date... There's also a documented authentication bypass: sending a POST request to /xml.cgi can bypass the login entirely. Via: GossiTheDog
‼️ Danfoss says most French supermarket fridges hacked to 50°C were legacy units that no longer get security updates. In August, Claroty found Danfoss AK-SM 800A controllers accept a password made from the date, and counted 2,765 exposed online. Which flaw was used is unknown.
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I wasn’t going to comment since this is a really bad take IMO, but since it’s taken off I feel the need to. To my understanding, there is no evidence whatsoever pointing to a break of decades old hardness assumptions like elliptic curve cryptography. 1/n
Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.
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It’s funny to see people who haven’t even tried to build a single thing criticize every action a builder makes
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lmao, bro nobody forced you to play shitty games for 2 years and lose thousands of dollars I am a Penguins since 2021 and I lost like $42 on Abstract cause I didn’t do shit
🚨STATEMENT🚨 Gm. This is a hard time for me, surely the worst day since I m in Web 3, of course I m sad because of the shut down of @AbstractChain, but I m a Lawyer/Attorney irl and I m not letting this as it is, I m sorry. Every affected user can dm me to join the group that will initiate the legal actions in the States through X or dc. In my capacity as counsel to persons affected by the announced shutdown of the Abstract network, I state the following: On the facts known to this firm, the matter bears serious indicia of criminal fraud and, only in the alternative, of civil fraud. It is not treated as a mere business decision to cease operations. In the coming weeks, in my condition of representant of the affected users from Abstract, I will contact the most prestigious lawfirms in the United States, to prepare and file a criminal complaint or, if appropriate, a civil action before the competent courts against @LucaNetz , @IglooInc , and any collaborators in the network who participated, by act or omission, in the matters under review. Those represented regard this as one of the most serious frauds committed in the cryptoasset space. The affected parties I represent are prepared to enter into good-faith, confidential negotiations with those responsible before proceedings are commenced. Contact may be made through this X account or on Discord: degorcaxyz. Absent a serious proposal within a short period, judicial proceedings will be brought without delay before the competent jurisdiction. All criminal, civil, and other rights and remedies of those represented are expressly reserved. 🤝
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Abstract did the honorable thing. They could have gone ahead with a TGE and raised a boatload of money from it. It's what blast did. Instead they admitted defeat and wound down without a TGE. Yes people still lost money, but it could've been worse. Respect for that.
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Full focus back on Penguins… Love that this team swings big and experiments. Not everything is going to work out and that's just what building looks like. The alternative is a team too scared to try anything. But knowing when to call it and consolidate everything behind what's actually working takes discipline. Penguins are at an inflection point. Retail expanding, revenue scaling. Pointing every resource and every person at that is exactly what should be happening right now. Some prob won’t see it this way, but this is the right call 🐧
Abstract is winding down. Starting today, all of @IglooInc's focus will go towards taking Pudgy Penguins, Pudgy NFTs, and $PENGU to the next level. When we acquired Frame in the summer of 2024, the vision was to build the blockchain for consumer crypto. Pudgy Penguins had shown us what it meant to reach the masses, and we believed we could bring that same approach to building a chain. Abstract achieved a lot in a short period of time; we built the Portal and AGW, onboarded major global brands, amassed over 300 million transactions, and grew a vibrant onchain ecosystem.  The journey became stifled by the lack of a DeFi ecosystem, insufficient liquidity, minimal institutional cross-over, and prohibitively high costs that impeded growth in winning areas. Unknown to most, Igloo, Inc. had been funding Abstract over the last 18 months. After losing tens of millions of dollars over two years, building consumer products, assembling an all-star team, onboarding some of the biggest brands in the world, and building a community of millions, we still had not found product-market fit. In combination with the market's reduced appetite for what we had built and not being able to find a scalable path forward, we could no longer justify taking from the Pudgy Penguins business. Igloo, Inc. has always been a community-first company. Even after losing 8 figures, we could have launched a token or pursued an ICO. Ultimately we decided against this. A token only works if there is something driving demand to it, and launching a token that we don’t have conviction in would have been a disservice to our community. The entire team at Abstract has worked tirelessly with a tremendous amount of passion to make the consumer crypto vision come true. I cannot fault a single one of them for this outcome. To the Abstract community, I want to thank all of you for sticking by our side on this long journey and for continuing to champion us. You supported us through all of the ups and downs, and I wish the result could have been different. There will be many that will find satisfaction in seeing this shut down, and that is fine. I take a great amount of pride in having the ambition to venture into the chain business, notoriously one of the most difficult to make work, and the only regret I have is not being able to celebrate a win alongside the Abstract community. As we wind down Abstract, our full focus shifts to making Pudgy Penguins into the global & cultural phenomenon I know it can become.  Return to Pudgy Penguins.
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Imo it’s a good thing abstract is shutting down It takes courage to accept defeat, and it’s way more respectable than grinding for nothing Bullish af
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Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Chonk. • 1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active. It is the best open weights model from US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. • State-of-the-art on critical workloads, including cyber defense, manufacturing and finance and it surpasses closed frontier models on visual grounding. • Forged in Europe end-to-end and is deployable from Europe via our own Mistral Cloud infrastructure. • Available to all via API today. Working with cybersecurity partners privately. Open weights release end of October.
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it's so funny watching other people use LLMs, they'll be writing paragraphs directing the LLM to solve the bug they're working on while i'll paste a log file with the single word "bruh" attached
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waking up and seeing your agent stopped to ask for permission 8h ago
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The statue of Prometheus is finally finished. It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this. People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity. In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history. After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome. Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.
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SpaceX added ~1% to global internet bandwidth with today's Starship launch.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This only increased the global *satellite* capacity by 1%, not the entire world including terrestrial network capacity x.com/manhattva/stat…
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I remember when you would install Anaconda and it would fuck up your whole laptop
Be honest: what was your first code editor?
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I like when electricity is a little bit "slow". Like when you remove power from an appliance and it takes a couple seconds for all lights to go dark.
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Prometheus and Atelier at Starbase - September 18, 2026
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polymarket twitter be like BREAKING: something from 3 months ago JUST IN: fake news we made up
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Well well well….
>Sam Altman orders his AI to break into huggingface >they get caught >"IT WAS MY AI THAT DID IT NOT ME!"
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