X AI ALGORITHM UPDATE (BIG ONE) 🚨
X updated their open source algorithm yesterday and the biggest number in it is gone: copy link went from 20 to 0 points. Small accounts should focus on: posts people like, reply to and stay on (so stop counting on link copies)
tl;dr:
- on Nov 13 X's open source code set the score for copying a post's link to 0
- copy link: 20 → 0
- it was the top score in the whole system, 4x a reply
- the code also names a "copy link bait" spam check
- likes (0.708), replies (5) and DM shares (5) didn't move
full details:
- The number that's gone
Since I started reading X's open source code in August, one number sat at the top: 20, for someone tapping share and copying your post's link. Nothing else came close.
As of the Nov 13 release, it's 0.
X still guesses who'll copy your link. It just multiplies that guess by 0 now.
X didn't explain it. It's just what the code says.
(I check the open source algo daily with Claude and share updates with you)
- Cross it off your list
My own checklist called copy link the biggest number. Last week's post said it too.
It was true then. It isn't now. If you saved that list, cross that line out.
- The "copy link bait" check
X's code now mentions a spam check called "copy link bait". In the code it adds a spam label to the post, and that label already keeps a post out of strangers' feeds.
It only shows up in a test, so I can't see if it's running or how strict it is.
My read: X saw people baiting link copies, so it turned the score off and built something to catch the bait. That's a read, the code doesn't say why.
- Why that matters if you're small
If your plan was posts people copy the link to, that plan now earns 0 in X's ranking.
A copied link can still bring people in from outside X. It just doesn't push your post up anymore.
What still pays: likes at 0.708 (the highest ever), people staying on your post, replies at 5 and back and forth with mutuals at 20.
- Also new: photo and video tags
If a post has a spam label, people you tag in its photo or video who don't follow you won't get notified. Same idea as last week's rule for replies.
- What didn't change
Every other score. Your new posts still get their extra push in the first 2 hours and first 200 views, and early likes still pick which one gets it.
Here's a recap of what you should be doing:
- aim for likes, replies and time spent, the copy link score is gone
- a DM share still earns 5, same as a reply or a quote
- likes sit at 0.708, never higher
- time on your post keeps counting at its best rate yet
- 10+ seconds after someone taps in adds 0.385
- write your replies yourself, under big accounts most of all
- give people a reason to hang around your profile
- in videos the opening seconds carry it, an open alone scores 0
- posts read to the end help X find you strangers
- smaller accounts (below 50K) get a shot at a spot near 16 for a fresh original
- early likes decide which new post gets that spot
- post when your followers are awake, the push lasts 2 hours and 200 views
- mutuals going back and forth earn 20, so follow back the regulars
- only your originals ever get shown to strangers
- like 1 and like 32 each unlock another way to reach strangers
- one strong post per feed, your second only counts 62%
- clips longer than 10 seconds for the video lists
- a post likely to win you a follow gets +4
- give your pinned post a look, it can affect the whole account
What you should NOT be doing:
- counting on copy link shares, they score 0 now
- baiting link copies, the code names a spam check for exactly that
- a spam label also stops your photo tags reaching non-followers
- AI-written replies under big accounts, "llm slop" is a flag X uses
- copy-paste replies, labeled ones skip non-followers' notifications
- chasing taps, 0.274 and dropping
- drifting off your topic, each probable "not interested" takes 53.07 away
- videos people open and leave, the open itself earns 0
- posting at 3am, it wastes the 2 hour push
- expecting replies and reposts to reach strangers
- an insult label, it hides that post from non-followers
- earning a misinfo or low quality label, which adds a warning and locks strangers out of liking or sharing
- 3 adult photos or videos among your latest 5 posts, that puts a label on you
- forgetting videos get rechecked at 64 and 512 likes
- one account label and strangers stop seeing you
- pinning a link to a site X rates badly, that can mean a label for a week
- posting your own old words again risks the copypasta flag
- a low quality link plus tagged strangers reads as spam
- bait for engagement, big or small it gets a label
- several posts back to back, they split the same feed
- hashtag piles, they do nothing
- bookmarks for reach, they score 0
- hoping a 3 day old post still lands in For You, it stops at 2 days
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🚨 THIS IS WHY BITCOIN KEEPS CRASHING BELOW $67,000
If you still think Bitcoin trades like an asset whose price is determined purely by spot supply and demand, you need to read this carefully.
Because that market no longer exists.
What you’re watching right now is NOT normal price action.
This isn’t just an AI stock sell-off.
This isn’t just hotter inflation.
And this definitely isn’t retail suddenly deciding to dump Bitcoin at the exact same time.
Most people have no idea what is actually happening.
And by the time it becomes obvious, the damage is usually already done.
This didn’t start today.
It has been building underneath Bitcoin for YEARS.
And now it’s accelerating.
Here’s the truth:
Bitcoin still has a hard cap of 21 MILLION coins.
But Wall Street can create almost unlimited financial EXPOSURE around those coins.
That distinction changes everything.
Because once derivatives dominate short-term price discovery...
Bitcoin stops trading purely on who wants to own the actual coins.
It starts trading on:
1) LEVERAGE.
2) HEDGING.
3) MARGIN.
4) LIQUIDATIONS.
5) FORCED SELLING.
And that is exactly what is happening right now.
It’s the same mechanism that repeatedly drives violent moves in:
→ Gold
→ Silver
→ Oil
→ Stocks
Once derivatives become large enough, spot buyers are no longer the only force setting the price.
And this is the part almost nobody understands: Bitcoin’s scarcity didn’t disappear.
But scarcity alone no longer controls the SCREEN PRICE.
Wall Street built an entire financial layer on top of Bitcoin:
→ Cash-settled futures
→ Perpetual contracts
→ Options
→ ETFs
→ Broker lending
→ Swaps
→ Wrapped BTC
The 21 million cap controls the COINS.
It does NOT cap the amount of leveraged exposure that can be created around them.
And once that leverage starts unwinding...
The market doesn’t care what the long-term thesis is.
It SELLS.
Look at what just happened:
Over $1.9 BILLION in leveraged crypto positions wiped out in 24 hours.
More than $1.1 BILLION liquidated in Bitcoin alone.
Spot Bitcoin ETFs have already seen roughly $1.9 BILLION in outflows this month.
Once leveraged selling overwhelms real buyers, price stops responding only to long-term demand.
It starts responding to positions.
Hedging. Margin calls. And cascading liquidations.
Wall Street does not need to own millions of physical Bitcoin to push the market around.
It only needs enough derivatives exposure and enough leverage sitting in the wrong place.
The playbook is brutally simple:
1st: Build enormous leveraged exposur
2nd: Push price through obvious liquidity
3rd: Trigger stops and liquidations
4th: Forced selling pushes price even lower
5th: Buy back into the panic
6th: Repeat
THIS is why Bitcoin can lose thousands of dollars while the number of coins on-chain barely changes.
The coins didn’t suddenly disappear.
The PRICE DISCOVERY mechanism changed.
That’s what people are missing.
Bitcoin is still scarce.
But the financial claims built around Bitcoin are NOT.
And when leverage controls the marginal trade...
21 million coins can behave like a market with FAR more supply than 21 million coins.
That’s not the Bitcoin market retail thinks it is trading.
That’s a WALL STREET PRICING SYSTEM built on top of Bitcoin.
You can choose to ignore it.
But don’t pretend nobody warned you.
Bitcoin is now trading around $66,600, its lowest level since August and roughly 48% below the $126,200 high.
If $65k breaks, the next level I’m watching is $62k.
Reminder: I called the Bitcoin top at $126,000 and told you to start buying again around $60,000.
The next call will matter even more.
When I EXIT the markets completely, I’ll post it here publicly like I always do.
Turn notifications on.
If you’re not following yet, you’ll understand why that was a mistake later.
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WEMBY LOB TO CASTLE (28 PTS) FOR THE REVERSE SLAM 💥
THE SPURS ARE ON FIRE AS THEY PUSH FOR THEIR 11th STRAIGHT WIN!
Be Jensen:
> Asian American Dishwasher at Dennys
> Founded $NVDA and pioneered GPU computing
> Took an extraordinary gamble in CUDA, despite the company close to bankruptcy risk.
> Bet paid off heavily, and Nvidia was there as the infrastructure for deep learning and generative AI.
> Spent last 33 years of his life growing $NVDA, and finally saw it become a $5T+ company
> Devoted his life to establishing American AI leadership
> Started having more influence on policies that Washington conflicted with
> Leaks and hit pieces happen all at once around midterms
> Washington tries to push out others like Lutnick that shared similar China stances to Jensen.
> Forced to resign by Taco Bell and NFL experience board members over unconfirmed Spy accusations + personal relationships.
> Huang's leadership then questioned by politicians that ask how $META makes money or how Wifi works.
> Slandered by US media that think because Mcdonalds did well under a CEO change, so can American semiconductors like $NVDA.
This feels like a horrible joke. Jensen Huang was the pinnacle of visionary tech CEOs and living the American dream.
Ousting Jensen Huang will go down as one of most consequential and darkest decisions in recent US history.
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BREAKING: Indian telecom giant Airtel’s Chairman, Sunil Bharti Mittal, praised Elon Musk’s “mind-boggling” achievements, says Starlink V3 is pushing the limits of physics.
“I have to acknowledge what he has done is mind-boggling,
@elonmusk. His compute or his connectivity capacity in the space has gone manifold, and it’s happened in the last four or five years under our watch. So the last launch that he made on Starship, the satellites he put up, the V3, they have a capacity of as much as the entire OneWeb capacity. So at one Tbps capacity in a single launch means he’s trying to push, if not break, through the laws of physics, which means a lot of connectivity is going to come from space, and the terrestrial industry needs to be prepared for that.”
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🚨 NOW: Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just made it clear that Nvidia Board forcing out Jensen Huang does NOT let the rest of the company off the hook ‼️
"We don't know for a fact Jensen Huang knew this."
"The story was on Jensen Huang's personal foibles. The REAL story should be, did Nvidia know their client? Was there a robust effort to make sure there was no leakage? That they were selling to what were obvious pass-through shell companies!"
"It's important ANYONE at the company THERE be held accountable for THAT."
Megaspeed became one of Nvidia's BIGGEST AI chip customers, reportedly spending more than $4 BILLION
There were already questions as to whether they were being routed to China. We can't hand China an inch!
The Board cannot just push out Huang and think it all goes away.
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if you want to automerge thousands of pull requests , this is how she does it (via
@poteto).
809 in june. 10,926 in october. merged prs a month that touch the grok bot team's code.
i went through her posts and put the setup in one place.
every pr still gets an agentic risk review plus bugbot. low- and medium-risk ones automerge. only higher-risk ones get a person.
day to day, in her words, it's just grok bot and cursor projects. she used to have more cursor automations and replaced them with slack bots that have routines.
she works on many streams in parallel with pstack: perf, bug fixes, agent-friendly refactors, her own skills, features, ui polish, the harness, release and observability. not from sitting in a review inbox.
she's said the speed gains come from parallelizing. a single chat can take longer because of verification. she handholds it less, so she can run several large projects at once.
the real setup is in the codebase and the checks around it. she treats the codebase as memory. every agent mistake needs to turn into a constraint. her team built their own framework for grok bot so some anti-patterns become hard to write at all.
agents have to verify their own work. they run the app, and can sometimes model it in tla+. they produce screenshots or video that are easier to check than the whole pr. formal verification skills and ordinary run-and-debug skills work together.
she calls this an inverse pyramid. push as much as you can into determinism (fuzzing, property tests, formal and runtime verification, stricter languages) instead of spinning up more agent swarms.
in her oct 6 post, she tells sandcastle, a grok team bot, to cut. it runs a buildkite dry run, dms every pr author (they can object), kicks the build, and watches it. then it starts a fuzz swarm: usually 10+ agents on grok 4.7 xhigh, some directed, some chaos monkey, using their verification skills and feature map.
when something is high priority, she tells sandcastle to @ mention poteto, her engineer bot, which then spins up a cursor project to triage and fix.
her team ships a new stable version of the client at least once a day.
that's a lot of machinery under "just grok bot and cursor projects."
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What?! So journalists with sketchy motives portrayed rumors from god-knows-who (lobbyists?) as facts sourced from intelligence officials and gaslit the NVIDIA board to push out the founder, CEO, and once-in-generation visionary?
This raises serious corporate governance issues.
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Everyone believes CUDA is NVIDIA's moat, the reason we've maintained our dominance in the AI era. I've never believed that.
NVIDIA has only one true moat: its people. And the most important of them is Jensen Huang.
I've worked on CUDA compilers, libraries, and DSLs for eight years, from Volta to Rubin. I think I've earned the right to share my perspective on what NVIDIA's moat really is. I hope you'll bear with me.
1. What is CUDA?
Many people think CUDA is just a programming language and its compiler, and that NVIDIA's moat comes from the massive amount of software written in CUDA, making it impossible for developers to leave NVIDIA GPUs.
This is completely wrong. It's an incredibly naive understanding of CUDA.
To me, CUDA is everything NVIDIA does.
CUDA isn't just a language, software, or hardware architecture. It's a product defined by a unique customer experience.
When you find GPU programming too difficult, CUDA gives you an easier way. When your GPU code isn't fast enough, NVIDIA engineers respond and help you solve it. When a handful of GPUs can no longer push your technology forward, NVIDIA has already scaled its computing platform from desktops to massive data centers. When you need more data centers than anyone else can supply, NVIDIA has already secured wafer and HBM capacity years in advance to meet your demand.
That experience is CUDA.
It's made possible by the relentless, day-to-day work of everyone at NVIDIA. And the person who brings all these people together, who gives them a shared vision and purpose, is Jensen Huang.
2. What made CUDA possible?
Patience. Perseverance. An unwavering commitment to a vision.
Around 2006, NVIDIA bet that the future would demand far more computing power, and began transforming GPUs from graphics processors into a platform for general-purpose computing. Initially, it was a commercial disaster. The added costs hurt margins, the market wasn't ready, and the strategy faced enormous skepticism and pressure, including questions from the board.
But Jensen persisted.
For roughly a decade, NVIDIA kept investing in CUDA, building its hardware, software, and developer ecosystem long before the commercial payoff became clear.
Eventually, deep learning arrived. And NVIDIA was ready.
Today, this sounds like an inspiring story. But for those who lived through it, it meant a decade of perseverance, doubt, and being misunderstood.
Looking back at the history of technology, how many people could have done the same?
This is what I've always loved most about NVIDIA.
And now, Jensen has been pushed out.
This won't kill NVIDIA. The company can still create tremendous commercial value. But it has killed NVIDIA's soul. And how far can a body go without its soul?
If this is how Jensen Huang is treated today, how will those of us who built CUDA be treated tomorrow?
I love NVIDIA deeply, but I have to say it: NVIDIA is dead.
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Breaking: Michael Burry says to “get out” of Nvidia $NVDA before it’s too late
Burry's reasonings:
1. Without Huang, customers are free to “slow down deals, push back, renegotiate terms, or simply walk to a competitor”
2. Nvidia financed customer purchases through special vehicles and hidden debt, creating “tremendous leverage in the system”
3. Huang pushed customers to buy chips they didn’t need yet by threatening to cut their future allocations
4. Its growth may slow and “critically, its margins may fall”
With Jensen Huang out, Burry says “Nvidia bulls will have another fluffy big chance to get out. Get out.”
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