2025-08-04
XBai o4
XBai o4 Yet another open source (Apache 2.0) LLM from a Chinese AI lab. This model card claims: XBai o4 excels in complex reasoning capabilities and has now completely surpassed...
2025-08-03
The Impossibility Theorem Behind Truthful Blockchain Bidding Mechanisms
This article delves into the theoretical limits of blockchain bidding mechanisms, showing that no non-trivial truthful mechanism—deterministic or randomized—can satisfy all three key properties: User Incentive Compatibility (UIC), Miner Incentive...
No Blockchain Auction Can Satisfy UIC, MIC, and Global SCP at Once
This article explores the theoretical limits of designing truthful and fair blockchain auction mechanisms. It proves that no deterministic or randomized Truthful Fee Mechanism (TFM) can simultaneously satisfy User Incentive...
What Is a Transaction Fee Mechanism? Definitions, Incentives, and Strategies
This article breaks down key technical definitions around Transaction Fee Mechanisms (TFMs) in blockchain systems, focusing on miner and user strategies, incentive compatibility, and how social welfare is impacted by...
Why No Transaction Fee Mechanism Can Truly Be Collusion-Proof
This article breaks down the key incentive-compatibility notions in transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs), including UIC, MIC, SCP (global and c-SCP), and OCA-proofness. It compares their implications for miner and user...
Why Truthful Blockchain Mechanisms Fail Under Finite Block Sizes
This paper establishes a new impossibility result in blockchain mechanism design: no truthful fee market (TFM) mechanism can simultaneously satisfy user incentive compatibility (UIC), miner incentive compatibility (MIC), and OCA-proofness...
Why the Perfect Blockchain Fee Mechanism May Be Impossible
This article explores the theoretical boundaries of transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs) in blockchain systems, particularly under congestion. Building on Roughgarden’s and Chung & Shi’s foundational work, the authors prove that...
Death Stranding 2 is a whole new ballgame
This post contains zero story spoilers, but does discuss gameplay elements from all of Death Stranding and the first third of Death Stranding 2.2019’s Death Stranding is one Of my...
Clado Atlas
The ground-truth platform for humans Discussion | Link
Designing for Intelligence, Efficiency, and Accessibility
AI has moved from being a novelty in UX design to an essential driver of intelligent, efficient, and accessible user experiences. This article explores how AI empowers designers to build...
Skyblivion's first major dev update since Oblivion Remastered makes its case as more of a full remake—including a mega dungeon based off a legendary bit of cut content
Sutch really caught my eye, but there was a ton of cool stuff here.
[Linkpost] Avatar’s Dirty Secret: Nature Is Just Fancy Infrastructure
Published on August 3, 2025 7:37 PM GMTWhat if Avatar isn't actually about environmentalism vs. technology, but about recognizing superintelligent infrastructure when you see it? A deep dive into why...
SDG LAB Venture Fund Backs Virtual Intimacy with $20 Million — But Will It Work?
13% of Europeans feel lonely most or all the time, while 35% experience it regularly. Social isolation increases mortality risk by 29% and loneliness by 26%. Loneliness is linked to...
Steam Hardware Survey shows AMD CPUs are more more popular than they've ever been in 17 years
AMD has never been closer to dethroning Intel in PC gaming.
Voquill
AI-powered dictation for Chrome Discussion | Link
From Async/Await to Virtual Threads
From Async/Await to Virtual Threads Armin Ronacher has long been critical of async/await in Python, both for necessitating colored functions and because of the more subtle challenges they introduce like...
CriticAI
AI-powered music analysis for A&R teams, artists, etc. Discussion | Link
Hierarchical Reasoning Model
Brain-inspired, multi-level reasoning & planning AI model Discussion | Link
How to tolerate boredom?
Published on August 3, 2025 5:16 PM GMTThe most noticeable bottleneck in my productivity comes from boredom-induced procrastination. Specifically, my process of doing any task on my plate (e.g. meditation,...
PromptPlex
The command center for all your AI prompts Discussion | Link
Welcome to Postreads
Discover and follow the best content from across the web, all in one place. Create an account to start building your personalized feed today and never miss out on great reads.
Support Postreads
Enjoying the service? Help me keep it running and improve it further by buying me a coffee!
Buy me a coffeeContent Timeline
20,948 articles since 2008
Trending Now
Top 5 clicked items this week
Freshly added
New feeds to discover
