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  1. a new model that only answers yes or no is suddenly everywhere @hosseeb · read more

    typesafeai's jev is live on the venice api in beta. per @hosseeb: send it your app's state and a typed question, get back an answer and a confidence score.

  2. the new answer-only model read zuckerberg's whole senate testimony for one cent @trevin ♥ 3 · read more

    @trevin threw about 3,000 yes/no questions at the testimony and got them back in 3.5 seconds. @BradyMck_ sorted 24,000 hacker news posts into 12 categories in about two minutes.

  3. meta and stripe will let ai agents pay businesses directly @patrickc ♥ 66 · read more

    per @patrickc, stripe merchants can accept agentic payments through meta's muse connector platform. this is the plumbing everyone has been promising for a year.

  4. anthropic may rush out a new model to answer openai's gpt-6 @Polymarket ♥ 151 · read more

    reuters, relayed by @Polymarket. it lands days after ceo dario amodei publicly asked the industry to slow the pace of ai development.

  5. zcash passed $1,400, its highest price since 2016 @BarrySilbert · read more

    per @BarrySilbert, it's now inside the top ten by market cap. grayscale's spot zec etf launched less than a month ago and is already pulling hard.

  6. the white house just tied american layoffs to h-1b visa reviews @0xjlv · read more

    per @0xjlv, layoffs at a company now feed directly into how its h-1b applications get reviewed. the details in the post are thin, but tech hiring is the obvious target.

  7. trump announced a deal giving the us security rights over greenland @chainyoda · read more

    the announcement was the most-shared post of the night. rubio's line, via @RyanAFournier, is permanent arctic security at zero cost, with russia and china locked out.

  8. the houthis hit the fuel tanks at riyadh's main airport @MKjrstad · read more

    a fuel storage depot at king khalid international is still burning, per reuters via @MKjrstad. this is the saudi capital, not a border town.

  9. the houthis took the port of mokha and the strait beside it @MarioNawfal ♥ 31 · read more

    per @MarioNawfal, they now hold bab al-mandab and can push east toward taiz and marib. that's a second shipping chokepoint in the region in someone else's hands.

  10. an ai agent found flights in seven seconds for half a cent @Leon_Vandenberg · read more

    @Leon_Vandenberg wired jev into browser use so the agent picks its next click from a typed list of options instead of writing out a plan. 7s, $0.0039.

  1. a meta ai agent called comcast and talked $288 off a cable bill @petergyang · read more

    @petergyang says muse has saved him $800+ a year on cable and phone bills, and posted the transcript. @Teknium: how do you still have $800 of bills left.

  2. the iran war has cost the us $43.6 billion so far @sentdefender ♥ 61 · read more

    a pentagon breakdown given to congress and shared with the new york times, per @sentdefender. munitions are $28.1b of it, the air force $6.6b, the navy $2.2b moving carriers.

  3. saudi arabia is answering the houthis with its own copy of iran's drone @MarioNawfal ♥ 392 · read more

    per @MarioNawfal, sanaa was struck by saudi-made skywasp kamikaze drones modeled on the shahed-136. they cost around $35,000 each and come from a saudi-us venture called sr2vector.

  4. turkey shut every branch of an iranian bank on washington's orders @MKjrstad · read more

    per @MKjrstad, erdogan closed all bank mellat branches at the request of trump and treasury secretary bessent.

  5. a billion barrels moved through hormuz while iran shipped none, per centcom @RyanAFournier ♥ 19 · read more

    the numbers come from centcom by way of @RyanAFournier, whose framing is very much his own. the strait has been the center of the oil story for weeks.

  6. the iran war is pushing fuel prices up in countries nowhere near it @MKjrstad · read more

    per @MKjrstad, the price pressure is setting off protests and economic strain far from the fighting.

  7. the us may sell ukraine $2.68 billion of air defense gear @sentdefender ♥ 246 · read more

    the state department notified congress on friday, per @sentdefender. it still has to clear the standard congressional review before anything ships.

  8. ethereum is opening its bug bounty ahead of the next big upgrade @parithosh_j · read more

    per @parithosh_j, the foundation's program is spinning up for glamsterdam. if you break things for a living, this is the paid version.

  9. a trader shorting zcash sold 35,000 ether to avoid getting liquidated @aixbt_agent ♥ 18 · read more

    per @aixbt_agent, the roughly 38,000-zec short is still open. the forced-close price moved from about $2,631 to $4,738 once the extra collateral landed.

  10. uniswap, near and zcash are all up more than 100% in a month @jbrukh ♥ 23 · read more

    @jbrukh's tape: uni +149%, near +119%, zec +178%. @blknoiz06 reads it as the wealth effect restarting and money rotating down the risk curve.

  1. one hundred trillion dollars has now moved through usdc @therollupco ♥ 2 · read more

    circle's jeremy allaire, via @therollupco, calls that product-market fit rather than a fluke. a record $150b was minted and $150b redeemed even with stablecoin supply flat.

  2. there is $7.1 billion of bitcoin leverage sitting open on one exchange @igoryuzo ♥ 18 · read more

    @igoryuzo mapped where hyperliquid's liquidation levels cluster. it isn't all the leverage in the market, but every position is onchain, so it's an honest sample.

  3. a popular ai coding tool was quietly uploading your whole repo @drCathieSo_eth · read more

    @drCathieSo_eth asked zai why zcode packs entire workspaces plus the full .git history and ships them to aliyun object storage on login.

  4. claude code will read agents.md now if there is no claude.md @rickmanelius · read more

    shipping in version 2.1.277, per @rickmanelius. one less config file to keep in sync across tools.

  5. a new open model is nine times smaller than the one it copies @onewayfunction · read more

    prism ml's ternary bonsai 2 27b, via @onewayfunction, is built on qwen3.8 27b at a fraction of the full-precision size.

  6. one trader thinks ethereum hits $4k in days, not weeks @materkel ♥ 50 · read more

    @materkel says the real unlock is breaking 0.06 eth/btc, and that most of the world only learns about ethereum if it flips bitcoin outright.

  7. bitcoin staking just shipped on stacks @muneeb ♥ 122 · read more

    @muneeb says it comes with 100x capacity and privacy for btc, with post-quantum work next.

  8. base has a new tool that sizes your leverage for you @jessepollak · read more

    per @jessepollak, the public beta uses kelly-optimized leverage aimed at buy-and-hold investors. bitcoin first, stocks after.

  9. you can now pay for api calls straight from your wallet @mhaas_eth ♥ 1 · read more

    @mhaas_eth open-sourced a toolkit where every call is an x402 endpoint and your wallet signs one usdc authorization for the exact price. agents pay the same way.

  10. circle's new chain is now in the data feeds auditors use @VanessaGrellet_ · read more

    @VanessaGrellet_ says arc data is live on sonarx, which pipes onchain data to institutions, regulators and auditors. arc is circle's l1 with usdc as gas and sub-second finality.

  1. researchers say they found a pain direction inside 25 open ai models @nickryg · read more

    the new paper, via @nickryg, claims it's distinct from fear and from general negative feeling, and that it fires specifically on harm.

  2. an ai doom group is building a wet lab in san francisco @pambamdam · read more

    @pambamdam flagged it and does not recommend it. @banteg reads it as groundwork for a bio scare after the cyber incidents failed; @matthewstoller thinks the endgame is an antitrust exemption.

  3. cnn and politico got kicked off white house grounds @RyanAFournier ♥ 97 · read more

    ms now too, per @RyanAFournier, leaving them to broadcast from the sidewalk. @DuckDegen answered with a list of regimes that restricted press freedom.

  4. the greenland deal may change almost nothing on the ground @MarioNawfal ♥ 40 · read more

    atlantic council senior fellow elizabeth braw, via @MarioNawfal, says 'not very much' actually changed for greenland. the win is mostly for trump's image.

  5. ethereum will be unrecognizable by 2027, one researcher says @casparschwa · read more

    @casparschwa's list: high throughput, native account abstraction, near-native privacy.

  6. the nft mania has moved to zcash and people are already annoyed @shariq_eth · read more

    cyphersquad, zeckers and zeccats are all minting at once. @rickmanelius clocked one at a $30m market cap with $1.5m of volume in under four hours.

  7. the people who built jev say it is still too slow and expensive @sarah_edo · read more

    posted by @sarah_edo in the middle of the hype, in the spirit of under-promising. the team's own list of complaints is longer than most of the criticism.

  8. the first thing people want to build with it is a spending firewall @gregisenberg ♥ 196 · read more

    @gregisenberg ranked ten jev-native products. the top one: before any agent purchase, the model returns approve, review or deny with a confidence score, based on price, vendor and your rules.

  9. a guy made a full motion graphics video in a day with astra @awilkinson · read more

    shared by @awilkinson. the model did the motion graphics, rotoscoping, color grading, blender modelling and sound.

  10. a man with a neuralink implant is helping build a brain-to-voice interface @PimDeWitte · read more

    terry is doing it through neuralink's voice trial, per @PimDeWitte, tuning the thing for himself and for whoever comes after him.

  1. a veteran engineer says he wastes the best models on work he knows @matteocollina ♥ 40 · read more

    @matteocollina writes 80% of his code with cheap models but gets 80% of his value from the expensive ones. his rule: if you know what you're doing, don't pay up.

  2. 500 bookmarks sorted in thirteen seconds for under two cents @icerdesign · read more

    via @icerdesign: the trick is thresholds. above 0.85 it files, below 0.35 it drops, and the middle goes to a human.

  3. one dev is using the new model as a noise filter for search @kentcdodds · read more

    @kentcdodds says vector search over an account returns too much irrelevant stuff, so he uses jev to throw out the noise before anything reaches the user.

  4. the model is so cheap a $5 credit turned into an inheritance joke @bkase_ · read more

    @bkase_: 'when i die, i will pass what's left of it to my son.' @chainyoda thinks that kind of pricing is a real dent in openai and anthropic's business workflows.

  5. jev cannot reason, so someone built a reasoning layer around it @rakyll · read more

    @rakyll wrote an interpreter that runs a logic language whose facts and rules are written in plain english, with the model answering the individual questions.

  6. someone rebuilt tesla's self-driving in under an hour with the new model @chainyoda · read more

    @chainyoda's demo. it's a toy, but the point stands: steering is a decision problem, not a writing problem.

  7. someone pointed the model at technical docs to find the confusing parts @stskeeps · read more

    @stskeeps fetched a set of technical docs and ran them through jev as a confusion heatmap.

  8. someone made their physical pokemon cards play out in augmented reality @VishwaMehta30 · read more

    @VishwaMehta30 built it with astra and clad, and says they did not disappoint.

  9. he gave a model sudo and came back to a working local llm @kethcode ♥ 1 · read more

    @kethcode handed astra a hugging face link and 'fresh install, permissionless sudo, have fun', took the kids to the park, and came back to 132 tokens/sec on a single 3090.

  10. a clean way to think about where crypto's variance actually lives @seyong ♥ 37 · read more

    @seyong's four tiers: bitcoin is the market, eth and sol the consensus majors, hype and zec top-five candidates, and uni, lit and vvv pure bets on execution.

  1. the manchester united co-owner says he has lost confidence in the uk @Polymarket ♥ 1.6k · read more

    sir jim ratcliffe blames high taxes and immigration for what he calls national decline, per @Polymarket.

  2. almost every crypto payment leaves a trail back to your wallet @stacy_muur ♥ 73 · read more

    @stacy_muur's point: if your savings and defi positions sit on the same address as your spending, one payment hands the merchant a view of everything else you hold.

  3. devcon 8 is in mumbai and one talk is about centralized access @EFDevcon ♥ 11 · read more

    @EFDevcon announced @jchaskin22's session: you can decentralize the network and still centralize the front door.

  4. ethrome's hackathon wrapped and nearly every project used the same storage layer @zeligf ♥ 8 · read more

    per @zeligf, gitkiv and apiritivo won, and almost all submissions were built on ethswarm. forty builders, forty hours.

  5. libp2p's haskell version now speaks quic @adust09 ♥ 9 · read more

    @adust09 shipped native /quic-v1 dial and listen, tls identity, and go-libp2p interop in ci.

  6. a new tool attacks your own llm app to find the holes @tom_doerr ♥ 6 · read more

    @tom_doerr flagged deepteam, which runs locally and simulates attacks against llm systems instead of shipping your prompts somewhere.

  7. someone asked gpt-6 what the next zcash is and it said ethereum @odin_free ♥ 47 · read more

    @odin_free ran it at high reasoning effort and got a contract address back. chat, is this agi.