Overview
Today’s feed swings from physics to products. We have new ways to make things, from AI video ads and a VR overhaul of a classic game to a hit AI sticker printer for kids. Agent talk is back, with frank takes on how early we still are and a reminder that safety flags exist for a reason. On the roads, Tesla fans show off both adaptive headlights and FSD manners, while a clean quantum visual and a year-end mindset clip round things out. There is even a cheeky social betting app prototype nudging chats into wagers.
The big picture
AI spots that look like they were shot in a studio
Invideo runs a quick “real or AI” quiz, then shows Money Shot, a tool that turns up to eight product photos into a slick commercial in seconds. The demo includes a Costa Coffee example and points at how small shops can produce sharp product clips without a full crew.
A Christmas hit you can colour in
David Lieb backs Stickerbox, a voice-first AI printer that makes black-and-white stickers for kids to colour. Built by a YC S09 founder, it focuses on safe, mostly offline image creation and old-school thermal printing. Families are chewing through rolls, even as early shipping hiccups show up in replies.
Five years later, Hyrule in full VR
Crementif’s BetterVR mod takes Breath of the Wild into proper 6DOF VR on PC via Cemu, with Vulkan interception to OpenXR, motion tweaks, and wide mod support. The trailer shows swordplay and free exploration, with notes on bugs like flaky flurry rushes. You need a legal copy and Windows for best results.
“We’re in 1997 for agents”
Bret Taylor argues that building agents today feels like early web days, when banks paid millions for basic features. Models are strong, yet productising them still needs heavy engineering. He expects the stack to mature so small teams can build big outcomes without all that glue work.
The meme that says, please do not skip permissions
Yam Peleg jokes about the Claude Code CLI flag --dangerously-skip-permissions, pasting it over a rave clip. The tone is playful, the message is not. Agentic tools are getting bold, and removing guardrails can turn a coding helper into chaos.
Two days, hundreds of builds
MiniMax recaps its hackathon with Bolt.new. Nearly 500 developers shipped prototypes using its video, audio and agent tools. Winners ranged from medical procedure analysis to scenario simulators, showing breadth across health, forensics, education and fitness.
Autonomy on the road
FSD plays nice with emergency vehicles, but who pays when it goes wrong
A clip shows Tesla FSD giving room to police, ambulances and fire trucks, even edging over the line for safety. The replies press on liability and insurance. For now, supervised FSD keeps drivers on the hook, though manufacturers can share blame, and Tesla is rolling out insurance discounts and a programme tied to real-time safety data.
Adaptive matrix headlights trace the bend
A nighttime video captures Tesla’s matrix LEDs carving light around curves and cutting glare for oncoming traffic. Older Model Y Performance cars often have the hardware, but the full adaptive behaviour needs software updates, which are still improving.
Science and reflection
A clean look at a Gaussian wave packet
Physics In History shares a tidy animation of a 1D wave packet under the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation. You see a compact hump move right and spread, with dispersion tied to higher-momentum modes moving faster. Replies note that this is unitary probability flow, not little particles flying about.
Pause, choose, and make 2026 different
Steven Bartlett hosts Chris Williamson on The Diary Of A CEO. The clip urges viewers to stop, picture life as a film, and make the obvious changes rather than hiding behind ambition. Supporters call it a timely nudge, critics call it more talk than action.
Social gambling, right in your chat
Turning stale iMessage threads into wagers
Ruslan shows a concept where prediction markets live inside iMessage, with pots that escalate as friends bet on what happens next. It is funny, sticky and risky, and it mirrors a rise in social betting that can be tough for impulsive users.
Why it matters
Creation is getting cheaper and closer to the point of need. Tools like Money Shot and a low-friction sticker printer let small teams and families produce work that once needed a studio or screens. The BOTW mod shows how open tooling and patient solo work can refresh a beloved world with new presence.
Agents are early, noisy and moving fast. Taylor’s 1997 comparison fits the moment, while the Claude meme is a note of caution. Hackathons with hundreds of builds suggest a broad base of ideas, yet the real gains will come from safer defaults and less glue code.
On the roads, capability and responsibility are still meeting in the middle. FSD’s polite yielding and adaptive headlights show progress in everyday edge cases, yet liability, insurance and software gating remain the real gates to trust.
Clear visuals and clear choices matter. The wave packet clip turns abstract maths into intuition, and the year-end prompt asks people to make simple, obvious moves rather than chase grand plans. As social apps toy with micro-betting, expect sharper debates on fun, consent and harm in private spaces.
