Expert profile
Founder & AI Product Leader
Yash Thakker is a Generative AI expert with over 12 years of experience in product leadership and technical strategy. As the founder of explainx.ai, he has taught over 300,000 learners and built AI platforms serving millions of users globally. He specializes in Agentic AI, Multimodal RAG, and the intersection of LLMs with consumer hardware.
Shrivu Shankar's harness thesis on HN: own vs buy, taste-holders, and the pushback on swarms, cost, trust, and real-world contact.
CASP's intelligence explosion paper, co-authored by Hinton: who wrote it, what timelines it states, and what builders should change.
Step-by-step tutorial to build a Claude Code mod with real screenshots: manifest, hooks, state contract, a UI band, a slash command, validate and test.
LangChain Managed Deep Agents 0.8 adds user-level durable memory via memory.py. Mounts, defaults, allow policies, Context Hub persistence, and schedule limits.
Ling-3.1-flash by AntLingAGI: 560B total, 25B active, free on OpenCode, No. 2 open model on Mobile App Arena. Context-window gap, benchmarks, and caveats.
llama.cpp PR #29818 adds /v1/systemone for Jev-style decision models. Five open GGUFs: Julia-1, Laya, Kev-4B, lev, OpenJev.
Meta open-sourced Muse Gadgets (Apache 2.0 ESP32 + Linux SDKs) and is giving 5,000 free Home Link dongles to US Muse subscribers. Builder guide.
Meta says Muse Spark 1.1/1.2 helped mathematicians on six papers via meta.ai chat. Five answer open questions. Credit, review, and what builders should trust.
Trillium Labs is a new nonprofit for open post-training recipes and RSI research. No model shipped yet — here is the verified launch checklist.
Neuralink's pretrained BCI encoders: Mamba2, masked auto-Poisson objective, 11.32 bps record, a 20-month-old decoder still usable. Method and caveats.
a16z: 2.2% of households pay for AI. Pew: 49% of adults use chatbots. The gap is shallow use, not just payment. Evidence, objections and what to try this week.
NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB launches Oct 23 at $4,999 (OEM). Same GB10, half the unified RAM vs 128GB. Model fit, cluster math, and updated buy advice.
