Daily Brief — 2026-11-02
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@karpathy
HackerTube weekend hack: built hackertube.org, where Claude filtered 43M Hacker News comments from 20 years down to 6,454 repeatedly recommended videos; no logins, mid-video thumbnails, and the analysis data shared as a zip; about 2 hours with Claude Code on Opus 5.5 at Medium effort, with Claude also deploying and hardening the VPS. post (https://x.com/karpathy/status/2116957135661945283) · 40,691❤ · 3,660 RT
@poteto
Day 28, tibo's game: shipped tibo.dog, a game made with Grok Bot and Cursor on a $5.99 domain, with easter eggs and meant to be playable inside X. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2117004709198475365) · 11,774❤ · 750 RT
@rauchg
Own your intelligence: argues local models must keep spreading; since the largest models are out of reach locally, keep options open and own your harness, data, connections, runtime, and agents through open source. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2117000819623243925) · 2,664❤ · 276 RT
Sand into superintelligence: one-line reflection that converting sand into superintelligence beats the old alchemists' dream of gold. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2116937012859261242) · 1,799❤ · 153 RT
Gemini on fx.sh: says he is testing Gemini on fx.sh and on two high-complexity projects and that it is doing well. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2116988333096370443) · 428❤ · 9 RT
@HamelHusain
AI benchmark business: compares AI benchmark companies to Gartner vendor rankings, credit ratings for mortgage-backed securities, and US News college rankings, saying they are in a similar business. post (https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/2116987667716223160) · 118❤ · 6 RT
Silent
@martinfowler, @cursor_ai, @swyx, @hwchase17, @simonw: no original posts in window
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@xAI: account shows 0 posts, bio "Now at @SpaceXAI" (skipped)
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pingdotgg/t3code (https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code): open-source control surface for coding agents on your machine (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, OpenCode, and more) via mobile, web, and desktop apps (TypeScript, +3,094★ today)
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milind-soni/OpenMausBot (https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot): open-source Grok Bot alternative with a virtual machine that bots can use (TypeScript, +922★ today)
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