6.2.26 | Instagram exploit, Language Modeling course, Stanford AI agent guidelines

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:20) - The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
• (01:29) - CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
• (02:59) - AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
• (04:06) - Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
• (05:34) - Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
• (07:12) - OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
• (08:33) - macOS needs its grid back
• (09:35) - Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
• (11:05) - Chipotlai Max
• (12:10) - What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
• (13:35) - Outro

CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch
https://cs336.stanford.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357075

AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
https://github.com/stanford-cs336/assignment1-basics/blob/main/CLAUDE.md
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359232

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/06/01/can-the-stockmarket-swallow-anthropic-spacex-and-openai
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364055

Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/age-verification-for-social-media-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-a-free-internet
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363882

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132

macOS needs its grid back
https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364800

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
https://30fps.net/pages/255-vs-256-division/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360054

Chipotlai Max
https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363765

What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-dirt-that-refused-to-die-20260601/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357905