u/Objective_Farm_1886

Like instagram, but all photos have a shelf life: they can be up for year, an hour or ten minutes, or up until they're viewed 100 times, 1000 times or a million times. The longer they're up, the more they fade - user chosen filters are applied gradually over the lifetime of the photo (be it measured in clicks or time), gradually obscuring it. If you want to see it, you have to catch it early.

This is a fun side project of mine, An experiment in digital persistence and scarcity. And, yes its vibe coded, built on replit.

Currently just a responsive web page (desktop, and works great on iOS devices, which I have). Native apps for android and iOS to follow.

Some of these feel like a real stretch... some of them look great! Average selling price under 300K is still amazing when you read articles about Toronto or Vancouver real estate.

Münster-based proptech startup syte has raised €9 million to scale its AI-powered real estate analytics platform and automate early-stage planning processes, aiming to cut red tape and speed up property development. The funding will support product expansion, accelerate market growth across Europe, and reduce time needed for preliminary property assessments and approvals.

Top story: In the last 24 hours Stripe agreed to acquire AI gateway OpenRouter in a deal reported to exceed $7 billion — a payments company buying core AI API infrastructure. That deal immediately changes competitive dynamics for developer platforms, creates integration and regulatory questions, and exposes startups built on OpenRouter to a platform ownership shift.

Market-moving

• Stripe to acquire OpenRouter in deal reported at $7B+ Stripe's purchase positions it as a developer AI‑infrastructure player beyond payments, increasing consolidation risk for AI API providers and forcing startups to reassess vendor concentration and integration plans. news.ycombinator.com more coverage
• SafePal discloses breach exposing ~40,000 customers The crypto wallet maker confirmed a leak of personal and order data for nearly 40k users, elevating phishing and fraud risk across the sector and putting pressure on wallet providers to tighten data practices. coindesk.com more coverage

Platform risk

• Mozilla rolls out native ad blocker in Firefox for iOS A gradual deployment of built‑in ad blocking on iPhone and iPad reduces tracker surface for users but threatens ad‑tech revenue and forces publishers and app makers to rethink iOS monetization strategies. news.ycombinator.com more coverage

Strategic signal

• Anthropic CEO calls AI backlash a 'crisis of trust' Dario Amodei said the backlash is fundamentally about trust and that AI must deliver measurable public benefits (even cures) to earn legitimacy — a clear signal that teams and investors should prioritize verifiable, societally valuable milestones. techcrunch.com more coverage

Product Noise

• AirPods 4 with ANC drop to about $134 in limited deals Short‑term discounts on AirPods 4 and related accessories are consumer‑level noise that signal seasonal price pressure in accessories but have limited strategic implication for platform or developer decisions. appleinsider.com more coverage

Wildcard

• Maker posts 3D‑printed 'Flock Sock' to blind street cameras A hobbyist shared plans for a slip‑on cover that can obstruct street and traffic cameras, sparking legal and ethical debates and reminding product and policy teams that low‑cost hardware can rapidly alter surveillance dynamics. tomshardware.com more coverage

I have a few vehicles In my garage but the only one that gets used is the blue pickup (in black tide raids, for example). I’m damned if I can find a place to “set” my vehicle. What am I missing? TIA!

PrismML says it is in discussions with Apple about model‑shrinking technology that would allow powerful AI models to run on iPhones. Multiple reports describe Apple negotiating to bring on‑device AI by compressing or optimizing models so they can operate within smartphone compute and privacy constraints, potentially reducing reliance on cloud inference.

Currently at v0.001. This is a bot that hosts trivia games with yourself of a group of friends in Telegram at the moment, more platforms on the roadmap. You can set the category, number of questions in a game and time to answer - from 30 seconds up to 24 hours with async friends across timezones. Bot puts out the question, first correct answer gets the point.

Website allows you to create an account and claim your telegram account so that you can see your stats, games, right and wrong questions, etc. Roadmap is leaderboards, finding people to play with, etc.

Right now I'm working on the chat user experience kinks and would value your feedback.

You can do 1:1 trivia by starting a chat with TriviaCrew_Bot on Telegram.

Or - you can add the bot to a group and have a game with friends.

If you want some one to have a game with, add me to a group - I'm JohnnyTrivia

And - the web front end:

https://triviacrew.net

Currently at v0.001. I'm having fun working on the conversation parameters - how structured it is vs. conversational, and getting it to flow; I'm at a point where I could use some feedback. The goal is to have a multi-person trivia game - i.e.: yourself and some friends can be in a group chat, invite triviacrew, and turn it into a competitive trivia venue. You can choose categories, how long you have to answer (up to 24 hours for groups of friends across time zones), and the number of questions in a game.

DM or post here and I'll share the Telegram bot account.

EDIT: Sharing it here:

TriviaCrew_Bot on Telegram.

And - the web front end lets you claim your account to see your stats:

https://trivia-crew-chat.replit.app/

This keeps coming up over and over; for those interfacing with the anti-AI / anti-DC crowd, this article has some good talking points, about water, but also jobs and power.

>Data centers certainly do use water. They are basically warehouses of tightly packed, high-powered computers, and when computers run, they get hot. Most data centers—though not all—use water for cooling. But many of them use a “closed loop,” which doesn’t actually waste much, because the water is recycled repeatedly for the same purpose. And many statistics about data centers’ water use are misleading in that they include “indirect” water use too. The Substack writer Andy Masley found one particularly absurd example: In a widely cited paper, the amount of water that AI supposedly “wastes” includes the water that naturally evaporates off rivers and lakes in Washington State. Why? Because those rivers and lakes are dammed for hydroelectric plants, which generate electricity, which is then used by (among other things) a data center. The water-quality issue AOC pointed out in Georgia is not a general feature of data-center construction and appears to have affected only four households.

Marvell announced it will be added to the S&P 500 index, prompting a significant rally in its shares as index funds and investors position for expected inflows. 

Submission Statement: Moonshot - Chinese frontier lab behind the Kimi family of models is actively raising money at a 30B valuation. Two things to note - (1) a raise of 2B seems small and imminently pragmatic after watching OpenAI and Anthropic's ridiculously-sized rounds; (2) will China allow investment from non-Chinese investors?

Yeah, so "AI will eat the world" or "AI changes everything" - well, its certainly changed traffic patterns on the web.

So - watch yourself, Winnipeg. You don't have to go anywhere remotely wild. Ugh - And now I've got that crawly feeling all over.