Thinking Machines Inc. develops a new Internet protocol dubbed WAIS. Users can download a WAIS client to search through an array of distributed servers and access the documents stored there. The protocol supports fuzzy searching, custom tailored results, and decentralized data storage, but ultimately loses out to the web.
Causal Islands 2023
a decentralized code competition platform built on the AT Protocol. publish problems, compete in real-time, own your data.
AIW
Advancing protocols for how agents connect to each other, people, organizations, services, and things in the agentic web.
Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future (FOSDEM'26)
Centralised systems were designed with the best of intentions, but were turned against us anyway. And peer-to-peer systems will be exactly the same. How do we make the next generation of protocols ...
Exa on Twitter / X
We built a time machine for the web.Introducing Exa Snapshot: an index of 400 billion historical snapshots of webpages that lets you search as if it's the past.Snapshot is already being used for backtesting prediction models, RL at labs, exploring the pre-AI web, and more. pic.twitter.com/UHeknyUbeF— Exa (@ExaAILabs) September 17, 2026
The REAL Second Brain: an autonomous, self-hosted knowledge wiki that runs on cheap local models
How I turned Karpathy's "LLM wiki" sketch into a system that actually maintains itself — no frontier API, no human in the loop, nothing leaving my LAN.
Causal Islands
Parallel Web Systems | Infrastructure for intelligence on the web
Parallel's new FindAll API turns natural language queries into custom datasets from the web. It finds entities like companies, people, or locations based on your criteria, then enriches them with structured data—all with citations. FindAll Pro achieves 61% recall, 3x better than competitors.
surrealdb/surrealdb
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…
NANDA - Architecting the Internet of Agents
NANDA Protocol - A foundational layer for a new kind of internet—an Internet of Agents
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war
The Israeli army is using Amazon’s cloud service and AI from Google and Microsoft for military activities in Gaza, investigation reveals.
The blacksky.community web application now uses our own API servers to load posts, timelines and profiles. When data is missing (accounts on the edges of the network, outside of our primary community, etc) we leverage @microcosm.blue
Blacksky
blacksky.community