Enshittification

Andreessen Horowitz Co-founder on a hard truth: "Nobody Cares"

The recent attack on SGX effectively marks the end of distributed confidential computing using TEEs. While the attack itself isn’t particularly surprising, Intel’s response - that the threat model lies outside its scope - essentially removes any future assurance of improvement.

consumer research is about to get weird. a new paper shows you can predict real purchase intent without asking humans. you prompt an LLM to role-play a specific customer (age, income, etc.), show it a product, have it write a short reaction -> another AI maps that text to a

Introducing Private Multisig -- a special multisig where no one sees who votes or how votes on proposals. The ballots are encrypted, and the whole voting process is non-interactive. Achieved via ZKP + ECC ElGamal + DKG + HE. Trustless and permissionless. No TEE needed.

I’ve been saying for the past two years that the influence of Paradigm within Ethereum could become a relevant tail risk for the ecosystem. I believe this will become increasingly clear to everyone in the months ahead. Some people think I have a personal issue with them. I

An exciting update from myself and Ben Diamond (eprint.iacr.org/2025/2010). We show that the 𝘶𝘱-𝘵𝘰-𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 proximity gaps conjecture is 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲. More precisely, given any pair c, d we construct codes whose error grows faster than nᶜ / (q ⋅ (ρ η)ᵈ).

⚖️ Balancer Hack TL;DR: 🧮 Most tokens on Ethereum use 18 decimals, but some don’t. ✖️ Balancer upscales token amounts (to 18-dec) and downscales them back. 🔧 Upscaling always rounded DOWN, but downscaling could round UP or DOWN. 😬 The more scaling steps involved, the

Over the next 2–3 years, the most important AI products will go multiplayer-first. Group chats in ChatGPT are the first major signal. Software always follows the same arc: first you get powerful single-player tools, then someone wires them into a shared workspace, and suddenly

The chief of Sequoia Capital is quitting b/c venture is toast and the math doesn’t work anymore. Everyone keeps asking why so many top operators are stepping down from big jobs, leaving prestigious firms, or skipping the “career ladder” entirely to start their own companies. People

This is probably the most cursed shit I’ve seen in a while Forked circom and sp1 and slapped a token But then, the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem is all about slapping tokens onto shit all the time

this take is pure BS and misses how deep tech innovation actually works Ilya has a PhD in CS from Toronto under Geoff Hinton where he co-invented AlexNet & literally helped birth the modern DL revolution before founding OpenAI Adam has degrees in CS and Mathematics & built

About 3 weeks ago Extropic announced its custom ASIC for EBMs and a library that simulates their chip’s capability called THRML. Custom ASIC for energy-efficient ML has a special place in my heart, as I struggled with it during my phd research and my work at Lightmatter 2019-21.

Plinko PIR tutorial: vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/1…

I made a Goodreads for academic papers! (..and blog posts, substacks, lesswrong, etc) Paper Trails [papertrailshq.com] is something I built because I wanted a place where engaging with research felt fun, beautiful, and personal to you I hope you give it a try & love it!

Three ways a spot a top 1% startup 1. Ambition bordering on “ludicrous” Bob McGrew (early Palantir, OpenAI): “Both Palantir and OpenAI were considered ludicrous when the companies were first started." Soleio (early Facebook, Figma, Dropbox): "I was surprised by the ferocity

New essay. Build education machines. Enjoy. farza.com/build-edu-mach…

Today we're launching the all new version of Oboe (Oboe) and announcing our $16M Series A led by a16z 🧵

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I've always wondered why there's so may 🇻🇳 Vietnamese indie hacker and startup success stories like Tony Dinh and so few from 🇹🇭 Thailand It seems the Vietnamese have 2 important things the Thai don't: - a very strong STEM education pipeline - agressive founders that like to go