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Paul Sawaya

@automin

I used to make money, now I make video games. 🎮 Previously co-founded @humaninteresthq (YC S15). Indeed, do many things come to pass.

 San Francisco, CA
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Joined May 2008
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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
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I don’t know if the Democrats really deserved this, but the Republicans definitely did
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Tim Hwang
@timhwangNov 2
the lesson is so much bitterer than you can possibly imagine
Rikiya Takehi (@rikiyatakehi) profile pictureRikiya Takehi@rikiyatakehiNov 2
We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math. It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training. We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵 Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math. rikiyat.github.io/blog/weight-sp… github.com/RikiyaT/lm_und… huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0… huggingface.co/RikiyaT/Qwen3.…
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Good software becomes even more valuable, but "good software" now explicitly means "software maintained by people with taste and motives I trust"
Karri Saarinen (@karrisaarinen) profile pictureKarri Saarinen
@karrisaarinenNov 1
At this point the reaction is: Bad software: I'll just build my own. Good software: I'd rather use this and let it get even better than build my own.
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liberal policies have destroyed sf walked outside today and there are children on the streets begging for candy
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A story in two acts
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There are so many fundede AI game platform startups, but none are as close to Getting It as spawn.co imo
Spawn: Your Place to Make Games with Friends

Spawn: Your Place to Make Games with Friends

Spawn is your place to make games with friends. Describe anything and Savi, your AI game builder, makes it with you. Then play together instantly in your browser.

spawn.co
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@jsnnsa great job :)
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jessica (@spatiallyjess) profile picturejessica
@spatiallyjessOct 27
this weekend I spent my last tokens before reset building the You Can See Everything beach house in three.js elizabeth.paprika3d.app
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A game designer we work with made an album with his 7 y/o son. Sounds like The Pixies on a sugar high Proceeds from the first week of sales go to his school fundraiser. Check it out :)
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thechocolatecoveredespressob…
The Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans, by The Chocolate Covered...

The Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans, by The Chocolate Covered...

9 track album

thechocolatecoveredespressobeans.bandcamp.com
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Román (@Zmei_Hhsss) profile pictureRomán@Zmei_HhsssOct 26
nostalgia is like alcohol. in small dosages if makes you feel alive. in large dosages, you are riding an e-scooter back to your flat while eating a shawarma then the shawarma is lost to the wind and you're bouncing on the cement like a deflated basketball
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Stealth
@Stealth40kOct 23
Miyamoto believes AI will not make human creativity obsolete: “Looking back at past designs, there are some that were created merely by copying and pasting. Yet, such work rarely stands the test of time; it lacks the individual’s particular design intention. Because the process relies on an individual’s intent, with the computer serving as an assistant for the labor, I believe that even as technology continues to evolve, and even if AI were to eventually handle everything, there will always be a role left for us to play.” (Translated by VGC) videogameschronicle.com/news…
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Three times a year, indie game developers and fans eagerly await Steam Next Fest. It's a week-long festival of game demos. It's often where first-time game developers are discovered. Some major hits (eg, Balatro) came out of viral Next Fest launches. This week's Next Fest is the biggest yet, with 7,236 demos. I built a little project to browse them. Check it out!
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It's live at wisp.elsewhere.zone/
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Crierlon Games@crierlonOct 21
People forget how bad asset flips were on Steam. The Unity splash screen hurt a game more than an AI disclosure does today. Players saw it and quit on the spot. One dev shipped 173 games, they were so bad Valve called it "fake games".
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Crierlon Games (@crierlon) profile pictureCrierlon Games@crierlonOct 20
You can tell these people are PC gaming tourists when they pretend this wasn't a issue during Steam's asset flip saga.
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jacob
@jsnnsaOct 22
Replying to @Sailoshi
web3 makes every good idea here worse. no thanks. we are building the largest economy of agents, players, and creators but we will just use money.
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Rick Zullo
@Rick_ZulloOct 21
One of these does >$600m in EBITDA annually and holds dominant market share The other is a neocloud
Negligible Capital (@negligible_cap) profile pictureNegligible Capital
@negligible_capOct 20
Damn they move quick
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Spudgun Official@SpudgunOOct 20
Historians widely consider him the first modder
Islamic Scientific Heritage (@IslamicSH_) profile pictureIslamic Scientific Heritage@IslamicSH_Oct 19
Amir Timur found ordinary chess too easy, so he invented his own variant, “Great Chess” (شطرنج الكبير). It was played on a massive 10×11 board with 28 pieces per side, including camels, giraffes, elephants, and war engines, each with unique moves.
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I played this at Tokyo Game Show and thought it was so cool. Definitely worth a check this Next Fest.
offbrand games 🔥 (@offbrand_games) profile pictureoffbrand games 🔥
@offbrand_gamesOct 20
PLEASE BE CAREFUL on your computers today!! There is a demo featured in Steam Next Fest called JOHN GLEEP and if you download it it will install a nefarious program on your computer called JOHN GLEEP
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Max Spero (@max_spero_) profile pictureMax Spero
@max_spero_Oct 19
Replying to @sqlanm
We can, but we won’t
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