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Jake Taylor retweeted
Karpathy just fixed YouTube in 2 hours. On a weekend.
> He got tired of YouTube's recommendations
> So he had Claude go through 43 million Hacker News comments from the last 20 years
> It found the YouTube videos smart people kept recommending again and again
> That boiled down to 6,454 videos actually worth watching
> He turned them into a site called HackerTube
> Total build time was about 2 hours with Claude Opus 5.5
> No algorithm chasing your clicks, just 20 years of real recommendations
Cool stuff I would say 🫡
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
Jake Taylor retweeted
I don’t vibecode cars, but I did vibecode this button
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Jake Taylor retweeted
Introducing Vercel's public Bug Bounty Program.
It combines our private and OSS bounties into a single @Hacker0x01 program, open to anyone. vercel.com/blog/the-vercel-b…
Jake Taylor retweeted
I built a design system. Then I gave it AI and it started moving.
But it wasn't thinking.
It was twitching. So I built it a brain 🧠⚡
Circuit DS Has a New Brain, Part 1:
medium.com/@jc-design/ce91e8…
Jake Taylor retweeted
I wrote a blog post to share my whole experience of building an iOS app for the first time — from the initial idea and Figma designs to branding, Claude, Figma MCP, Xcode, and eventually turning it into a real app. 😅
burakbasci.com/blog/how-a-ne…
Jake Taylor retweeted
Okay, This is a big Hermes Desktop update 👀
Hermes can now actually use the Preview pane.
Not just open a page.
Not just read a page.
Use it.
Click. Type. Scroll. Navigate. Annotate.
Inside the same visible browser pane you are watching.
That is a big deal.
It means Hermes Desktop is starting to feel a lot less like a chat window attached to tools and a lot more like an agent that can work through web tasks in front of you.
Think about the use cases:
→ Open documentation and show you exactly where a setting lives
→ Walk through a setup flow and point out what to click
→ Search a site, open the right result, and keep moving
→ Work through a dashboard while you supervise
→ Annotate important controls on a crowded page
→ Reproduce a web issue step by step
→ Fill out multi-step web workflows with you watching
→ Find the right tutorial or guide and take you straight to it
That changes the feel of Hermes Desktop.
Because now Hermes is not just telling you what to do.
It can show you, point to it, and act on it in the same workspace.
This one opens up a lot!!!
Jake Taylor retweeted
Or… what if we gave you $100 in Codex credits if you tell us what you love about GPT-5.6 Sol or why you switched?
Tweet it, claim your gift, enjoy more usage. First 10k get the free tokens!
switch-to-codex.openai.chatg…
Jake Taylor retweeted
Highly recommend if you’re in YC
We want someone from the YC Fall batch who would give us a lot of room to explore, be creative and make a super unique brand.
Like we did with Sparkles (W26), Revnu (P26) and Remedy (not YC).
If you just got accepted and your brand still has the AI-generated brand, DM me or book a call on the website.
P.S bonus points for something hand drawn and goofy
Jake Taylor retweeted
what. a. Config. 😮
I interviewed the new Chief Design Officer @loredanacrisan to go behind the scenes of today's @figma launches
I think you'll really enjoy this one 👇
Jake Taylor retweeted
Mark Pincus (@markpinc) says @nikitabier is one of the best examples of a person who can extract great features from terrible apps:
"You can learn so much from a failed product that has a great idea buried in it."
"The founder of TBH had that experience. He said there was an Arabic language product that was doing this honesty box."
"He was a perfect example of Proven Better New because he actually found a proven concept."
"It was buried in a very, very narrow, niche product. He said, 'Great, I'm just going to take that idea, copy it, and make it front and center.'"
BREAKING: Mark Pincus (@markpinc) on How to Build Billion-Dollar Products
"Your # 1 job as a founder is to be right."
"F*ck scale."
"Don't be a fake CEO."
Mark founded Zynga in 2007, grew FarmVille + Words With Friends to 1B+ users in 4 years, & sold the company to Take-Two for $12.7B. Before that he was an early investor in Facebook & Twitter. Across 10 companies, he's spent 30 years learning how to build products people love.
Now he's put it into "Life at the Speed of Play," aka the "Product Maker Bible"
His goal: something you can reread in 10 years & still use, the way he rereads Peter Thiel's Zero to One.
We went deep on the framework:
- Your product instinct is right ~95% of the time, but your specific idea is wrong at least 75% of the time. The whole job is separating the two & k*lling your B+ idea to find the A.
- Proven Better New: copy what already works, make it objectively better, then add one new bet.
- 40,000 games launched in the App Store last year. 0% held a top 25 spot. Why products win on day 365 retention, not virality.. lessons from @nikitabier & more
- Why he's an AI maximalist who still calls consumer AI un-investable, & thinks today's $2-5T companies become $10-20T companies.
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Mark Pincus, Chairman & Founder at Zynga
(01:07) Why it took so long to write the book
(01:52) Why the book starts with Elon
(07:29) How frustration becomes market research
(08:16) The gap between Airbnb and hotels
(09:14) Why people don't want flight attendants on private jets
(13:13) The goal behind Life at the Speed of Play
(15:07) The instincts vs. ideas framework
(21:01) Do instincts improve with experience?
(22:49) A framework for building winning products
(29:38) Becoming a student of yourself
(31:16) Finding great ideas in overlooked products
(34:39) Why AI makes building easier & winning harder
(39:17) Cracking Zynga's record-setting retention
(44:59) What Mark looks for in startups
(50:42) Jeff Bezos' boldest decision
(53:03) What happens when founders realize they're wrong
(59:37) How Mark found talent others overlooked
(1:06:58) Don't be a fake CEO
(1:12:15) Inside Silicon Valley's early days
(1:14:58) Why he funded Friendster & Napster as "experiments"
(1:17:00) The 'think weekend' with Thiel, Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman & Sean Parker
(1:18:58) Launching Zynga when nobody believed him
(1:21:42) Why Mark is an AI maximalist
Jake Taylor retweeted
GitHub has a front-row seat to how code is changing now that everyone—and their army of agents—can ship code. In March alone, agents created 17 million pull requests on the platform.
That’s why I was thrilled @hammer_mt was on hand to interview @github COO @kdaigle at Microsoft Build for a behind-the-scenes look at how the platform is helping developers manage the influx without dictating which pull requests they should trust or merge.
This week on @every’s AI & I, Mike gets into:
- The 14x commit explosion. GitHub hit 1 billion commits last year. Kyle says they’re on pace for 14 billion this year—and he doesn’t think that curve is plateauing.
- GitHub is committed to letting open-source maintainers set their own standards. Agent PRs are flooding communities, but GitHub’s philosophy is to leave code maintainers in control.
- The developer/non-developer distinction is collapsing. GitHub’s own legal and finance teams are using Copilot to build apps, one example of how AI has expanded the definition of who counts as a developer.
- Per-seat pricing doesn’t survive a world where agents run while you sleep. Kyle thinks automatic model routing—swapping in Haiku for simple tasks instead of always calling the expensive model—is the best way to make the economics make sense.
- Daigle runs a daily self-improvement loop with an AI he named Baxter. Every day, Baxter reads 7 days of his emails and Slack messages, flags his communication patterns, and checks whether Kyle followed last week’s advice.
This is a must-watch for anyone running agents in their dev workflow—and curious how GitHub is handling the explosion of commits on its platform.
Watch below!
Timestamps:
Introduction: 00:00:52
The agentic PR flood: 00:03:27
GitHub’s approach to helping open-source maintainers manage the surge: 00:04:33
What 14 billion commits means for code quality: 00:06:15
Moving from per-seat licensing to usage-based pricing: 00:08:03
Kyle's dual role as GitHub COO and Microsoft's chief marketing officer for developers: 00:09:45
Developer choice as competitive moat: 00:13:03
How to balance dogfooding your own tools with staying honest about the competition: 00:14:57
Hill climbing, frontier tuning, and solving the model-routing problem: 00:19:45
Kyle's agentic communication hack: 00:24:45
Jake Taylor retweeted
Update 5:05 PT: The attack has now expanded well beyond @TanStack and @Mistral.
373 malicious package-version entries across 169 npm package names, including @uipath, @squawk, @tallyui, @beproduct, and more.
The malware propagates by stealing your CI credentials and using them to publish new compromised versions.
Full IOCs, affected package list, and detection steps: aikido.dev/blog/mini-shai-hu…
🚨 Update: @mistralai npm packages are now confirmed compromised as part of the ongoing Mini Shai Hulud attack.
Affected versions:
@mistralai/mistralai 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4@mistralai/mistralai-azure 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3@mistralai/mistralai-gcp 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3If you use the Mistral SDK in any CI pipeline, treat your environment as compromised. Rotate npm tokens, GitHub PATs, and cloud credentials immediately.
Jake Taylor retweeted
Three months ago, Codex was trash for knowledge work. Now it's my daily driver.
I use it for writing, recruiting, deep engineering work, and everything in between. It even keeps me at inbox 0.
I chatted with @every's head of growth Austin @tedescau on @every's AI & I about what changed, and why he now spends 80% of his working time in the Codex desktop app too.
We get into:
- How Codex went from making Austin feel like an idiot to being the place he goes to get stuff done, including complex tasks like writing go-to-market plans using existing material from Slack, Notion, and meeting transcripts.
- Why the Codex’s desktop app, which is faster and more reliable than Claude Desktop/Cowork, is the real differentiator.
- How I source candidates with Codex by having it identify career arcs, not keywords—my go-to move is identifying organizations likely to teach the skills Every needs for a role, and then find candidates from that pool who have since gone on to work in AI.
This is a must-watch for anyone who's wondering whether it’s finally time to give Codex a try.
Watch below!
Timestamps
How Codex went from a tool for senior engineers to a daily driver for knowledge work: 00:00:57
How Claude Code proved that a great coding agent works for any knowledge work: 00:02:42
Austin's switch to Codex: 00:07:24
How Austin set up Codex with folders, keys, and reviewer agents: 00:13:48
Using Codex to brainstorm automations across Gmail, Slack, and Notion: 00:18:24
How Austin manages the human review step when Codex is drafting communications: 00:22:42
Using Codex to build specialized agents inspired by product executive Claire Vo: 00:28:54
Synthesizing meeting transcripts and Slack threads into a go-to-market plan: 00:31:09
Building a live KPI tracker in Notion that agents can read: 00:40:15
Using Codex for recruiting: 00:44:54
Jake Taylor retweeted
Hey everyone!
Mystyleshaus is now live.
I’ve finally launched my website dedicated to curated Midjourney style codes. This is my very first launch, and I’m a bit nervous but excited to share it with the community.
The library already features over 400 free and premium styles designed to help you discover new visual directions for your projects.
Since this is the initial launch, I’m still fine-tuning the experience. If you have any questions or run into any issues, feel free to reach out — I’ll do my best to respond as quickly as possible.
Thank you for your support!
mystyleshaus.com
Jake Taylor retweeted
Denver Hockey… National Champs.
Denver Nuggets… NBA Finals contender.
Denver Broncos… Super Bowl contender.
Colorado Avs… Stanley Cup contender.
Colorado Rockies… Fun young team.
Top 5 Sports City in America.
You simply can’t deny it at this point.
Jake Taylor retweeted
I spoke about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit last month, in a fireside chat hosted by Eric Lui - here's the half hour video plus highlight quotes and extra notes from our conversation simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/1…
