i hope homelander doesn’t die in the boys finale. it would be better to have him in jail living out the rest of his days as a mediocre aging human with nobody to love
Anthropic just reported growth that blew past even their own aggressive internal targets.
Their internal stretch case for this year was 10x. The “nobody really expects this” case was 20x.
The number they actually printed was closer to 80x.
That sounds impressive, but it creates a very real capacity and infrastructure problem for the companies building this stuff.
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The top Hermes integrations to give your agent superpowers:
1. Firecrawl
Basically web search built for agents.
It's better than the native Hermes web search because it gives you clean web data, so responses come back faster and uses fewer tokens.
I keep this on by default.
2. Browserbase
Gives Hermes browser access for actually interacting with sites.
Logging in, clicking buttons, booking stuff, anything that needs a real browser session.
Hermes will automatically pick between Firecrawl and Browserbase depending on what the task needs, so you just plug both in.
3. Google Workspace
Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Sheets in one connector.
If Hermes can't read your inbox, see your calendar, or write to your docs, it can't really work for you. Plug this in first.
4. Reddit
The best signal you'll find on what people actually think about any product, niche, or problem (bc its real opinions from real users)
Amazing for market research.
5. YouTube transcripts
Pulls captions from any video. Long podcasts, tutorials, interviews etc become searchable notes in seconds.
Probably the highest-leverage research integration nobody plugs in.
6. Discord
I host my business in Discord, so this one's huge for me.
I plug Hermes into different channels and have it run specific workflows in each.
Example: I have a dedicated customer support channel where Hermes scans my email every morning for support tickets and drops them in organized.
7. GitHub
Code, issues, PRs. Turns Hermes into an actual engineering teammate.
Non-negotiable if you write code.
8. Stripe
Payments, customers, failed charges, refunds.
You can just ask "why did this customer churn" and get a real answer.
Also can't wait for this...Stripe is releasing agentic payments, so soon Hermes will be able to actually book stuff with your card.
9. Bland (or Twilio)
Gives Hermes a voice so it can place real phone calls (like booking reservations etc).
I love listening to the recordings haha
10. Apify
Pre-built scrapers for X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps, etc. The way to get X data without paying $5k/mo for the official API.
11. Readwise
Every highlight you've ever saved from books, articles, tweets, and podcasts, all queryable. Solves the "dead knowledge" problem.
12. Granola (or Fathom)
Searchable transcripts of every meeting you've had. Hermes can answer "what did that client say about pricing last month" instantly.
13. Obsidian
For Karpathy LLM wiki second-brain maxxing.
If I had to set up only 5, I'd do Firecrawl, Browserbase, Google Workspace, GitHub, and Obsidian.
Covers ~80% of what most people need.
I use Composio to add these in one click, makes setup basically zero effort instead of messing w technical stuff.
Anything I'm missing?? What's in your stack?
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Everyone knows about the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae.
Almost nothing they know is the full story.
Start with the number. There weren't 300 Greeks at that pass. There were around 7,000. Spartans, Thespians, Thebans, Phocians, Locrians, Arcadians, Corinthians. Citizen-soldiers from across Greece who marched north knowing they'd be facing the largest army the ancient world had ever assembled.
The 300 is just the headline. The ones who stayed to the end.
Now the men themselves. King Leonidas wasn't some chiseled 30-year-old. He was roughly 60 years old when he led that march. And the 300 he picked weren't his strongest warriors. They were specifically men who already had living sons. Spartan law demanded it. Leonidas wasn't choosing an army. He was choosing men whose bloodlines could survive their deaths. Every one of them knew what that meant before they ever saw a Persian.
They marched anyway.
And they didn't march alone in the way movies suggest. Each Spartan citizen-soldier was accompanied by helots, the enslaved underclass that propped up the entire Spartan economy, outnumbering their masters roughly seven to one. Hundreds of helots fought and died at Thermopylae too. They get no statues. No films. No name on the monument.
The pass itself was barely 15 meters wide in 480 BC (it's silted up now and looks nothing like it did then). That bottleneck is the only reason a few thousand men could hold off a Persian force modern historians estimate at 70,000 to 300,000. Herodotus said 1.7 million. He was lying, or possibly counting cooks, slaves, and camp followers, but even the conservative number is staggering.
For two days, they held. Wave after wave broken against bronze and discipline. Xerxes reportedly leapt from his throne three times in fury watching his men die. He sent in the Immortals, his elite personal guard, supposedly invincible. They weren't. Not in that pass.
Then the Greeks were betrayed.
A local man named Ephialtes, whose name still means "nightmare" in modern Greek, sold the Persians a goat path through the mountains that flanked the pass. The Phocians assigned to guard it scattered when the Immortals appeared in the dawn fog. Leonidas knew by morning he was surrounded.
He dismissed most of the allied Greek forces. Saved their lives. But here's what almost nobody talks about: roughly 700 Thespians, led by a man named Demophilus, refused to leave. They were citizen-farmers from a small town that knew Persia was coming for them next no matter what. They chose to die beside the Spartans rather than run. About 400 Thebans stayed too, though their motives were murkier and many surrendered when the end came.
So the "last stand of the 300" was actually closer to 1,500 men. The Thespians died to the last. Their town was burned to the ground by the Persians weeks later anyway. They're a footnote in a story that should bear their name.
The final fight happened on a small hill called Kolonos. Spears shattered. Swords broken. Herodotus says they fought with hands and teeth at the end. Leonidas fell early, and the Spartans fought four times over his body to keep the Persians from taking it.
They lost.
Xerxes had Leonidas decapitated and his body crucified, a violation of Persian custom so extreme it tells you exactly how badly that old man had humiliated the king of kings. Forty years later, Sparta sent a delegation to recover his bones and bring him home.
Two Spartans survived the battle. One, Aristodemus, had been sent away with an eye infection. He returned to Sparta and was treated as a coward, shunned, refused fire, refused conversation, until he threw himself into the front line at Plataea a year later and died seeking redemption. The other survivor, Pantites, was sent on a diplomatic errand and missed the fight. He hanged himself from the shame.
That's the world they lived in.
The epitaph carved at the site doesn't brag. It doesn't even mention victory, because there wasn't one. Roughly translated, it just asks the traveler to tell Sparta that her sons died here, obedient to her laws.
A small group of farmers, an old king, an enslaved underclass written out of history, and a town that vanished from the map. Together, for three days in August of 480 BC, they did the math on freedom and decided the price was worth it.
We remember 300 of them.
There were always more.
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i’ve read through the comments, and i understand where everyone is coming from
firstly, this sucks. no platform wants to be in a position where terms are changed. there is nothing to gain from doing that, and i fully recognize how frustrating this may feel
here is what happened:
the billions team came to us in March that there's major exchange listing obstacle with 5.6% day 1 launchpad unlock and needed to revise the terms (with lockups)
we explored several alternatives, but ultimately could not land on a solution that satisfied all parties with a viable path to launch
while we don't agree with it in principle, the truth is, tge in the current environment is hard. at the time, polymarket implied only around a 40% probability of billions launching above the breakeven level of 100mn FDV, meaning the expected value of the launch was below the raise valuation (today, that number is around 80%)
as a platform, the last thing we want is for users to lose money. so we pushed for a full refund option to be included to make users whole (option A)
that said, i fully understand the frustration. nobody wants to see the structure they originally signed up for change. we will speak with the billions team again after all the feedback today.
will be back with updates.
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''Nobody is using Bitcoin''
The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.
The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.
The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.
The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.
The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.
The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.
The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.
He is confident.
He has always been confident.
The confidence has never been the problem.
The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.
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Nobody knows how sad I am rn👉🏻👈🏻