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17 liked videos Β· 13 GitHub repos harvested Β· updated 2026-08-05

Cross-video summary

This batch skews heavily toward AI agent tooling: Claude Code skills (a scrape of 85,000 community skills down to a top-12; David Ondrej's own open-sourced skills repo), MCP servers, token-usage optimization (a 15-rule guide plus a dedicated "Token Saver" workflow), a multi-provider AI gateway (OmniRoute, routing 260+ providers with automatic failover), a 59-hour autonomous Codex build of a Mac app, and a new open-weights OCR model (Baidu Unlimited-OCR) that reads whole PDFs in one pass. One outlier tech video (Ghost Font) tests whether AI models can read a human-only-readable noise font β€” they can't, yet.

The rest is a grab-bag: two Chase Hughes behavioral-science clips (psilocybin neuroscience, a CIA elicitation tactic), two kettlebell workouts, a 5-day hip-mobility routine, a rope-knots tutorial, a concrete-engineering failure explainer, a straw-bale sweet-potato growing guide, a cinder-block greenhouse build, and a long-form mine-exploration video from Cerro Gordo.

All repos found (13)

RepoLangβ˜…Cited in
obra/superpowersShell266,58385K Skills
multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skillsβ€”199,57585K Skills
anthropics/skillsPython166,27485K Skills (Γ—4)
garrytan/gstackTypeScript126,29685K Skills
JuliusBrussee/cavemanJavaScript95,82885K Skills
modelcontextprotocol/serversTypeScript89,21785K Skills
addyosmani/agent-skillsJavaScript81,67685K Skills
shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practiceHTML64,01685K Skills
upstash/context7TypeScript60,26985K Skills
diegosouzapw/OmniRouteTypeScript39,763Smartest AI Users
VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skillsβ€”29,58285K Skills (Γ—2)
davidondrej/skillsShell3,328Open-sourced Skills
modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdkTypeScript13,06785K Skills

Videos (newest liked first)

πŸ„ The Shocking Truth About Psilocybin

Summarizes a Cornell/Allen Institute finding (known since 2021) that psilocybin grows large numbers of new neural connections, many lasting weeks and some permanently β€” the new part is that researchers have now mapped which brain regions those new connections actually link. Behavioral-science/neuroscience explainer.

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🀯 The CIA Method That Makes People Talk

A podcast-clip interview segment where Hughes teaches a live interrogation/elicitation tactic for keeping a guarded or "compromised" guest talking. Behavioral-science/persuasion content.

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AI can't READ this

Reacts to a viral post about "Ghost Font" β€” a black-and-white random-dot-field font designed so opposing motion makes text human-readable while frontier AI models only see noise. Berman tests the claim himself and confirms it holds. Explicitly framed as a perception experiment, "not encryption."

No GitHub repo β€” Ghost Font is a standalone web demo, not a GitHub project.
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The smartest AI users don't rely on one model

Promotes OmniRoute, a free, open-source, MIT-licensed AI gateway that routes one endpoint across 260+ providers/500+ models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Claude, GPT, Gemini, etc.), auto-failing-over when a provider hits a rate limit, claiming up to 95% token savings via compression. Confirmed via an on-screen GitHub page capture, not just the claim.

diegosouzapw/OmniRoute β˜…39.8k
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Codex looped for 59 hours and built a functional Mac app

Shows OpenAI Codex autonomously running ~59h57m building a Mac app end-to-end β€” a 5-step workflow (Brain Dump β†’ Plan+Research β†’ Exit Condition Goal β†’ Agent Curation β†’ Shard into Tasks β†’ parallel Agents β†’ Test β†’ Ship) over a Supabase/Railway backend. The build is private β€” no public repo shown on screen, and a top comment notes the app itself is never shown.

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She Turned Cheap Blocks Into A Bug-Proof Garden

Stacking cheap cinder blocks LEGO-style into a U-shaped bug-proof greenhouse frame, using steel rebar + flexible pipe instead of cement, with cross-pipes for wind bracing and a breathable shade-cloth wrap. Gardening/DIY build.

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Unlimited OCR launches AI model that reads entire PDFs in one pass

Covers Baidu's Unlimited-OCR: a 3B-parameter, MIT-licensed MoE model (DeepEncoder + LLM decoder with R-SWA attention) that parses entire multi-page PDFs in one forward pass, preserving tables/headings/layout/reading order. Claims 93% on the standard parsing benchmark with under 0.11% error rate past 40 pages; runs locally via Transformers/vLLM/SGLang/Docker/Ollama/llama.cpp.

No GitHub repo β€” the public artifact is a Hugging Face model card (huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimited-OCR), not GitHub.
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I Found a Crack in the Ground…It Led to a World Lost for 100 Years

A small crack found while hiking around Cerro Gordo (the ghost town the creator lives in) led to six trips underground and the rediscovery of a mine section possibly sealed for ~100 years β€” period artifacts (carbide lamps, dynamite boxes, 1897/1926 newspapers) and the historic "Union Chimney" ore body of California's largest silver mine.

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Concrete foundation failure analysis

A short structural-engineering animation explaining punching shear failure: how column loads concentrate stress into a footing, how hidden cracks grow beneath the visible surface, and how a pyramid-shaped block can punch through the slab β€” plus how engineers design against it.

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Stiff hips don't usually happen overnight…

A 5-day hip-mobility program: one 1-minute drill per day (deep squat↔forward fold, twisting lunges, lunge pulses, pancake pulses, pigeon wraps) to loosen stiff hips.

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1 kettlebell beats a whole gym.

Three kettlebell supersets (swings for posterior-chain power, Cossack rows, toe squats) framed as a time-efficient full-body routine for busy people.

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I Scraped 85,000 Claude Skills. These Are The Most Popular

Ranks the 12 most-installed community Claude/agent skills out of an 85,000-skill directory the creator scraped and analyzed, counting down from #12 to #1, plus honorable-mention direct repos and base-framework directories. The richest repo harvest of this batch.

11 GitHub repos cited β€” tap to expand
#1 Front-end Design β†’ anthropics/skills (frontend-design folder)
#2 Superpowers β†’ obra/superpowers β˜…266.6k
#3 Context Seven β†’ upstash/context7 β˜…60.3k
#4 Code Review β†’ addyosmani/agent-skills β˜…81.7k
#5 Code Simplifier β†’ VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills β˜…29.6k
#6 Skill Creator β†’ anthropics/skills (skill-creator folder)
#7 GitHub MCP β†’ modelcontextprotocol/servers β˜…89.2k
#8 Playwright β†’ anthropics/skills (webapp-testing folder)
#9 Claude.md Management β†’ shanraisshan/claude-code-best-practice β˜…64.0k
#10 Feature Dev β†’ VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills (also the "Open Community Directory" link)
#11 TypeScript LSP β†’ modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk β˜…13.1k
#12 Security Guidance β†’ anthropics/skills
Honorable mentions β†’ JuliusBrussee/caveman β˜…95.8k Β· garrytan/gstack β˜…126.3k Β· multica-ai/andrej-karpathy-skills β˜…199.6k

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Paste This Into Claude, Never Hit a Token Limit Again

Fifteen rules for cutting reused/redundant input tokens across ChatGPT, Claude, and Codex β€” editing mistakes instead of arguing with the model, a "Token Saver" checklist, when prompt caching actually helps, and routing through an intermediary before the model provider.

No GitHub repo β€” the guide is distributed as a Substack post, not a GitHub repo.
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