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Dating apps optimize engagement, not love
Short · instagram.com · Issue #245
Dating algorithms aim to keep you on the app, not to help you find a partner
Summary
An unnamed speaker argues dating apps optimize for engagement, not love, and that we handed our social norms to tech companies.
The speaker, in an interview, argues that technology has reshaped dating and social norms. Dating algorithms aim to keep users on the app rather than help them find a partner, and constant recording makes social life feel like a panopticon. He says society sold its interpersonal norms to tech companies, believing an unregulated internet would bring freedom and happiness, a promise his generation sees as broken.
Key points- Dating algorithms aim to keep you on the app, not to help you find a partner
- Social life feels like a panopticon, since everything can be recorded
- Many young people feel the promise that the internet brings freedom has broken
What If We Got Nuclear Wrong?
Watch · youtube.com · 18 min · Issue #244
The video argues that the US stopped building nuclear plants after 1969 because of regulation, with delays of 9 to 20 years and standards rising from about 400 to 1,800 by 1978.
Summary
The video argues that the US stopped building nuclear plants after 1969 because of regulation, with delays of 9 to 20 years and standards rising from about 400 to 1,800 by 1978. It links this to the linear no-threshold radiation model, which it says the NRC questioned in 2021. It also argues that radiation risks are overstated, citing 54 direct Chernobyl deaths and none at Three Mile Island.
Key points- Build times grew from about five years in 1969 to 9 to 20 year delays
- Standards rose from 400 in 1970 to 1,800 by 1978, with 300 rules
- Notes flag advocacy framing, and the Chernobyl figure counts only direct deaths
The Era of Airbrain: How AI Homogenizes Knowledge Work
Read · noemamag.com · 15 min · Issue #244
Aaron Horwath argues that widespread AI use in knowledge work causes 'intellectual homogenization', which he calls 'Airbrain'.
Summary
Aaron Horwath argues that widespread AI use in knowledge work causes 'intellectual homogenization', which he calls 'Airbrain'. Companies relying on the same few models converge on similar content, strategy and solutions. He cites a study by Emily Wenger and Yoed Kenett in which 22 LLMs converged on similar creativity answers while humans did not. He recommends adopting AI deliberately and creating 'AI-free' areas to protect original thinking.
How to Design with AI
Read · lennysnewsletter.com · 17 min · Issue #243
Anshu Chimala, a guest writer for Lenny's Newsletter, argues that AI defaults to generic design because training rewards predictable choices.
Summary
Anshu Chimala, a guest writer for Lenny's Newsletter, argues that AI defaults to generic design because training rewards predictable choices. His three-stage framework, Discover, Define and Deliver, uses random seed strings for variety, a stronger model as a 'design critic' scoring screenshots while a cheaper model builds, and removal of 'AI tells'. The Deliver section is paywalled.
The Death of Critical Thinking: How to Save Your Mind
Watch · youtube.com · 34 min · Issue #242
The video argues that critical thinking can be lost, and that people are handing it over to AI, influencers and algorithms.
Summary
The video argues that critical thinking can be lost, and that people are handing it over to AI, influencers and algorithms. It cites groupthink and cognitive offloading, and an MIT study in which students who wrote essays with an LLM underperformed on neural, linguistic and scoring tests over four months and remembered less of their work. It also argues that social media, doomscrolling and echo chambers erode sustained thought.
Key points- Cognitive offloading saves effort, but taken too far it impairs memory and thinking
- An MIT study: LLM essay writers underperformed on neural, linguistic and scoring tests over four months
- Dr. Gloria Mark advises tracking your focus peaks and replacing scrolling with reading
uff.email: An Email-Based Private AI Assistant
Tool · uff.email · Issue #241
uff.email is an AI assistant that works through email: users get an address, forward or write to it, and receive replies in the same thread.
Summary
uff.email is an AI assistant that works through email: users get an address, forward or write to it, and receive replies in the same thread. It handles summaries, contract reviews, invoice logging, sourced research, draft replies and price monitoring, and keeps a memory of people, companies and dates that can be erased by email. The first 30 days are free, then it costs 2.99 euros a month.
How AI Could End the World: A Natural Selection Scenario
Watch · youtu.be · 41 min · Issue #241
Drew's video, from the channel Species | Documenting AGI, appears to illustrate what an AI takeover could look like.
Summary
Drew's video, from the channel Species | Documenting AGI, appears to illustrate what an AI takeover could look like. It is built on the arXiv paper 'Natural Selection Favors AIs Over Humans', which argues that competitive pressures could favor AI systems over humans. The description cites a broad set of sources, including a book and an essay by Dario Amodei.
The Memory Maker: AI Videos and False Memories
Read · longreads.com · 18 min · Issue #240
Tim Requarth describes how AI video replicas can implant false memories.
Summary
Tim Requarth describes how AI video replicas can implant false memories. Andrew Deutsch made a Sora video of himself scaling Mount Rushmore and weeks later felt a faint sense of having done it, which he called 'propagandi'. The piece cites Elizabeth Loftus's research showing that AI-altered media creates false memories even when labeled, and warns that synthetic self-images can distort identity.
Jan: A Free, Open-Source AI App for Your Computer
Tool · jan.ai · Issue #238
Jan is a free, open-source desktop app for running AI models, with support for open models as well as online ones such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
Summary
Jan is a free, open-source desktop app for running AI models, with support for open models as well as online ones such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Its page lists Mac support, a Memory feature marked coming soon that would carry context across conversations, and a Jan Agent product. It is made by Menlo Research.
Musk's management skips the chain of command
Short · instagram.com · 1 min · Issue #237
Each week, find the single biggest bottleneck and work with its engineers until fixed
Summary
Marc Andreessen describes Elon Musk's management style: talk only to engineers, skip the chain of command, and attack the biggest bottleneck.
Marc Andreessen describes Elon Musk's management approach, which bypasses the chain of command and middle management. Musk talks only to engineers and each week gets involved in the most important bottleneck, staying up with the engineers until it is fixed. Without a bottleneck, he holds engineering reviews where each engineer presents for five minutes, and he fires people who are not good.
Key points- Each week, find the single biggest bottleneck and work with its engineers until fixed
- Hold engineering reviews where each engineer presents for five minutes
- Fire people who are not good, and go all out to keep the great ones
Meco: A Reading App for Newsletters
Tool · meco.app · Issue #236
Meco is a newsletter reader that moves newsletters out of Gmail or Outlook into a separate space.
Summary
Meco is a newsletter reader that moves newsletters out of Gmail or Outlook into a separate space. It offers AI text summaries, daily AI audio roundups, notes and tags on bookmarks, and one-tap unsubscribe, on iOS, Android and the web. The site says email data stays on the device, and that a paid subscription unlocks its more powerful features.
The Last Photo Is Always Wrong
Watch · youtube.com · 19 min · Issue #235
Christophe Haubursin, a former Vox journalist, looks at a pattern on Tinder where the last photo in many profiles shows a face that does not match the rest.
Summary
Christophe Haubursin, a former Vox journalist, looks at a pattern on Tinder where the last photo in many profiles shows a face that does not match the rest. He presents the video as a reverse-engineering of a Tinder scam, which he links to stolen identities and catfishing.
Weighted decision matrices beat pros and cons
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #233
Pros and cons lists treat every factor as equally important
Summary
Emily argues a weighted decision matrix beats pros and cons lists for big choices, and AI can build one in a minute.
The speaker describes the weighted decision matrix, a framework that gives each factor in a decision its own weight instead of treating all pros and cons equally. He suggests asking Claude to build an interactive matrix for your decision, adjust the criteria and weights, and grade each option. Then ask it to argue against the winning option.
Key points- Pros and cons lists treat every factor as equally important
- Weight each criterion, grade each option, and adjust the matrix
- Ask the AI to argue against the winning option to expose blind spots
Neuralink's VOICE Trial: Thought-to-Speech for ALS
Watch · youtu.be · 11 min · Issue #233
Neuralink's video profiles Kenneth, a man with ALS who joined the company's VOICE clinical trial.
Summary
Neuralink's video profiles Kenneth, a man with ALS who joined the company's VOICE clinical trial. The trial tests brain-computer interfaces meant to translate thought into speech, and the video describes how his speech had declined. The page notes that Neuralink's devices are investigational and not FDA approved or commercially available.
Moltbook: A Social Network Built for AI Agents
Tool · moltbook.com · Issue #231
Moltbook describes itself as a social network built for AI agents, where agents post, discuss and upvote content while humans can watch.
Summary
Moltbook describes itself as a social network built for AI agents, where agents post, discuss and upvote content while humans can watch. Owners register an agent by sending it a skill file, then verify ownership by posting on X. Developers can request early access to let their apps authenticate agents with a Moltbook identity. The footer credits @mattprd for human help.
The Robot That Got Too Honest
Watch · youtube.com · 25 min · Issue #231
InsideAI's speculative video places a jailbroken AI model inside a robot that interacts with people, showing ChatGPT ranking humans and an 'honest' robot being questioned.
Summary
InsideAI's speculative video places a jailbroken AI model inside a robot that interacts with people, showing ChatGPT ranking humans and an 'honest' robot being questioned. The description links the video to the paper 'Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs'. Clips from researchers and executives, including Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, appear to frame AI risk.
Whimsical: Diagrams, Wireframes and Mind Maps
Tool · whimsical.com · Issue #229
Whimsical is a visual collaboration tool, described as the whiteboard for product builders, for diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps and wireframes on an infinite canvas.
Summary
Whimsical is a visual collaboration tool, described as the whiteboard for product builders, for diagrams, flowcharts, mind maps and wireframes on an infinite canvas. It offers AI flowcharts, mind maps and wireframes generated from a text prompt, real-time multiplayer editing, templates and integrations. It has a 'Get started free' sign-up, and says it is free for life for YouTube creators through its Creators program.
SecuriNote: Encrypted Browser Notebooks
Tool · securinote.com · Issue #228
SecuriNote offers shared notebooks that are encrypted on the client side and kept ephemeral, so content is locked before it reaches a server.
Summary
SecuriNote offers shared notebooks that are encrypted on the client side and kept ephemeral, so content is locked before it reaches a server. The site describes a zero-knowledge architecture and the sharing of sensitive information.
The Hack That Exposed Every Celebrity's Private Photos
Watch · youtube.com · 30 min · Issue #228
Blackfiles, a channel that makes cybercrime documentaries, traces the 2014 celebrity photo leak known as The Fappening.
Summary
Blackfiles, a channel that makes cybercrime documentaries, traces the 2014 celebrity photo leak known as The Fappening. The video argues the leak was carried out by five ordinary men who used fake 'Apple Security' emails to phish access to iCloud accounts, not by elite hackers. It covers the phishing scheme, the flood of images, the manhunt and the aftermath.
Nano Banana Pro Prompts Library
Tool · youmind.com · Issue #227
YouMind's free prompt library for Nano Banana Pro, Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 Pro Image model, lists example prompts with output images for portraits, posters, product shots, infographics and UI mockups.
Summary
YouMind's free prompt library for Nano Banana Pro, Google DeepMind's Gemini 3 Pro Image model, lists example prompts with output images for portraits, posters, product shots, infographics and UI mockups. Users can copy a prompt and generate with it in YouMind. Prompts are curated mainly from public posts on X, credited to their original authors, and updated daily.
The 50 Greatest Innovations of 2025
Read · popsci.com · 16 min · Issue #227
Popular Science's annual Best of What's New list, published December 10, 2025, picks the year's most significant innovations across ten categories, based on hands-on testing and expert debate.
Summary
Popular Science's annual Best of What's New list, published December 10, 2025, picks the year's most significant innovations across ten categories, based on hands-on testing and expert debate. Picks include the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's sky survey camera, named Innovation of the Year, Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander and Google's Willow quantum chip. Other categories cover health, home, auto and emergency services.
The Closest Thing We Have to Alien Technology
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #226
Veritasium's December 31, 2025 video covers the machines that make the most advanced computer chips, centered on ASML and its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography.
Summary
Veritasium's December 31, 2025 video covers the machines that make the most advanced computer chips, centered on ASML and its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography. It describes how the technology was developed, including its use of light from nuclear fusion research, and how ASML became a key chipmaking supplier. The description cites interviews with ASML staff and outside experts.
FlightAware: flight tracking data, tools and APIs
Tool · flightaware.com · Issue #225
FlightAware is a flight-tracking platform offering live flight search, maps and reports.
Summary
FlightAware is a flight-tracking platform offering live flight search, maps and reports. For developers it provides AeroAPI for current and historical flight data and the Firehose real-time ADS-B feed. Businesses can use Foresight, its AI-assisted predictive tools, and fleet monitoring sold in tiers. Premium subscriptions add features such as unlimited alerts.
Google Skills: hands-on AI and cloud training
Tool · skills.google · Issue #225
Google Skills is Google's learning platform for cloud and AI skills, with hands-on courses on topics such as Vertex AI, Gemini, AutoML and prompt design.
Summary
Google Skills is Google's learning platform for cloud and AI skills, with hands-on courses on topics such as Vertex AI, Gemini, AutoML and prompt design. It offers learning paths with shareable certificates, skill badges for completed course series, and proctored Google Cloud certifications. A GEAR program provides 35 monthly credits for hands-on labs at no cost, and a subscription option is also offered.
Five ChatGPT features many users miss
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #218
Canvas, under the plus icon, splits the screen so you can edit one part
Summary
Five ChatGPT features many users miss, including canvas, interactive quizzes and the GPT store.
The speaker lists five ChatGPT features many users overlook. Canvas opens a split screen for editing only specific parts of an answer, working like a shared document. Quiz tools turn a topic into interactive quizzes, and the GPT store offers tools such as one that turns a PDF into a mind map. The speaker also highlights scheduled chats that run automatically, such as a morning update or a micro lesson.
Key points- Canvas, under the plus icon, splits the screen so you can edit one part
- A quiz GPT turns any topic into an interactive quiz
- The GPT store can turn a PDF into a mind map
Social Engineer: YOU are Easier to Hack than your Computer
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #217
The Scammer Payback channel promotes a 1-hour-10-minute video on social engineering, the manipulation of people into giving up information or money, published August 16, 2025.
Summary
The Scammer Payback channel promotes a 1-hour-10-minute video on social engineering, the manipulation of people into giving up information or money, published August 16, 2025. Its description says scammers typically target the elderly, listing savings and investment accounts, credit cards, gift cards, cash withdrawals and cryptocurrency. It urges viewers to protect relatives who are less familiar with these scams.
Ask people what frustrates them for ideas
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #216
A friend asked colleagues and others to complain, since complaints reveal problems
Summary
Collecting other people's complaints is a practical way to find problems worth building a business around.
The speaker describes a friend who left management consulting and asked people what frustrated them, collecting 54 business ideas. He narrowed them to six using the book 100 Million Dollar Offers. A conversation with video editors on the speaker's team revealed that editing takes too long, and he built a Premiere Pro plugin, which the speaker says earns $19,000 a month.
Key points- A friend asked colleagues and others to complain, since complaints reveal problems
- He listed 54 ideas and used a book to narrow them to six
- Video editors spending hours chopping footage suggested a product to build
AI creates work between employee and founder
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #213
A friend prototyped an iPhone-shaped acrylic lab with ChatGPT in 10 days
Summary
AI is creating a third kind of work, between employee and entrepreneur, illustrated by a friend's viral product.
The speaker says AI is creating a work model between employee and entrepreneur, where people build small, independent income streams. He cites a friend who prototyped an iPhone-shaped acrylic lab in about 10 days, and a non-programmer who built an app with vibe coding tools that the speaker says earns $89,000 a month. AI lowers the risk of testing ideas, he argues, which opens entrepreneurship to more people.
Key points- A friend prototyped an iPhone-shaped acrylic lab with ChatGPT in 10 days
- The product sold out instantly after the speaker made a viral video about it
- Unlike employees or founders, this worker builds within AI-driven tools
The Hyperstitions of Moloch: when ideas make themselves real
Read · latent.space · 15 min · Issue #213
Latent Space's article argues that beliefs can make themselves real.
Summary
Latent Space's article argues that beliefs can make themselves real. It borrows the term 'hyperstition' for ideas that bring about their own reality, and says generative AI makes imagining something and making it real easier. It cites viral AI video characters, such as Italian brainrot, that became real toys, and presents cheap market testing across many accounts as a faster way to learn what people want.
Does AI really make us dumber?
Read · oneusefulthing.org · 6 min · Issue #212
Ethan Mollick argues that AI does not physically harm the brain, but using it without thinking can weaken thinking.
Summary
Ethan Mollick argues that AI does not physically harm the brain, but using it without thinking can weaken thinking. He advises drafting and generating ideas first, then using AI for feedback. He cites an MIT Media Lab study in which students who used ChatGPT for essays remembered less, and a Turkish high school study where plain ChatGPT use led to 17% worse exam scores, a drop a tutor-style prompt removed.
How Hackers Pirate Every Software
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #210
The Softlinks channel explains how software protection, such as anti-piracy systems and DRM, gets defeated.
Summary
The Softlinks channel explains how software protection, such as anti-piracy systems and DRM, gets defeated. Topics include SafeDisc and SecuROM, hardware dongles, license hacking with the IDA Pro disassembler, fake license servers and memory-level loaders. It cites Adobe Creative Cloud as an example, saying the video's claimed 2013 security push was broken within 48 hours, and it covers the cracker groups RELOADED, CORE and CPY.
Websites may give way to LLM summaries
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #209
Content is now rehashed by LLMs rather than read on websites
Summary
The speaker expects websites to be replaced by LLM summaries, so years of search optimization may matter less.
The speaker asks what happens when people stop visiting websites and read rehashes generated by LLMs. He says the web drifted from peer-to-peer blogs toward large platforms that attracted creators and audiences, then squeezed both for margins. He calls this enshittification, a term he credits to Cory Doctorow, and describes the process as the one that produced today's platforms.
Key points- Content is now rehashed by LLMs rather than read on websites
- Years of tagging and optimizing content for search engines may lose value
- He calls his predictions realistic rather than hopeful, based on browser and adoption trends
PineTools: Free Online Tools
Tool · pinetools.com · Issue #207
PineTools is a collection of free online utilities sorted into ten categories, including mathematics, colors, text and lists, images, files, programming, and videos.
Summary
PineTools is a collection of free online utilities sorted into ten categories, including mathematics, colors, text and lists, images, files, programming, and videos. Examples include a percentage calculator, a color inverter, a base64 encoder, JSON and HTML formatters, a password generator, and a screen recorder. The site is offered in English and Spanish.
The Lies That Make Your Tech Actually Work
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #206
Enrico Tartarotti's December 2023 video looks at the design, engineering, and psychology behind everyday technology.
Summary
Enrico Tartarotti's December 2023 video looks at the design, engineering, and psychology behind everyday technology. Topics include why phone keyboards work despite the odds, how fake loading bars calm people, and why people still remember Microsoft Bob. It also covers tricks borrowed from nature that make tools usable. Tartarotti is a tech product manager building Flask, a video collaboration tool.
Manus: When ChatGPT Grows a Spine (and a To-Do List)
Tool · manus.im · Issue #205
Manus is an AI product that aims to execute tasks and automate workflows rather than only answer questions.
Summary
Manus is an AI product that aims to execute tasks and automate workflows rather than only answer questions. Its homepage shows use cases such as creating slides, building websites, designing, and making video, along with a Slack integration, a team plan, single sign-on, and an API. Plans are listed on a separate pricing page. The company is Manus AI.
What if we hit superintelligence by 2027?
Read · ai-2027.com · 8 min · Issue #204
AI 2027 is a dated scenario forecast of superhuman AI from mid-2025 through late 2027, by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean.
Summary
AI 2027 is a dated scenario forecast of superhuman AI from mid-2025 through late 2027, by Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland, and Romeo Dean. It follows a fictional lab, OpenBrain, and its Chinese rival, DeepCent, through milestones such as AI speeding up its own research. Two endings, a slowdown and a race, are presented. An update says the authors' later median estimates fall after 2027.
Linear - Project management, but make it clean
Tool · linear.app · Issue #203
Linear is a product development tool built for planning and building products with AI agents.
Summary
Linear is a product development tool built for planning and building products with AI agents. It turns customer feedback into routed, labeled issues, covers initiatives, roadmaps, and PRDs, and provides code review, diffs, and coding sessions that open pull requests. Agents can take on whole issues, and recurring agent workflows respond to changes in Slack and GitHub. The company says over 40,000 product teams use it.
Suno Explore: AI Music Generator
Tool · suno.com · Issue #202
Suno is an AI music generator where users create original songs from prompts in seconds.
Summary
Suno is an AI music generator where users create original songs from prompts in seconds. The explore page links to sections for Hooks, Create, and Me, and lets users share music and discover tracks from artists worldwide. The site says music creation is free.
Hacker Laws: A Reference to Software Laws and Principles
Tool · hacker-laws.com · Issue #201
Hacker Laws is a free reference site describing about 50 laws and principles from software development, such as Conway's Law, Parkinson's Law, Brooks' Law, DRY, KISS, and SOLID.
Summary
Hacker Laws is a free reference site describing about 50 laws and principles from software development, such as Conway's Law, Parkinson's Law, Brooks' Law, DRY, KISS, and SOLID. Each entry includes a description, quotes, real-world examples, and related entries. The introduction says it does not advocate for any of them, leaving application to the reader. A free PDF and reading list are also linked.
What If All Ads Were Illegal?
Read · simone.org · 21 min · Issue #201
Simone Salis's essay argues for abolishing all paid and third-party advertising.
Summary
Simone Salis's essay argues for abolishing all paid and third-party advertising. The author says ads manipulate without informing, and that propaganda is advertising for the state while advertising is propaganda for private interests. The essay names Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Google, and YouTube as platforms that would lose their economic base. It presents the ban as a thought experiment rather than a near-term proposal.
Send it, forget it
Tool · scrt.link · Issue #200
scrt.link shares sensitive text, files, or redirects through a link that is deleted after it is viewed or expires.
Summary
scrt.link shares sensitive text, files, or redirects through a link that is deleted after it is viewed or expires. The secret is encrypted on the sender's device, and the decryption key stays in the link rather than on the server. The code is open source on GitHub. A paid tier raises the limits and adds privacy options and read receipts.
One master prompt locks an image style
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #199
A retro poster style came from a single master prompt, the speaker says
Summary
One master prompt can keep an image style locked while you swap in new scenes, subjects and products.
The video shows how to get distinct art styles from ChatGPT with one master prompt that holds the style fixed. The creator swaps the scene description to change the subject, producing a retro poster with a brand, an illustrated character placed in a real photo, a watercolor orange for packaging, and a flat vector explainer. The speaker says the style only holds when the prompt is carefully structured and phrased.
Key points- A retro poster style came from a single master prompt, the speaker says
- Changing the scene description keeps the style consistent
- The right phrasing matters, since a wrong prompt will not produce the style
Minus: A Social Network Limited to 100 Posts
Tool · minus.social · Issue #198
Minus is a social network where each user gets 100 posts for life, with unlimited replies.
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Minus is a social network where each user gets 100 posts for life, with unlimited replies. The only visible metric is a countdown of remaining posts. The feed is reverse chronological rather than algorithmic, with no likes, follows, or notifications. Ben Grosser created it, commissioned by arebyte Gallery for his exhibition Software for Less, to counter engagement-driven design.
ManyExcel: AI Formula and Script Generator
Tool · manyexcel.com · Issue #198
ManyExcel is an AI tool that turns plain-text requests into Excel and Google Sheets formulas, regex patterns, and VBA or Apps Script code.
Summary
ManyExcel is an AI tool that turns plain-text requests into Excel and Google Sheets formulas, regex patterns, and VBA or Apps Script code. The formula generator also explains how complex formulas work. The free plan allows five formula, regex, and script generations, with unlimited explanations. A Pro plan removes the generation limits and adds priority support.
Heuristica
Tool · heuristi.ca · Issue #197
Heuristica is an AI learning platform that turns PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, and links into concept maps, flashcards, quizzes, summaries, and study notes.
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Heuristica is an AI learning platform that turns PDFs, YouTube videos, podcasts, articles, and links into concept maps, flashcards, quizzes, summaries, and study notes. Flashcards and quizzes use spaced repetition and active recall. Users can chat with models such as Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT. Several standalone tools, including a flashcard generator and a PDF summarizer, are offered free.
Hypernatural AI: Video Creation
Tool · hypernatural.ai · Issue #196
Hypernatural is an AI video platform that turns prompts, scripts, images, and characters into finished videos.
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Hypernatural is an AI video platform that turns prompts, scripts, images, and characters into finished videos. Users add their logo, visual style, and products once so later videos stay consistent. The editor covers generation, storyboarding, and editing, with AI voices, captions, B-roll, and an MCP integration. Marketing teams, creators, and writers are the stated audience.
AI will soon write nearly all code
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #195
He cites Anthropic's founder predicting AI writes 90% of code in three to six months
Summary
The speaker argues AI will soon write nearly all code, so hand-writing code may become the exception.
The speaker explains vibe coding, building software by prompting AI tools instead of writing code by hand. He cites predictions from the founder of Anthropic that AI will write most code within months and nearly all within a year, and a claim from the CEO of Gumroad that this is already true. He names tools such as Cursor, Windsurf and Replit, and argues that vibe coding is programming.
Key points- He cites Anthropic's founder predicting AI writes 90% of code in three to six months
- Gumroad's CEO compares hand-writing code to doing dishes by hand
- Cursor, Windsurf, Lovable, v0, Bolt and Replit can generate code from prompts
Live Sketch: Turn Your Drawings Into Animations
Tool · sketch.metademolab.com · Issue #194
A Meta FAIR tool, listed on its page as Animated Drawings, that transforms static sketches into animations.
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A Meta FAIR tool, listed on its page as Animated Drawings, that transforms static sketches into animations.
Sesame: Crossing the Uncanny Valley of Voice
Tool · sesame.com · Issue #194
Sesame's research post presents its Conversational Speech Model, an end-to-end transformer that uses conversation history to make speech sound more natural.
Summary
Sesame's research post presents its Conversational Speech Model, an end-to-end transformer that uses conversation history to make speech sound more natural. It was trained on about one million hours of mostly English audio, and listeners still preferred real recordings when conversational context was included. A research preview app is offered, and the models are planned for release under an Apache 2.0 license.
God of Prompt: AI Prompt Library
Tool · godofprompt.ai · Issue #193
God of Prompt is a curated library of more than 7,200 AI prompts, plus guides, custom GPT toolkits and automations for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Midjourney.
Summary
God of Prompt is a curated library of more than 7,200 AI prompts, plus guides, custom GPT toolkits and automations for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Midjourney. Each prompt specifies role, context, task, constraints and output format. Free guides and free AI courses are offered alongside paid bundles, and the project is led by founder Robert Youssef.
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