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Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming high enough. Jobs are a great example: Especially if you’re early in your career, you should aim to get rejected from most things you apply for.

sBTC: a more secure Bitcoin bridge

In the next couple weeks, Stacks will release sBTC, a non-custodial 1:1 Bitcoin-backed asset that operates as an open-network, decentralized 2-way peg solution to bring Bitcoin into Stacks with as little counterparty risk as possible. This has been a vision for years, and you’ve probably heard something about it... See more

Sora currently works best as a complement to other AI content generation tools: Spin up a scene on Midjourney, generate a voice on ElevenLabs, and produce your video through Sora.

Sora nails the photorealistic details but can't match Runway, or other AI video generation tools,on fluid motion.

You can transform any type of dataset with vibes. Got a large amount of financial data? Try Julius, which can easily answer questions about it and create visualizations out of spreadsheets. Data in your CRM? Try Attio. Not sure where the data is stored? Try AWS.

Google unveiled Willow , a quantum computing chip that can complete calculations in minutes that would take supercomputers billions of years.

full-stack app builder Bolt

Townie has attracted a new breed of non-technical programmers to Val Town.

In their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict, political scientists Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan compare over 300 violent and non-violent struggles in the 20th century to conclude that non-violent civil disobedience is about twice as effective as armed revolution.

Naveen also tested a few different voice models, including those from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Google AI Studio. But he ended up picking Play.ai because the voices sound more natural and conversational.